We're looking for a front-end developer with **experience and proficiency in ReactJS/TypeScript** to join our team at Vizzuality. We're open to both **mid-level and senior developers**, and depending on your experience, we can offer a salary range of **€30,000 - €49,000**.
Depending on your needs, we are also open to exploring **full-time and part-time** contract options (with a minimum of 80% time dedication).
Our vibrant team is spread across **Spain, Portugal, and the UK**. Currently, people work** remotely or in our office in Madrid**. You are welcome to join us if **you are eligible to work in any of these three countries.**
**1. Would you like to be part of Vizzuality's story?**
Are you motivated by the desire to** impact the planet positively**? Are you looking to put your skills to work on something truly meaningful?
At Vizzuality, we aim to reach a fair and sustainable planet by creating tools that empower people to make positive changes.
Solving such large and complex problems will bring you into contact with new technology and some of the world's most interesting organizations and academics in machine learning, remote sensing, and planetary data. You'll be working on projects like these:
**2. Our Culture**
Our aim is to help the world become a better place. Therefore, we need to make sure we care about our people and give them the power to build great things. These are some of the principles that define our culture:
**We Trust**:Our team structure relies on self-organization. We want to work with colleagues who don't have to look 'up' for approval, nor look 'down' and give instructions. As soon as you step inside, we will equip you with all the tools to enable your success, and then we will trust you to do great things.
**We Delight**:We use our deep understanding of people's needs to spark delight. Our choices are based on science, research, and design principles.
**We Care**:For ourselves, our colleagues, and the organization. We know what we do is important, and we have a strong sense of responsibility for the work we do.
**We Grow**:As we are always embarking on new projects and challenges, a continuous learning mindset and a 'Can Do' attitude is a must. We are conscientious, and we focus on learning and achieving our goals. We give power to people so they can make decisions and plot their own paths with help from all around them.
**We have fun**:We also know that you need to balance seriousness with fun. If you can make people smile, you will be off to a great start!
**3. A day in the life of a Front-End Engineer at Vizzuality**
We're looking for a developer who will work with a world-class, super-talented team of engineers, designers, scientists, and project managers. Someone passionate about using their creativity and technical skills to make a difference in people's lives, the environment, and the world.
- You will design and develop cross-functional, multi-platform user interfaces to visualize, interact with, and manage large amounts of data in the cloud, often in real-time, ensuring their usability, accessibility, responsiveness, and scalability.
- Working hands-on across our stack is one of the primary tasks engineers perform at Vizzuality.
- Our core stacks are ReactJS/Redux. You will work on JS/TypeScript projects and experiment with new technologies. If you hit a snag or need to learn a new skill, our supportive team is always there to lend a hand and help you conquer any challenge.
- You will take the lead and meet with clients at different stages of the development process to help define requirements and propose solutions and alternatives.
- You will spend a significant amount of your time liaising with data scientists, back-end engineers, project managers, and designers to find novel and creative technical solutions that solve specific client/project needs and integrate disparate technologies such as web mapping, data visualization, responsive design, interactive interfaces, one-page apps, and data management via Rest and Graph APIs.
- You will also communicate with users, colleagues, leading scientists, and decision-makers to collect requirements, describe features and technical designs, and define product strategy.
- Lastly, as an Engineer at Vizzuality, you will ensure software quality, robustness, and compliance with standards by reviewing code, documenting, and creating automated tests.
**4. These are some things you will do and achieve in your first year at Vizzuality.**
**In your first month**:
- You’ll learn about all the projects and the stack we use in each of them.
- You’ll familiarize yourself with much of the lifecycle of a project.
- You’ll have time to learn the various software systems we use for managing people, tasks, and projects and contribute to project meetings.
- You’ll start to get to know people from other functional areas: design, science, back-end, and business development.
- You’ll be assigned to a project and have the opp