WorkBoard Inc.

Redwood City, CA | Posted: 4 years ago

WorkBoard is a category leader in Active Strategy Management. Our breakthrough

SaaS solution helps companies iterate on strategy at market speed and rapidly engage

people in achieving strategic priorities.

If you are a top-notch UI engineer, with experience building intuitive, responsive, and

scalable user interfaces, we'd love to tell you more about what we are working on. The

work we do is technically challenging and highly visible and has a direct impact on the

WorkBoard user experience.

What you’ll work on:

• Innovate and introduce new concepts and feature sets as a whole

• Implement new features using ReactJS, Redux, and JQuery

• Refactor existing code, and peer review code and mentor other team members

• Create pixel-perfect interfaces

• Work in partnership with UI designers to refine end user experience

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience with component-based frameworks React.js, JavaScript,

JQuery, REST and JSON, in a dynamic, content-rich, and consumer-facing application

• A creative approach that challenges conventional thinking

• Advanced knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and DHTML

• Attention to details with an eye on pixel perfection when creating application features and widgets

• Solid understanding of website optimization techniques such as CDN, Cloud, and web-caching techniques

• 5+ years of full lifecycle product development experience

• Experience with REST-based Web Services development

• Experience working with PHP MVC frameworks such as YII and node.js is a plus

WITHIN ONE MONTH, YOU’LL:

• Complete WorkBoard’s new-hire training week, and learn what it means to build an elegant Strategy & Results platform

• Ramp up on WorkBoard’s SaaS architecture, engineering stack and attend engineering sessions designed and presented by peers

• Complete your UI starter project and deploy your first changes to the system!

• Own, plan and implement your first UI project.

• Work with you manager to define your next period objectives.

WITHIN THREE MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Systematically identify and tackle complex UI problems.

• Make and implement recommendations for optimizing UI components.

• Have a deeper understanding of the services that WorkBoard is comprised of and how they interact with one another.

• Participate in platform level discussion and suggest strategies to scale UI development.

• Develop utilities to increase the efficiency of our UI development processes.

WITHIN SIX MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Confidently implement new features, modify existing components across the whole system.

• Attend product management reviews to offer insights and help product management plan complex projects.

• Continue to optimize for increasing scale and a larger global customer base.

• Contribute suggestions to roadmap for usability and UI improvements.

WITHIN TWELVE MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Train engineers on WorkBoard’s UI components and utilities.

• Maintain knowledge of UI design best practices and teach them to rest of the team.

• Learn expert skills in React.js, Redux, and JavaScript.