Frontend Developer (Chemistry42)

Insilico Medicine is looking for a frontend developer to be part of a cross-functional team consisting of frontend and backend developers, QA engineers, designers, and analysts. Our processes are based on Agile development methodologies, so experience working in a similar environment is highly welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements for the Chemistry42 product according to the requirements/designs and the latest JS specifications in a secure, well-tested, and performant way with minimal guidance from other teammates;
• Use 2D and 3D molecular visualization frameworks to improve the visualization of molecules and their interactions
• Fix prioritised issues from the backlog.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for an enterprise web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Help improve the overall experience of our product through improving the quality of the Frontend features both in your team and features that might benefit other teams.
• Help identify areas of improvements in the code base, both specific to your team and outside your group (eg. component library) and help contribute to make it better
• Learn, collaborate and teach other Frontend Engineers.
• Contribute to and follow our workflow process, alongside the rest of the Frontend Engineers.

Requirements

• Professional experience with React, JavaScript libraries (es6+, event loop), web sockets, HTML5, CSS3
• Experience with writing automated tests
• Experience using Git/GitLab in a professional/workplace environment
• A solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (eg. how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
• A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.
• Good level in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for writing and understanding technical requirements and communication with other team members;
• Comfort working in an agile, iterative software development process
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills: able to achieve consensus with teammates, and clear status updates

Nice-to-haves

• Working knowledge of Plotly/Hicharts, 3Dmol.js, Material-ui, Nodejs, TypeScript, Jest, Webpack
• Experience working with a remote team
• Enterprise software company experience
• Domain knowledge relevant to Computer-Aided Drug Design and Medical Chemistry

Please send your CV to career@insilicomedicine.com