Remote Frontend Web Engineer - React & TypeScript

pofft Technology Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

KoboToolbox is seeking a Frontend Web Application Developer for a full-time remote role (35-40 hours/week in US East hours). You will work on API-driven SPA features, review code, and participate in design discussions to improve the platform used by thousands of organizations worldwide.

Requirements include strong TypeScript/React skills, experience with Backbone and CoffeeScript, and the ability to work with English communications.

Qualifications

• Professional experience writing, deploying, and maintaining client-side code for real-world, API-driven single-page applications.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, React, and related technologies, including styling, state management, and efficient data exchange over HTTP.
• Unflinching ability to work with legacy technologies such as Backbone and CoffeeScript.
• Recent experience giving and receiving code reviews.
• Ability to independently set up and troubleshoot a local development environment, knowing when to ask for help on genuine roadblocks.
• Interest in data collection (surveying), particularly in humanitarian emergencies and other challenging contexts, and a desire to improve our platform for our users.
• Proficiency with spoken and written English.
• Fluency with Git.
• Overlap with working hours in the Eastern time zone.
• Average availability of at least 30 hours per week, preferably 35 hours or more.

Responsibilities

• Reading and understanding an extensive, long-lived code base to understand existing behavior.
• Suggesting improvements aligned with contemporary best practices.
• Writing robust, concise, and reusable code with accompanying tests and documentation.
• Reviewing other developers' code and providing constructive feedback.
• Incorporating feedback from code reviews to improve your skills and align with team standards.
• Using AI-assisted development tools effectively while maintaining code quality.
• Investigating bug reports from the support team and creating fixes or action plans.
• Scoping, prioritizing, estimating, and organizing work into tasks.
• Attending regular video-conference check-ins with the technical team.
• Communicating with the public via forums, issue trackers, etc.
• Contributing to design and architecture discussions.
• Performing other related duties as directed by the lead developer.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Git

Django

Docker

REST

Python

Backbone

CoffeeScript

Web applications

Tools

Docker Compose

Job description

KoboToolbox is seeking a Frontend Web Application Developer for a full-time remote role (35-40 hours/week in US East hours). You will work on API-driven SPA features, review code, and participate in design discussions to improve the platform used by thousands of organizations worldwide.

Requirements include strong TypeScript/React skills, experience with Backbone and CoffeeScript, and the ability to work with English communications.