Front-end Engineer

You work where design meets code. You know HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript like the back of your hand. You’re passionate about experimentation, innovation, and playing around with the latest front-end technologies. You write clean, compatible, powerful user interfaces with speed. Bonus: You’re passionate about understanding your audience, and dreaming up ways to build great technological futures for them.

As our front-end inventor, you’ll work closely with the rest of our design, engineering, product, and clinical team to turn ideas into tangible user experiences. You’ll combine your keen design sense, stellar front-end chops, and the right technologies, to realize these ideas and validate them with users. Your wizardry will translate design concepts into living, breathing prototypes and finished products—all to help people make sense of health decisions.

We are a JavaScript shop—you’ll be working in React.js and Stylus, with designers who can code.

Responsibilities

Work with our product team to design and implement rapid prototypes, by whatever means necessary.

Write clean, compatible, automated-testable React JSX and Stylus to realize our ideas as a cross-platform, responsive front-end.

Build our UI framework to help us create rich applications to interact with our data—code, widgets, and all—and help us identify and document its emergent rules.

Serve as a mentor for engineers, designers, and other peers at Iodine.

Qualifications

Hard skills—code: Fluent, and we mean fluent, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. You know jQuery but know why it’s insufficient. Full knowledge of how to use React and Node to build a full web app—back and front. Encyclopedic knowledge of browser and device compatibility.

Hard skills—databases and deployment: Working knowledge of how to build and use databases like MongoDB and MySQL. Ability to set up continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment with tools like Travis, Circle, Heroku, AppEngine, or similar.

Hard skills—user interface and visualization: You know every standard UI control, and the tenets of human-computer interaction. You know at least basic statistics, and work with real data to produce prize-worthy clear visualizations that help people connect with the meaning of the data. Knowledge of user-centered metrics with Google Analytics, and how to use that info to develop split tests or other user interface changes.

Experience : Minimum 3 years developing and shipping clean, efficient, and compatible web apps, and executing with all the hard skills above.

Portfolio : A portfolio of real projects—better yet if one or two are open source you can walk us through your work on GitHub.

Training : Bachelor’s degree, ideally in a technical—CS or HCI preferred. (In lieu of degree, 4 years of relevant work experience).

Soft skills: Demonstrated (in your portfolio) eye for design and solving real world user problems. You are passionate, kind, and have a good sense of humour. You are a talker and a white-boarder, and unafraid to step into a leadership role.