Angular Developer

Role Summary:

As a Senior UI Developer, you will be responsible for building intuitive, high-performance, and

responsive user interfaces using Angular, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. You’ll work closely with

our UX designers, product managers, and backend engineers to create web experiences that

deliver value to our users and business alike.

Key Responsibilities:

● Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and troubleshooting.

● Collaborate with product managers and designers to craft user-centric features and

interfaces.

● Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and cross-browser compatibility.

● Ensure applications meet performance, accessibility, and responsiveness standards.

● Contribute to architectural discussions and propose improvements to existing codebase

and design patterns.

● Develop and maintain scalable and responsive web applications using Angular

(preferably Angular 13+).

● Write clean, well-documented, and reusable code in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.

● Apply design principles to create intuitive and aesthetically pleasing UIs aligned with

brand guidelines.

Required Skills:

● 6+ years of web development experience.

● 3+ years of hands-on experience in Angular development (Angular 8+ mandatory,

Angular 13+ preferred).

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3.

● Familiarity on state management with RxJS, NgRx, and RESTful APIs integration.

● Sound understanding of responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and

accessibility standards.

● Experience with SASS/SCSS, Bootstrap, Material, or other CSS frameworks.

● Understanding of web performance optimization and SEO basics for SPAs.

● Solid grasp of web design principles including layout, typography, color theory, and

usability.

● Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and agile development practices.

● Experience in the travel tech domain is a strong plus.

Good to Have:

● Experience with Node.js, Express JS, MongoDB.

● Understanding of internationalization/localization in web apps.

About the company:

NowPurchase is transforming the 140B$ Metal Manufacturing industry. The metal industry forms the backbone of the economy and the fundamental block of the physical world - be it transportation, construction and every machinery. NowPurchase is building a rich, digital marketplace where Metal Manufacturers can procure high quality raw materials in a trusted manner. At the same time we are building the OS (Operating System) that will supercharge their productivity and processes to ultimately make procurement autonomous. Now Purchase raises USD 2.4 million in Nov 2021, led by Orios Venture Partners, InfoEdge Ventures.

About you: 

We are looking to add an immensely talented Senior Front End Engineer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet our vision. Expect to build a lot of web interfaces and dashboards both for the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises. You need to lead the front end team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and are constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
• Deliver high quality modular code deployed over web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets.. This would include visual dashboards and real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
• Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
• Own your Agile projects and lead the team from software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
• Transform UI designs and mockups into pages and flows using CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks. Be ready to do the mockups yourself sometimes.
• Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.
• Have an exceptional understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and service workers and command over the internals of JavaScript, React and Redux.
• Continuously evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.

Required Skills and qualification:

• 4+ years’ experience developing rich UI/Front-end for user-facing web applications.
• Strong experience with React or similar frameworks, TypeScript, SSR (Server Side Rendering), SPA (Single Page Application), PWA (Progressive Web application), OOP (Object Oriented Programming), Reactive programming, and Unit tests.
• Demonstrated ability to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Tech Stack skills required:

• React/Redux
• Python/Django/Celery
• Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
• PostgreSQL/Redis/S3

Location: 

On- site: Kolkata, West Bengal

Compensation & Benefits:

• Cash Compensation: As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
• ESOPs: 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
• Medical Insurance: Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
• Generous leave structure and WFHs including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
• Complete Relocation Expenses: We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.

Company Link: https://nowpurchase.com">https://nowpurchase.com

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Responsibilities

• Work closely with the design and backend team to build and develop web applications for our forward-thinking products.
• Design large-scale systems with high complexity to support our high throughput applications.
• Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving such large-scale problems.
• Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible.
• Adopt problem-solving as a way of life - always go to the root cause.
• Develop scalable front-end engineering, for the largest FinTech companies in India who use our product.
• Actively think about improving UX and UI.
• Collaborate with the team to discuss and implement ideas.
• Build responsive, robust, and optimized applications.

• Professional development experience with Angular 10
• At least 1-2 years of JavaScript development experience for web applications.
• Strong eye for design, UI, and UX.
• Passion for front-end development.
• Willingness to learn and experiment with new technologies.

Requirements : 

a) CSS / Bootstrap : Flex Layout/ability to demonstrate the cascading nature of CSS clearly with example/Positioning.

b) Pure JavaScript: Prototype chain and inner workings of inheritance in JS. Understood DOM, Events, Event Bubbling, and Capturing/ ability to demonstrate it with example/ Promises and their use cases.

c) TypeScript: Basic understanding of using TS. Union Types, Index Signatures,

d) REST: Backend experience. REST principles, URL structures for APIs. integration using native JS (fetch and Promises) and in Angular. use cases of getting vs POST vs PUT vs PATCH.

e) Angular :  Abstractions of Angular Component, Service, Pipe, Directive, Module, Lifecycles. Knew advanced patterns as well Dynamic Components, Content Projection, Reactive Forms, ViewChild, ContentChild. Understood Observables and various operators demonstration of Design Skills ability to create the component and module hierarchy for a moderately complex application, along with their interactions