Overview

As a Senior Front End Developer, you’ll interpret product specifications and
technical designs, build and modify the code for our front end applications, translate business
requirements into technical specifications, and test and document your work, while helping
shape the practices of a small, fast-moving team.

Role

Main tasks

• Interpret product specifications, technical designs, and flow charts to develop production
  releases for our product updates and new products

• Research, evaluate, and design lightweight code testing processes; identify technology
  limitations and deficiencies in our existing front end systems and processes

• Build, maintain, and modify code across the entire front end codebase: from API
  systems to component libraries and style systems

• Test, debug, and diagnose errors and faults within established quality standards, and
  maintain code quality processes like source control strategies

• Write and maintain technical documentation for the systems and features you build

Secondary tasks

• Coordinate, mentor, and grow a small front end development team

• Run R&D experiments alongside other team members

• Provide advice and guidance on front end tooling, framework, and software choices

What you’ll bring to the role

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, and at least 5 years’ relevant front end development experience

• High degree of expertise with React and Typescript

• Intimate familiarity with vanilla javascript, HTML, and CSS

• Demonstrated ability to design and build performant and extensible front end systems for single-page apps

• Experience with real-time graphics performance, particularly with HTML Canvas or WebGL

• Experience growing small teams of front end developers

• Proficiency with Figma

About Us

We’re a team of eleven based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, New Zealand, with remote team members spread around the country (and the world). We look out for each other’s well-being. We enjoy the tight-knit size of our team and the flexibility it affords us. We collaborate openly across disciplines and pick up all sorts of pieces of work that aren’t traditional for our job descriptions. We’ve been in business for 10 years and look forward to many more to come. We have a big vision for how we can help scientists help the world. 

Think you’d be a good fit for the role and our team? Are you excited to use your skills to accelerate scientific progress? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Apply through the website or send us an email at [email protected]. Please include a CV and cover letter in PDF format telling us about awesome projects you’ve worked on and why you’d be a great fit for this role! At Litmaps we are always looking to hire the best talent and recognise that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds makes us stronger. To reduce unconscious bias in our recruitment we will redact names, gender, age, and any other information which may prime us from your application in the long listing process. Due to this, please do not contact individual team members about your application. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please send an email to [email protected].