Junior Frontend Software Engineer

OLX
Summary
Join OLX as a Frontend Engineer and work remotely from Portugal, contributing to the development and maintenance of scalable platforms used by millions globally. You will be part of a creative team working on the Motors vertical, focusing on building experiences for major marketplaces. 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 a passion for TDD. OLX offers a range of benefits, including an annual bonus, health and life insurance, and various allowances.
Requirements
- Critical mindset. You will contribute to what needs to be done to achieve your pack goals
- Able to effectively communicate in English complex technical concepts to different disciplines (designers, support team, other engineers). You will work with others and collaborate on technical decisions
- You have experience with large-scale web applications with an economic thinking mindset
- Passionate about TDD, and you're not shy about it
- 1+ years of experience building JavaScript apps (knowledge of React and Redux is welcome)
- Experience with Front end Architectures and focus on performance (server-side and client-side)
- Used to work 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
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with microservices architecture on Golang, React and Next.js . Prepare these to cope with all the traffic and scale we need to handle
- 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
- We offer an Annual Bonus plus benefits like Health and Life insurance, Food Allowance, Transportation Allowance, English and Portuguese classes, and many other surprising treats
- Open selection of training e-courses including MyAcademy, Udemy, and specialist training like AWS