Make a difference on international development and security projects
around the globe. Join our software engineering team in Barcelona.
Position: Frontend Developer
Requirements:
- 2+ years of Frontend Software development experience as part of a versatile team
- Proficient understanding of ReactJS
- Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
- Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
- Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, AJAX
Bonus: previous start-up experience, languages (Arabic, Spanish, French, etc.)
ABOUT AKTEK
We help our clients make sense of fragile
environments so they can better understand and mitigate their
operational risks and achieve greater impact.
Our technology helps decision-makers organize what they know, what
their organization knows and what the world knows about their operating
context so they can make better decisions and succeed.
With offices in London and Barcelona, we work in more than 12 countries around the world, helping (among other things):
- International aid projects in North Africa and the
Middle East to better understand the political economy of their
operating environments via dynamic stakeholder mapping;
- Coast
guard forces in the Horn of Africa to combat piracy and land border
forces in the Levant to protect territory via bespoke information
management and communication systems;
- Governments and
embassies in Eastern Europe analyze public sentiment in social media,
blogs and online news to monitor propaganda campaigns and their impact.
- Private companies and local government agencies in Latin
America navigate their changing risk environments with big data fusion,
both in enviornmental and socio-political terms.