Front-end developer for Eummena’s Moodle team

Eummena, an international enterprise head-quartered in Leuven, Belgium, with establishments in Piraeus, Dubai, and Riyadh, is looking for a front-end developer to join primarily our Moodle squads and contribute to other EdTech solutions.

Job brief:

Joining Eummena, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic international team and engage hands-on in highly visible EdTech products and services! Your main focus shall be on building modern themes and frontend components for Moodle-based products.

Among your duties will be to:

• Collaborate within autonomous squads in every stage of a product’s lifecycle, from planning to delivery;
• Create clean, modern, testable, well-documented code and share it within git-based repositories;
• • Actively participate in an agile team across all Eummena regions, with a DevOps culture and a proactive mindset;
• Work with a modern Javascript, CSS, and HTML toolset, combined with UX best practices, to create attractive and usable front-ends for EdTech platforms;
• Confidently communicate with customers, as part of autonomous squads with end-to-end responsibility, to understand requirements and suggest solutions;
• Manage your own work to meet the deadlines agreed among your squads, to ensure successful, timely, and quality driven delivery of products.

What you need to bring along

Essential:

• Studies in Software Engineering, Graphics Design, or similar disciplines.
• Working experience with JavaScript, TypeScript and CSS, including modern front-end frameworks (React, JQuery, YUI, Vue.js, Angular JS, Bootstrap, Less, Sass, etc.)
• Solid understanding of web markup and tools, including HTML5, Semantic HTML, JSON, REST and modern browser APIs
• Great attention to detail and quality of design
• Experience with UI design and prototyping tools, including the Adobe suite, Balsamiq, Axure, etc.
• Experience with Web Usability and Accessibility guidelines
• Documented experience with similar positions or products, e.g. personal github page or contribution to open source projects.
• Excellent communication skills, fluency in the English language, both written and verbal.
• Knowledge of the Arabic language will be considered a plus.

Important:

• Experience with Moodle, including development of themes or new plugins
• Excellent knowledge of git
• Agile team member, experience in Scrum or Kanban
• Familiar with basic Linux shell commands and remote connection to cloud VMs
• Self-motivated, with strong organizational skills and an inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• Positive attitude, team worker, experience in distributed dev teams

What you’ll be taking home:

• Working in the team of an official Moodle partner, for highly visible EdTech projects around the globe
• Open source development and participation in global forums on a regular basis
• A professional environment where you can thrive personally and as part of a great, multidisciplinary team
• Being part of an international, multidisciplinary team, with more than 15 nationalities in 6 countries, from the great work environments in our offices in Leuven, Riyadh, Dubai, Piraeus, and TechnoPark (Birzeit).
• Great potential for personal development, including several opportunities for targeted training and upskilling
• A competitive package of compensation and benefits