Front-end Developer

Who are we?

WorldRemit is changing the way people send money abroad. We’ve taken something complicated and made it simple, so that sending money is as easy as sending a text message  Tap the WorldRemit app or head to  on our website, and your international transfer is made – to a bank account, cash pickup, Mobile Money, or airtime top-up. Founded in 2010, we send international remittances from 50 countries to more than 150 countries and we continue to expand our footprint.

Using WorldRemit is easy because we do the hard part, connecting hundreds of banks, money agents, mobile operators and payment systems around the world. These were never designed to work together, but WorldRemit makes it happen.

WorldRemit has grown - on average - by 50% year on year and is now processing over £3.1bn of remittances on an annualised basis.  WorldRemit’s success, and the size of the market it is operating in, means it has attracted investment from the world’s leading technology and impact investors, Accel, Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) and Leapfrog with $370m invested to date. We currently employ close to 1,000 employees and have offices in London, USA, Philippines, Poland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong and other locations.

The journey is just beginning. We believe in faster, simpler, more accessible money transfers. That means building better products and services for our customers. 

Changing the world isn’t easy – so we only hire the most talented people. You need to think differently, believe in new solutions to old problems, and have the drive to make them happen. We aim to attract, retain and develop people that can bring to life our values: 

• Aim high - We dream big, think bold and go the extra mile
• Embrace challenge - We ask questions, start conversations, and always love to learn
• Do what’s right - We act with integrity, building trust in ourselves and in our business

You can learn more about our culture and how we work by watching this video on our Careers page: https://www.worldremit.com/en/careers

 The WorldRemit Office in Kraków is currently growing and we are looking for an enthusiastic Front-end Developer to join our Engineering Team to work on creating the UI for our interesting projects.

We are constantly adding new features to our existing applications and creating a brand new applications as well. For example for our customer service team we build an application that will replace our legacy system that allows our customer services to manage transactions. It will involve developing a highly usable UI with React and node which will consume our internal REST API in order to search and display transaction information.

You will be part of a feature team and work closely with our internal UX/design team to translate their designs into reality. You will also be working very closely with backend engineers, from your and other teams, who are developing the APIs and services that pull the information to be used in the applications.

What we looking for?

We are looking for a bright, fresh minded individual to bring a wealth of enthusiasm and different ideas to the table. 

You will be someone who likes to:

• constantly evolve techniques through learning
• take initiative when you see an opportunity for improvement
• ask questions and use experience of those around you
• share your knowledge with the rest of the team
• write code so clean, fast and elegant, you fight the urge to hang it on your mantle
• advocate and practice TDD /BDD 

You will have high bar for quality, maintainability, scalability, performance, efficiency, security and all the other things that make great software great. 

What does a typical week look like?

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Convert visual designs to semantic mark-up, then dress it up in CSS and then bring it to life with JavaScript
• Discussing technical solutions and providing innovative new ideas
• Optimize application for maximum speed
• Ensuring browser and platform compatibility 

Must Haves

• Mastery of JavaScript / HTML / CSS
• Strong experience with React/Redux/Node
• Expertise with styling and responsive design techniques
• Server-side rendering
• Experience with progressive enhancement and graceful degradation development
• Hands-on experience building scalable web applications, in particular high frequency and low latency web applications with optimal memory management, performance and scalability as key focus
• Experience with automated JS testing using Karma, Jasmine, Qunit, Mocha, Chai
• Experience integrating with micro-services to produce dynamic pages
• Proficient understanding of REST API’s
• Strong experience with versioning systems such Git / SVN
• Strong understanding of TDD, XP and Agile practices
• Strong understanding of SOLID principles
• A sense of urgency and ownership over the product
• Strong understanding of Continuous Integration and Delivery and tools (Teamcity / OctopusDeploy / Jenkins)
• Proficient with full-stack projects and able to build a minimum working product quickly
• Solid understanding of OOD / OOP
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure / AWS

 (If you do not possess experience of these technologies within a commercial environment, it’s essential that you will have trialed and played around with these in your own time i.e. personal projects, Github).

Nice to Haves

• Experience with writing PowerShell scripts
• Experience with distributed micro-service design principles
• Experience with various tech stacks such as .NET / Java
• Experience with relational databases SQL / PostgreSQL / MySQL
• Experience with NoSQL technologies such as Redis, MongoDB
• Experience with HATEOS
• An excellent track record of evolving software to be better continuously
• Experience of running code katas and improvement sessions for the team
• Have Open Source projects or other public code contributions that showcase your talent

Other Personal Traits

• Experience of generations of JavaScript frameworks
• Lead by example, by innovating greenfield development as well as evolving existing solutions
• Mentor less-experienced developers