React Developer - Careers - Velvetech

VELVETECH LLC; Town of Florida (NY); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A software development company is seeking a React Front-End Developer to lead the team in developing user-facing features. You will work remotely, enhancing your skills while collaborating in a friendly environment. The ideal candidate has a thorough understanding of React, experience with SPAs, and proficiency in AI-driven tools. Competitive salary and flexible benefits offered.

Benefits

Continuous learning opportunities

Flexible benefits

Bi-weekly inter-team demos

Qualifications

• Understanding of React 18, DOM, HTML5 API, CSS3.
• Experience writing tests using Jest + React Testing Library.
• Familiarity with RESTful architecture and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team in developing user-facing features using React.
• Build reusable components and libraries for future use.
• Redesign and enhance product functionality.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for innovative solutions.
• Communicate frontend best practices to the team.

Skills

Thorough understanding of React and its core principles

Building SPAs (Single Page Applications)

Proficiency in AI-driven development tools

Strong prompt engineering skills

Critical understanding of AI tools boundaries

Job description

Velvetech is an American global software development company headquartered in Miami, FL, and with an office in Chicago, IL. Velvetech has its developers strategically distributed in 10+ global technical job markets to deliver the best in class software engineering and exceptional client services.

We have 20+ years of experience in software and hardware development for clients all around the world, especially for US clients. As an official Microsoft Gold Partner, our company is listed in the top 5 software development companies in Illinois, USA.

US clients are leading trading and financial organizations, insurance companies, large healthcare associations, pharmaceutical and energy companies, equipment manufacturers, hi-tech startups, etc.

Areas of expertise are consulting, development, implementation, and support of software solutions. We implement modern backend solutions that support microservices architecture with the following technologies: .NET Core, Node.js, Java, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ. For the web UI front-end development, we opt for React, or Angular, and for mobile development — Swift, Kotlin, Java. Most of the systems are designed for cloud infrastructures like AWS, Azure, GCP, and heavily rely on Docker, Kubernetes while modern CI/CD is made using GitLab CI or TeamCity.

Responsibilities

As a new team member, working fully remotely from the coziness of your home, you would be responsible for leading the team while developing the latest user-facing features using React and building a modern highly responsive web-based user interface. In a friendly environment with the possibility of growing your business and technical skills further along with various certifications and career upgrades, you would be able to have many benefits and a competitive performance-based salary that are waiting for you.

• Actively involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound and aesthetically impressive
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use and translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Redesigning and rewriting the product functionality, developing features to enhance the user experience, and determining the structure and design of the product
• Evaluating emerging technologies and proposing strategic, innovative, and cost-effective solutions that increase the efficiency, reliability, and integration of the business software
• Developing the shared component library and helping transition our product from the old UI to ASP.NET and transition the scripts in jQuery+React, which inject components in our legacy UI, to a full SPA application (React ^16.13.x)
• Communicate frontend best practices to the team, enhancing efficiency and performance across the department

Requirements

• Thorough understanding of React and its core principles, including React 18 or later
• DOM, HTML5 API, CSS3, and HTML5
• Building SPAs (Single Page Applications) and writing tests using Jest + React Testing Library
• RESTful architecture and API
• Proficiency in AI-driven development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor IDE, Tabnine, or similar is required
• Strong prompt engineering skills to optimize the outputs of AI tools effectively
• Critical understanding of the boundaries of AI tools and the ability to apply sound judgment and critical thinking
• Utilizing artificial intelligence to debug, refine code quality, and improve documentation for enhanced productivity and workflow reliability

What we offer

Our employee has an opportunity for continuous learning as a front-end developer with improving your SPA development and other skills while performing code review and improving CI/CD processes and automation. Besides that, you will be participating in bi-weekly inter-team demos via Zoom, sharing results and receiving input from other teammates. By working in short 5-day sprints with small batches of clear tasks, we offer many flexible benefits that make us different from other companies.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applications from underrepresented groups.