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Our mission here is to fuel self-expression for those who can't help but create. Combining best-in-class expertise in digital marketing, technology, content and eCommerce, Craftsy is one of the fastest growing and most successful startups in the US. Located in sunny, stunning Denver, CO, we’ve raised over $100MM from the world-class investors who backed Facebook, LinkedIn, and Blue Apron.
We’re looking for a Front-End Engineer to join our team! The Front-End team believes strongly in the power and maintainability of single responsibility code modules, while also sharing code across as many platforms as possible (Web, iOS, and Android mostly). Though we call ourselves a React and React-Native shop, we’re open to any tool that helps us develop a sustainable and cutting edge experience. As a Front-End Engineer, you’ll help build out the front-end of our site and connect new features to our Android app. We’re looking for someone who has new ideas and is hungry to build their career in development.
For this role, we are looking for someone with experience in Javascript and React and also Java. (We have some Android needs that will require more attention initially.)
As a Front-End Engineer, you will:
- Work closely with product leads, UX, and analysts to create scalable, fast and efficient front-end applications to help drive our company forward
- Quickly address certain Android-specific needs while helping build the overall front-end application
- Work closely with the rest of the Front-End team to meet business objectives
- Work with powerful, reusable, and extensible JavaScript libraries in a constantly growing codebase
- Prepare cross-browser/cross-platform compliant JavaScript code for node, modern browsers and native devices
- Integrate interactive prototypes (HTML, CSS, React-Native) and service calls to create a fluid web and native applications
What will make you a great fit:
- Ability to write JavaScript, HTML, & CSS
- Experience with Java and understanding of Android development
- Demonstrated experience wiring JavaScript/HTML/CSS/REST stubs
- Experience with a JavaScript framework such as React+Flux, React-Native, Meteor, Knockout, Ember, or AngularJS
- Experience with npm-style packages and dependencies
- You desire a fast-paced work environment
- You’re early in your development career and eager to learn
- You have experience writing unit and/or functional tests within frameworks like Mocha, Jest, or Selenium
- You understand or aspire to write code across web and native platforms
- You like to nerd out on conversations about best practices
- You are thorough and diligent about writing excellent code and prefer being responsible for your own bugs (No throwing over the fence here!)
What will give you bonus points:
- Strong understanding of component design and architecture
- Experience developing for a smart mobile platform (iPhone/Android)
- Start-up experience
- Nerf gun modification
- React experience
- Appreciation of functional programming concepts (especially immutability, idempotence, and side-effects)
- Experience with redux, omniscient, elm, react-native and/or RxJS
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