Lead Frontend Developer

Linkurious

Founded in 2013, Linkurious provides the next generation of data visualization and analytics solutions powered by graph technology.

Our mission is to help teams of analysts or investigators in 100+ Global 2000 companies, governmental agencies and NGOs around the world swiftly and accurately find insights in complex connected data. We help these organizations make critical decisions and discoveries, faster.

Whether we are contributing to supercharge operational performance at Lockheed Martin and Airbus, helping the biggest banks in the world, but also Ria Money Transfer, Deloitte, Dun & Bradstreet mitigate risks and fight against financial crime, or supporting NGOs for world class investigations driving positive change - we deliver.

We are a diverse team of 50 passionate and creative people from all around the world (15 nationalities and counting), based in the Paris area (France) and in Washington, DC (USA). Our French offices are in Montreuil ( Metro lines 1 & 9, RER A).

Your Role

In a team of 7 developers managed by one Engineering Manager, you are the lead of the frontend chapter (3 developers). Your role is to provide technical leadership and mentorship to your chapter, as well as to be an exemplary individual contributor and technical expert for frontend-related topics. You make a significant impact on the team's overall delivery.

You make sure the frontend chapter code quality is high and technical debt under control. You work with the frontend chapter and the CTO to make architecture decisions, raise technical risks and opportunities. You collaborate with other Developers, the CTO, Product Managers, Designers & QA engineers.

You will have various benefits including a fixed salary range of — EUR depending on experience.

Your Responsibilities

As the team's Lead Frontend Developer, your responsibilities are:

Technical Expert

• You are an
  exemplary frontend contributor
• You provide
  cutting-edge and relevant technical solutions
  , to solve product needs
• You
  identify improvements and good practices
  in the frontend chapter and implement them
• You
  review risky technical decisions
  to make sure they are technically sound
• You
  keep an eye on important changes
  on the code base and ensure that those changes don't negatively impact existing code of your chapter
• You keep an eye on the frontend
  developer experience
  and suggest improvements

Leader

• You
  animate your chapter
  so that devs are able to discuss and raise risks and opportunities (bottom-up), and so that you communicate about tech strategy decisions (top down)
• You
  evangelize
  technical choices and best practices to other developers
• You maintain and help
  prioritize the tech initiatives in the roadmap
• You have a
  global view on the roadmap and anticipate technical risks

Mentor

• You
  lead by example
  through kindness and a constructive attitude
• You
  coach
  technically other frontend developers
• You make sure other frontend developers are not stuck and
  help
  them day to day
• You
  lead complex roadmap initiatives
  .

Qualifications

• 5+ years
  in frontend development
• A deep knowledge of
  TypeScript
  and
  Angular
  with proven experience
• Strong interest and a good understanding of Web technologies (protocols, languages, tools)
• Background in computer sciences (algorithms and data structures) and software engineering (design patterns, architecture)
• Leadership and mentoring skills
• You are curious, eager to learn and share your knowledge
• Fluent in English (written & spoken) (French is appreciated but optional).
• Authorized to work in the E.U.

Your profile

• You like technical challenges but you also like making other people grow
• You are diligent about quality
• You are fully autonomous, you can work without supervision
• You are pragmatic and don't venture into useless work tunnels
• You have leadership: you know how to animate a team
• You are "product oriented": you understand that technology is a means to an end, and that what matters most is solving the problem at hand
• You are sensitive about business and company constraints and know how to deliver the best value with the right cost
• You know how to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience

Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don't meet all of the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we'd encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Linkurious, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.

Linkurious aims at providing an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the EU. We are unable to sponsor or take over the sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

How We Work

Our team is based in Montreuil (Paris area). We work on-site 3 days per week and remote-first 2 days per week (Monday & Friday).

We work as a cross-functional team, using Agile methodologies. The team has 13 people (6 developers, 2 product managers, 2 product designers, 2 QA engineers, and one Engineering manager). We work in sprints of 2 weeks and release a version of our product at the end of each sprint.

Linkurious Enterprise, our main product, is written in TypeScript (Angular + ) and deployed on-premises as well as in SaaS. Linkurious Enterprise is backed by graph databases such as Neo4j, Azure CosmosDB, Amazon Neptune or Memgraph, combined with Elasticsearch for full-text search capabilities.

Our toolchain includes: Github, Jira, Notion, Miro and Jenkins; and our infrastructure runs on Kubernetes and ArgoCD.

Compensation & Benefits

Yearly salary range: — EUR depending on experience.

Employees in this position are eligible to participate in the company's benefit programs, which currently include the following:

• 37.5 hours a week of working time
• Approximately 8 weeks paid vacations (5 weeks + 3 weeks of RTT, additional paid vacations)
• Hybrid workplace (2 days of remote per week + flexibility)
• Free health insurance package
• Sponsored nursery beds (Crèche)
• 50% of transit pass
• Lunch vouchers
• Free snacks & beverages at the office

Why Join Linkurious?

Enter the revolution of graph technology

At Linkurious, we believe that the best data visualization and analytics solutions should work smarter, not harder. That the ideal solutions focus not just on technology, but provide superhuman strength to data-driven professionals.

We believe graph technology is a revolutionary way to make breakthroughs faster, to deliver key insights in a fraction of the time, to neutralize threats in just a few clicks.

Changing the paradigm and driving positive changes

Pioneering the development of graph intelligence solutions, we make complex connected data easily accessible and intelligible to researchers, analysts and investigators - that's what we've been doing for more than 10 years now, with heart and passion.

We empower more than 10,000 users around the world to swiftly and precisely detect and analyze what remains otherwise hidden with traditional methods, helping them bring answers to the most challenging problems 10 times faster. We're helping our customers drive positive changes in today's world - and tomorrow's.

Helping unsung heroes

Those fighting for a world with less corruption, money laundering and other crimes deserve tools that are up to the job. That's why it only makes sense that we are doing our part to make life easier for the crime fighters in governments, financial institutions and NGOs, and harder for criminals.

In fact, The International Consortium for Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) used Linkurious technology to investigate the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers, the biggest data leaks in history. Among others.

Linkurious Values

• Our team is mixed and we value diversity, anyone is welcome;
• It's OK not to know, asking for help saves time and makes you grow;
• Meetings should be as short as possible, attendance in a meeting should have a purpose;
• Be kind, be candid, be helpful;
• Give and accept constructive feedback;
• When you feel something is going in the wrong direction, speak-up as soon as possible;
• Working overtime is not a sustainable strategy, we discourage it

Privacy

Linkurious is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read the privacy notice regarding Linkurious's recruitment process to understand how we will handle the personal data that you provide. More information