Frontend Web Application Developer

About the role

KoboToolbox is seeking a Frontend Web Application Developer to join our team and contribute to a platform used by over 32,000 organizations for data collection and analysis. You will work on a large-scale web application, collaborating with a global team to maintain code quality and implement new features. This role requires a commitment of 35-40 hours per week and involves working within US Eastern business hours.

Responsibilities

• Searching and reading an extensive, long-lived code base to understand existing behavior and conventions.
• Recognizing when existing conventions may no longer be the best approach and suggesting improvements aligned with contemporary best practices.
• Writing robust, concise, and reusable code with accompanying tests and documentation.
• Reviewing other developers' code and providing constructive feedback.
• Incorporating feedback from code reviews to improve your skills and align with team standards.
• Using AI-assisted development tools effectively while maintaining responsibility for code quality and correctness.
• Efficiently investigating bug reports from the support team, creating well-scoped fixes or actionable plans for resolution.
• Scoping, prioritizing, estimating, and organizing work into manageably sized tasks.
• Attending regular video-conference check-ins with other members of the technical team.
• Communicating with the public in conjunction with our support staff or directly through forums, issue trackers, etc.
• Contributing to discussions about design and architecture collaboratively with the larger team.
• Performing other related duties as directed by the lead developer.

Required skills

• TypeScript
• React
• Backbone
• CoffeeScript
• Git
• API-driven development
• English

Nice to have

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Python
• Django
• Django REST Framework
• LLM integrations
• XLSForm
• ODK XForm
• OpenRosa
• Stripe

Qualifications

• Professional experience writing, deploying, and maintaining client-side code for real-world, API-driven single-page applications.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Long Term Disability
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off
• Floating holidays
• Paid sick days
• Paid parental leave

About the Company

KoboToolbox provides data collection and management tools that enable organizations to create data-driven change. We support over 32,000 organizations globally, including international humanitarian organizations and community-based partners in 200 countries.