JavaScript Engineer

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At 8x8 Inc. [Nasdaq:EGHT] we put communications at the heart of our business and build technology that allows people to connect anytime, anywhere they are in the world, and on any device. XCaaS - the 8x8 eXperience Communications Platform - brings together Employee and Customer Experience, enabling hybrid workforces across the globe to connect, collaborate, and delight customers, while providing businesses with real-time communications analytics, intelligence and unique insights.

Learn more on our company website at www.8x8.com and follow our pages on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

JavaScript Engineer

Location: United Kingdom (ONLY)

As a JavaScript engineer, you will join an experienced team of like-minded individuals, adding your own distinctive style and flair to our ever-expanding portfolio of modern React applications.

Your code will be a shining example for the rest of the company to admire as you craft the most robust, responsive and maintainable components in our London centre of excellence.

We have a strong team-first culture with collaboration, support and job satisfaction being our watchwords.  We aim to produce elegant designs to create the highest quality product.

Responsibilities

• Develop modern React applications built on our newly created APIs

• Ensure code reuse is championed

• Make our design teams' visions come true in high-quality code

• Add some shine to our legacy applications by converting them to React

• Insist on highly performant, responsive and compatible components

• Work with the management team to achieve both company and personal goals

• Fixing issues to ensure our customers have the very best user experience

• Assist our quality assurance teams in testing your newly implemented features.

Ideal Candidate

• Experience with React

• Experience in CSS with a focus on cross-browser compatibility

• Use of Redux in a production environment

• Familiar with modern ECMAScript specifications

• Able to consume RESTful APIs with ease

• Experience with Webpack, NPM, Yarn, Babel and Jest

• Consistently produces highly optimised components and uses benchmarks to prove it

• Effectively translates design and product requirements into technical requirements

• Passionate about delivering high-quality software

• Excited about learning and improving

• Attentive to detail, flexible, and able to work with legacy codebases

• Proficient in the use of tools such as git, and Jenkins

What you’ll get

In return for bringing your experience to 8x8, you will get an excellent package with benefits such as

• Excellent salary

• Work from home

• Continued career development

• Games every Friday

• Your name pronounced incorrectly at every global demo

• Social events 

• Yearly pay reviews

• Company Bonus

• New packet of crayons

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• Great work/life balance

• Private medical

• Top spec hardware and accessories to work on

• An office chair of your own to work at home