Senior Front End Developer for Seeking Alpha (offline)

Seeking Alpha is the market leader for crowdsourced equity research in the USA. We employ 150+ people across its operations in New York, Israel and India.

The company is the premier website for actionable stock market opinion and analysis, and vibrant, intelligent finance discussion. Each month our crowdsource investment analysis draws an audience of 5.2MM+ monthly visitors to our real-time alerts products on email and mobile.

We handpick articles from the world’s top market blogs, money managers, financial experts and investment newsletters, publishing 500 unique article and news updates daily. The company gives a voice to over 5.5MM registered users, including 12,000+ contributors and individuals averaging 130,000+ comments a month, providing access to the nation’s savviest and inquisitive investors.

Our site is the only free, online source for over 5,000 public companies’ quarterly earnings call transcripts, including the S&P 500. The company was named the Most Informative Website by Kiplinger’s Magazine and has received Forbes’ ‘Best of the Web’ Award.

Description

On behalf of Seeking Alpha, Ciklum is looking for Senior Front End Developer to join Kyiv team on full-time basis.

Responsibilities
- Develop Front-End (ReactJS, NodeJS) for modern financial media website
- Participate in design and planning discussions, contribute architecture ideas
- Develop and test new user-facing features
- Write highly scalable, reusable and testable code
- Optimize application for maximum speed and performance
- Collaborate with other team members

Requirements
- Knowledge of Agile principles, open-source ecosystem, Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Experience in ReactJS, NodeJS.
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MySQL, ElasticSearch, CouchBase,

Redis, etc.)
- Comfortable with source version control software (Git)
- Knowledge and understanding of server-side architecture best practices, good understanding of

the HTTP protocol and networking
- 5+ years of front-end development experience in building complex and scalable high load

websites (JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3)
- Understanding of all major browsers and the special considerations required for various quirks.
- Knowledge of browser internals like Javascript engines, native DOM, Event APIs and ways to

tune code for the best performance

Desirable
- Experience working in a UNIX environment
- Familiarity with Angular/React/Vue or similar frontend frameworks
- Proficiency in ES6 and newer specifications of EcmaScript
- Having Github portfolio or link to open source work

Personal skills
- Ability to focus on details
- Self-motivated, self-disciplined, goal-driven
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good ability to learn fast
- Service and teamwork orientation

What's in it for you
- Very close cooperation with the client
- Possibility to propose solutions on a project
- Dynamic and challenging tasks.
- Ability to influence project technologies.
- Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills.
- Low bureaucracy, European management style.

About Ciklum International

Ciklum (www.ciklum.com) is a leading global product engineering and digital services company, serving Fortune 500 and fast-growing organisations.

Headquartered in the UK, Ciklum has 4,000+ software developers, designers, product managers and data scientists around the world building tailored digital solutions that leverage emerging technologies. Ciklum specialises in enabling digital transformation for some of the largest household names in the digital economy.

The Company empowers its clients and people to exceed their potential and pursue the extraordinary.

Join one of the top 10 employers in Ukraine, according to Forbes.
Boost your skills and make a difference with cutting-edge projects, skilled colleagues and the latest tech stacks.

Company website:
https://www.ciklum.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/ciklum/