Blavity Inc. Looking for Frontend Software Engineer at Atlanta, GA Full Time

Blavity is a venture-funded technology and new media company. We are changing the landscape of media representation by building the world’s largest digital community for Black Millennials. Blavity was founded in 2014 around a simple idea: enable Black Millennials to tell their own stories. Today, we average 1 Million monthly unique visitors, generate 7-10 Million monthly social impressions, and distribute our message across all major social media platforms. We are based in Downtown LA with team members working across North America.

Schedule: Full Time

Location: Atlanta

Role Description

The Software Engineer will work in a highly collaborative environment to develop web and mobile prototypes, microsites and products across Blavity’s digital media platforms. You’ll work with other teams across the company to take features from idea to mockup to prototype to responsive pages to reusable component libraries.

Background

• Expert Javascript background with experience in NodeJS.
• Strong experience using ReactJS and React Native.
• In-depth experience with Git, package managers (Npm) and build tools/task runners (Gulp, Grunt or Webpack).
• Experience with SCSS.
• Experience with WordPress and static site generators/flat file CMSes (Jekyll, Grav) and templating engines (Mustache, Handlebars, Liquid, Twig or Jade).
• A love for semantic HTML (experience with HTML5 APIs +2), responsive design and an understanding of usability and accessibility issues across all device types.
• Familiarity with Sketch, InVision, XD or other wireframing tools.
• General knowledge of unit testing or test driven development.
• Experience using Docker.
• Familiarity with Atomic Design.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Creative Team to help design prototypes in both low and high fidelity and take successful prototypes to a more structured development process.
• Create reusable frontend components using our Javascript template framework.
• Write clean, performant code in accordance with our team’s code style guidelines.
• Work to improve and maintain the code health of all of our software.
• Participate in peer code reviews.

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