Frontend Engineer

Sonder Australia; Australia; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Work-life balance

Job summary

Sonder Australia is seeking a talented frontend developer to join a small engineering team focused on rapidly scaling our platform across iOS/Android and web apps. You will craft high-quality, standards-based code, collaborate with senior engineers, and help shape the mobile and web architecture.

You will work on greenfield projects with flexible hours, aiming to support millions of users globally and to deliver robust, well-documented software that powers our safety and wellbeing platform.

Qualifications

• Frontend developer with strong ReactJS experience.
• Experience with Angular or Vue is a plus.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and Google Maps.
• Knowledge of Test Automation (Mocha/Chai).
• Excellent communication and ability to lead in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science/IT or similar.
• Full working rights for Australia.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to build Sonder systems and apps.
• Gather requirements and communicate needs to team members.
• Follow best practices to produce well-structured, documented code.
• Ensure automated tests meet quality and coverage targets.
• Contribute to SDLC across planning, design, dev, test, deployment and maintenance.
• Implement required functionalities.

Skills

ReactJS

Angular

Vue

RESTful APIs

Google Maps

Mocha/Chai

Communication

Technical leadership

Frontend development

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/IT

Job description

Company Description

Who are we?

Our vision is to create a global support network to get trusted local help by our members’ side within 20 minutes.

We provide 24/7 rapid response safety and wellbeing assistance at the touch of a button. The only company of our kind, we believe everyone should have access to help when needed. On-demand and multilingual guidance and support is provided through our app, over the phone and in-person. If our members are concerned, confused, lost or stranded, ill or injured, Sonder can help.

We are a later stage startup, looking to double in size within the next 6 months. Join our journey to make personal safety and wellbeing accessible to everyone.

Check us out here:https://sonderaustralia.com/

Job Description

The opportunity

Make an impact and help shape our future in this small Engineering team. You’ll have flexibility, freedom, and ability to influence one of Australia’s fastest growing businesses and help us scale to support millions of users. We just released a new platform on iOS and the Android app will be released in the next few months.Working on Greenfields projects, you’ll produce, review and document standards-based, high-quality, optimised code, and collaborate across the broader development team and delivery cycle as well as assisting in the design of the mobile solution architecture.You’ll work with Engineering Manager Ali Muzaffar who is ex- BCG Digital Ventures and other senior engineers on backend, frontend and mobile, Product Lead Joël Kalmanowicz and CTO Elena Kelareva who are ex-Google. We are results-oriented, have flexible hours and have some parents in the team so we value work life balance.

What you’ll do

• Participate actively with fellow developers and stakeholders to ensure Sonder systems and apps address the needs of the business and the end-users;

• Grasp project requirements and communicating needs to others;

• Follow software development best practice to produce well structured, well documented source code;

• Ensure automated tests meet the required quality and coverage;

• Contribute to the software development life cycle, including the planning, analysis, design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software applications for a range of internal and external stakeholders; and

• Implement required functionalities.

What we’re looking for

• Talented front-end developer with experience in web application development;

• Experience with ReactJS, however experience with Angular or Vue will be well regarded.

• You will have the opportunity to work with RESTful Microservices API, Google Maps, real-time positioning and, navigation.

• Understanding of Test Automation (Mocha/Chai or similar).

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

• Capability of being a technical leader and contributing quality code in our multi-functional team.

• Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, IT or similar field;

• Full working rights for Australia.