Principal Frontend Engineer
Udemy, Turkey

Here's What You'll Be Doing

• Collaborating with other engineering, product management, and design, teams to define initiatives and features
• Provide technical leadership to the team by providing feedback on architecture, design, code as well as helping make technical choices
• Developing, testing, documenting, and releasing end-to-end features for Udemy's web application that supports over 50 million students worldwide and 150,000 courses
• Planning, organizing, and getting work done in 2-week sprints
• Participating in code reviews as well as post-deployment site monitoring
• Mentoring team members in software development best practices and processes
• Leading by example and contribute to a team culture that values quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation
• Researching and evaluating new technologies that may improve our processes or code bases
• At times, functioning as a technical lead for various projects/tasks.
• This may involve some project, resource, and deployment planning in additional to software engineering responsibilities

We’re Excited About You Because You Have

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience with web application technologies including HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of modern JS libraries/frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, JQuery, etc.) as well as MobX and Webpack
• Build responsive web/mobile design, handle page navigation and turn mock-ups into web pages quickly and according to spec
• Experience building Frontend Applications using web services/RESTful API's, and event driven real-time systems
• Knowledge of object-oriented design and computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)
• Participate fully in code reviews and work with internal designers, developers and QA to ensure quality code.
• Knowledge of testing methods, including front-end unit and integration tests
• The ability to learn, work with, and migrate, existing code bases.

Nice if you have:

• Experience with web application development using modern framework ORMs (e.g. Django, Rails, Symfony, CodeIgniter, etc.) is a plus
• RDBMS (e.g. MySQL) and SQL knowledge is a plus
• Experience with Linux/unix

Job Rewards and Benefits