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We're on a mission to make esports as accessible for amateur gamers as traditional sports are for regular people.

What does that even mean?

If you play Football, Ice Hockey or any other regular sport, you know your professional ladder. You understand the leagues, tournaments, and structures that take you from a noob to professional player.

What if you’re an online gamer? What if you’re skilled in Counter Strike or League of Legends? How does the competitive path work for esports? How can dedicated gamers move from noob level to professional player just like regular sports? That’s the problem we are solving at Challengermode.

What's special about Challengermode?

As one of the first teams to have built a fully automated competitive platform for gamers, we are creating some of the most exciting competitions and our growth curve is pointing in the right direction.

  1. We are Northern Europe’s fastest growing esports & tournament platform
  2. With a high retention and rapidly growing user base, we’re just getting started.
  3. Competitive gaming is extremely young and fresh. So we have the possibility to create a legacy in the world of esports if we play it right.

What’s the next step?

With great growth, scaling challenges on the product & tech side and new rounds of investments, we are recruiting on several fronts.

Our tech stack is straightforward, we use ASP.NET (C#) and SQL as our storage layer. The platform uses a micro-services architecture in order to scale. The frontend is primarily built with AngularJS.

What are we looking for?

For this position, we’re looking for a skilled frontend web engineer that is able to assume the overarching responsibility for the web application's frontend over time.

You must be well versed and fluent in one or more frontend web technologies. You have worked with large web applications in the past and have the scars and experiences to show for it (e.g. a proven track-record). You enjoy learning about new technologies and are experienced enough to be able to assess the relative merits of different frameworks and technologies (Vue vs. React etc).

We also think it's great if you are the kind of person who enjoys to code on your free time and views programming as a tool to solve interesting problems - whatever they may be.

Your typical day?

How about we start with a smile, “Hi” and a good, strong coffee? Then your day would revolve around planning your work, understanding priorities, sketching solutions, implementation and having fun along the way. We think it's VERY important to give each other space and time to focus so we can feel and be truly productive.

We are currently wrapping up our basic features for the platform and focusing on optimizing our platform to support scaling. On the frontend side, you will work closely with the Head of Product and Lead Designer to decide the priorities and deliver the best gaming experience possible to our users.

Why join us?

We love you already for taking your time to get through this wall of text! :)

We’re a team of 14 waiting to support, encourage and celebrate with you. We’re a hard-working but fun-loving group of people who take pride in our work and the product we ship.

We offer flexible work hours and a competitive salary but your prime intentions should be to invest your skills and interest in Challengermode and not just seeing it as a regular job. Everyone in the team has ownership in our company and believes in the mission. Working at Challengermode is not a walk in the park, if you want an easy job with few responsibilities this is not the job for you. If you, on the other hand, enjoy working towards ambitious goals, working hard (and smart) and getting challenged on a daily basis, then you should fit right in!

Our workplace gives you a lot of autonomy in how you structure your work and implement solutions, but with great powers comes great responsibility.

Must-haves

  • You’ve worked with large systems and scalable infrastructures before.
  • You have an engineering mindset (i.e. problem solving, first principles thinking, understand design and research e.t.c).
  • You know how to build applications for the modern web that provide a real-time experience for users (WebSockets, SPA etc).
  • You are familiar with build systems like Webpack, image and asset management, CDNs.
  • Mastery of HTML and Javascript are a requirement. You should also be familiar CSS.
  • A University Engineering or Comp Sci degree - or the experience to make up for that.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with building responsive and Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
  • Experience working with AngularJS in larger software projects.
  • A keen interest in new or recent JS Frameworks like Vue and React and an ability to assess them objectively.
  • Knowledge of server/client-side routing, server-side rendering, client-side templates/navigation, client-side caching.
  • Either experience or understanding of basic (white hat) SEO practices.
  • Gaming! You watch and/or play esports games. It's easier to create great gaming experiences if you understand the users' needs yourself.

Technically, if you’ve had 3+ years of professional software dev experience and are confident that you meet the requirements, please ping us and we’ll be happy to talk to you!

At Challengermode, we are strong willed but can always admit when we have been wrong. We are ambitious, curious and never satisfied with mediocrity. And we all share a will to do really cool things together with other really skilled and dedicated people.

Everyone in the team has a strong sense of ownership and believes in the mission. Working at Challengermode is not a walk in the park, if you want an easy job with few responsibilities this is not the job for you. If you, on the other hand, enjoy working towards ambitious goals, working hard (and smart) and getting challenged on a daily basis, then you should fit right in!

As developers, we think it's important to enjoy the work that you do and to learn continuously. Why else would you do it? Building cool stuff and shipping features is fun, but ultimately it's about taking pride in your work, getting challenged while having fun.

A day in the life of a developer at Challengermode:

Fredrik Lilkaer

What do you do at Challengermode?
"I work as a full stack developer. I spend most of my time on the overall system design and backend implementation, where I have built our payment solution, matchmaking and ranking systems and parts of the tournament and chat systems. I work very closely with both our head of product and the CTO."

What is it like working at Challengermode?
"One of the benefits of working at a small company like Challengermode is that there is very tight communication between everyone, and that you have a lot to say about what gets built and how. I get to have a direct impact on the solutions, and what our users experience. The short time from idea to implementation is one of the things I like the most.
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What does a regular day at work look like?
"Like in so many other startups, we have slightly different work hours compared to a regular company. With flexible hours, I can adjust my work hours to fit my lifestyle. A typical day I'm at work around 10AM, but sometimes earlier to take advantage of the quiet morning hours. After coding for 2-3 hours and publishing the work to git, it's time for lunch. I'll often head to the gym during lunch, which is just around the corner, and then pick up some food on the way back. There's a great Burger place nearby that I love! When I'm not working out, I'll join the rest of the team for the daily lunch gaming session in Counter-strike.

In the afternoon, I usually try to get at least 2-3 hours of deeply focused work done, where I put on my noise canceling headset, hard rock music and get in the zone. Sometimes, however, there will naturally be some interruptions when discussing some technical implementation details, or maybe the occasional afternoon product meeting. If it's a regular week, I'll usually go home after that, around 6-7pm."

Detta är en jobbannons med titeln "Lead Frontend Engineer at tech and esports startup" hos företaget ChallengerMode och publicerades på webbjobb.io den 7 mars 2018 klockan 06:10.

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