FrontEnd for OpenWeb (Kyiv)

We create a safe space for communities to thrive.

OpenWeb (formerly Spot.IM) is on a mission to increase the quality of conversations online. We build technologies that create thriving and engaged communities, reduce toxicity, and increase safety - improving the quality of civil discourse and supporting independent journalism. Today, OpenWeb works with more than 900 top-tier publishers (including News Corp, Verizon Media, CBS, Fox News, Hearst, Refinery 29 and more) and hosts 100 million monthly active users.

Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 110 employees between New York City and Tel Aviv. We are backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, Index Ventures, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, and Norma Investments. Together, we are empowering individuals to take action, and demand more from one another. We’re crafting technology that naturally brings people together and fosters healthy discussion—so they have more dinner-table talks and less shouting matches online. It starts with us. Let’s take the web back from the trolls - together. Are you in?

How You’ll Contribute as our Frontend Engineer:

§ You will be part of the software development initiatives to drive the Spot.IM Product vision.

§ You will be joining a cross-functional team that embraces an Agile/DevOps culture with an emphasis on ownership, accountability, automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery.

§ You will be living and breathing Agile concepts such as paired programming, test-driven development, and extreme programming.

§ You will be supporting the design and development of fast and resilient web applications, along with the refactoring of legacy applications.

§ You will be responsible for writing high quality, defect-free, secure, extensible, and reusable code, and ensuring that code is protected and tested through rigorous automated testing practices.

THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU BRING:

§ 5+ years experience in developing frontend web applications using technologies such as Javascript, Node.js, React.js, WebPack, and Redux

§ 5+ years of JavaScript experience, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES6

§ Strong experience with browser API’s and optimizing frontend performance

§ Experience with Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration techniques

§ Experience with test-driven development and automated testing practices

§ Experience and/or knowledge of best practices working with relational and noSQL databases including Redis, MySQL, and MongoDB is a plus!