Department: Software Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: India Remote

Description

Our Frontend Staff Engineer is a beacon of trusted and transferable in-depth domain knowledge, often in multiple areas within Axelerant. Staff Engineers exert influence across many projects, providing insight and guidance to leaders and teams, helping inform on final solutions.

Staff Engineers have experienced consultants and professional leaders with the wisdom to judge which of the latest tools and industry trends are worth exploring and relevant to Axelerant.

A Staff Engineer at Axelerant could progress to a Principal Engineer role within five years.

Key Responsibilities
• Accountable for designing and building high-traffic JavaScript applications with non-trivial content structure and functionality
• Accountable for leveraging Drupal technologies into robust, scalable web applications when relevant
• Responsible for guiding technical discussions with technical and non-technical audiences
• Responsible for negotiating mutually agreeable outcomes with clients, partners, and other stakeholders
• Accountable for complex JavaScript development tasks, including custom module development using relevant API systems
• Responsible for understanding how system functions contribute to the strategic direction of the business and the ability to make valuable contributions
• Accountable for solving problems effectively by gathering insight from team members, ensuring that they have all the information they need for accurate analysis and consideration, involving them, and supporting them as needed
• Accountable to identify, analyze, and solve problems systematically rather than solely by intuition or instinct; look for root causes, not just symptoms of the pain; weigh pros and cons of actions; and decide when to escalate issues
• Responsible for providing coaching and mentoring to team and colleagues
• Responsible for transforming requirements into technical architecture and then into tasks delegated to team members
• Responsible for documenting incidents and issues for communication and reference purposes
• Responsible JavaScript and related performance optimization

Skills, Knowledge And Expertise
• Demonstrated experience developing frontend applications
• Experience with agile methodologies for teams
• Experience using Git source code versioning and platforms like GitHub or Gitlab
• Experience working in a consulting or agency environment with direct interaction with enterprise-level clients
• Experience with Drupal development technologies such as Drush and Composer
• Strong English communication and team collaboration skills

Nice to Have
• 3+ years of Drupal frontend development experience
• Actively contributing to open-source projects
• Coachable leadership and presentation skills
• Drupal 8 experience with Twig, theme suggestions, and preprocessing
• Experience building offline experiences and Progressive Web Applications
• Expertise in advanced JavaScript concepts and ES2015+
• Expertise in building Single Page Applications using frameworks like Angular, Vue, or React
• Proficient in Object-Oriented and Functional Programming in JavaScript
• Experience interacting with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML) and integration with CMSes.
• Experience providing technical consulting and support
• Experience with CI tools (Jenkins, Travis, or Circle).
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure and large scale application deployment
• Experience with Drupal-adjunct techniques such as the LAMP platform, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with Node.js and NPM ecosystem.
• Experience with other content management systems and open-source technologies
• Understand how backend applications work
• Understand BDD and TDD and are willing to write the test automation

Why Work At Axelerant?

Benefits

We're a people-centric company, driven by our core values: Openness, Enthusiasm, and Kindness.

We highly value our people and invest in their growth and wellbeing through progressive benefits, which puts us among India's top 40 companies in health and wellbeing.
• Excellent work exposure - Some of our recent clients were the UN, the University of East London, and Doctors Without Borders.
• Work-life flexibility and remote work - You decide when and where to work. This has allowed many team members, who couldn't have held a regular job otherwise, to have thriving careers.
• Eight-hour workdays - We don't say 8 hours and expect 12 hours minimum.
• Meaningful time off - 52 weekends and 35 days per year of consolidated leave, plus maternity, paternity, and sabbatical allowances. We also have Kindness, Bereavement, and Caregiver Leaves for difficult times.
• Medical insurance for self and family - Because your and your loved ones' health matter to us.
• Performance coaching - Our professional, empathetic coaches will help you become your best version through career and personal development.
• Event sponsorship - If your session at any event is selected, and aligns with our organization goals, we sponsor the whole trip (national or international).
• Continuing education allowance - We'll cover up to 3% of your annual salary yearly for classes, certifications, or buying books to further your capabilities. Additionally, we'll reimburse up to 13,000 INR/$130 USD for a reading device like the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite.
• No micromanagement - Micromanagement makes us grunt like the Hulk. So nobody would be looking over your shoulders. But help is always available when asked.
• No discrimination - We believe in equal pay for equal work. Personal decisions like planning to have children will not stop you from getting promoted.
• Championing inclusivity - We like diversity. It enriches our lives and products. If you see something wrong or that could be better on day 1, share through established channels to bring positive change. We listen.
• Meaningful projects to contribute back - Most of our projects are in the education, government, healthcare, and not-for-profit sectors. We also encourage and support team members for open-source contributions.

There Are Many Other Progressive Benefits:
• Health and wellness allowance
• Generous home office set-up allowance
• Sponsored team meet-ups, offsites, and retreats
• Co-working space allowance