Lead UI Developer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Remote- Europe, Dublin

Role overview

Waratek has a number of core Java products that remediate security vulnerabilities. The Waratek Portal is the interface for configuring those core products and providing additional value such as reporting on attacks, providing strategic intel, detailing their level of protection and more and do all this while being very responsive and highly available. Currently there is both a cloud and an on-premises Portal offering.

This role is responsible for the Portal UI and must therefore be familiar with modern JavaScript frameworks, specifically Angular, Angular Material, working with REST APIs and helping shape the vision of the product. This role reports to the Director of Engineering and will work on the Portal Team with our Product Owner, Backend / API Developer and Test Automation Engineers.

Responsibilities
  • Design and implement a top class, performant UI in collaboration with our Product Owner, Backend  / API Developer and other key stakeholders

  • Help the Product Owner direct the vision of all things UI and UX related

  • Evaluate, customize, and design components, frameworks, and libraries

  • Support the design of our scalable and highly available deployment

  • Work with the team on user story grooming, defect triage, product demos and process retrospectives

  • Support PreSales (prospect) and Customer Success (customer) engagements

  • Mentor, guide and champion all things UI related

  • Keep abreast of the latest UI industry developments, technologies and best practices

Core experience / qualifications

  • Experience with JavaScript UI frameworks and component libraries, specifically Angular, TypeScript, Angular Material and also NgRX, REST APIs and Web Sockets

  • Ability to customize UI components.

  • Enterprise-level / complex UIs with the assistance of the UX Lead.

  • Strong CSS/SaaS knowledge.

  • Experience on a multi-disciplinary team including backend developers and quality assurance

  • Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders

  • Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively

  • An understanding of REST API design, and a conceptual understanding of Java and .NET

  • Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal as well as the ability to build good working relationships with your colleagues both inside and outside the Portal team

  • Familiarity with source control tools such as Git.

Desirable experience / skills
  • A strong portfolio showcasing your previous work

  • Experience with data visualization environments such as Plotly, D3, or R and dashboard design

  • Knowledge / experience working with security products and reporting tools

  • Webpack

  • NodeJs, ExpressJs

  • Jest, Protractor

  • CI / CD methodologies

  • Atlassian’s Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket

About us

Waratek is the award-winning Software Defined security platform that enables security teams to automate the management of security behavior to reduce human error, remove false positives, and maintain lockstep with the rapid rate of code changes and deployments. Never before have security teams solved security at scale by protecting every application in their enterprise or patching vulnerabilities at scale with modern application development without a single code change, assistance from engineering, or fear of regressions in future releases.

We value candour, transparency and collaboration at all levels. Our culture is one of enablement which favours the team over the individual, with a strong sense of accountability and ownership, giving staff the space to explore and both invention and innovation to flourish. Our Glassdoor rating is 4.6 / 5.

Waratek is headquartered in the Silicon Docks area of Dublin, Ireland with US head operations in the Fulton Market District of Chicago IL.

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