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Sonder (sonder.io)

Frontend Engineer

Reposted 23 Days Ago
In-Office
Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Junior
In-Office
Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Junior
As a Frontend Engineer, you'll develop web applications, ensure code quality, implement functionality, and collaborate with the team on various software projects.
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Company Description


Who are we?

Our vision is to create a global support network to get trusted local help by our members’ side within 20 minutes.

We provide 24/7 rapid response safety and wellbeing assistance at the touch of a button. The only company of our kind, we believe everyone should have access to help when needed. On-demand and multilingual guidance and support is provided through our app, over the phone and in-person. If our members are concerned, confused, lost or stranded, ill or injured, Sonder can help.

We are a later stage startup, looking to double in size within the next 6 months. Join our journey to make personal safety and wellbeing accessible to everyone.

Check us out here: https://sonderaustralia.com/


Job Description


The opportunity

Make an impact and help shape our future in this small Engineering team. You’ll have flexibility, freedom, and ability to influence one of Australia’s fastest growing businesses and help us scale to support millions of users. We just released a new platform on iOS and the Android app will be released in the next few months. Working on Greenfields projects, you’ll produce, review and document standards-based, high-quality, optimised code, and collaborate across the broader development team and delivery cycle as well as assisting in the design of the mobile solution architecture. You’ll work with Engineering Manager Ali Muzaffar who is ex- BCG Digital Ventures and other senior engineers on backend, frontend and mobile, Product Lead Joël Kalmanowicz and CTO Elena Kelareva who are ex-Google. We are results-oriented, have flexible hours and have some parents in the team so we value work life balance.


What you’ll do

  • Participate actively with fellow developers and stakeholders to ensure Sonder systems and apps address the needs of the business and the end-users;

  • Grasp project requirements and communicating needs to others;

  • Follow software development best practice to produce well structured, well documented source code;

  • Ensure automated tests meet the required quality and coverage;

  • Contribute to the software development life cycle, including the planning, analysis, design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software applications for a range of internal and external stakeholders; and

  • Implement required functionalities.


What we’re looking for

  • Talented front-end developer with experience in web application development;

  • Experience with ReactJS, however experience with Angular or Vue will be well regarded.

  • You will have the opportunity to work with RESTful Microservices API, Google Maps, real-time positioning and, navigation.

  • Understanding of Test Automation (Mocha/Chai or similar).

  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

  • Capability of being a technical leader and contributing quality code in our multi-functional team.

  • Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, IT or similar field.

  • Full working rights for Australia.


If this sounds like the role for you, hurry up and apply because we can’t wait to meet you! Please apply with a PDF format of your resume and Github or any links to your work. 

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