Front-End Engineer (React)

Pixelmatters Porto, Porto District, Portugal Full-time 2024-10-16

Pixelmatters is a digital product studio. We’re a team of strategists, designers and engineers creating top-quality digital products.

Our mission is to empower businesses to achieve their full potential by creating top-quality digital products while fostering great relationships along the way. We envision a world where great user experience is the norm, not the exception, inspiring businesses and people to be at their best.

We’re looking for you, a meticulous, curious, and adaptable senior Front-End Engineer with the ability to translate pixels into code. You can work closely with Product Owners, Designers and other Engineers. On top of this, you are a cooperative person, supporting and promoting knowledge sharing is part of your way of doing things.

Your role will focus on designing, testing, and implementing user-facing software applications, with a strong emphasis on front-end development. For this reason, it’s expected that you’re comfortable with front-end coding languages, development frameworks, and third-party libraries.

Some of your day-to-day tasks will include building responsive and interactive user interfaces, collaborating on design decisions, optimizing performance, ensuring cross-browser compatibility, and writing tests for front-end components.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience as a Front-End Engineer
  • Familiar with React framework
  • Experience with HTML5, CSS3 and Typescript
  • Proficiency using CSS pre-processors (Sass and/or LESS)
  • Familiarity with Component-Driven Design and using tools like Storybook to build and test components in isolation
  • Familiar with version control systems such as Git
  • Good understanding of English and Portuguese (written and spoken)
  • Understanding of cross-browser and device compatibility issues and ways to work around them
  • Ability to integrate web services (RESTful, JSON)
  • Understanding of Vite as a front-end build tool, particularly in React and TypeScript environments
  • Expertise in unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests with frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright to ensure robustness and maintainability of code

Benefits