Senior Front-End Developer

Overview

You will be part of a small and motivated team, actively contributing to the development of our various web applications. Most of your time will be spent working on our online surveying platforms, which total more than one million visitors per month – a number that is growing at a rapid pace. Our newest product,  , will receive the most of your attention.

You will be deeply involved in the design process for new exciting product requirements and take over responsibility for considerable parts of our existing Type Script/HTML5/CSS3 code base. Based on new requirements, you will independently analyze and elaborate possible software designs and implement them on your own, while closely working with other Front-End and Back-End Developers.

Ideally, you will also optimize components for maximum performance across browser and devices, make our online surveys available offline, manage automated integration tests within our CI processes, give technical support to other team members, and much more.

We offer a vast number of features, resulting in a large and complex code base. Maintainable and extendable code, automated tests and a well-organized software architecture is key to the continuation of our success. We expect our new team member to write expressive, high-quality and reusable code and to help design and build user-friendly interfaces with sophisticated interaction patterns.

This is what we are looking for:

• University degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering, or equivalent qualifications
• Proven expertise as a Front-End Developer for complex web applications
• Expert knowledge in HTML5/CSS3/ES6+ and the full stack of modern web applications
• Profound experience with Type Script/Node.js and related web frameworks
• Extensive know-how of modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Proven track record in building front-ends with great usability and user experience
• You are fluent in English

One or more of these are a big plus:

• Good knowledge in object-oriented programming and common design patterns
• Experience with localization and internationalization of web applications
• Able to describe your software design and applied design patterns using UML
• Know-how in creating accessible web sites and applications
• Already used tools such as Git (Git Hub), Webpack, Gulp, Team City or Jenkins, Intelli
  
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• Experience in working in an agile team
• You speak (Swiss) German

In addition to the opportunity to be part of a very successful team and help shape our increasingly rapid growth you will benefit from the following:

• A wide range of interesting tasks with the responsibility and freedom for you to work independently
• Enough time to keep yourself up to date regarding technology and web trends so that you can incorporate this knowledge into your daily work
• Flexible full-time or part-time work with flexible working hours
• Great job security and a competitive salary