You’ll work on the tools our Product, Local Operations, Buying, and Marketing teams use to build all aspects of the products sold by G Adventures and its group of businesses. You’ll play a key role in building and maintaining a collection of front-end and backend-end applications which work in cohesion with our API-driven infrastructure. You’ll work in a small and distributed team, where communication, empathy, and support of each other are key to our success as a people-first culture.
What You'll be Doing:
- Integrate into the team quickly. Deploy often and early
- Write short specs and prototypes to test new ideas
- Write unit tests for the new code that you craft. Improve test coverage, follow development standards
- Ensure your code is designed with maintainability in mind Nurture the applications and tools, through working with stakeholders and understanding their needs
- Work with the team to prototype wireframes and similar as we plan larger features. A keen eye for the user experience is very welcome
- Work with other software teams to improve system communications and performance
- Explore and review new technologies, for improvement opportunities
- Participate in design and regular code reviews; helping your colleagues do their best
- Desired Skills and Experience:
- 7+ years of experience working in Python is necessary, Django is a plus
- 5+ years of experience working in React
- Fundamental HTML & CSS knowledge
- Deep familiarity with browser behaviour and tooling. Request/response, DOM, devtools, etc
- Comfort navigating the command line, especially with git
- Understanding of common application stacks (nginx, node.js, uwsgi, etc.)
- Design sensibilities, both in UX and code craftsmanship PostgreSQL familiarity; digging in when addressing performance issues, can wrangle SQL queries
- Working with microservice architectures is a plus ? Understanding of the full web stack – from browser to server and back
