Sr FrontEnd Developer (offline)

Our client creates a nonprofit pioneering a key new capability for the web called Web Annotation. They were instrumental in the development of the W3C Web Annotation standard, and are the creators of it’s most comprehensive general purpose implementation. They are working with publishers, educators, journalists, and scientists to bring annotation to the web at scale.
The project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site. The team creates open source software, pushes for standards, and fosters community. Using annotation, you enable sentence-level note taking or critique on top of the news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and more.

*Responsibilities*
Be the second main/lead frontend developer on the team. There is a huge backlog of new features and improvements, plus a mission-critical initiative to the product from Angular 1 to React to ongoing improvements.

We are seeking a Senior Front End Developer to join our team. The person hired for this role will work with the product delivery team to develop and ensure the delivery of technologies and services in support of our vision; to bring a conversation overall knowledge. Join us as we extend what the web can do.

In this role, you will help build systems, browser-based software, and user interfaces to support annotation of web pages and other media. You will focus on solving user needs by contributing to the front-end codebase.

The following is a sampling of the technologies we currently use (if you’re already familiar, great, but please don’t take these as prerequisites):

JavaScript, AngularJS, React
Python, Pyramid, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
AWS, Docker, Ansible
This role reports to the Engineering / Product Manager.

Required Skills:

A solid understanding of the web platform and how browsers work
Good knowledge of JavaScript
Familiarity with architectural patterns and tools used to build modern web applications
Experience profiling and debugging web applications
Experience working with developers of open source projects to resolve bugs or make improvements
Your documentation and verbal communication skills are excellent, and you’re able to collaborate and rally support with people on and off your team
You have productive habits, healthy process awareness, and good teamwork skills and instincts