Senior Frontend Engineer - React.js

LXT is an emerging leader in AI training data to power intelligent technology for global organizations. In partnership with an international network of contributors, LXT collects and annotates data across multiple modalities with the speed, scale, and agility required by the enterprise. Our global expertise spans over 145 countries and more than 1,000 language locales. Founded in 2010, LXT is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with a presence in the United States, UK, Egypt, India, Turkey, and Australia. The company serves customers in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. 

We are currently seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer at LXT, who will work closely with our engineering, operations and product teams to build the most secure, cutting edge data annotation tools and platforms.

LXT technical calibers are expected to have a high level of ownership and to be Hands-On engineers who take over the tasks until they pass the finish line.

The Senior Front-End Engineer works closely with our engineering, operations and product teams to build the most secure, cutting-edge data annotation tools and platforms.

LXT technical calibers are expected to have a high level of ownership, and to be Hands-on engineers that take over the tasks until it passes the finish line.

 Key responsibilities & duties:

• Designs, develops and tests new products, while maintaining the existing
• Stays up to date with the latest industry trends in software and cloud solutions.
• Ensures high code and design quality that fulfills business requirements and good design aspects (scalability, fault tolerance).
• Coaches, mentors and supports junior team members by:
• Supports the culture of technical excellence and zero technical debt.
• Supports technical estimations and effort sizing.
• Creates code guidelines and reviewing PRs.
• Adopts unit testing in the system.
• Designs and implements solutions to protect against common security vulnerabilities.
• Directly involved with the Product team to understand Requirements.
• Provides technical feedback about the supervised team members when required.
• Able to deliver tasks independently, while being able to use his experience in guiding and supporting less senior team members.
• Helps the team to adopt modern software engineering practices, like Scrum, and be an active player in the Agile ceremonies.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years of experience in Front-end web development.
• Solid understanding of JavaScript, and JavaScript design patterns
• Solid Experience in at least one of JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue Ember, and Backbone
• Vast experience building complex web user interfaces. 
• Demonstrate a keen understanding of user interaction and design principles and standards.
• Have significant knowledge of visual aesthetic components and elements such as fonts, layout, color, graphics etc.
• An exceptionally good coder with high familiarity in server-side web frameworks, for example, Django and Express.js. This individual will also need to be highly familiar with cross-browser compatibility issues and demonstrates design and user interface/user experience skills.
• Must be highly proficient in CSS3, HTML5
• Deep understanding of CSS pre-processing platforms, inclusive of SASS.  
• Have excellent understanding of partial page updates and AJAX.
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and complexity
• Passionate to optimize the performance bottlenecks and large-scale deployments.
• Skilled with unit testing and TDD
• Strong command of Git and team workflows.
• Good command of both written and spoken English.
• Experienced with any of the cloud platforms (Azure, GCP or Amazon) is a plus.
• Good understanding of CI/CD, containerization and container orchestration tools is a plus.
• Familiarity with Agile project management methodologies is a plus.
• Familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 Web Security Vulnerabilities and their mitigation is a plus.