Senior Front End Engineer at Future Evidence Foundation

ABOUT US

Our mission is to dramatically improve lives by changing the way the world creates and uses knowledge.

Launched in 2014 Covidence is a not-for-profit world leading SaaS platform. Our platform enables health and science research teams to rapidly synthesize and uncover actionable insights from the mountains of research produced around the world. We do this by accelerating a research workflow called ‘systematic review,’ the gold standard for synthesizing research evidence. Many of the world's most prestigious and innovative universities use Covidence.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Covidence is seeking a front-end Engineer ideally with experience across the software development lifecycle and with Ruby, to join our Product & Engineering team, reporting to an Engineering Team Lead.

In the past 3 years we’ve grown the engineering team, and we will continue to scale the team over the coming years. We’re keen to chat to you and learn about what talents you can bring to our team.

You’ll get to:

• Write code that thousands of researchers rely on every day.
• Guide and influence the evolution of our front-end along with your teammates.
• Guide the team on the direction of our front-end architecture.
• Guide the team on front-end best practices through technical workshops, code reviews and pair programming.
• Work to refine the team's processes to improve development, quality assurance, and delivery.
• Work alongside a product manager and designer to help shape product specifications.
• Be part of a small tight-knit, high-achieving team that values trust and respect for one another.

What you bring:

• Strong front end experience, with a willingness and ability to help out across the stack.
• Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of HTML, CSS, React, and Typescript.
• Ideally, you have experience in building accessible user interfaces.
• A pragmatic approach to refactoring and modernizing legacy code.
• Some experience in building and deploying in Ruby on Rails.
• Great communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A reasoned and pragmatic approach to software development and testing.
• A love of problem-solving, investigating problems and determining the appropriate fix.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.

Covidence Technology Stack

• React/Typescript and GraphQL
• Ruby on Rails/Ruby/postgreSQL
• Backbone (Legacy)
• HTML/CSS/Javascript frameworks
• Automated testing – RSpec/Jest/Jasmine
• DevOps AWS / Heroku
• Monitoring tools Sentry / Datadog
• CI/CD – Buildkite

THE PERKS

• Competitive salaries relevant to your experience level, reviewed twice yearly.
• Remote team so you can live and work anywhere as long as you can offer a 4-hour workday crossover with the AEST time zone.
• Work week flexibility - Full time, part time or explore a flexible arrangement with us that best suits you and us.
• Gifted time off between Christmas and New Years Eve, and the option to purchase 3 more weeks pro rata.
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 8 weeks paid leave for partners, available after only 6 months tenure.
• Access to wellbeing services & programs to support your wellbeing.
• A knowledge allowance and time so you keep learning and developing.
• Monthly home allowance to set up and run your home office.

How do I apply?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please hit APPLY and send us through your resume or LinkedIn profile so we can get a feel for your background and experience.

We’ll be back in touch with you promptly. Should we proceed further you can expect 3 remote interviews with us so we can get to know you and vice versa.

In a hurry? We can speed this process up if needed - just let us know!