PicsArt hiring Frontend Engineer (JavaScript) in Yerevan, AM

Frontend Engineer (JavaScript)

PicsArt

Yerevan, AM

Job Type: Full-Time
Function: Engineering Software
Post Date: 01/01/2021
Website: picsart.com
Company Address: 51 California Street, Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA, 94104

About PicsArt

PicsArt is the world’s #1 creative platform and social editing app leading the visual storytelling revolution. With more than 150 million monthly active creators, the PicsArt community creates, remixes and shares nearly 1 billion images every month. The company has amassed one of the largest open-source collections of content in the world, including free-to-edit photos, stickers and more. PicsArt is available in 30 languages for free and as a subscription on iOS, Android and Windows devices. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Yerevan, Armenia; Moscow; Beijing; Tokyo; and Los Angeles, PicsArt is backed by Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures, Insight Venture Partners, and Siguler Guff and Company.

Job Description

PicsArt is looking for a proficient Angular Developer who will be responsible for the client side of our services. Working closely with UX designers, Backend developers as well as other team members, the primary focus will be to implement a complete user interface in the form of a mobile and desktop web application, with a focus on performance. Your duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app.

Responsibilities:

Contribute to the overall process of design, build, and delivery of front-end web applications involving a complex interplay of technologies;
Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop;
Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented code;
Coordinating the workflow between the UI/UX designer, backend developers, and yourself.

Required Qualifications:

At least 3+ years of working experience;
Experience working with modern web technologies including Web Workers, IndexedDB, Cache API, etc.;
Experience building rich data-driven web applications;
Experience with popular JS build tools, compilers, and bundlers;
Hands-on experience with automated testing;
Strong proficiency in JavaScript and its core concepts;
Proficient knowledge of web mark-up, HTML, CSS, SASS;
Basic knowledge of UX design;
Thorough understanding of Angular and its core principles;
Basic understanding of Node.JS;
Familiarity with the browser internals;
Great design intuition and user empathy;
Good communication and knowledge sharing skills;
Advanced written and verbal English communication skills.

What we seek and value most in our candidates

Professionalism in both soft and hard skills; motivation to grow, learn and share, positive attitude, flexibility, transparency, ownership and the most important - passion and commitment.

PicsArt is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.

ABOUT US

PicsArt is the world’s #1 creative platform and social editing app that’s leading the visual storytelling revolution. With more than 150 million monthly active creators, the PicsArt community creates, remixes and shares nearly 1 billion images every month. The company has amassed one of the largest open-source collections of content in the world, including free-to-edit photos, stickers and more. PicsArt is available in 30 languages for free and as a subscription on iOS, Android and Windows devices. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Yerevan, Armenia, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, PicsArt is backed by Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures, Insight Venture Partners, and Siguler Guff and Company.

The #14 most downloaded app of 2019

PicsArt has worked with big brands such as Taylor Swift, Will Smith, Kim Kardashian, Gwen Stefani, DJ Snake, Maroon 5 and Meghan Trainor on community challenges that generate tens of millions of organic, fan-generated impressions and shares on social media. We need smart, passionate people to help us reach our first billion creators!