Front-End Developer Superstar

THE NO-NONSENSE SUMMARY: This posi­tion is intend­ed for tal­ent­ed devel­op­ers who like to have a direct impact on real-world busi­ness solu­tions. Report­ing to the Senior Tech­ni­cal Lead, you will enjoy this posi­tion if you like work­ing in small teams and to get con­tin­u­ous feed­back as you imple­ment solu­tions to real-world prob­lems. Be sure to read to the end of the descrip­tion to be sure you don’t miss an impor­tant detail.

ROLE’S MISSION

The amaz­ing abil­i­ty to imple­ment main­tain­able fron­tend func­tion­al­i­ty and com­po­nents based on the CAPLINQ design sys­tem and UX/UI designs.

DESIRED OUTCOMES (max 3):

• Quick­ly and effec­tive­ly trans­late UX/UI design to work­ing Aure­lia components
• Devel­op inter­faces and user expe­ri­ences to increase pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and reduce man­u­al work
• Inde­pen­dent­ly inves­ti­gate and solve prob­lems (debug­ging)

CANDIDATE COMPETENCIES | Can­di­date is able to (max 5):

• Research, under­stand and imple­ment best prac­tices in the field of fron­tend development
• Work effec­tive­ly with team mem­bers to under­stand & imple­ment changes with atten­tion to detail
• Use tools (NPM, Web­pack) to opti­mize front end devel­op­ment process
• Pro­fi­cient in mod­ern HTML, CSS, and any JavaScript frame­work (we cur­rent­ly use Aurelia)
• Under­stand and pro­vide feed­back for back­end API changes to opti­mize for frontend

THE ROLE
Yes, you read that right – we’re look­ing for a SUPERSTAR. If the title sounds uncon­ven­tion­al, it’s because CAPLINQ is too. We’re look­ing for that spe­cial some­one who has not one, but two com­ple­men­tary skills – the amaz­ing abil­i­ty to appre­ci­ate and inter­pret great UI/UX design as well as being able to imple­ment these designs with your clean, sim­ple code.

CAPLINQ is a small, fast-grow­ing com­pa­ny and we’re look­ing for tal­ent­ed, team-play­ing indi­vid­u­als to join our team. We’re a dif­fer­ent kind of com­pa­ny look­ing to find spe­cial peo­ple, so we also write our job vacan­cies in a way to attract sim­i­lar like-mind­ed peo­ple. We’ve been suc­cess­ful in Europe for 15 years, the USA for 2 years and have only recent­ly expand­ed our oper­a­tions to the Philip­pines and Malaysia.

In the descrip­tion below, we try to give you an idea of exact­ly the kind of peo­ple we are look­ing for by list­ing the desired out­comes of the posi­tion and the desired com­pe­ten­cies of the ide­al can­di­date. If you find your­self nod­ding along with this descrip­tion and see your­self as a per­fect fit for this posi­tion, then I encour­age you to read on. If on the oth­er hand, you’re already exhaust­ed read­ing this, I rec­om­mend you take a nap and check out anoth­er job post.

So, what will you be doing?
You will be work­ing with the devel­op­ment team to cre­ate new or extend exist­ing func­tion­al­i­ties. Part of our appli­ca­tions still exist out of old PHP code which you and your col­leagues will com­plete­ly rebuild work­ing close­ly togeth­er with our UX/UI designer. 

1. HTML, CSS and Javascript (60% of your time)

The most impor­tant part of the devel­op­ment is HTML and CSS and Javascript. Our UX/UI design­er pro­vides you with a detailed design in Fig­ma and your task is to change those designs in work­ing appli­ca­tion func­tion­al­i­ty that will con­nect with our C# back­end API.

Exam­ples of activities:

• Cre­ate mod­ern HTML pages from scratch
• Cre­ate CSS from scratch (we use SASS but do not use Bootstrap)
• Cre­ate reusable HTML ele­ments based on our designs systems
• Use Aure­lia frame­work to imple­ment Javascript functionalities
• Give valu­able feed­back to the UX/UI teams as well as the back­end team

2. Add inte­gra­tion test­ing and opti­mize devel­op­er expe­ri­ence (10% of your time)

Update our appli­ca­tion with the lat­est and great­est pack­ages with all secu­ri­ty fix­es and new fea­tures while mak­ing sure our appli­ca­tion is backed by inte­gra­tion tests to make sure we can reli­ably pub­lish those updates into production. 

Exam­ples of activities:

• Cre­ate an infra­struc­ture for inte­gra­tion test­ing (You can sug­gest the framework)
• Update pack­ages to use the lat­est ver­sions available 
• Opti­mize the fron­tend build process on Azure Devops
• Opti­mize and main­tain the deploy­ment of a new ver­sion with Octo­pus Deploy
• Update web­pack con­fig­u­ra­tion to opti­mize bun­dle sizes or update to lat­est version

3. Opti­mize pub­lic web­site (30% of your time)

Our cur­rent web­site is built with PHP and JavaScript and uses a lot of jQuery. Although our main focus is the inter­nal appli­ca­tion, we do have to update the web­site from time to time. We are look­ing for a rebuild in the next year to meet the next gen­er­a­tion require­ments, so that will be a big­ger part of your respon­si­bil­i­ty next year if that is what you are inter­est­ed in.

Exam­ples of cur­rent activities:

• Change the web­site menu design
• Update web­site search experience
• Opti­mize pages for SEO so our rank­ing on Google will improve
• Improve web­site performance

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 

What mind­set do you require?
Skills can be learned. Mind­sets, though they can be learned too, are more often a part of who you are. We val­ue the mind­set at least if not more than either expe­ri­ence or hard skills.

1. Curios­i­ty – We want a per­son who is curi­ous, and rarely sat­is­fied with the first answer. If you find some­thing that doesn’t agree with what you already think, then we want some­one who wants to know why. 
2. Atten­tion to Detail – We want a per­son who is orga­nized, man­ages their time well and has good obser­va­tion skills. Hint! Don’t for­get to read the last paragraph 😉
3. Con­tin­u­ous Improve­ment – Peo­ple and process­es can always get bet­ter. We’re look­ing for some­one who ques­tions every process to see if there’s no room for improvement.
4. Courage – Boss­es make mis­takes and col­leagues aren’t always fair. That’s life. We’re look­ing for some­one who may be afraid to con­front these issues, but does it anyway.

What skills do you NOT need?
Before we list the skills you do need, it is impor­tant that you know what skills or expe­ri­ence we do NOT require:

• Prod­uct knowl­edge: You do not need to know any­thing about any of the prod­ucts CAPLINQ sells, nor any of the ser­vices we pro­vide. All will be taught on the job.
• Aure­lia frame­work: Although we heav­i­ly use the Aure­lia frame­work to build our appli­ca­tions, it’s not required to have frame­work spe­cif­ic knowl­edge. If you have knowl­edge, great. If you don’t, but want to learn, also great.
• Lots of work expe­ri­ence: We are open to accept­ing entry-lev­el can­di­dates with the right mind­set and can learn on the job. On the oth­er hand, if you have a lot of expe­ri­ence, you are also encour­aged to apply. Salary will be com­men­su­rate with skills and experience.

What skills do you require?

Very few hard skills are required. Can­di­dates will be required to:

• Prag­mat­ic, ana­lyt­i­cal, results-focused. This is the basic require­ment for the position.
• Be a pos­i­tive team play­er. A pos­i­tive atti­tude and ener­gy feed the team and we can always use more.
• Pay atten­tion to detail. The very last para­graph of this job vacan­cy has very impor­tant infor­ma­tion. Be sure you read it twice before apply­ing.

Skills not required, but that get bonus points (any of them count):

The job does not require these skills, but they are wel­come extras, be sure to men­tion them.

• Aure­lia frame­work: As men­tioned sev­er­al times already, Aure­lia is impor­tant to cre­ate our fron­tend func­tion­al­i­ty, but it doesn’t nec­es­sar­i­ly need to be your strong suit.

There is no need to send your CV unless it looks awe­some and you want to impress us with how it looks. Oth­er­wise, we will use your LinkedIn pro­file (bet­ter make sure it is complete!). 

Instead, can­di­dates wish­ing to apply are request­ed to send an email to hr@caplinq.com that includes:

• A link to your LinkedIn pro­file (not a CV)
• A one-page, per­son­al cov­er letter

Let me repeat that last part in a dif­fer­ent way… We are look­ing for peo­ple who stand out from the crowd with a well-writ­ten, enthu­si­as­tic one-page let­ter telling us why this posi­tion speaks to you and what you could bring to the team. 

If all you do is send a CV (we told you not to), and no cov­er let­ter your appli­ca­tion will be dis­card­ed with­out even being read.