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About the Role

The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking a Lead Web Engineer Consultant to contribute to the ShareTheMeal app's growth strategy. This role involves developing new features, increasing user engagement, and growing the user base to help achieve WFP's zero hunger mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Web team at ShareTheMeal.
• Conduct 1:1s, provide feedback, and conduct performance reviews.
• Develop features and improvements to the ShareTheMeal web app securely, with thorough testing, and high performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to maintain high quality standards in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Solve complex technical problems.
• Contribute to the web app's objectives and long-term goals.
• Exert technical influence to improve product and system reliability.
• Support the definition and improvement of standards for style, maintainability, and best practices in a high-scale environment, advocating through code review.
• Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in developing and designing JavaScript-based web applications.
• Expert knowledge of TypeScript and React.js development.
• In-depth knowledge of Unit and End-to-end testing.
• Good understanding of JS testing frameworks like Jest, Enzyme, Cypress, etc.
• Embrace principles of clean code, test-driven development, and agile development processes.
• User-centered approach to software development.
• Strong analytical abilities, both quantitative and qualitative.
• Ability to interact with managers with maturity and tact.
• Mature judgment with strong interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative spirit able to liaise with a wide range of people at all levels and across different cultures, acting with credibility and diplomacy.
• Strong time management skills with the ability to plan ahead, anticipate requirements, problems, and obstacles, juggle competing priorities, and work to tight deadlines.
• Self-motivated and able to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Fully committed and motivated to achieve the aims of the World Food Programme.

Skills

• TypeScript
• React.js
• Unit testing
• End-to-end testing
• Jest
• Enzyme
• Cypress
• Clean code principles
• Test-driven development
• Agile development processes
• User-centered design
• Analytical skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Time management
• Autonomy

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Consultant
• CST

Experience Level

• At least 6 years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree

Benefits

• Highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• Investment in personal & professional development through training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and internal mobility.
• Attractive compensation package.

About the Company

• The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• Around 20,000 people work for the organization, most of them in remote areas, directly serving the hungry poor.
• WFP is investing in and growing private sector fundraising and partnerships.
• ShareTheMeal is WFP’s fundraising and awareness-raising app, a pioneering way for people to join WFP's efforts in creating a world with zero hunger.
• ShareTheMeal currently has more than 1.3 million supporters worldwide, who have shared more than 185 million meals (US$ 100 million).

Equal Opportunity

• WFP celebrates and embraces diversity.
• It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
• All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications.
• WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority.