Full-stack Engineer

About the Position

MOXY is a software and design studio with a focus on quality and user experience. We are a team of young, skilled, and highly motivated professionals capable of turning ideas and concepts into nifty products. Our goal is a balance between an impactful experience, technical excellence, and a practical approach when developing solutions and tackling problems.

You, a Full-stack Engineer, will be part of a team that moves rapidly, with a spirit of constant innovation and is not afraid to embrace new technologies and challenges. You will be taking part of the design and architecture process of all software layers, developing highly performant and resilient services, and building rich and interactive user interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Implement user interfaces using HTML5 and CSS3 that work on both desktop and mobile browsers.
• Build scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly performant services, such as REST APIs or real-time data exchange endpoints.
• Model relational and non-relational data.
• Develop robust, reusable, and maintainable JavaScript code.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Proactively look for ways to improve the codebase and workflow.
• Work closely with designers and other engineers, contributing with ideas, opinions, and solutions to problems and projects.

Requirements

• Have a solid understanding of the full web technology stack.
• Have a solid understanding of JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Know at least one backend programming language like the back of your hand, preferably JavaScript (NodeJS), PHP, or Java/Scala.
• Have experience with relational and non-relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, CouchDB, Couchbase, or similar databases.
• Be ready to collaborate with the business, namely helping with technical writing and other marketing-related activities.
• Be disciplined about writing unit and integration tests.

Nice to Have

• Contribute to open-source projects.
• Be familiar with new JavaScript language features as defined by ES6, ES7, and ES8.
• Have used some of the newest libraries and tools within the ecosystem, such as React, Redux/Mobx, PostCSS, and Webpack.
• Have used popular frameworks, such as Express.js for NodeJS or Symfony2 for PHP.
• Have used a package manager to manage dependencies, such as NPM for NodeJS or Composer for PHP.
• Have experience implementing single-page apps.
• Feel comfortable with Git.
• Be familiar with Agile methodologies (Scrum).

We Offer

• An environment where you are encouraged and expected to go out of your way to improve yourself and bring in that knowledge to the team.
• An environment of top professionals and where knowledge circulates freely.
• An environment that promotes usage of and contribution to Open Source.
• Competitive salary.
• Flexible working hours.
• Possibility of working remotely.
• Inspiring workplace in the heart of Porto downtown for those who can't live without an office.

About the Company

MOXY is a software and design studio with a focus on quality and user experience. We are a team of young, skilled, and highly motivated professionals capable of turning ideas and concepts into nifty products. Our goal is a balance between an impactful experience, technical excellence, and a practical approach when developing solutions and tackling problems.