Front end / Full stack Developer

Open Assessment Technologies is the creator of the TAO open-source platform which is the leading digital assessment solution for education and career advancement. Modular, customizable and interoperable by design, TAO empowers you to break free from the confines of proprietary silos, eliminate expensive licensing fees, take full control of your testing resources, and enjoy enterprise-level support.

Job purpose

A full stack developer is a web developer or engineer who works with both the front and back ends of a website or application. In this sense, they provide an end-to-end service, and can be involved in projects that involve databases and building user-facing websites or applications.

As a team player, you will be responsible for the implementation of all required frontend customizations using JS (Svelte, ReactJs) / CSS / HTML(5) but also be responsible for the implementation of all required developments and customizations of our platform in Node Js or PHP.

Duties and responsibilities

• Designs standalone systems of moderate complexity, or major new features in existing systems.
• Determines data needs from product requirements.
• Assesses correctness and utility of existing code and avoids blind copy-pasting.
• Increases the robustness and reliability of codebases, and devotes time to polishing products and systems.
• Tests new code thoroughly, both locally, and once deployed on QA environment.
• Refactors existing code to make it more testable and match design patterns best practices.
• Implements systems that enable better testing.
• Gives thoughtful code reviews as a domain expert.
• Advises deployment patterns matching an application needs.
• Participates in the SCRUM ceremonies.
• Estimates software changes requests complexity.

Qualifications and skills

• At least 6 years of experience.
• Collaborate with others with empathy.
• Take on trust and tasks proactively when blocked elsewhere.
• Excellent knowledge of Node JS, React, PHP.
• Good knowledge with VCS (Git).
• Good knowledge with Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a +.
• Takes security by design into account for new systems.
• Able to debug and profile code.
• Applies the software development best practices and clean code principles.
• Anticipates and shares schedule deviations in plenty of time.
• Communicates effectively to close stakeholders when called upon, and incorporates constructive feedback.

Company benefits

• Working for an open source learning platform.
• Access to conferences, training, certifications, etc.
• The possibility to work 100% from home.
• Company and team events.
• International and multicultural working environment.

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