Junior Front End Developer (Angular)

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Overview

We're hiring another Junior Front End Developer (Angular) to build the web interfaces our customers use every day, mostly in React and TypeScript. This role sits between design and backend engineering. Expect to spend most of your time in TypeScript, CSS and browser dev tools. We engage team members in India as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

Main duties

• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers
• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress

What you need

• 0-2 years building production web applications
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components

Nice to have

• Experience building or maintaining a design system
• Internationalization (i18n) and right-to-left layouts
• Figma, including Dev Mode
• Visual regression testing with Chromatic or Percy

Compensation and benefits

• Annual rate review
• Monthly internet allowance
• Company laptop
• Paid in USD

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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