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Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Grow Simplee is a Same-Day Delivery platform to accelerate sales of Ecommerce brands.

DESCRIPTION
Grow Simplee’s vision is to simplify scalability & growth of the new age D2C brands & ecommerce sellers by making Same-Day delivery more convenient, reliable & easy to implement. Same-Day Delivery helps brands with higher conversion rates on their websites, serves as a competitive advantage and builds customer loyalty. Our offerings include website integration to commit the right fulfillment timelines to the users based on their location as well as backend infrastructure to support Same-Day Delivery needs like inventory orchestration, order processing & storage optimisation systems & last mile delivery capabilities of real time routing & clustering for the on-time delivery experience the very same day. Grow Simplee is seeking an experienced leader to own the Frontend Engineering & raise the bar of the current technology systems. 

In this role you will be responsible for the team’s technical architecture and end-to-end quality of the code in our software solutions. You will also be doing hands-on development of web and mobile applications and integration of Grow Simplee and third-party tools into seamless solutions for our customers. As a developer, you will own end to end portfolio of applications hosted on cloud. You will enable the department to scale by designing applications and automation as well as handling day to day support requests. Additionally, you will encourage and enforce best practices across the team to provide the highly consistent and scalable development environment needed to meet the demands of this dynamic and growing organization. Successful candidates can juggle multiple priorities, quickly adapt to new environments, design new architectures, find creative solutions to difficult problems, and are highly focused on customer needs.

• Highly-motivated and thrive in an environment where problems are open-ended.
• Enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top.
• Work closely with senior engineers, UX designers and product managers to develop friendly UI experiences.
• Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design.
• Develop/maintain operational rigor for the frontend of a fast-growing Grow Simplee tech stack.
• Engage with customers and other partners.
• Help with hiring and mentoring.
• Take user-facing features from design to implementation, coding both the UI and backend functionality.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other related fields
• Proficiency in Front-end Coding and Design (JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, HTML, jQuery, and libraries or frameworks such as Node.JS and React)
• Proficiency in developing frontend software, with deep experience in one or more relevant frontend MVC/MVVM frameworks (React, Angular etc.), UI unit testing(Jest)
• 2+ years of experience in multi-tier web architecture with knowledge of cross browser compatibility, browser tuning, browser dev-tools and optimization techniques/tools
• Excellent knowledge of design principles of components, store and state management
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals (such as data structures, algorithms, architecture, OO design)
• Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English

A proven track record of implementing, delivering large projects and communicating effectively to the senior Level.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other related fields.
• Experience working with UX teams to define, prototype, and implement great customer experiences.
• Experience building JavaScript/CSS Frameworks or shared component libraries used in large scale production websites.
• Understanding of common UX patterns and ability to identify and mitigate UX design risks early in the development process.
• Attuned design sense so can collaborate with UX designers and hold a high bar with “backend” SDE’s.
• Understands frontend software design patterns (e.g. asynchronicity, data binding, modules, objects, promises).
• Experience with AWS Services (S3, Cloud front, Route 53, EC2.).
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
• Passionate about mentoring and has deep hands-on technical expertise in full-stack development.
• Able to learn large scale complex systems quickly.
• Experience with CI/CD in a frontend context.
• Ability to decompose problems into clear software and UX design actions.
• Ability to dive into source code of frontend libraries to debug, patch, and extend them when necessary.
• Experience establishing and leveraging web analytics.
• Knowledge of engineering and operational excellence best practices.