ON BEING A INTERNAL TOOLING FRONTEND ENGINEER AT BALENA
Balena is developing Jellyfish, an ambitious social knowledge database that the team uses to collaborate, without being blocked by departmental or hierarchal divisions. Jellyfish gathers all information company wide and makes it a platform to implement processes that enhance the team’s productivity and understanding. Think of it as a cross between Slack and Excel!
The improved problem space visibility and communication flow that the platform provides to the team is then leveraged to help build and improve both internal and customer facing products. Multiple teams across the company are already relying on the Jellyfish platform for their daily tasks.
Jellyfish adopts a revolutionary and cutting edge architecture:
The external interface is based on JSON Schema and JSON Patch
Actions on the system are asynchronous by default
The UI is auto-generated based on the data
It can seamlessly integrate with external services such as GitHub and Discourse
The Jellyfish team consists of a small group of tight-knit engineers who take pride on moving hyper fast without sacrificing quality by investing on automation, testing, and great engineering practices.
In this role, you will be using React to automatically generate user interfaces that can be used to view (and work together on) the compiled knowledge from many different perspectives.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Actively invest back in our own technology, libraries, and frameworks
Be highly motivated to produce great code
Understand security best practices and strive to apply them in your work
Evaluate user requirements and other inputs to determine the scope and timing of new functionality
Push for delivering delightful user experiences
Closely collaborate with our UX/UI designers
Move between all major operating systems to ensure we provide consistent experiences
Unify how balena builds user interfaces, and actively contribute toRendition, our shared GUI/CLI components toolkit
Use automation to reduce the amount of UI code that needs to be written
REQUIREMENTS
Need to have:
Desire to make yourself and others more effective. You’d be bothered by an inefficient process
Good understanding of software engineering practices and how to apply them
Excellent written communication skills, and fluency in English
Self-discipline to take on a project and push it to completion without too much management. You also know when to ask for help
Highly organized, able to handle many threads at once, and keep things moving
Experience with Nodejs
Experience building single-page applications with React, or any similar modern framework
Strong testing skills
Understanding of the command-line interface
Understanding of backend systems and how they interact with front-end applications
Nice to have:
A sample of your work (URL or attached sample)
Contributions to OSS projects (please include a URL)
Having worked remotely before
Experience with balena as a user
Experience with embedded GNU/Linux, anything ranging from personal projects with a Raspberry Pi to commercial or industrial scenarios with custom devices
Experience building automation tools
Experience building productivity software
Make sure to let us know if any of these items apply to you!
ABOUT WORKING AT BALENA
We come from 15+ countries, and we embrace a remote culture with flexible hours. To us, this means being highly productive while still maintaining a healthy work-life balance. You need to be able to work remotely, and have a dependable internet access available so you can join video calls.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We value knowledge and initiative more than educational and personal backgrounds, age, or location. We maintain a work environment in which team members are treated with respect at all times and in which thoughts and ideas can be shared openly.
We communicate proposals, discuss with others in the team and accept feedback if it makes the result better. We value the ability to learn, which is more important to us than knowledge of specific technologies. We know that learning fast means being outside our comfort zone, which is OK — we’d rather learn than let our assumptions get in our way.
BENEFITS
Work with an extremely talented, diverse team
Equipment of your choice
Remote-friendly
Flexible working hours
Generous vacation policy
Annual company gathering in an international location – this year, Barcelona in October
We send you hardware for side projects!
TO APPLY
We’re delighted to hear about you! Send us your CV, with a focus on what you can bring to the team. Please include in your cover letter a paragraph about something you worked on that you found technically appealing or exciting.
