Senior Frontend Developer - Angular (Full Remote from France)

About AODocs

AODocs is a software company created in 2012 that makes a Content Services SaaS platform. It is included by Gartner (in its Magic Quadrant) and Forrester (in its Wave) as one of the top and most innovative players in the content services space, among a sea of very old non-cloud competitors like IBM Filenet and OpenText that are approaching end of life and thus setting us for a large growth opportunity. We are Google partners and Google is our customer.

Our product is used by over 500 large organizations such as PwC, Colgate, Whirlpool, Solvay, Air Liquide, and Google itself to control their sensitive documents and automate critical business processes. Our addressable market just got multiplied by 20 as AODocs - which was originally made for Google Workspace only - just became compatible with Microsoft Office. Our product runs at the heart of the business of multi-billion dollar companies!

We are based in Paris, Atlanta, Milan and San Francisco. Our team is over 100 strong, composed of highly motivated and competent people. We believe that good ideas can come from anyone, regardless of their formal job role..

THE CONTEXT

As a Front-End Developer, you will join one of our Squads for the development of new features for the product.

You will be a member of a large engineering team extended between France (around 40 people), Italy (around 10 people) and Hungary (around 12 people) and a few people in the United States. In this team you collaborate with profiles ranging from PO / PM to SRE, including QA, UX, frontend and backend engineers, etc.

Our stack is based on GCP, Terraform, App Engine, Datastore, BigQuery, Java, Angular / Typescript. Our architecture is mainly based on the REST approach. And we use a little Pub / Sub.

Our product provides sensitive service to our customers. Our requirements for availability and reliability are very high.

LOCATIONThis is a Full Remote position in France.

Core responsibilities:

Implementing substantial features, fixing bugsWriting technical specificationsProactively proposing code and performance improvementsHelping set and maintain a high professional standardHelping create new webapps for our new productsBeing responsible for the code base, improving it and reviewing it (peer reviews) with the other fronted develSimplifying the code base

Some examples of what you could work on:

Implementing a simplified version of the present webappCreating reusable frontend componentsConcluding, with others, the migration to AngularMaking the webapp as autonomous as possible from the backendRevamping and simplifying the Ui of our workflow engineIntroducing more attractive and powerful Frontend languages to improve our stack and make our offer more attractive to future recruitsSpeeding up our release cycleImproving the way we track user behavior

Some examples of what we did in the last few months alone:

Worked on a new Ui for a specific use caseFinished the migration to angular of one the main components of our webappIntroduced mocks to accelerate our development processEntirely refactor our Views, the most used page in our applicationStarted to work with Google on a new webapp to address a specific use case they haveCreated and deployed several features

Most of those describe you:

You care more about making reliable software used by many than a shiny unstable thing used by no one. You understand that engineering work is done first and foremost for the customers.You care more about making easy to use software that will help users address their preoccupation and solve their problems.You care a lot about performance, understand that speed and responsiveness is a core featureFully capable of taking substantial features from concept to shipping as the sole programmerYou’re a team player

Requirements:

Experience: 2-8 years as a professional programmer, at least 3 years as a Frontend developer on SaaS productsCloud: Bonus is an experience with one of the 3 main cloud platforms. Bonus points for GCP and serverless experienceProgramming languages: you have experience with Javascript, Typescript, Vue Angular or Angular.js.Software engineering tools: you’ve worked with Git and Jira, you’re familiar with front-end build tools. Bonus for: benchmarking, CI/CD and profiling toolsCollaboration tools: comfortable with Gmail, Google Docs and Sheets, and SlackLanguage: English at professional level + French.Writing: you enjoy writing, you care about words and grammar, you are sharp and thorough;

Key Skills

• Angular
• React
• Vue.js
• GCP