Client Dev Job Spec Xara is a global software company that has pioneered many technologies in the graphic design industry and has built multiple award-winning products used by millions of people around the world. Leveraging our leadership position, we are expanding our solutions in line with our mission to become the #1 visual communication platform for businesses in the new ‘Creator Economy’. We’re building Xara Cloud, a high quality cloud-based document creation and management platform. Google + Adobe in a single solution. For this we need very talented developers who like a challenge, to join a very capable team. See www.xara.com for details.

Role

Frontend Developer Full Time, Permanent or Contract Competitive salary based on skills and experience, plus stock option opportunities.

Overview

A distributed team, building a new slick product, using the very latest, state of the art web technologies for only the latest browsers and touch devices. We use JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Git, Mocha, Material UI, Kubernetes and AWS. If you have the right skills and the determination to succeed, this is your opportunity to work on a product that will be used by millions of people, and to contribute to the most amazing web-based creative tool being developed today.

Location Options

Remote, Homeworking Xara is a remote first company with meeting-point offices in Berlin and Hemel Hempstead, UK. Our German office is in a spacious modern building in Berlin, the tech start-up hub of Germany. There will be occasional expensed visits for face to face meetings with the rest of the team.

Skills & requirements

First and foremost you will be a very strong JavaScript/TypeScript developer, with a thorough knowledge of HTML5 and CSS and with a passion for new technology. Flexible, determined, with a can do attitude and great attention to detail and to quality. Always learning quickly and able to adapt to new technologies, you work well in collaboration with other smart developers, but you’re also ready and able to focus single-mindedly on a problem and solve it yourself. You are knowledgeable about how to write code that is testable, fast and reliable. Almost certainly you’ll have an IT or Science degree or equivalent. Knowledge of graphics, document or photo applications, or of graphical data formats, would be an advantage. As would knowledge of other web technologies on the server and in the browser.

Technologies

Essential JavaScript, React, HTML5, CSS, Node.js. Desirable TypeScript We are looking forward to your application!