Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Deel, a rapidly growing SaaS company, as a Front-End Software Engineer. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and enhance user-friendly web applications using React.js and TypeScript. This role requires expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and performance optimization techniques. You will be responsible for building scalable and reusable components, writing tests, and ensuring high-quality code. The ideal candidate possesses strong UI/UX skills, API integration experience, and a commitment to web security and accessibility. Deel offers a collaborative, remote-first work culture and various benefits.

Requirements

• React Expertise: 5+ years of experience with React.js, including hooks, state management (e.g., MobX, Redux), JSX, the virtual DOM, and component lifecycle
• TypeScript Proficiency: Strong experience with TypeScript, including advanced types, interfaces, and generics for creating type-safe components
• JavaScript Mastery: In-depth knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+), including closures, async/await, event loop, DOM API, and reactive programming patterns
• Performance Optimization: Proven ability to optimize apps for speed, efficiency, and responsiveness using techniques such as memoization, lazy loading, code splitting, reducing bundle size, tree-shaking, and leveraging modern build tools (e.g., Vite)
• UI/UX Focus: A strong eye for creating beautiful, intuitive, and responsive user interfaces, with a keen sense for user experience best practice
• API Master: Expertise in integrating real-world APIs, handling asynchronous operations, and gracefully managing errors
• Security and Accessibility: Knowledge of web security practices, including preventing XSS and CSRF, and a commitment to building accessible applications
• Testing Experience: Experience with testing libraries such as Jest and react-testing-library, and familiarity with Storybook for component documentation and testing. Understanding of how to test asynchronous code
• Excel in the art of designing, coding, testing, and maintaining applications using the tech listed above
• Thrive in a collaborative, remote-first work culture where teamwork, camaraderie, and being Together Everywhere are key
• Embrace independence and take ownership of your projects, yet also excel in a team setting and love to contribute
• Communicate complex ideas with ease and enjoy collaborating with diverse teams of technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Are passionate about solving customer problems with your coding superpowers, and approach challenges with Default Optimism whilst maintaining a balanced perspective in all aspects of your work
• Take a business-focused approach to software development, with a keen eye on delivering high-value outcomes for our clients
• Embody our core value of Genuine Care, deeply understanding and addressing the impact of your work on our customers

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and Create : Partner with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to develop new features and enhance our products
• Plan and Execute : Contribute to product planning from the early stages. Your technical insights will help shape the product's direction
• Build and Optimize : Build scalable and reusable front-end components using React.js and TypeScript, ensuring performance and reliability. Leverage advanced techniques like memoization, lazy loading, and code splitting to optimize performance
• Ensure Quality : Write tests with Jest and react-testing-library. Use tools like React DevTools to debug and optimize

Preferred Qualifications

• SaaS Experience : Familiar with building SaaS products, especially in a cloud environment
• Back-end Knowledge: Basic understanding of server-side languages, particularly Node.js, to collaborate effectively with back-end teams
• FinTech Knowledge : Experience in the FinTech industry is a plus

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access