Front-end Engineer (Contract) en Artist Growth

We are seeking a Software Engineer (Front-End Focus) to assist our team in achieving ambitious goals. This opening is a full-time, long-term contract position.

The Software Engineer will help design and maintain all software applications within the Artist Growth ecosystem with a focus on the client applications consuming our API (web and mobile). Additionally, this position serves as a representative of the entire engineering team to other stakeholders inside and outside of the business.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the daily status meeting by providing updates about the status of their work and any impediments
• Writes code and tests for given tasks with minimal guidance before and during execution of tasks
• Adheres to development guidelines and workflow dictated by team leaders
• Uses source control without supervision
• Participates in peer review process
• Seeks the advice of engineering team members when faced with questions or roadblocks
• Learns about both general software engineering approaches and the specific technologies in use at or being evaluated by Artist Growth, both independently and as directed
• Contributes to high-level engineering plans, goals, systems, and future innovations
• Provides meaningful feedback about work being planned to ensure the requirements are understandable and actionable

Relationships

The Software Engineer’s success depends upon the performance of others in the company. The Software Engineer must model healthy relationships inside the company and take corrective action when performance or the quality of work or life is adversely affected by unhealthy relationships. This applies to relationships between individuals, departments, and functional units.

Measurements of Success

Qualifications

A bachelor’s or equivalent degree in computer science, engineering, management information systems, software engineering, mathematics, or a related field is desired. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 3–5 years experience in a related field may be acceptable,

Requirements

• Capable of completing a body of work based on functional requirements, resolving any ambiguity or roadblocks
• Able to provide meaningful feedback on work in the planning stages and identify potential problems or dependencies
• Able to work within a defined process and identify ways in which the process could be improved
• Mindful of non-functional requirements like maintainability, performance, accessibility, and testability
• Comfortable working independently on most small to medium tasks
• Strong problem-solving skills to assist support and sales staff in resolving questions and discerning the root cause and potential workarounds for defects
• Able to deliver technical information in a manner that is understandable for non-technical staff
• Able to navigate and build an understanding of a complex software project
• Able to understand business goals and prioritize their work to best help Artist Growth achieve those goals
• Able to communicate in written and spoken English fluently
• Extensive experience with TypeScript, HTML, and SASS
• Extensive experience building and maintaining complex applications with Angular
• Practical experience consuming RESTful APIs
• Strong understanding of the Redux design pattern and reactive programming

Personal Attributes

• Committed to building and working with a strong engineering team, supporting each other in the service of meeting strategic and tactical goals
• Comfortable raising issues when the quality of the product or process is threatened
• Possesses a commitment to continuous learning and leadership
• Demonstrates the ability to see the big picture and provides meaningful feedback across the company
• Acts in an honorable and respectful way to others both inside and outside the company

• Significant knowledge of and previous work with modern web application tooling
• Experience delivering hybrid applications using the Ionic platform
• Strong understanding of data modeling