Senior Frontend Developer (React)

Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies which unites more than 50 brands. For more than 20 years, we have been creating premium international dating services and social discovery apps with a focus on video streaming, AI technologies, entertainment, and game mechanics. Our product portfolio includes Dating.com, Cupid Media, Dil Mil, and many others. The products are already used by more than 500 million users in 150 countries around the world.

SDG Invests in social discovery technology startups around the world. Our Investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, Wildly, RAW, EVA AI, Clubhouse, Magnet, Tubit, Woebot, BamBam, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia, Harbour, Space, Auto1, DocSend, AppAnnie, Rapyd, Boom Supersonic, Trading, View, K-Health and many others.

We solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.

Our digital nomad team of more than 800 professionals works all over the world. Our international team of like-minded people and professionals solves ambitious daily tasks and creates truly global products. We value focusing on results, a proactive approach, and we are always looking for new and unconventional ideas.

Our teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, Poland, Israel, Turkey, Latvia and many others.

We are seeking a Senior Frontend Developer to join Kiseki - our new dating and social interaction product in the Japanese market. The position also has the potential to grow into a Team Lead role.

You will act as a key influencer in our tech strategy, providing value to our customers and leveraging Core Products technologies in Kiseki-specific development. You will be responsible for bringing perspective and context to current technology choices and identifying future ones. You should build consensus from different points of view to move forward fast and coach or mentor other engineers at Kiseki.

Understanding the customer's problem before moving on to solutions is essential, and it can drive productive discussions with Kiseki product teams and Core Products tech members. You should also have a good understanding of the business impact of our systems and be able to make sound judgments when making technical trade-offs between short and mid-term goals.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Development of new functionality for a website and mobile application using React and React Native (iOS and Android);
• Changing existing functionality;
• Optimizing system speed;
• Designing technical solutions.

We expect from you:

• 5+ years of experience as a Frontend Developer (React);
• Experience with TypeScript;
• Experience and understanding of the practical application of SOLID principles;
• Familiar with the nuances of the HTTP(S), WS(S) protocols;
• Experience in splitting technical specifications into subtasks and solving them independently;
• Knowledge and understanding of how native UX/UI components look and behave;
• Experience in code review;
• Ability to work in the GMT+7 time zone;
• Fluent English & Russian.

Nice to have:

• Experience in developing mobile applications using React Native;
• Theoretically (or practically) familiar with FRP and rxjs.

What we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• Full payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• Health benefits. If you are not eligible for Corporate Medical Insurance, the company will compensate up to $1000 gross per year per employee according to the paychecks. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance, or on doctor's fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in the locations where we have offices or co-working. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for time off, merch, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.

If you have the required skills, expertise, and passion for frontend development, we would love to hear from you!