Senior Front-End Developer

Posted Aug 13

Collabora Productivity Ltd. is a software company specialising in bringing the innovation created in Open Source projects such as LibreOffice to the market, along with services, long term support and software consultancy. We combine years of open source software leadership with an understanding of the challenges that businesses, non-profits, and governments face.

Collabora Productivity brings deep technical expertise around the Office space, from our preferred Open Document format to many other, including legacy, document formats such as OpenXML and Microsoft binary formats, using modern technologies like JavaScript and C++ 17.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Optimize and enhance the user experience of Collabora Online
  • Work closely with the backend, product management, community and quality assurance departments to ensure a seamless and user-friendly experience
  • Implement ready-made design mock-ups
  • Participate in design discussions, pro-actively suggest and implement fixes
  • Create automated tests

Technical Skills:

  • 3+ years of Typescript, JavaScript front-end development experience
  • Attention to detail and well versed in user interface design patterns
  • Experience writing or maintaining large, complex Typescript, Javascript applications
  • Passion for working with JavaScript/HTML5 Canvas
  • Deep familiarity with DOM, CSS, SASS & asynchronous programming
  • Experience debugging strange cross-browser issues
  • A good command of English
  • Open-source code contributions & community experience
  • Experience in applying Accessibility principles is a plus
  • Experience in automated testing using Cypress is a big plus

Personal Skills

  • Highly self motivated, reliable with a demonstrable passion for Open Source and the office domain
  • Able to work from home office, managing own time effectively
  • Self learning skill to get sufficient knowledge of Collabora's services, business model, project delivery lifecycle and other related technical domains
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Winsome presentation skills appreciated
  • Good English language skills (both verbal and written)
  • Ability to work and communicate in an online distributed environment

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