We're looking for a Mid-level Front End Developer
You can view the full job description on Workable and if you think you would be a good fit, do not hesitate to send us your application.
If you're interested in joining our team, but don't think this is the right role for you then please feel free to keep checking our careers page for available positions in the future.
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A moderator has closed this comment topic for the time beingMentioning or thinking of Covid-19 is not going to restrain a well qualified individual from re-locating to another country, if the job is worthwhile or their dream. Also, who says the candidate will come from outside the country, or even the local area? Are you saying their local community has no respectable prospects? Not good form.
Commenting about remote work, well if a company wants employees physically on site, they want them physically on site. Now, before you comment childishly about me, not knowing what I am talking about; I have worked on and administrated two of the largest networks in the world (NMCI and MNF-w). If you do not know what those are, look them up and you will understand my knowledge is adequate. I did remote and on site work. There is a time and place for both. You also have security to take in mind. Locally plugged into an intranet, and not remotely VPN'd in, is much more secure and easier on the security team. The company may also need an all hands, in person, face to face meeting. Are you planning to fly from your country each time there is a meeting on Friday? Remote work for things like Covid-19, travel to other sites, etc., are understandable, and I am sure they have something in place for that. But, that is not what they are looking for.
Be a professional! Let them post the job they are looking for. They did not ask for critiques on their query, they asked for applications. If I was part of their team, every rude and out of place comment, name on a list of unprofessional persons, for later reference (Yes they have your email address and I am very sure a large IT based company can acquire your true and full information quite easily). It is quite easy to get "BlackBalled" in the US, I am sure it is not much different in the UK.
Professional etiquette is a huge part of a six figure career.
"your preference greatly narrows the field of possible candidates," "they're only appealing to a small section of the UK," "your staff is probably leaving you," "i get far less done in offices than from home," "you'll probably get someone towards the bottom of the barrel"
i agree with you. like god damn, they're just posting that they're looking for a developer with certain skills and they get flak for how they do things
There's nothing about this position that **requires** on-site location or work. If it is about trust, that's an issue with Nexus needing to better vet the people it hires. If it is about security, with cryptography and encryption it can be as secure if not MORE secure to remotely VPN into a terminal rather than physically sit there and operate it.
To be more pedantic and pedestrian, using 'LogMeIn' to remotely access a terminal's desktop rather than physically sitting at the computer is beneficial for many purposes. There are no 'security' concerns here other than IP (intellectual property) security concerns which again relates to trust issues in properly vetting those who get hired similar to what financial institutions do (extensive background checks, credit checks, etc).
Now if the work requires physical presence to physically plug and unplug cables, routers, switches, and so on then that would be different from what the job description states.
I'm disappointed that someone so ignorant of how cybersecurity actually works is responsible for some of the internet's biggest networking facilities. Maybe that's one of the reasons why things have gone downhill so swiftly after Net Neutrality became absent in the USA.
Let's measure e-peen again when you've worked with Level3 and the like, ok? :)
As a final note, I find it deeply concerning that such a detailed job description lacks anything regarding employee benefits/compensation whatsoever. Basically 'here is what we need if you can't do everything then gtfo loser'. Seems overly applicant-hostile to me IMHO.
It's quite the opposite actually. We're looking for new members of the team to help us improve the site.
Great job so far Nexus, keep it up!
In a strange coincidence I've previously worked on several sites belonging to one of your competitors, back and front ends, so I know it's completely possible to do with a site/scale of this nature. I'm very surprised the pandemic hasn't helped you realise this yet.
Nexus Mods did full remote working until 2017 when we got our first office space. I have not looked back.
I've seen a few otherwise interesting vacancies go past on the Nexus over the last few years and all have had that limitation; I'm in Suffolk and need to stay here, rendering them all impossible. I'm sure I'm not the only one geographically/logistically excluded in such a way, so it must be greatly limiting the talent pool available to you.
Instead of searching the world for talent, they're only appealing to a small section of the UK. This hurts diversity too, imo
But hey it's worked for them so far, so if it ain't broke, don't fix it! All of this is just my opinion.
So, from the description I take it that React is being used on FE side? Do you still use stuff like jQuery or are you going with an vanilla ES6 approach or maybe even ES6 with Typescript?
And it also looks like your BE is done with PHP? Do you have a custom CMS for internal usage or how are you maintaining stuff?
Also, do you also accept remote-only Devs?
I've asked the dev team for answers to your technical questions, but the one I can answer is this:
We're looking for someone to work with our team based in Exeter, UK from our office. For the right candidates, we may be able to assist with relocation expenses and logistics.
The front end of the Nexus mods is wonderful I like it. But the back end I think is not quite good. It's a bit slow at least I feel.
> I have a React.js dev-tool as a chrome extension. It's not showing React.
Most websites disable devtools going into production for obvious reasons lol. That being said, there's a better way. I used Wappalyzer, a Chrome extension and this is what I got
Analytics
Quantcast Measure
Matomo Analytics
Hotjar
Font scripts
Google Font API
Font Awesome
JavaScript graphics
Rickshaw
D3
Programming languages
PHP 7.1.33
The "PHP 7" part explains the laggy backend hahaha
CDN
Cloudflare
JavaScript libraries
jQuery UI 1.12.1
jQuery 2.2.0
Select2
Lodash