Job Description

Our story:

Blackpanda is Asia\'s premier cyber security incident response firm, hyper-focused on digital forensics and cyber crisis response. Our team consists of an elite cadre of risk and security experts from various specializations, military special forces, intelligence, forensics, and law enforcement. We are also a fully distributed team across the globe and will be there 24/7 to help if a breach occurs.

In addition, Blackpanda successfully closed a $15m USD Series A co-led by global leading private equity firms Primavera Venture Partners and Gaw Capital Partners.

What are we looking for:

• Technology is at the heart of what Blackpanda does, and is looking for a passionate front-end engineer who thrives on daily hands-on projects, building class-leading interfaces and experiences for the mission of protecting customers against the chance of a cyber incident.
• Blackpanda is at an exciting stage, envisioning what cyber risk protection can look like in the APAC region, and you will be building that future. This role suits someone who is excited by the prospect of building applications, architecture and products from the ground up with the most appropriate technologies available today. A background in cyber security is a plus, but not required. However, an excellent grasp of building excellent, intuitive web-based application interfaces and experiences is expected.
• You will be led by the CTO and expected to be able to synthesize both a business problem and the UX/UI from our in-house design team into an engineered solution, having collaborated all the way from problems, ideation, and the UX considerations. Blackpanda is building a cross-functional engineering team where all members should be excited by the prospect of solving problems first through planning and dialogue, and only after this moving to code.
• The ability to learn new processes and plan new system architecture from high-level requirements is a must. An existing solid understanding of either Vue or React, and RESTful and/or GraphQL-based API architecture and best practices is very important.

About the role:

• Cash: The Salary is USD$108,000, SGD$134,640 SGD, or HKD$830,000 depending on the country of employment. No bonuses or commissions.
• Rewards:Blackpanda further rewards employees with automatic participation in our company ESOP and generous allocations for all staff. The successful candidate will work closely and reports to the Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities and duties:

• You will be the leading front-end developer across at least two of three products being built across the next 12 months, spanning three different technology verticals. Blackpanda is building exciting technology both for internal use and for external-facing customer engagement.
• Communicating with business stakeholders from time to time to help advise on strategy, according to the likely difficulty of solving the technology challenge.
• Engage with code review of your peers.
• Have the opportunity to lead engineering initiatives and discovery to ascertain the best path forwards before diving into writing production code.
• Shipping robust, maintainable, tested code - often! You will see your work used by thousands of customers within a short period of time.
• Work closely with the CTO to evaluate platforms - test driving an API or working methodically through the documentation to understand if it will solve the business need.

Qualifications and experience:

• Prioritize test-driven (e.g. , elegant solutions that are maintainable, aided by appropriate terse or detailed documentation, whichever makes the most sense per case.
• Natural curiosity and you thrive on learning new things.
• Value balance in your life and know when to call it a day so that you come back fresh the next morning with class-leading solutions. We do not promote sloppy code and as such, we guard against overworked, tired developers, but you must also be good at managing your own time to achieve this.
• Passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships with your product, design and engineering peers.
• Comfortable presenting to a group over video calls periodically, describing how a solution was arrived at, and how it works in layman terms.
• Business fluent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Conversational fluency and higher in multiple languages is a plus but not required.

Technical qualifications and experience:

• At least five years working in a professional capacity as an engineer, ideally with an external customer product focus. This time should not include any years of study or pure \'hobby project\' time.
• You have to lead the development of, or significantly contribute to significant products and tools that are used daily either by customers or internal teams and form a critical function of the organization / primary revenue stream.
• Extremely proficient in Javascript (Typescript preferred) and comfortable in at least one of Vue(3+) or React(17+)
• Systematized CSS (e.g. functions, variables) is a joy for you!
• Extremely knowledgeable in integrating with RESTful API architecture, demonstrable GraphQL experience is an advantage.
• Experience with templating languages such as Twig / Liquid is highly valued.
• Experience using and maintaining CI/CD pipeline infrastructure. Minimal maintenance such as Github actions experience, is a plus.
• Bachelor\'s degree in a related field and/or a clear history of engineering in a team-based, professional capacity for the stated experience years (5+)
• If you consider yourself a full-stack developer, please apply to only this role or our Senior Back-end developer role depending on what you consider your stronger side.

What we offer:

• This is a remote-first position. With our \'Work From Anywhere\' policy, the successful candidate can work from anywhere globally subject to alignment with business and operational requirements, and being available for a minimum 6 hours between 9am and 6pm Singaporean time zone to sync with the Tribe.
• 40 days paid leave per year inclusive of public holidays, which may be taken at the discretion of the employee subject to compliance with our Leave Policy and the approval of their manager. Our leave practices take into account the global arrangement of personnel with differing public holidays and the requirement of the company to be on stand-by as a crisis response unit 24/7/365.
• Work-life balance - no scheduled internal meetings on Fridays, unless absolutely necessary.
• Enrollment in the company corporate health plan (where available) or USD$100 per month allowance.
• Opportunities for travel, team onsite meet-up, and training opportunities.

Continuous learning:

• Blackpanda will sponsor the cost of no less than one (1) training course each calendar year. The topic of the training will be your choice, subject to approval by your manager, and will be no greater than USD$5,000 annually.

Declamation:

Blackpanda is committed to building a culturally diverse company, and we value a broad set of opinions in our team. As we grow, we are looking to build a team with a range of viewpoints at its core, and we encourage applications from all genders as you identify (X/F/M) and minority candidates.

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