Senior Front-End Developer (Freelance)

Do you want to change the world through digital design by working on socially impactful and meaningful projects?

Would you like to work on award-winning projects for International Organizations around relevant topics such as Gender Equality, Childbirth, or LGBTIQ+ rights?

If your answer is yes, then this is the opportunity you've been waiting for!

Opportunity:

At Elkanodata we are looking for an experienced, award-winning Senior Front-End Developer to develop interactive projects and impactful interactive experiences. You’ll work on both award-winning projects and day-to-day client needs, being hands-on and collaborating with other front-end developers.

Occasionally, you’ll communicate and coordinate with external technical teams: clients and vendors and oversee the quality and technical standards of freelance developers, participate in QA processes and implement necessary changes to validate coding best practices and standards: code review, cross-browser compatibility and functionalities, etc. You'd also work through continuous integration and continuous deployment (Travis and BitBucket pipelines).

Experience/Requirements:

- 5+ years’ experience as a Senior Front-End Developer in a digital or web development agency environment, who has won high-quality and award-winning interactive projects.

- Proven experience and portfolio managing top-quality digital and interactive projects (please, share your portfolio of developed projects).

- Knowledge of Project Execution Methodologies (waterfall and agile) being able to propose process improvements and Project Management tools and tracking systems (Asana, Basecamp, Trello, Jira, etc.)

- Proven ability to juggle projects at a time, while maintaining sharp attention to detail.

- Multicultural background and excellent communication skills in English.

- Proficient in JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 (SASS)

- Have experience with task runners, in preference Webpack

- Have experience with JavaScript Frameworks, in preference Vue.js/Nuxt.js

- Have experience with Git source control

- Have experience with optimizing performance and browser compatibility

- Pixel perfect development

- Have experience with D3.js

- Have experience with Greensock libraries

- Have experience with Node.js

- Have experience with ES6, Babel, Webpack

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Bonus Points (Nice-to-have):

- 2+ years’ experience managing a team of developers.

- Have basic knowledge of databases such as MySQL, MongoDB

- Knowledge of WordPress, Prismic, Drupal

- Have experience with ReactJS

- UX/UI or design background/skills.

- A keen interest in the design, data visualization, motion graphics, and digital sectors

- An interest in social causes and purpose-driven organizations.