Staff Frontend Engineer

About Andela: 

Andela Talent Cloud is the industry’s only unified solution to manage the complete global talent lifecycle. We help enterprises source, qualify, hire, manage, and pay global technical talent in one integrated platform.

Market leaders partner with Andela to help rewrite their workforce strategies to include global, remote talent from over 175 countries to scale their teams and deliver projects faster.

Andela Talent Cloud provides an intelligent, AI-driven platform that helps enterprises build remote-fluent teams from emerging geographies such as Africa and Latin America. Powerful AI-matching algorithms learn from thousands of data points in the hiring journey to pinpoint the best engineers up to 70% faster at 30 to 50% less cost than other hiring approaches.  Andela caters to specialized disciplines such as Application Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, and Data & Analytics, with over 30 specific use cases. The world’s best brands trust Andela, including GitHub, Mastercard Foundry, ViacomCBS, and Mindshare.

About Andela

Andela exists to connect brilliance and opportunity. Since 2014, we have been dedicated to breaking down global barriers and accelerating the future of work for both technologists and organizations around the world.

For technologists, Andela offers competitive long-term career opportunities with leading organizations, access to a global community of professionals, and education opportunities with leading technology providers.

For companies, Andela provides access to a global network of fully integrated team members that unlock their business’ innovation and growth potential.

At Andela, we are deeply passionate about creating long-lasting and transformative growth opportunities for all and doing it in an E.P.I.C. way.

We are excited to continue building our team with incredible people like you!

About The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Front-End Engineer to join our team and work on our internal match platform. Our internal match platform is now transforming to become the main staff platform for Andela, this means that we are increasing the amount of demand around this tool. The internal match platform is the platform that brings value for Matchers to better execute their jobs and improves their performance.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in front-end development, with proficiency in React. Knowledge of Node.js and Python is a significant plus. This role demands not only technical expertise but also leadership skills, as the engineer will be expected to guide and be a leading reference for the team.

Key Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in front-end development;

• Excellent communication skills;

• Excellent problem-solving skills;

• Proficiency in React for front-end development;

• Knowledge of Docker, CI/CD and how to conduct deployments;

• Knowledge of GitFlow and methodologies to control branches and repositories;

• Knowledge on different git branching strategies, like git-flow, github-flow, trunk based, etc.

• Capable of working asynchronously;

• Strong leadership abilities with experience in guiding a team;

• Experience with Node.js and Python are a plus;

• Strong understanding of web development practices and principles;

• Proven experience in building and maintaining web applications

• Understand how Full-Stack web applications are built and their benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the front-end of our internal staff platform;

• Ensure the responsiveness and efficiency of applications;

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features;

• Mentor and support team members, providing guidance and leadership;

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code;

• Troubleshoot and debug applications;

• Keep up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends;

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to team improvement initiatives.

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Benefits

• Fully Remote work culture - we hire globally and all of our roles are fully remote!

• Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from Andela

• Flexible working hours

• Equity (as a part of the compensation package)

• Healthcare, 401k / pension (US only)

• Generous Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Compassionate Leave

And more to come! We're on a journey to reimagine global benefits at Andela.

At Andela, we outcompete through diversity. We know that our strengths lie in the multiplicity of talents, perspectives, backgrounds & orientations resident in our community and we take pride in that. Andela is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices. Andela provides equal employment opportunities and workplace to all employees and applicants without regard to factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy (including breastfeeding), genetic information, HIV/AIDS or any other medical status, family or parental status, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This commitment applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Our policies expressly prohibit any form of harassment and/or discrimination as stated above. Andela is home for all, come as you are.