At Hypefactors, we are working together designing and building the best software tools for Public Relations professionals across the globe. Our software is beautiful, data-intense and smart. And our unique data offering and advanced analyses create big business impact for our users.

Our systems are spread across continents processing terabytes of data ranging from online news, blogs, social media, TV, radio to traditional print from nearly all countries on the planet. The primary goal is to translate the data into meaningful information and deliver them to our clients' browsers through constantly evolving UI/UX processes. This workflow provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to bring business advantage and performance tracking for PR professionals via intuitive interfaces. 

This position is in the Hypefactors Engineering team and you’ll be reporting directly to the web team lead. Our engineering team is technically cross-functional, with expertise in digital design, embedded systems, backend, frontend, mobile, data engineering and data sciences. We function in a DevOps manner and strive to improve ourselves through process-improvement, adopting and devising industry best-practices.

We look for the kind of engineer who adapts to change and initiates change, thus thriving in an environment characterized by continuous progress. We let our users’ needs push us solving challenging and worthwhile engineering problems.

Key Responsibilities

As an engineer, you’ll participate in the full life-cycle of our tech platform. This means that you’ll be expected to

• Develop robust and easily maintainable web frontend components
• Drive user experience innovations for the web platform
• Contribute to the architectural design of front-end technologies
• Collaborate with back-end engineers on building efficient interface

Along the way, you can take up additional responsibilities, such as

• Mentor graduates and (junior) engineers
• Manage key product features
• Technology roadmap planning

Basic Qualifications

• Expert level hands-on experience and understanding of Vue.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular Vue.js workflows (such as Vuex) in a deployed production application or an open-source project.
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript and data structure libraries
• CSS preprocessors like Sass or Stylus
• Unit Testing with Karma or Jest
• Comfortable with source version control software and package managers (Git, NPM)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL solutions
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

Desirable

• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• JavaScript programmer who aims to create innovative interactions
• Passion to drive the conversation with creative teams, as well as attention to detail
• Experience with E2E testing frameworks (such as Cypress)

Your Application

Instead of a cover letter, please describe your role in the most interesting deployed production application using Vue.js. Also inform us which are your top 3 social sources (websites, blogs, Twitter accounts, ...) you use to keep up to date with the ever-changing front-end environment. Send this, along with your resume to the Hub.