Frontend Engineer (Contractor) EMEA

About BeatStars

Since 2008 BeatStars has been the pioneering and go-to online music marketplace to connect millions of recording artists and music producers worldwide. BeatStars is also the leading artist discovery tool for all the major and independent labels. Most recently, BeatStars partnered with Sony Publishing to launch its publishing arm on the platform.

Now, with over 3 million monthly active users, we've paid over $325M to our creator community. We continue to support independent musicians with the tools, community, opportunities, and education they need to earn a living doing what they love.

What You’ll Be Doing

The Frontend Engineer (Contractor) is responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency, and maintaining brand consistency across all web pages, among other duties.  As a Frontend Engineer, you will be required to work in teams alongside back-end developers, UI UX designers, and quality assurance engineers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. You will be asked to show a strong sense of ownership, agility, and creativity.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Angular 8-based UI
• Work closely with UX designers, project managers, and back-end engineers to implement versatile front-end solutions to web development issues.
• Collaborate with development and business requirements team members in an agile environment
• Work with a remote distributed team
• Manage your time and work well independently and as part of a team.
• Perform code reviews

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of JavaScript/Typescript development using modern frameworks such as Angular, AngularJS, React, Vue, etc.
• Strong skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, and AJAX
• Experience with CSS extension languages such as Sass, SCSS, Stylus, LESS
• Experience with and passion for user-interface design.
• Previous experience working in an Agile development environment
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with modern SCM (preferably Git)
• A desire to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Prior platform development experience (metadata-driven UI) is a big plus
• Cloud-based (AWS) based development experience is a plus

This role might be for you if:

• You are a team player. You understand that flying solo is a limiting and isolating choice and know that making your team look good works far better than creating a one-man show.
• You are an expert communication router - being at the center of the information triangle among the market, team, and company, you know how to find the best method and style to communicate thoughts, ideas, and feedback.
• You lead by influence, core values, and example, through motivating, guiding, and keeping your functional leads focused on the vision and goals.
• You relate well to people and easily establish good relationships.
• You respond quickly and appropriately to the needs of others.
• You have a knack for explaining complicated things simply.
• You’re level-headed and cool under pressure. When things change, you know how to roll with the punches.
• You can tolerate ambiguity.
• You enjoy managing the big picture, as well as the small details.
• You are an out-of-the-box thinker when it comes to finding solutions to problems.
• You will blow us away with your work ethic, your passion, your integrity, your attitude, and your energy!

Benefits

We're a small and growing team working together closely and operating with complete autonomy and freedom. This means you will have a direct impact on any project that you work on and your success will be felt across the company. 

Some other perks include:

• 160 free billable hours per year
• Async Daily Meditation Session 
• Flexible work hours
• Virtual social events and a sense of community (even online)
• Global Recognition and Anniversary Program
• Plenty of opportunities while we grow and scale in a global environment
• Access to Udemy On-Demand Learning Platform

Compensation:

This salary/OTE range represents the low, middle, and high end of the salary or OTE (Sales roles only) range for this position, and is subject to change. To determine starting pay we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location and an evaluation of a candidate’s skills, experience, market demands, and internal parity. Salary/OTE is just one component of our total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for additional benefits and perks BeatStars has to offer.

Salary range for this role is $17.30 - $23.08 USD per hour (estimated $3k-$4k per month)

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