UI Developer

**About You**

Are you an independent, passionate technologist eager for your next role?

Do you want to work for an innovative company that is just as invested in your progress? Then we want you

**About the Role**

You will be an individual contributor and responsible for implementing and maintaining the frontend components for our SaaS platform. You willl demonstrate strength and capabilities in frontend technologies and have a fair understanding of general web principals. You will be working closely with UX Designers, Engineers, Product Managers and QA Analysts throughout the software development life cycle.

You will be responsible for implementing wireframes, sketches and storybook components for our SaaS platform built using Angular in the frontend and Django/DRF in the backend.

**About Wazoku**

Will you help to provide clean water to schools in Mexico? To find a better solution to protect astronauts? To invent the next multi-billion market breakthrough? At Wazoku, that’s exactly what we achieve as we; change the world, one idea at a time.

We do this through our enterprise innovation platform that help organisations to find that one person who has that one idea wherever they are to solve their smallest to biggest problems to generate solutions that truly change the world. We work with Global 2000 organisations from the likes of NASA to Nissan and GSK, helping them discover new products and services, continuous improvements, but also ways to sustain our planet.

We are a B-Corp, Carbon Negative, for-purpose organisation with recent funding from Octopus Ventures and we are growing.

Wouldn’t you want to be part of this? To be involved in a new breakthrough idea that helped change the world into a better place? If so - we would love to hear from you

**Responsibilities**
- Collaborate with UX Designers, Engineers and Product managers to build responsive frontend UI components
- Implement wireframes and sketches as working code
- Create reusable storybook components
- Produce clean, secure, well documented and performant code
- Participates in peer reviews
- Verify and deploy programs and systems
- Collaborate with QA to test code, troubleshoot issues and resolve bugs.

**Requirements**:

- Good grasp of general web principals including web performance, security, responsive design & mobile constraints.
- Proven experience as a UI Developer, Front-end Engineer or similar role
- Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript
- Proficient in HTML, CSS and SCSS
- Experience with Storybook
- Familiarity with client-side frameworks such as Angular or React.

**Nice to have**
- Knowledge of software testing techniques such as unit, integration, and automated browser testing
- Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies
- Knowledge of distributed version control systems such as Git

**What we offer**

Although we work hard, we also recognise the importance of maintaining a proper integration of work/life priorities and providing a culture that encourages creativity and productivity. Our benefits include:

- $20+ USD contractual homeworking internet benefit
- Flexible Holiday that recognises employees are best able to determine when and how often they need to take time off to recharge their batteries, while still meeting their performance objectives
- Birthday day off
- Access to English lessons tailored to your needs
- Thanks Ben benefits, including $40 per month to spend on personal well-being.
- Excellent maternity and adoption policy - 18 weeks full pay and then a further 8 weeks at half pay if you wish to take it.
- Excellent Paternity pay - 4 weeks to be taken the year of the birth of the child, 4 weeks to be taken in the second year after the birth of the child.
- Social Events - Including company off-sites and summer parties, charity engagement and more
- December one week shut down over the holiday period
- 10 days paid sick leave.
- Mental Health Services
- Employee Referral Scheme - $1,000 bonus for every person you successfully refer

Salary range $1500 - $1900 US monthly depending on experience

**What happens next?**

Our interview process is tailored to each role. We will always look to make the adjustments you need to bring your best self to interview.