We are on a mission to connect creators and consumers around the world. We believe in the magic of content and the impact it has on people's life.
At Parrot Analytics, we deliver the world's leading content demand analytics built on the largest demand database to bring the science to the art of content. Rapidly establishing ourselves as one of the most innovative companies in Hollywood, our products are helping drive a new era in the entertainment industry as we are empowering our clients to make the most powerful data-driven decisions every day.
We are a data science company that empowers media companies, brands and agencies (think Google, Amazon, Facebook, Disney, HBO, Netflix, Lego, Apple) to understand global audience demand for content. Wielding the world's largest audience behaviour data sets, we have developed the world's only global cross-platform, country-specific Content Demand Measurement System.
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The Role
We are looking for a problem solver and invotavive Frontend Developers with a deep understanding of the React eco-system and who are motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. You will work with the UI/UX designers and other engineers to bridge the gap between desired design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works. Your responsibilities include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to modular components that will be used in various parrot web apps. Our core product provides a lot of insights hence you should be confident customising chart libraries to deliver desired data visualisations.
Requirements
- Empathy for customers, teammates, and other stakeholders.
- Excellent team player with effective communication skills who is able to listen intently and understand the needs of the business, can convert these into clear and easily understood specifications and are able to present this across teams.
- You must love frontend engineering and are passionate about building responsive, performant user interfaces to provide a world class user experience.
- Frontend engineering experience using native Javascript/Typescript/HTML/DOM, JS libs, and modern JS frameworks/tooling.
- Production-grade React experience is critical for this role as you have to hit the ground running on day 1 as part of a team of 4 frontend developers.
- Must be proficient in Javascript charting libraries including D3.js and amCharts.
- Good understanding of accessible web markup including HTML5, CSS3 and CSS preprocessors: LESS/SCSS. Experience with Server Side Rendering is a plus
- Quality focused with unit and E2E testing experience using tools such as Jest, Cypress, and Nightwatch
- Experience working with design systems and building component libraries. You have worked with tools such as Invision, Zeplin, Sketch, Figma and Storybook.
- Good understanding of consuming REST APIs with asynchronous request handling, partial page updates. Familiarity with GraphQL is a plus.
- Confident with CI/CD and monitoring tools such as Bamboo, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, New Relic, and Sumo Logic.
- Experienced working with AWS technologies such as CloudFront, Elastic Container Service (ECS), S3, EC2, CloudWatch as well as Kubernetes/Docker is a plus.
Benefits
At Parrot, you will be in a role you love and work with people you will enjoy sharing life with. We are a diverse team from every corner of the world putting our best foot forward to live our values and master our strengths.
You will get the encouragement, support, flexibility and resources you need to succeed, learn and grow in the role and in your career.
Here are some of our benefits:
- Flexible working - location and hours (remote first with office options)
- Opportunity to take part in the Employee Share Options Plan
- US$1K to spend on training/development every year
- Enhanced paid parental leave - 12 weeks for primary carer and 4 weeks for secondary carer
- Birthday leave
- Bi-annual salary reviews.
To explore other opportunities we have on offer and learn more about us, visit: https://parrot-analytics.workable.com/