About the business

Circle Software develops a SAAS application for bookshops. Circle started in New Zealand and has a strong growing community in Australia and is now aiming to start in other countries. We have developers around the world and are looking to build the team.

CURRENT DEV SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY

• Google cloud environment and kubernetes
• Pivotal Tracker for project management
• Elastic Cloud for performance monitoring/APM
• GitHub for source control
• Circle CI, GIT Actions and Semaphore ci for automated tests and deploy
• Rspec for automated tests
• Rails on MySQL (Rails4 migrating to R6)
• Elastic Search
• Sidekiq
• Ubuntu web servers hosted in kubernetes
• C++ for the Point Of Sales Client
• Vue JS
• Generally Mac or Linux for the desktop environment

• A strong rails developer with good knowledge in Ruby Object oriented programming and know how to write best practice code.
• Someone that can solve problems/figure things out.
• Good with English, spoken and written
• Pride yourself in writing beautiful code
• Have experience with testing frameworks Rspec or Mini test
• Have a strong knowledge SQL and experience in SQL query optimization
• Driven to automate, especially devops, have Experience in CI/CD
• Comfortable working with Linux servers

Nice to have

• Have experience working with large scale SAAS applications
• Experience about kubernetes and docker
• c++ experience
• Experience with rails 6
• Experience in retail.

Benefits and perks

• Competitive salary
• Paid sick and paid holidays (if working full time)
• Flexible work hours
• Work remote
• Extensive team support

TO APPLY

1. Write a long form cover letter (no standard letters please) covering your career and how your experience matches up with the person we are looking for and the systems we use. Tell us about how you got into programming and any personal projects.
2. Tell us what creates good easy to maintain code and when are the main things that contribute to poor code.
3. Write best practice code in ruby to calculate the check digit of an ISBN13 barcode and put it into a Github repo for us to look at.

The algorithm is:

1. Take each digit, from left to right and multiply them alternatively by 1 and 3
2. Sum those numbers
3. Take mod 10 of the summed figure
4. Subtract 10 and if the end number is 10, make it 0

Example for 978014300723:

1. (9×1) + (7×3) + (8×1) + (0×3) + (1×1) + (4×3) + (3×1) + (0×3) + (0×1) + (7×3) + (2×1) + (3×3)
2. 86
3. 86 mod 10 = 6
4. 10 - 6 = 4

Therefore the complete ISBN is: 9780143007234

Front End Developer Position

Are you the following person?

• Have experience in a frontend frameworks, VueJs (or alternative) is recommended
• Must have strong knowledge with HTML + CSS + Javascript, OOP and know how to write best practice & beautiful code.
• Has skills to use Figma to create realistic mockups and validate the right concept before implementing the code
• Manage SEO best practices & page performance
• Someone that can solve problems/figure things out.
• Good with English, spoken and written
• Comfortable working with Linux servers and working with CI / CD setup

Nice to have

• Have experience working with large scale SAAS applications
• Experience with rails
• Experience in retail or accounting

Benefits and perks

• Competitive salary
• Paid sick and paid holidays (if working full time)
• Flexible work hours
• Work remote
• Extensive team support

TO APPLY

1. Write a long form cover letter (no standard letters please) covering your career and how your experience matches up with the person we are looking for and the systems we use. Tell us about how you got into programming and any personal projects.
2. Tell us what creates good easy to maintain code and when are the main things that contribute to poor code.
3. Answer the following challenge using best practice code in VueJS and put it into a Github repo for us to look at.
4. Deploy your app in netlify so we can see how you create good interface

Frontend Developer Challenge

You are tasked with developing a landing page for a bookstore site. You can retrieve the data for available books from the provided dummy server API (with documentation included) at: https://github.com/jpyepez/circle-frontend-challenge

The site must include:
- A landing page which displays the list of available books and some basic information (from
what’s provided by the API, at your discretion).
- The landing page must provide a way to navigate to a dedicated page for each one of the items
with additional details (similarly, as provided by the API).
- The item page must allow the user to purchase a copy of the book via a provided endpoint.