Web Frontend Designer

Top 3 reasons to join us

• Work for one of Singapore’s leading startup.
• Learn great software engineering skills.
• Work with the best software engineers.

Job description

About HipVan
- Our mission at HipVan is to help everyone Live Better. This starts from building a better home, where we can focus on ourselves, rest our minds, and create precious memories.
- Therefore, it is our goal to bring well-designed, quality home products to everyone. By working closely with manufacturers and designers and operating online, we bring great designs directly to homeowners at shockingly fair prices. 
- If you believe in helping others create a better home, we're looking for you! 
 

As a Web Frontend Designer, you will
- Work together with the product development team and developers in HipVan to build our software

- Create high quality and user-friendly UI that meet our business goals plus customers' needs

- Discuss high-fidelity mockups and business logic with team members in order to plan and build frontend code

- Cooperate with QA/QC team members to review and give feedback about the quality of frontend code + design

- Help to create and organise developer-friendly frontend components that closely follow our brand's design system / UI library

- Research new technologies or techniques to build better UI

Your skills and experience

- Overall 4 years or more experience in web development

- English reading skill to understand spec documents, requirements, etc.

- English writing skill to communicate by text during development workflow

- Skills and knowledge details:

• 4 years or more of frontend development experience e.g. using Typescript, ReactJS, Vue.js, Next.js, Tailwind, etc.
• Detail-oriented and organised, passionate to develop frontend components & UI library
• Strong understanding of frontend development best practices
• Able to share effective ideas for frontend code, write high-quality code, and review the quality of frontend code
• Curious to learn and stay updated with modern frontend technologies
• Familiar with JS testing frameworks e.g. Jest, Mocha, etc.

- Experience with any of these Databases

• NoSQL DB: e.g. MongoDB, Firestore etc.
• Relational DB: e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, etc.
• Experience in team development with Git
• Experience with Docker in software development

Consideration Bonus:

- Previous experience in building/managing UI for medium / large-scale frontend project(s)

- Previous experience in development team management

- Any of these additional skills and knowledge:

• Experience handling more frontend/client-side logic such as web pushes, performance optimisations, user data management (tracking / security / etc.)
• Experience with content personalisation is highly welcome (via 3rd-party CRM / ML software integration)
• Experience with AWS is highly welcomed (Experience with Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure is also welcomed)
• Experience with Kubernetes is highly welcomed
• Experience with CI tools is highly welcomed (Github Actions, Circle CI, Jenkins, etc)
• Any experience with other languages and frameworks e.g. Ruby, Rails, Python, etc.

Why you'll love working here

• Attractive income based on individual ability of each employee
• Will be provided tools and equipment suitable for work e.g. MacBook Pro
• Employees are encouraged to express their own thoughts freely, and are to develop own individual ability
• Access to new and diversified technologies
• Health insurance provided ($350/year)
• Marriage bonus, childbirth bonus
• Always have snacks, tea, and coffee available in office
• Paid holiday: 12 days/year, unused paid holiday will be paid according to company's policy - Join regular staff parties, annual company trip