Angular Developer

Job Description

Angular Developer is responsible for the client side of our service. Your primary focus will be to implement a complete user interface in the form of a desktop web app, with a focus on performance. Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app. The artistic design will be delivered to you, together with a few HTML templates, but we will ask for your help in regard to animations, CSS, and final HTML output. You will work in a team with the back-end developer and communicate with the API using standard methods. A thorough understanding of all of the components of our platform and infrastructure is required.

Responsibilities

- Delivering a complete front end application

- Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop

- Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

- Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself

- Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API

- Communicating with external web services / APIs

Skills and Qualifications

- Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5

- Professional, precise communication skills

- Deep knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience

- Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components

- Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system

- Ability to provide SEO solutions for single-page apps

- Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times

- Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching

layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system

- Validating user actions on the client-side and providing responsive feedback

- Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

- Creating custom, general use modules, and components that extend the elements and modules of core Angular

- Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource

- Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets

-Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions

- Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks

- Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well-reasoned alternative)