JavaScript Developer

You are an experienced developer and want to work with the newest technologies. You love having big goals, real-world challenges, and making customers incredibly happy whilst fostering your need for perfect code and user experience. Then you are the person Zilker Technology is looking for. 
 
Come join this innovative and passionate team of engineers to help build the next generation of awesome products and experiences using the latest cutting-edge technology. Discover what it’s like to be part of a team that rewards taking risks and trying new things. It’s time to love what you do! 

Job Description

The ideal candidate enjoys and thrives in working with a variety of tools, languages, systems and architectures while building scalable services and platforms to power current and future products.

  • Be part of an engineering team that builds and supports amazing customer-facing products that provide innovative solutions to challenging programming and design problems
  • Design, develop and maintain responsive web applications providing awesome user experiences in desktop and mobile devices
  • Hands-on development. Write the highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability and performance
  • Program daily in JavaScript on both frontend and backend
  • Participate in design and code reviews to ensure best practices and high-quality code
  • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, QE/QA and other Zilker teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements
  • Accurately scope effort, identify risks and clearly communicate trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders
  • Stay aware of industry trends and make technology choices and strategic decisions.  

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in JavaScript software development
  • Advance knowledge of JavaScript
  • Hands-on experience with either Node.js and popular frameworks (Express, LoopBack, Nest, Koa …) or modern frontend frameworks/libraries (Angular, React, Vue)
  • Familiarity with frontend build tools (Grunt, Gulp)
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT
  • Ability to understand requirements and map to technical implementation
  • Expertise in Software Design and Architecture
  • Experience working in Agile scrum development team

Nice to have

  • Experience with HTML5 & CSS3 frameworks such as bootstrap
  • Hybrid mobile development experience using Ionic
  • Experience with some of the common authentication concepts (Basic Auth, SAML, JWT, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect)
  • Experience in test-driven development
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

Our definition of “culture fit”

  • A great communicator both in how you listen and how you engage others in discussion
  • Immerse yourself in both the Zilker community and in the developer community to carry Zilker's mission, vision and values forward in each of your interactions
  • Exhibit a selfless dedication to our customers, our team and our values
  • Exhibit a deep belief in the product/project
  • Demonstrate a willingness to do whatever you can to make Zilker better

Our offering

  • A meaningful full-time job that provides you daily confirmation that your skills, talent and experience are making a difference in the world 
  • Bonus plan for our employees
  • A great opportunity to grow as a software professional
  • A truly shaping tech position with high degrees of responsibility and autonomy 
  • A design-minded, highly talented, dynamic and empathetic team and product process.
  • A modern and light-filled office space 
  • Opportunities to travel

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