Front-end Software Engineer

Our vision is to digitize the global commodities trading industry. VAKT is building a platform underpinned byBlockchain that will ultimately disrupt the commodities markets.  We are a uniquely placed start-up, backed and well-funded by a consortium of OilMajors (BP, Shell, Chevron,Total, etc), Banks (ABN-AMRO, Société Générale,ING) and Trading Houses(Gunvor, Mercuria).

The Front-end Developer will have a unique opportunity to shape the development of the platform. Playing a key role in ensuring that our platform is modular and highly robust, thus guaranteeing our rapid expansion into new markets.

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Main Responsibilities

• Contribute to the analysis, design and development of solutions;
• Contributing to conversations, specifications and prototypes as required;
• Write robust maintainable code that can be efficiently enhanced by yourself and others adhering to VAKT guiding principles;
• From the start, design and build solutions that can be supported and run reliably in the production environment, giving particular consideration toprivacy and performance;
• Ensure code is testable / tested & sufficiently documented;
• Understand how your projects fit into the wider solution and contribute to the development of the platform as a whole;
• Support and collaborate with Colleagues, such that they can count on you to back them up and partner with them;
• Follow developments in the industry (best practices, technology, tooling) and contribute to a better team and better platform;
• Own personal responsibility of delivering code of quality;
• Shared responsibility with QA for the delivery of quality tested code

Our culture

• We have an innovative mindset, keeping ahead of technology evolution with a desire to learn new technologies.
• We have a startup environment with no top-down hierarchy. We trust you and expect you to make changes
• We have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative (while empowering others to do the same)
• We put people first
• We appreciate transparency through open access to information
• We are not afraid to challenge the status quo
• We are a multicultural and international team

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Key Skills and experience required:

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Required:

• Expertise in React JS, Redux, Redux-thunk;
• Experience with a testing framework: (Jext/Enzyme);
• Experience developing new highly-responsive, web-based user interface;
• Follow practices: code review, unit testing, CI and other best practices;
• Experience with Web API (REST/ JSON);
• Experience of working in an Agile mode, knowledge of associated toolsand approaches;
• Strong communication skills with a proven history of interfacing withbusiness-level stakeholders, both technical and non-technical alike;
• Computer science, engineering or related degree;
• Fluent English.

 Desired:

• Knowledge of storybook and styled-components is a plus;
• Experience of working in a multi-party distributed environment.

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What else we offer

• State of the art software development. We follow best practices and embrace open source.
• We work in a “Remote First” model, so you will mostly work from home and occasionally meet up with your team at the office. However, if you prefer to go to the office, we are open to that too… whatever works for you.
• Equipment - We give every employee a MacBook, a large external monitor and the gadgets you require to do your job
• Work Setup (home) - We will help in your workstation setup (e.g. desk, chair)