About AmberStudent

The future is limitless, and amber’s ever-growing family is building it now. 🤝 Constantly evolving with a 35x growth rate📈, about 80 million students worldwide count on us to help them discover and secure full-time housing near their desired locations. 🌏📌 Since our inception in 2016, we’ve expanded from a family of 5 to a company with over 400+ employees 👨‍💻. We believe in the phrase “Life’s short. Work somewhere awesome.“, and live by it, ALWAYS! 😃 We’re rapidly increasing both our reach and our family with the objective of redefining and making the experience of a student moving abroad accessible and hassle-free! Spreading over 9 countries and 250 cities, amber is the world’s largest student housing marketplace.

Job Description

About the role

We are looking for a skilled Front-End Developer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing functional user interface components using Javascript (React.js) concepts and frameworks. You will be completely owning all the various front-end products and platforms, which currently serve 20M+ users/year across the globe.

Key responsibilities

Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known Javascript (React.js) concepts and workflows.

You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust, easy to maintain and scalable.

Maintain a very high standard of UI Structuring, layout and ensuring a delightful visual experience for users.

You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality products are important.

Technical Skills

1-2 years of experience, working with frontend technologies.

Experience working with modern Javascript libraries and tools like ReactJS (mandatory), ES6/ES7, Webpack, Gulp.

Strong knowledge of HTML+HTML5, JS, CSS+CSS3

Experience with unit testing in any modern javascript libraries (Jest/Mocha/Jasmine)

UI Performance - should have hands-on experience in optimizing page load, rendering, caching

Proficiency with modern frontend development frameworks and libraries, such as Redux, Redux-Saga, and React Router

Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git

Proficient with creating UI components, interaction patterns, task flows, converting a design to web pages

Keeps an eye on new front-end ecosystem changes

Soft Skills

Obsessed with best practices and have an eye for detail

Self starter with a high level of drive and commitment

High Ownership (taking complete responsibility for the growth via the respective channels)

Ability to multi-task, work in a fast-paced start-up environment, and get-things-done

Strong communication skills.

Hands-on and detail oriented

✅ Must Have

Should have experience in React JS and Redux Should have hands-on experience in optimizing page load, rendering, caching. Strong knowledge of HTML+HTML5, JS, CSS+CSS3. Experience working with modern Javascript libraries and tools like ReactJS (mandatory), ES6/ES7, Webpack, Gulp. Proficiency with modern frontend development frameworks and libraries, such as Redux, Redux-Saga, and React Router. Experience with unit testing in any modern javascript libraries (Jest/Mocha/Jasmine)

👍 Good to Have

AWS or Azure