Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:
About us:
Equal parts creative agency, engineering firm, and consultancy, Grappus has a reputation of doing things differently. We work with brands big and small, far and wide, helping them understand, prototype and deploy a broad range of custom tech. We value design and we cringe at bad UX. Each project is a clean slate, we don’t have frameworks, or any pre-made formulas. We’re not here to just grow big, make money and win awards. We’re here to crack the process of building truly innovative products from scratch. Products that make people say ‘damn’.
People at Grappus usually experience a highly accelerated career growth well beyond the narrow constraints of their ‘job description’. Here, the growth ladder is tailored to you. It operates exactly as fast as you can manage to grow. We think it's a waste when smart people are unable to make an impact. Our aim is to unleash your potential by giving you massive challenges and the freedom to solve them.
We’re in a fluid world, where we don’t know what technologies we’ll use next, or the projects we’ll work on. We’re actively searching for ways to shine a light on our blind spots, whether it is in the products we want to build, the problems we like to solve, or the company culture we try to create. That’s what makes life at Grappus so exciting. Grappus is an ongoing experiment and you are a part of it. We'll be a different company a few years from now because you are going to change it for the better. We can’t wait to see where you take us.
About the role:
We are seeking a Sr. Frontend Developer who has a knack for coming up with creative solutions to unique problems, planning development cycles and writing technical documentation while leading a team of developers. You can get in where needed to write clean, reusable, and performant code, with creative sensibilities to push projects towards perfection. You should have good time management skills and be able to work both autonomously and collaboratively with a cross-discipline team of product managers, strategists, UX designers, art directors, and developers. Most importantly, you have an eye for detail and the ability to make beautiful designs come to life through code.
What we’d like to see:
● Ability to write elegant and readable code
● Excellent problem solving skill and love technical challenges
● Lead a team of developers and showcase managerial skills
● Comfortable working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
● Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
● Stays plugged into emerging technologies/ industry trends and applies them proactively
● Knowledge of software best practices, like test driven development and continuous integration
Must have:
● BE/ B.Tech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
● Proven working experience in frontend programming for a minimum of 3 years
● Good understanding of frameworks like Bootstrap, Backbone, ReactJS, Redux and libraries like jQuery, LESS and Ajax
● Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest
● Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software
● Strong understanding of server-side scripting and Javascript frameworks, including jQuery
● Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills and client handling skills
● Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques
● Experience with coaching and mentoring junior web developers
● Experience in working with a variety of external frameworks and libraries
● Proven experience integrating with, along with a deep understanding of, service-based Web APIs including REST and/or GraphQL
● Good knowledge of User Interface patterns and techniques to solve common UI problems
Nice to have:
● Familiarity and experience using a variety of architectural design patterns
● Personal projects or contributions to the open source community
● Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
● Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines
● Team player (those great personality types that people love to work with)
● Great communication skills
Why you’ll love it here:
(Besides working with our team with infinite charm)
● We have no fixed work timings or leave policy, you can take unlimited leaves and start your day whenever you want. (Just make sure others in your team don’t suffer)
● We don’t track these hours you put in or ask you to fill time sheets. We don’t believe in
micromanaging, if you’re struggling, ask for help. If someone else is, offer some support.
● We never mind if people make mistakes or screw up in any way, and offer full encouragement to help people learn fast by failing fast.
● We always encourage people to be completely candid, raise alarms, or log complaints
anonymously in our feedback tool, no matter how harsh.
● We are a ‘Work from Anywhere’ company, since passionate, driven people can work from
anywhere they want; their homes, or cafes, or mountains, or beaches, anywhere.
● We have a 15-day notice period. We want to build a place where people work willingly and passionately.
What it takes to excel in this role
Work with customers or their representatives
- Possess a professional, knowledgeable, positive and energetic attitude § Uses strong consultative sales skills and interpersonal skills (both oral and written)
- Attention to detail, strong follow-up skills and motivation
- Assist manager in marketing campaigns
- Maintain accurate and organized files
- Work with Outside Sales Staff and Counter Sales Staff to assist in following up with customers
- Develop long-term relationships with industry customers (i.e. designers)
- Maintain the Showroom as a professional place of business
- Follow company policies and procedures and other duties as assigned
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Experience executing projects on WordPress
- Experience customizing existing WordPress plug-ins for integration or other requirements
- Expertise in customizing, developing, and integrating WordPress themes
- Manage the project giving importance to cost and quality
- Work with the user group to improve the solution
- Document existing functions and processes
Skills & Qualifications
- Minimum 4 year of hands on experience in WordPress development
- Good understanding of PHP, MYSQL, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks
- Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
Key responsibilities for this role include:
• Lead one of the product verticals in the development of technology strategy, planning, hiring and execution of the next iteration of the WeInvest platform.
• Institutionalize a strong software engineering culture and facilitate a rapid, iterative, layered development approach.
• Be hands on with the coding, evaluate design and architecture choices, do in-depth code reviews, and implement standards and practices for software development.
• Inspire the engineering team to build quality, scalable code by pairing with team members periodically.
• Participate in the definition and management of high-quality product roadmaps based on business, product & tech strategy.
• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.
The ideal candidate will have:
• Masters /BE/ B.Tech from a reputed institute
• About 6-10 years professional experience in software development.
• Excellent logical and analytical reasoning capabilities combined with strong knowledge of core
computer science concepts like algorithms, data structures, software design patterns, OOP etc.
• Should have experience in all the phases of SDLC
• Must have experience in leading a team. (At least 2-3 people)
• Be an expert in ruby on rails with experience OR from Fintech, Wealth Management OR Investment
• Management Domain with experience in any of the programming languages (Java/Python/Ruby).
• Breadth of experience in multiple technologies, tools, frameworks and processes is a big plus.
• Excellent understanding of core computer science concepts like algorithms, data structure,
Software design patterns, OOP etc. Be able to lead the team in design & architecture discussions,
introduce new tools, concepts & process to the team and guide other members of the team.
• Experience working in an agile team with software engineering practices like automated testing,
test- driven-development, continuous integration etc is a big plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication.