About us
Vitamin Software is a small, international team working with funded startups and entrepreneurial organisations across 4 continents. We are currently located in Romania, Netherlands, France, the USA and soon Brazil, and we’re mostly Romanians.
We are specialized in the life-cycle of fast-paced projects, where one needs to deliver value incrementally (to ease the customer’s pain!) and without being bound to any particular technology.
About you
- You are a junior / mid-level talented, frontend engineer with a knack for quality design and aware of the latest trends;
- You don’t shy away from using Photoshop or from coding in Javascript;
- You would welcome the presence of a mentor who would train you in the advanced topics of the trade, and exchange opinions with them;
- You find lots of bugs in the products that you use, and have a big list of UI/UX improvements for each of them;
- You’re a fast learner.
The job
Many of our projects needs frontend attention, as each of them have their different designs and needs. The most difficult part of the job is finding a compromise between the realities of startup life (always in a hurry to launch) and the perfect design.
Responsibilities include:
- Working hands-on day to day with project teams in order to solve frontend problems
- Implementing changes in existing products by adhering to the existing methodologies and technologies they are using
- Designing new pages in Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator
- Implementing them in HTML/JS and the frontend framework of choice for the project
- Learning from your mentor and exploring topics that you don’t know on a weekly basis
- Gradually enforcing best practices for client’s UI/UX; this includes migrating to the latest standards (for example, using SASS/LESS instead of pure CSS)
- Enhancing the Vitamin website and marketing materials
- Product/feature development and code reviews
Prerequisites:
- Experience with CSS frameworks like Bootstrap or Foundation
- Experience with responsive design
- Experience with JS frameworks like Reactjs or Angular
- Experience with Photoshop, Sketch or Illustrator
- Familiar with implementing frontend work in mainstream frameworks, such as: Ruby on Rails, Django or WordPress
Benefits:
- market-level salary
- Macbook Pro for you to use
- work from home 100% of the time or from our informal office when you’re in Bucharest – Seneca Anticafe it never gets boring
Travelling:
- once every 3 months, we meet for a week in Bucharest, and work together
- each time before our team meeting we go for a weekend-long team building
- occasional trips to clients (every 6 months) for people who are in charge of projects
