KIT-AR is redefining quality assurance in Industry 4.0, being at the forefront of the digitalisation of manufacturing industry. Our tools enable manufacturing teams to reduce errors and waste, with growing impact on worker’s skills, customer’s revenues and global sustainability.

We are an award-winning B2B start-up company with a highly dynamic, international, and multidisciplinary team of experienced entrepreneurs engineers and technicians.
Our team culture is a significant asset that provokes radical and rapid innovation and differentiating benefits like a cutting-edge platform focused on reducing the cost of poor quality in manufacturing.


Role Overview


As a Sr. Application Developer at KIT-AR, you will be a key member of the team responsible for developing authoring tools for XR environments, ensuring the delivery of reliable, high-performance user experience and functionality!

Core Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy sophisticated frontend applications, ensuring robustness, performance, and alignment with user experience goals, both for web and desktop environments;
• Collaborate effectively with UI/UX designers to translate design vision into functional software, analysing user stories and feature definitions in order to devise effective and performant implementations, with focus on LOB and immersive 3D environments.
• Produce robust and reliable code, and identify opportunities to improve collaboration and development processes.
  
• Work closely with backend, UI/X and process teams to create seamless, integrated user experiences.
  
• Contribute to continuous improvement by keeping abreast of emerging front-end technologies and methodologies.

Required:

• 5+ years experience in development using frontend (React.js, CSS, HTML) and backend (node.js), with a thorough understanding of their core principles;
• Deep experience in modern React.js development workflows (such as Flux or Redux) and data structure libraries (such as immutable.js);
• Experience with Typescript and/or the newer specifications of Ecma Script, modern front-end build pipelines, and tools like Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Experience in interacting with APIs (REST, Graph QL), authentication (JWT), and structured logging;
• Ability to identify and articulate design requirements, design decisions, and impacts upstream and downstream;
  
• Ability to produce maintainable code, following best-practices;
• Tax residency and work permit in Portugal;
• Proficiency in English (C1+);

Bonus points:

• Experience in Electron.js or NW.js in building cross-platform desktop applications;
• Experience in Tailwind CSS or similar frameworks;
• Experience in CI/CD systems;
• Experience in UI Kits containing charts, grids, and hierarchies;
• Experience in 3D processing (basic concept) and use of Babylon.JS, Three.JS or similar.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary;
• Meal allowance + flexible benefits + health insurance (for you and your family/partner);
• Work from home allowance;
• Growth shares;
• Extra vacation days.

Come and talk to us!