JavaScript Job: Front End Engineer

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Company

VineForecast GmbH
Germany

Location

Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)

Job type

Full-Time

JavaScript Job Details

Mission

VineForecast is an early-stage startup with the vision to reduce pesticide use by 25 % on 1.000.000 ha by 2035 for specialty crop farmers (starting in viticulture). To achieve that we are developing a Decision Support System (DSS) to provide farmers with the best information and data to ensure maximum environmentally friendly food production.

VineForecast helps winemakers to mitigate risks of losing their harvest due to fungal infections or weather risks as well as save time in vineyard operations by (1) delivering AI-based disease and weather forecasts and (2) a fully tailored farm management system.

About

We are an ambitious and mission-oriented team with a "break or make" attitude. We are based in Göttingen and Berlin. Our main office in Göttingen is located in the Startraum co-working space. Our Berlin office is currently being opened in a Co-Working Space in Adlershof.

Tasks

  • You work together with Max (Founder & CTO) on the user interface of VineForecast.
  • You will be responsible for developing the UI, based on the given design, for new functions using React in Next.js.
  • During the development you put great emphasis on user experience and also developer experience.
  • On Github you find issues to current bugs and discuss them with the team and fix them in the codebase.
  • Together with the team you discuss suggestions to optimize the existing code again and again.
  • You contribute your own ideas for new features and make suggestions to improve existing features.
Requirements

  • Initial project experience in professional software development.
  • Good knowledge of web basics e.g. HTML5, CSS and Javascript (Typescript is a plus)
  • Good knowledge of modern frontend frameworks e.g. React, Vue.js or Angular (React is a plus)
  • Knowledge of version management with git
Benefits

  • Real startup atmosphere with flat hierarchies and open communications.
  • Creative freedom, autonomy and fast implementation and visibility of your own ideas.
  • A humorous environment and an ambitious corporate culture with high flexibility in work arrangements (remote, working in the co-working space in Göttingen/Berlin, flex solution).
  • Entrepreneurial spirit and insights into the work of a young startup while working directly with the founders.