Frontend Engineer

About Pixxel

Pixxel is a space data company building a health monitor for our planet. We are deploying a constellation of some of the world’s most advanced earth imaging satellites in lower earth orbit and an analytics platform (on the ground) with tools that enable easy application of this data across many sectors. Our fully deployed hyperspectral imaging constellation will be capable of beaming down high-quality imagery of every place on Earth daily.

About the Role

As part of the Studio team, you will be contributing to advancing and managing Pixxel’s in-house analytics platform. You will be collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. Beyond technical expertise, your role will involve shaping products, continuous learning, and upholding best practices. Your experience and contributions will be instrumental in driving process improvements and fostering collaboration across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and testing UI for web application considering design patterns, best practices inclusive of the necessary unit and integration tests.
• Accurately translate user and business needs into functional frontend code.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Work closely with the Design Engineer, Engineering Team and Product Team.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Be a full owner: shape the foundation of the product and business that you work on.
• Actively learn new languages, techniques, and methodologies.
• Develop innovative and more straightforward UI for complex problems and issues and translate the design thinking into product.
• Developing highly responsive user interface components using react concepts.
• Developing and maintaining front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
• Documenting application changes and development updates.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experimenting with, and learning new technologies.

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of industry experience in building and managing frontend for web applications.
• Proven experience in frontend development with a strong focus on React.
• Have developed multiple pages and deeply nested components using ReactJS.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and related web technologies.
• Experience with popular React libraries and tools, such as Redux, React Router, and Axios.
• Familiarity with build tools like Webpack, Babel, and npm/yarn.
• Have used multiple ReactJs libraries such as Leaflet, Turf etc.
• Understanding of responsive design principles and CSS frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team in an agile development environment.

Would be great if you have

• Experience with Cloud services like Azure, AWS and GCP.
• Experience in dockerizing applications and deploying them on Kubernetes.
• Experience with the development of geospatially based interfaces, including the use of GeoJSON, MapBox, Leaflet.
• DevOps technologies, CI/CD.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Insurance cover for you and your family, free access to mental health professionals, paid sick leave, and other benefits (vaccination drives, etc.).
• Professional development opportunities and access to online courses.
• Reasonably flexible work hours.
• Get to work and regularly interact with some of the top scientists and professionals in space technology at Pixxel.
• Get exposure to the international space community and the chance to publish research on behalf of Pixxel.