Senior Web Developer

About the product

Responsibilities

• All web developers at Unified are responsible for:
• Implementing new features based on provided designs, ensuring pixel-perfect UI components and smooth user interactions.
• Collaborating closely with the designer to ensure design fidelity and provide feedback on technical feasibility
• Working with backend engineers to integrate APIs, ensuring smooth functionality with backend services.
• Optimizing app performance, ensuring that new features load quickly, perform well, and are responsive.
• Identifying, responding to, and resolving bugs and related issues to maintain a smooth and consistent user experience.
• Ensuring code quality by writing maintainable and reusable code.
• As a Senior Web Developer, you’ll also be asked to take ownership of one or more core features of the mobile app. E.g., you may be asked to be responsible for implementation, improvement, and maintenance of the public home feed. For any such features you are responsible for, you’ll be the “go-to” person on the team for anything related to adding new capabilities, improving usability, fixing bugs, and so on.

Requirements

• As a member of the Unified team, you can expect to engage with a set of individuals who are incredibly committed to their company’s mission. All Unified team members fundamentally believe in the potential impact of our work on American society. That means we expect a lot from each other and those we work with. In practice, this means we look for the following attributes in all of our employees:
• Defaults to action in everything they do
• Very organized and capable of efficient task management while adhering to project deadlines
• Extreme attention to detail (e.g., ensuring UI/UX is implemented exactly as designed)
• Highly responsive to other team members’ requests
• Takes time to learn new tools or best practices when necessary
• Listens to others and seeks out feedback from team members and third parties
• Is very engaged in understanding the organizations and individuals whom we serve
• Specific technical skills that will be helpful in this role include:
• Proficiency with React.js and previous experience building React-based applications.
• Proficiency with Javascript/HTML/CSS
• Proficiency with Next.js
• Familiarity with Tailwind
• Familiarity with TypeScript
• Experience with Context API, Redux, or Simple State
• Experience using APIs to perform CRUD or more advanced business logic for a web application
• Basic understanding of what it takes to host a web frontend on a server
• Using gitlab/github for code management and version control
• Using JIRA or similar tools for task management, project estimation, and team communication
• Using Figma to translate design requirements to CSS or other styling frameworks

What this role offers

How to apply

• Submit your information here: https://airtable.com/appvg1UAQgKCzR0Xl/pagg2TQa6MZG3KpAv/form
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