Senior Full-stack Engineer ReactNode

Location: Portugal (Remote)

Department: Engineering

Hours: Fulltime

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract inspire develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London Lisbon and Porto.

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer youll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious passionate driven and enthusiastic Youll be proficient at problemsolving and crafting scalable resilient and faulttolerant architectures. Youll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fastpaced engineering environment achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.

Tasks

About You:

A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highlyskilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others.

Youll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects both in terms of the product and the methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a testfirst mindset (actually writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review.

You have a real passion for problemsolving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.

Your daytoday responsibilities will look like this:

Crafting excellent products! As a Full Stack Engineer you will be building new features that meet the needs of our clients customers.

• Continuously delivering changes to products as our client is moving to a full CI/CD model
• Working closely with your team regularly collaborating and on engineering initiatives to continually push yourselves to be better
• Participating in regular show and tells to promote your work to both your department and the wider company

Requirements

Youll have the following skills and experience:

• Proven commercial experience of working with React and Node
• Experienced in JavaScript including concepts like asynchronous programming closures and ES6
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience in distributed version control systems (e.g. Git)
• Experience in databases (both relational and schemaless)
• A strong focus on continuous integration and delivery
• Strong focus in TDD
• Building highperformance and scalable applications
• Good understanding of design and implementation of RESTful web services
• Familiarity with performance monitoring tools
• You can keep a cool head when debugging production issues
• Availability to work a flexible oncall rota responding to and resolving critical incidents

Youll be:

• Selfmotivated proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself
• A good communicator both in writing and verbally. Youll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in businessfriendly language
• Detail oriented
• Problemsolving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs
• Used to working in a teamoriented collaborative environment
• Analytical and problemsolving oriented
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness

Benefits

As well as the chance to work with a forwardthinking ethical and fun group of people youll also get:

• Company Private Health care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• 2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• 300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Mental Health support: access to Spill app
• Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription
• Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• TakeHome Challenge (1h)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)

We live and breathe our values and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

Were an equalopportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We dont discriminate based on race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation pregnancy or maternity age marital status or disability status. Likewise we also offer a remotefirst working environment meaning that flexible working and worklife balance come as standard for all employees.