About AODocs
AODocs is a software company created in **** 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, in a market populated by legacy on-premises competitors like IBM FileNet, Documentum, and OpenText that are approaching end of life. Many customers of these legacy products are looking to replace them with a modern SaaS solution like AODocs.
Our product is used by large organizations such as Google, Veolia or Colgate to control their critical documents, protecting them against costly human errors while accelerating key business processes. Our client's main use cases are document control for large engineering projects, standard operating procedures, quality management, consulting and audit reports, and more generally, all business processes involving important documents in professional services, healthcare, HR, procurement, legal, and more.
The generative AI wave represents an important opportunity for AODocs, as more and more companies realize that AI assistants cannot work on messy information. AODocs' ability to control documents and their versions, can be used to ensure AI assistants only work on the right, validated content, thus allowing AODocs to vantaggi from the AI market traction.
Our team of 130 is 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.
LOCATION
This is a Full Remote position in Italy with regualr monthly visit in our office in Milan.
Core responsibilities:
Implementing substantial features, fixing bugs
Writing technical specifications
Proactively proposing code and performance improvements
Helping set and maintain a high professional standard
Helping create new webapps for our new products
Being responsible for the code base, improving it and reviewing it (peer reviews) with the other fronted devel
Simplifying the code base
Some examples of what you could work on:
Implementing a simplified version of the present webapp
Creating reusable frontend components
Concluding, with others, the migration to Angular
Making the webapp as autonomous as possible from the backend
Revamping and simplifying the Ui of our workflow engine
Introducing more attractive and powerful Frontend languages to improve our stack and make our offer more attractive to future recruits
Speeding up our release cycle
Improving 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 case
Finished the migration to angular of one the main components of our webapp
Introduced mocks to accelerate our development process
Entirely refactor our Views, the most used page in our application
Started to work with Google on a new webapp to address a specific use case they have
Created 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 feature
Fully capable of taking substantial features from concept to shipping as the sole programmer
You're a team player
Requirements:
Experience: 2-8 years as a professional programmer, at least 3 years as a Frontend developer on SaaS products
Cloud: Bonus is an experience with one of the 3 main cloud platforms. Bonus points for GCP and serverless experience
Programming 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 tools
Collaboration tools: comfortable with Gmail, Google Docs and Sheets, and Slack
Language: English and Italian
Writing: you enjoy writing, you care about words and grammar, you are sharp and thorough;