Front End Developer

Overview

Blackthorn Labs has an opening for a Front End Developer. Hands-on frontend role. You'll ship features, fix layout bugs on odd screen sizes and help maintain our shared component library. Part of this job is rebuilding an older AngularJS front end in React. Some of that work is unglamorous migration, and we won't pretend otherwise.

Responsibilities

• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive
• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly
• Add analytics events and help product read the results

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production web applications
• Git and a pull request based workflow
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details

Perks and benefits

• Medical insurance
• 30 days annual leave
• Tax-free salary
• End of service gratuity

Who we are

Blackthorn Labs is a 14-person software shop in Dubai. The founders still answer support tickets. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Candidates must be eligible to work in United Arab Emirates.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Blackthorn Labs.