Front End Engineer
Frontend Engineer
About ArangoDB
Founded in Germany and now headquartered in San Francisco, ArangoDB is the most highly scalable, open-source, Graph Database with AI/ML capabilities available in the market. In addition to graphs, it is natively supporting a number of data models including Document, and Key-Value as well as Full-Text Search and Retrieval. It serves as the scalable backbone for Graph-Analytics and complex data architectures across many different industries. Developers can build high-performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. Find out more at the Company page and follow us on Linkedin.
Location
** All candidates in Germany or nearby countries in Europe will be considered. **
About the Role
As a Frontend Engineer (d/m/w), you will be responsible for developing the UIs of the ArangoDB open-source database. We believe in user-centric design and aim to deliver the best user experience possible to our users. Hence, we seek someone who can code while having our user base (Developers, DB Engineers, etc.) in mind.
Must have skill set:
- 3+ years of relevant work experience: developing the frontend with a strong understanding of JavaScript, ReactJS, TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
- Good UX comprehension and understanding.
- Ability to understand API-based communication with a backend to ensure reliable frontend feature development.
- Ability to dig through complex code and provide reasonable solutions.
- Understanding of prototyping tools like Figma or Adobe Experience Design is a plus.
- Good communication and articulation skills to portray your ideas and thought processes.
- Willingness to take feature/product ownership and drive the development process.
Good to have skill set:
- Unit testing and E2E testing experience
- Open source contribution
- Basic understanding of BackboneJS, jQuery
- Database knowledge - ArangoDB / SQL / NOSQL
Why Join ArangoDB
Our headquarters is in San Francisco (US) and we have an office in Cologne (Germany), but most of our diverse team works remotely worldwide. So, do you prefer your desk at home or do you want to join us at one of our locations? Your choice.
The ArangoDB team comes from 5 different continents and more than 20 countries. Diverse backgrounds enable us to see new solutions. We invite people from every culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and of every age to apply to our positions. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. Arango is committed to a workplace free of discrimination and harassment based on any of these characteristics. We love this diversity and encourage everyone curious and visionary to join the multi-model movement.