Job Description

Is this your new role in New Zealand? Don't forget to checkout out our specialised category 'Accredited Employers'

Senior Front-end Engineer

Covidence

Remote

Category IT Jobs

ABOUT US Our mission is to dramatically improve lives by changing the way the world creates and uses knowledge. Launched in 2014 Covidence is a not-for-profit world leading SaaS platform. Our platform enables health and science research teams to rapidly synthesize and uncover actionable insights from the mountains of research produced around the world.

We do this by accelerating a research workflow called 'systematic review,' the gold standard for synthesizing research evidence. Many of the world's most prestigious and innovative universities use Covidence. THE OPPORTUNITY Covidence is seeking a senior front-end Engineer ideally with experience in Ruby, to join our Product & Engineering team, reporting to an Engineering Team Lead.

In the past 2 years we've grown the engineering team from 3 to 15 members, and we will continue to scale the team over the coming years. We're keen to chat to you and learn about what talents you can bring to our team. You'll get to: - Write code that thousands of researchers rely on every day.

- Guide and influence the evolution of our front-end along with your teammates. - Guide the team on the direction of our front-end architecture. - Guide the team on front-end best practices through technical workshops, code reviews and pair programming.

- Work to refine the team's processes to improve development, quality assurance, and delivery. - Work alongside a product manager and designer to help shape product specifications. - Be part of a small tight-knit, high-achieving team that values trust and respect for one another.

What you bring: - Strong front end experience, with a willingness and ability to help out across the stack. - Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of HTML, CSS, React, and Typescript. - A pragmatic approach to refactoring and modernizing legacy code.

- Some experience in building and deploying in Ruby on Rails. - Great communication skills, both written and verbal. - A reasoned and pragmatic approach to software development and testing.

- A love of problem-solving, investigating problems and determining the appropriate fix. - Experience working in an agile development environment. TECHNOLOGY STACK - Ruby on Rails/Ruby/postgreSQL - React/Typescript and GraphQL - Backbone - HTML/CSS/Javascript frameworks - Automated testing - RSpec/Jest/Jasmine - DevOps AWS / Heroku - Monitoring tools Sentry / Datadog - CI/CD - Buildkite THE PERKS - Competitive salaries relevant to your experience level, reviewed twice yearly.

- Remote team so you can live and work anywhere as long as you can offer a 4-hour workday crossover with the AEST time zone. - Work week flexibility - Full time, part time or explore a flexible arrangement with us that best suits you and us. - Gifted time off between Christmas and New Years Eve, and the option to purchase 3 more weeks pro rata.

- Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 8 weeks paid leave for partners, available after only 6 months tenure. - Access to wellbeing se.

...

MAKE YOUR NEW ZEALAND
DREAM A REALITY

Begin Your Journey

CONTACT US

We're not around right now. But you can send us an email and we'll get back to you, asap.

Sending

© Copyright MoveToNZ 2024. All Rights Reserved.

Terms of Use | Terms of trade | Privacy Policy | FAQ's