The role involves developing optimized web and mobile applications, focusing on modern front-end frameworks and CAD components, while collaborating in a small team environment.
ABOUT DURANTA & WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Duranta's mission is to help create a more beautiful world. We are achieving this goal by building the world's most sophisticated platform for analyzing geospatial data, and combining it with intuitive workflows to help contractors design, install and maintain beautiful outdoor spaces.
We are seeking Senior Front-end Engineers to join our team. You will be responsible for the development of a highly optimized & resilient, low latency mobile and web-app experience (React & React Native).
Additionally, our application has a CAD (Computer-Aided Design) component, so any experience in this area will be helpful. 3D game-development experience for example is a big plus.
We are headquartered in Seattle with a satellite office in NYC. We are in office 5 days a week (Seattle) and 4 days a week (NYC).
Responsibilities and focus areas
- Building delightful modern web and mobile applications
- General design, development, and support for web-based applications
You will thrive if you have
- Early stage startup experience
- A knack for working in small, driven teams, with high autonomy
- The desire to talk to & learn from users and collaboratively build a product together with the founders, the designer etc.
- Experience in the modern front-end web development (7+ for staff)
- Experience building web applications adapted for mobile devices
- Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with agile development practices
- In-depth knowledge of React JS
- Experience with React Native
And for extra credit
- Basic knowledge of computer graphics
- General knowledge in backend development (Go, Node.Js)
- Experience in building CAD applications, 3D games, or any other computer graphics related applications.
- Experience in developing offline-capable applications
If you are interested in building something meaningful, and maximizing your potential, we would love to hear from you!
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