Apply: Front End Engineer (React)

We are looking for a Front End Engineer to join a growing team for an organisation based within the banking and financial services domain. The role will be for an initial 6 months with the view to extend and will be focused on a range of project work that has already commenced.
The role can be performed remotely however you must live within the Greater Sydney region.

About the Role
Working within a small and passionate team, the UI engineer role will report to the technical lead and be responsible for enhancing (development/unit testing/peer code reviews) the current UI Framework (react JS and Node JS stack), based upon priority set by the Product Owner.
A strong passion for all things in application development and a commitment to owning issues is key to succeeding in this role, as well as a pragmatic approach to solving problems.

Skills Required:

• Strong foundation in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
• Experience with a modern client-side single page app framework (React, Angular, Vue,..)
• Good working knowledge of GIT version control and JavaScript package managers (npm, yarn)
• Has experience and understanding of the functional programming paradigm (pure functions, etc)
• At least 3 years’ experience in at least one of the modern client side single page app frameworks
• Understands how to correctly use NPM dependencies (how peer deps vs deps work for example)
• Experience with Jest/Jasmine unit testing frameworks and testing patterns in React (knows how to write efficient tests for reducers, sagas, react components, connected react components)

Highly regarded:

• Production experience with React and Redux stack (incl. Redux Saga)
• Experience writing redux middleware

For further information on this role or to confidentially apply, please contact Peter Thomson on 02 8227 9200 or apply directly via the Apply for this job button. Only WORD FORMAT resumes will be accepted.