ResearchGate GmbH

Berlin, Germany | Posted: 5 years ago

We're looking for an enthusiastic engineer with the skills and ability to turn great ideas into reality. You should have an in-depth understanding of current web technologies and front-end development but be passionate about creating a great user experience. Your input will help us grow and maintain our React front-end and PHP integration layer. You'll be responsible for improving how our users interact with our site.

Join a team that encourages you to explore, learn, and go beyond, while seeing your work lead to actionable results. Put your creative problem-solving and development skills into action and make a positive impact on science and society.

Responsibilities

• Create web interfaces using JavaScript (React) for new products and features


• Seamlessly integrate our front-end with our back-end world using GraphQL and PHP


• Constantly improve our front-end infrastructure


• Support UX Engineers to deliver reusable components to simplify and fasten engineering work


• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of our web technologies JavaScript (React), PHP and CSS, GraphQL is a plus


• Relevant experience developing end-to-end web applications


• Experience in optimizing front-end performance and user interfaces


• Experience implementing responsive or adaptive designs


• Knowledge of relational and document-based databases is a plus

Your Profile

• You take responsibility for your own solutions and continuously improve on them


• You focus on building a great product rather than on the tooling


• You excel at designing and creating coherent, user-centric interfaces that display complex information


• You understand our mission and want to help us achieve it

Environment

You'll be working in a fast-paced environment where code is written, tested and shipped continuously. Our engineering team is passionate about building maintainable, scalable web applications that are constantly optimized to meet the needs of our users - 15+ million researchers worldwide.

Our hiring process is uncomplicated. You'll be interviewed by the people you'll be working with, so you can quickly find the role that suits you best and start making an impact.

We’re located at the heart of Berlin, one of the most exciting cities in the world and a place where people from all walks of life feel welcome.