Junior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join OLX as a Frontend Engineer and work remotely from Portugal, contributing to the development and maintenance of scalable platforms used globally by millions. You will be part of a team building experiences for the fast-growing Motors marketplace, working with a mixed tech stack on AWS. Responsibilities include building scalable platforms, solving technical challenges, owning the development process end-to-end, advocating for product quality, and contributing to the EU engineering community. The ideal candidate possesses a critical mindset, excellent communication skills, experience with large-scale web applications, and expertise in front-end development. OLX offers a comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance, food and transportation allowances, training opportunities, and an annual bonus.

Requirements

• Have a critical mindset. Contribute to what needs to be done to achieve your team goals
• Communicate effectively in English
• Have experience with large-scale web applications with an economic thinking mindset
• Demonstrate expertise working with one or more of the following: Front End Development
• Be passionate about TDD
• Have 3+ years of experience building JavaScript apps (knowledge of React and Redux is welcome)
• Have experience with Front end Architectures and focus on performance (server-side and client-side)
• Be used to working with CI/CD practices, RESTful APIs, and AWS

Responsibilities

• Build scalable platforms used by people around the globe while developing and maintaining products with billions of page views per month
• Solve technical challenges with engineers from other European offices, having a chance to accelerate your impact by delivering for millions of customers
• Own the development process end-to-end, participating in product design discussions, writing and reviewing code, assuring quality and the strategy for the development
• Advocate for product quality, security, and performance improvements that have a impact across your team and others
• Focus on delivery towards DevOps mentality contributing to the EU engineering community through our guilds
• Promote the discovery process by having access to the research panel
• Help shape OKRs alongside product managers
• Help our development team and operations assessment and resolving production issue

Preferred Qualifications

Have knowledge of React and Redux

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with microservices architecture on Golang, React and Next.js
• Possibility to be mentored by someone of your choice from the OLX community
• A healthy learning environment that takes your career at heart for both Individual Contributors or Managers
• Annual Bonus
• Health and Life insurance
• Food Allowance
• Transportation Allowance
• English and Portuguese classes
• Open selection of training e-courses including MyAcademy, Udemy, and specialist training like AWS