Frontend Software Engineer

Job Description

Prima is an Italian tech company that has been disrupting the car insurance industry since its launch in 2015. We now boast over 1 million active clients and achieved a100 million investment from Goldman Sachs and Blackstone in 2018, the largest inItalian tech history. Prima is launching in the UK this year, which is why we are looking for top talents to join our London-based team.Our vision is to become the UKs best car insurance provider, and we believe that a major component to achieve this willbe state of the art graphical user interfaces, tailored to seamlessly aid our customers on their journey for better insurance satisfaction.*About the role:*We are searching for developers that take pride in delivering top quality products, artisans of software;out-of-the-box thinkers and problem solvers who also place utmost importance in collaboration with others. Our FE applications are built using cutting-edge tools on top of the React ecosystem, as we value its battle tested efficiency and malleability. In thesame manner, we expect our developers to be able to adapt to the frantic changes in conditions that the web is subject to on a regular basis.*Responsibilities:*Specifically, you will take care of:* Develop and maintain the graphical interfaces that compriseour website, single page applications, mobile applications and component libraries* Collaborate with other designers and developers to achieve a stylish and functional design system that communicates the vision of Prima* Fully integrate our GUIs with internaland external APIs* Pro-actively research upcoming web and mobile design trends and technologies and evaluate for adoption* Be able to iterate on and improve our FE environments for building, development and deploying*Requirements:*You are our ideal candidateif you meet the following requirements:* Excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS, as well as W3C standards* A good eye for design and understanding of what constitutes an intuitive user experience* Excellent knowledge of JavaScript and strong interest in Typescript(or Flow)* Strong experience in contributing effectively to all SDLC activities, from requirements to development, test automation, monitoring and incident response* Great experience with React.js* Good knowledge of Webpack and Node* Familiarity with Git*Competence with graphic design tooling (such as Sketch) and web design experience*Nice to have:*In addition to the basic requirements, we will carefully evaluate these characteristics:* Experience with software testing (unit, functional, integration, end toend)* Some experience or interest in BE development or Rust* Familiarity with functional languages such as Elm, Elixir or Haskell* Familiarity with GraphQL* Good grasp of the contrasting approaches taken by object oriented and functional programming paradigms*Familiarity with concepts of (Functional) Reactive Programming-* Private pension* Macbook* Flexi-working* Free fruit & coffee* Health insurance* Take home test* Video call and test review* Video call with founders* OfferHTML/CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React,WebpackHTML/CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Webpack, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Rust, Elm, GraphQL