Node.js Developer

Hindawi’s open source peer review system is a fresh take on the existing, decades-old system which allows researchers to get their work peer-reviewed and published in scientific journals. The new platform is open source, developed as part of Hindawi’s collaboration with the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation. This role will challenge and sharpen your engineering skills to ship code with demanding requirements in terms of scalability, availability, and performance. Most importantly, you will be working arm in arm with a passionate group of people, in your team and across the organization, that strives to deliver a reliable and amazing experience to our customers every day.

 

Responsibilities

• Focus on designing and implementing scalable, testable and maintainable web apps
• Help resolve technical issues/blockers as a developer on the team
• Perform thorough and thoughtful code reviews to help maintain a high standard of code quality
• Work with teams across the open-source ecosystem to troubleshoot/determine a resolution for complex issues
• Ensure, together with your team, that our services are operating reliably in production
• Champion good habits (development techniques, TDD, security, and tech debt balance, agile habits) within your team
• Be creative, take your own initiative and solve some of our most challenging problems

Skills & Knowledge

• 2+ plus years of experience in your craft with demonstrated skill progression
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript, REST API, Git (or similar) and express (or similar)
• Familiarity with Domain Driven Development, AWS, monorepos, and GraphQL
• Competent at making data-driven decisions
• Develop systems that are scalable, resilient, maintainable, and highly available
• A tenacious learner, curious and constantly pushing the boundary of what is possible
• A highly effective collaborator, you work with your team towards common goals
• Self-driven: passionate about taking complete ownership of your tasks and championing efforts to get your tasks to completion

React.js Developer

We are looking for a JavaScript (ES6) developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product are important.

 

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Participate in technical planning & requirements gathering phases including Design, code, test, troubleshoot, and document engineering software applications.
• Ensuring that technical software development process is followed on the project, familiar with industry best practices for software development.

Skills & Knowledge

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6/ES7), including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with GraphQL APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Unit or automated testing using JEST or others
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (git)