Front-End Engineer

Job Overview:

As a Front-End Engineer at Pollfish, a Prodege company, you will play a crucial role in shaping the company's technological landscape and contributing to its continued success. Your expertise will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining our front-end applications, which play a crucial role in the product as user experience is of paramount importance. Your contributions will directly impact the company's ability to realize the vision of being the top DIY market research platform globally.

Who We Are!

Pollfish, a Prodege, LLC company, is an online market research survey platform where data driven brands bring market research in-house for faster and smarter decision making. We have a proprietary network of 250M consumers/year which enables companies to connect with and understand real consumers worldwide in a fast, easy and cost-effective way.

***We are looking to strengthen our team with a talented Mid Level, mostly oriented in front end development, to be a part of our engineering team and work with our PO, and engineers.***

Primary Job Objectives:

• Design, develop, and maintain front end applications, usually SPAs, that consume HTTP APIs
• Collaborate with product managers and other engineers to translate product requirements into technical specifications
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code adhering to best practices
• Conduct thorough testing to ensure the quality and reliability of deliverables
• Optimize performance to alleviate user experience
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the front end development landscape

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Detailed Job Duties: (typical monthly, weekly, daily tasks which support the primary objectives)

• Collaborate with Designers and Product Managers:

  • Translate design specifications into functional user interfaces.
  • Participate in the planning and execution of new feature development.

• Front-End Development:

  • Implement new features and maintain existing applications using React, Redux, and Sagas.
  • Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
  • Migrate legacy JQuery projects to React as part of the ongoing modernization effort.

• Testing and Quality Assurance:

  • Write unit tests using Jest and Enzyme.
  • Conduct user testing with the react-testing-library to ensure consistent user experiences.
  • Implement end-to-end testing with Cypress to ensure reliability for millions of survey respondents.

• Deployment and Maintenance:

  • Bundle and deploy static assets using Webpack and Docker.
  • Monitor front-end performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise.

• Design Collaboration:

  • Work with the design team to ensure all designs are implemented accurately.
  • Use Abstract and Zeplin for managing design assets and specifications.
  • Contribute to the ongoing development and refinement of the company�s style guide

What does SUCCESS look like?

• Successful development and deployment of front-end applications that meet user requirements and performance standards.
• Smooth migration of legacy projects to modern frameworks.
• High-quality, maintainable code adhering to best practices.
• Effective collaboration with design and product teams.
• Proactive identification and resolution of front-end issues to maintain optimal user experience.

The MUST Haves: (ex: job cannot be done without these skills, education, experience, certifications, licenses)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
• 3+ years of experience in front end development
• proficiency with Javascript in any framework (Angular, React, JQuery, etc.)
• Understanding of SPAs
• Experience using HTTP and consuming HTTP APIs
• HTML/CSS code is expected to be almost pixel-perfect matching the design Figma files
• Familiarity with build tools like webpack
• Experience with unit and user testing with frameworks like Jest/Enzyme or the react-testing-library
• Strong experience with End-to-End and Unit Testing

The Nice to Haves: (ex: preferred additional skills, education, experience, certifications, licenses)

• Experience with the React framework
• Experience with design patterns like REDUX/Sagas

Benefits

• An attractive salary package
• Part of an innovative tech company
• Private Health Insurance
• Company Equity
• Weekly Office Events - Catered Lunch and Breakfast
• Stocked Kitchen
• Company Outings & Quarterly Events
• Hybrid Working
• Meal Coupons - Monthly
• LinkedIn Learning & Training Opportunities/Budget
• Mental Health Benefits - Wellness Coach App Subscription
• Great office location in the city center - Parking slots available
• Gym Subscription - UP Fit
• Quarterly Charitable Giving Allowance
• Peer recognition Allowance

Pollfish lives in the Cloud, and is deployed several times a day using Kubernetes. A reactive microservice architecture underpins the entire platform. The core application is written in Play (Scala), while the vast majority of the supporting services are using the proven Twitter stack, Finatra/Finagle as well as the Lightbend Akka stack.

All new front end projects are using a React/Redux/Sagas stack, while there is also an old JQuery project that we plan to migrate in the future. Module bundling is handled by webpack, allowing us to optimize, minimize and deploy our static assets using Docker without much hassle.

Data is constantly on the move at Pollfish. From Apache Kafka, to Postgres, to Apache Druid and Cassandra, to the data-lake. Distributed programming based on Apache Spark, and Apache Flink is leveraged to efficiently handle the immense amounts of data that Pollfish has to process daily. Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence models allow Pollfish to tackle fraud, and improve data quality.

Innovation and technical excellence always need to go hand in hand with software quality and the necessary processes to ensure it. Hence, at Pollfish we always try to write testable code and deliver tests together with every piece of software that we write.

Pollfish, a Prodege company is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity, making decisions without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.