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Lead JavaScript React Developer

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Description

Ciklum is looking for a Lead JavaScript React Developer to join our team full-time in Romania.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Lead JavaScript React Developer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. You will join a highly motivated team and will be working on a modern solution for our existing client. We are looking for technology experts who want to make an impact on new business by applying best practices and taking ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Delivery. Create and maintain modern interfaces according to unit standards
  • Code Quality. Follow and improve code quality standards
  • Analyze and Estimate. Perform technical assessment of UI mockups/wireframes to ensure the possibility of their implementation within reasonable time
  • Software Design. Create and review software feature design documents and provide the solution
  • Contribute ideas through your knowledge of evolving front-end technologies
  • Be proactive in communication with team members and client
  • Use industry best practices of development processes & tools, adopt and improve them
  • Mentorship of junior colleagues
  • Take responsibility for project delivery playing role of the most senior technical person (by stack) at the project
  • Direct client communications
  • Set up efficient development workflow throughout proactive collaboration with any project role (ProjectManager, BA, PO, UX, UI, Arch, BE, DevOps)
  • Technical organization: interview, tech audit, pre-sale
  • Problem solving, Solution Presentation, Meeting and Visual Facilitation

Requirements

You can name examples of use in different contexts. Are guided by best-practices and specifications of such skills:

  • Strong expertise in the JavaScript language (e.g. ES6/7/8/next, Typescript) as well as its eco-system and tooling
  • Several mainstream frameworks or stacks (React, ReactNative, Vue, Ionic, Node.js+Express, PWA)
  • Successful cases of delivering React applications
  • Deep expertise in cloud design, infrastructure as code, tools and services on AWS
  • Delivery flow: branching strategy, repo management, code style guides and enforcing, testing approaches, CI/CD, release plan
  • Software Design & Visual Facilitation
  • Mental Agility: capacity to switch to any project technical challenge
  • Advance English
  • Understanding of Agile and Lean principles and ability to facilitate team-work according to chosen development methodology
  • HTML/CSS. Preprocessors, Methodologies
  • JavaScript. Core, Performance, Security
  • Application state management
  • Package management, Module bundling
  • DevOps. Experience with CI/CD set up, Docker
  • oAuth, JWT
  • HTTP, REST API
  • Design patterns, OOP, Development principles
  • Software testing. Approaches, testing types
  • Git

Framework:

  • ReactJS:
    • Components
    • Routing
    • JSX & Virtual DOM
    • State management
    • Async actions
    • Hooks
    • Forms
    • Testing
    • Performance

Desirable

You should have an idea of the subject and its parts. Can explain. Has experience of use of such skills:

  • Experience or at least understanding of the Micro-frontend architecture
  • Experience or at least understanding on the component testing, PACT testing
  • Cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)
  • PWA
  • Quality tools (input/output complexity)
  • Experience with CI/CD set up (GitlabCI)
  • Application state management (MobX / Saga / etc.)
  • Sonar
  • Docker
  • GitlabCI
  • Familiar with UX concepts such as Information Architecture
  • Agile (principles, Kanban, Scrum), task tracking tool (JIRA), knowledge management (Confluence)

Personal skills

  • Works under general direction, accepts guidance and has work reviewed at agreed milestones
  • Has working-level contact with customers and colleagues
  • May supervise others or make decisions which impact the work assigned to individuals or phases of projects
  • Performs a range of work, sometimes complex and non-routine
  • Demonstrates effective communication skills
  • Plans, schedules and monitors own work (and that of others where applicable) competently
  • Contributes fully to the work of teams

What's in it for you

  • Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance and Mental Health programs. We also provide you with meal vouchers to fuel your mind and body
  • Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Pluralsight licenses, language courses and company-paid certifications
  • Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
  • Flexibility: Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just dont miss your regular team stand-up  
  • Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them
  • Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfill your potential
  • Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
  • Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.
In Romania, we welcome top-tier tech talent — whether from our Bucharest office or fully remotely. Tap into deep industry knowledge, grow your career, and make an impact in an empowering environment.
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