Livetree
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London, Greater London
Angular Frontend Developer
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Job Type: Full-time |
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Contract Type: Permanent |
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Salary: 45000 - 50000 per annum |
Overview
Livetree is the home for documentaries, feature films, TV series and your live video stories that shine a light on world issues. Everything from the environment, poverty innovation, diversity, equality and the U.N’s 17 sustainability development goals. The platform provides a suite of innovative entertainment modules, and to facilitate the brand mission of the platform, Livetree has built a wide range of interactive features to engage our 500,000 users. Our platform is underpinned by ground breaking technology, this includes, live streaming, scheduled screenings, games, quizzes and video analysis. Responsibilities Delivering a complete front end application Ensuring high performance on mobile, desktop, iOS, Android, Apple TV and Chromecase Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML, Firebase and CSS Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer and yourself Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API Communicating with external web services Skills and Qualifications Proficiency with JavaScript, HTML5 and Firebase Professional, precise communication skills Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system Ability to provide SEO solutions for single page apps Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well reasoned alternative) Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments