JavaScript/TypeScript Engineer (Riga)

Line manager

Juris Krikis, Scala/JavaScript Department Lead.

Why we are recommending

• Truly interesting technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Take an integral part in building a cross-platform web application used by hundreds of thousands of users world-wide on iOS, Android and desktop platforms. Company technology stack is modern and based on TypeScript, React, Babylon.js, and Webpack.

Requirements

• Passion for the profession, in particular front-end development, and improving yourself technically.
• Proven experience in delivering production software using JavaScript or Typescript.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English.
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or equivalent.
• Solid knowledge and experience with HTML5 and CSS3.
• Excellent communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem solving.

Will be a plus:

• Solid knowledge of TypeScript and ESNext.
• Experience in other strongly typed programming languages.
• Interest in contemporary programming trends such as functional and reactive programming, CSS preprocessing, alternative JavaScript languages, web components, touch user experiences, and responsive design.
• Experience with React, Redux, Lodash, RxJS, Babylon.js.
• Knowledge of modular CSS by using css-modules and post-css.
• Experience with testing and specifications libraries like Jest, Enzyme, Pupeteer, WebDriverIO, Cucumber, Mocha.
• Knowledge of JavaScript ecosystem tools, such as webpack, npm, yarn.
• Passion towards performance profiling and optimization, using GPU acceleration and maintaining 240 FPS for visually rich applications.

Company offers

• Entrepreneur culture of the company, which allows you to try new approaches and technologies all the time.
• Recognition from the business which translates to very competitive salaries and a supportive attitude.
• Developing games featuring live video serving customers around the world.
• Modern and developer-friendly delivery processes, including Agile (Scrum or Kanban), JIRA issue tracking, Confluence wiki, GitLab source control, Jenkins continuous integration and delivery, modern hardware and software for development (an IDE of your choice).
• Being a part of an international team in a successful, publicly traded company.
• Health insurance, contemporary office environment, tech conference attendance, training, relocation package and other benefits and perks.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen.
• Test task.
• Technical interview.

Useful links

• Evolution Engineering — Culture and Technology video: link.
• Open source: link.