Our Frontend Development Team is Looking For a New Member
If you are passionate about Frontend development and user experience, you are a self-driven team player who is meticulous about their code, and you thrive in a collaborative, friendly, and international workplace, this job could be for you!
Senior Frontend Developer
You might know us as timeanddate.com: the world-leading website on time and date-related tools and services. Online since 1998, we beat Google to the punch, attracting all of 24 users on day one. Today, we have up to 2 million unique users a day using our wide range of tools from time zone management, like our Time Zone Converter, our Stopwatch, to amazing astronomy tools like our Interactive Night Sky map, and so much more.
Our Frontend Team
At timeanddate, we pride ourselves on being a fun and inclusive group to work with. We focus on our work, but also make time to enjoy ourselves a prioritize our company culture. Have a look at some of the things we've done on our culture page.
Our Frontend Team impacts timeanddate's user experience. As a frontend developer with us, you are part of shaping how people will interact with timeanddate in the future.
We collaborate across teams, so you must be independent, self-driven, and a team player. You can put your ❤ and passion into a project and see it through to the end. We have loads of unique and exciting tools we want to make, and for that, we need you!
What you will do:
In 2022, we would like you to help with:
- Developing exciting new products, interfaces, and visual tools
- Improving, modernizing, and streamlining existing products.
- Collaborating with - and inspiring - team members and project colleagues.
- Mentor and share your knowledge and experience with your co-workers
- Code review and feedback on other's work
- Contributing to developing our pattern libraries, code standards, and style guides.
- Making our services even more UX-friendly
- Continuously improving our Development environment to make writing code as fun as our services are
Who we are looking for:
- 3++ years of experience in a similar role (or be able to demonstrate your high-level skills)
- Be able to write clean, high-quality Javascript.
- Have good knowledge of advanced CSS.
- Can write clean, semantic, standards-compliant, and accessible HTML.
- You're able to communicate your work clearly and effectively in English
- You can act on feedback from others and provide helpful feedback
- You're not afraid to suggest improvements or raise concerns
It would be very beneficial if you are familiar with:
- Build tools such as webpack, Vite, Babel, etc
- Common Frameworks and libraries, such as Vue, D3, Leaflet, and three.js (or similar)
- Knowledge of Storybook
- You ❤ code, and you keep up-to-date with the web platform
- PHP, Git, and Shell
- Implementing and testing accessible user interfaces
- Writing testable code and maintaining tests
Why you should join timeanddate:
- Be part of a creative work environment where you will have a say in timeanddate's future
- Challenging and rewarding tasks where you see direct results
- Inclusive, friendly, and social work environment
- Fresh and modern office space in Stavanger, Norway.
- A high degree of freedom and flexible working hours
- Work-from-home and remote office options
- A competitive salary with good pension and insurance schemes
- HjemJobbHjem travel card deal
Our Company Values
Employee Benefits
Besides doing exciting work with great colleagues, the staff at Time and Date AS also enjoy a number of benefits and perks.
Flexible hours
Our working day is 7.5 hours. Are you an early bird or a night owl? With core hours from 9:00 to 15:00, we accommodate both, whether you prefer to catch that worm or burn the midnight oil.
We also offer a smooth home office solution to make things work on those odd days out.
Three-Course Meals Every Day
Discounted lunches are available in the cafeteria every day from 11:00 to 13:00. The all-you-can-eat buffet includes freshly made soup of the day, several hot courses, salad bar, sandwiches, fruits, cheese, desserts, and more!
Professional Development
We encourage our staff to stay current and updated on their skill set. Team members go to courses and conferences both at home and abroad.
Stay Healthy
We look after your health by providing extensive health/treatment insurance, which includes free treatments so you can get back in action as quickly as possible.
Pension Savings
We have retirement savings for all employees.
Getting to Work
Discounted Public Transport
Our company offers discounted monthly HjemJobbHjem-passes as well as access to electric city bikes. Every 15 minutes, the bus stops right outside the building with many more bus lines within walking distance. And the electric city bike stand is even closer to the entrance.
Secure Bike Parking & Free Parking
If you prefer to ride your bike, there are showers and changing rooms available. You can keep your bike safe in a separate, secure bike room. If you drive an electric car, charge it for free while you're at work. Oh, did we mention that parking is free and covered?
Shops & Cafes
Within walking distance, you'll find a shopping mall with cafes & restaurants, bakeries, groceries, homewares, clothing, shoes, sporting goods, office supplies, pet stores, several gyms, and much more.
International Team
Diversity is important to us. We draw from each other's experiences, and the team reflects our global audience. Our working language is English. All internal communications, meetings, etc. are conducted in English, and we encourage all employees to participate with their points of view.
Trips & Team Building
If all the perks above aren't enough to convince you that working here is fun, take a look at all the social experiences we have shared over the years, including company trips to Paris, Iceland, and Vienna.
Every year, the staff are invited to various social team building events ranging from mystery-solving to comedy shows, friendly competitions, and races, not to mention impromptu pizza parties, delicious dinners, lunches, and the annual Christmas party at great local venues.
Chasing Eclipses
If you've ever wanted to see a solar or lunar eclipse, this is the place to work! Chasing (and LIVE streaming) eclipses is the boss' passion project, and he always finds the best location anywhere in the world! So far, we have streamed from Angola, Greece, Morocco, Argentina, and Norway.