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Job Description

VirBELA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is inquisitive, reliable, self-directed, and interested in developing virtual worlds and simulations in a rapidly growing business. At VirBELA you will be working on a cross-disciplinary team that includes organizational psychologists, corporate leaders, virtual world specialists, and domain experts. 

Position Summary

The core responsibilities include: architect, design, and develop high quality software to solve complex problems. Lead and mentor more junior developers. Perform a wide range of development tasks.

Tasks

Skills 

Requirements

Experience

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and the employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required. VirBELA reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

Benefits

VirBELA is pleased to offer its staff a full and competitive benefits package. Highlights include: 

For more detail on our benefits program please visit: https://sites.google.com/exprealty.com/expbenefits

We're looking for an experienced and enthusiastic React.js Front-end Engineer to join one of our teams, and be part of building high impact innovative products and experiences. We value curiosity, and a passion for learning, and growing together.

Core Skills & Competencies

• ES6/ES7/Typescript & Node

• React, Redux, nextJS

• Git, CI/CD, and at basic shell scripting

• GCP and/or AWS experience

• Experience working with RESTful APIs & GraphQL

• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Tokens

• experience with at least one or more of the following: Mongo, Firestore, Neo4j, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB

• Serverless and containerization

• Strong design sensibilities and adept with markup and SCSS/CSS-in-JS/Styled Components 

• Strong working knowledge and experience with TDD (unit, integration, E2E)

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js

• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

• Translating specifications, wireframes and designs into high quality code

• Optimizing components for maximum performance across an array of web-capable devices and browsers

• Contribute to the planning, and architecture of applications and systems.

Stack / Tools

• ReactJS

• Redux & Redux Sagas

• ES6/ES7/Typescript

• Mocha/Jest/Cypress

• NodeJS

• Github

• JIRA

• Slack

Requirements for Application

• Code or a portfolio worth sharing, that will help us validate your skills and experience

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience

• Contactable references

• At least 1 of the following: Github profile or similar, StackOverflow profile,,  HackerRank etc.

Bonus Points for

• Being a polyglot

• Contributing to open source

• Sharing your side project

• Sharing your blog, or other developer community involvement

Who You Are

• Unafraid to make decisions and take the initiative

• Willing to learn and try new things

• Keen communication skills (both written and verbal)

• Have a keen understanding of user experience and how every layer of a system contributes to it.

• Have the self discipline and organisational skills to work effectively as part of a remote team

Benefits:

• Sponsored and incentivised Learning, Personal and Professional Development

• Work Remotely full time, flexible hours

• Work in small product-focused and highly autonomous teams

• Competitive Market-Related Salary,

• Comprehensive Discovery Medical Aid, Vitality and Gap Cover for SA based  team members

Who We Are:

We're a small distributed Product development team of teams, looking to grow. steadily and intentionally. We're engineers and designers first, we put our heart into our work, and make no apologies for it. We're driven to win, to innovate, to "raise the bar" and have one hell of a time doing it.

We're on a mission to be a world-class team, what does that mean?

• Consistently investing in people

• Focused on team and process improvement

• Tight feedback cycles internally and with customers

• Quality engineering and design first, always.

• Data-driven team-based decision making

• Transparency, internally and externally.

• Autonomy, Accountability, and Ownership.

• A culture of experimentation, testing & knowing over guessing.

• Independent thinking and ritual decent

The Work

Our customers are ambitious, they dream big, and have high hopes and expectations for the work we do. They value us as a partner and our commitment to quality above all else. We don't just write code, we help shape the product vision, the technologies, and instill the values of agility, high-quality product development and delivery.

We consult for leading brands, and innovative startups across multiple industries, in SA, Europe, and the USA. We're focused on small, regular delivery iterations with long-lasting engagements, and have one or more teams dedicated to a project.

If you're interested in joining a dynamic, creative and fast-evolving team, want to explore new technologies, and build high impact products, we would love to hear from you.

Notes on our Hiring Process

• We don't want to waste your time or ours, please read the above carefully.

• We follow a four-step process, after completing the pre-screening, we'll have an initial brief phone or video call, a review of your work or evidence of your technical capabilities, and lastly a team interview before going into contract negotiation.

• If you cannot satisfy the minimum requirements for application above, please prepare a motivation as to why we should consider your application.