Engineer: User Interface (India)

About koolio.ai

Website: www.koolio.ai

koolio Inc. is a cutting-edge Silicon Valley startup dedicated to transforming how stories are told through audio. Our mission is to democratize audio content creation by empowering individuals and businesses to effortlessly produce high-quality, professional-grade content. Leveraging AI and intuitive web-based tools, koolio.ai enables creators to craft, edit, and distribute audio content—from storytelling to educational materials, brand marketing, and beyond—easily. We are passionate about helping people and organizations share their voices, fostering creativity, collaboration, and engaging storytelling for a wide range of use cases.

About the Full-Time Position

We are looking for a Junior Frontend Engineer to join our fast-growing team on a full-time, hybrid basis. You will be a key contributor in enhancing the user interface of koolio.ai’s AI-powered platform, driving innovation and excellence in audio content creation. You will collaborate closely with senior developers and designers to deliver high-performance, user-friendly web applications that delight our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the product and design teams to develop and implement user-friendly web interfaces
• Write clean, efficient, and reusable code using modern frontend technologies
• Ensure responsive design and optimize web pages for performance and scalability across devices
• Debug and resolve issues, improving the overall user experience on the platform
• Assist in integrating APIs and frontend services with the backend
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in frontend development and suggest improvements to enhance the platform’s functionality

Requirements and Skills:

• Education: Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Work Experience: Minimum of 1-2 years of proven experience as a Front-end Engineer or similar role with a focus on user interface development
• Technical Skills:
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript frameworks like ReactJS or Redux
• Proficiency in frontend languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (ES6+)
• Experience with CSS frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap or Tailwind CSS) for responsive design
• Basic understanding of REST APIs and integration with frontend applications
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git) and best practices in code management
• Soft Skills:
• Strong attention to detail and a focus on delivering high-quality work
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, collaborative environment with distributed teams
• Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to a fast-paced startup environment
• Excellent communication and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Other Skills: 
• Familiarity with Figma or other design tools is a plus. 
• Understanding of SEO principles and how frontend development impacts web performance

Compensation and Benefits:

• Total Yearly Compensation: ₹8-12 LPA based on skills and experience
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive health coverage provided by the company
• ESOPs: An opportunity for wealth creation and to grow alongside a fantastic team

Why Join Us?

• Be a part of a passionate and visionary team at the forefront of audio content creation
• Work on an exciting, evolving product that is reshaping the way audio content is created and consumed
• Thrive in a fast-moving, self-learning startup environment that values innovation, adaptability, and continuous improvement
• Enjoy the flexibility of a full-time hybrid position with opportunities to grow professionally and expand your skills
• Collaborate with talented professionals from around the world, contributing to a product that has a real-world impact

Work Timings: 1:30 PM to 10:30 PM IST

Location: Noida/Delhi NCR/Mumbai

Qualifications: B Tech / MCA or Higher

Experience: 2-7 Years

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

You'll be expected to own projects from start-to-finish. We are looking for passionate Web Engineers who appreciates good engineering and user experience. The person should be enthusiastic about maintaining a clean codebase and possess a passion for pushing web technologies to the limits to design and build exceptional products.

§ Work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive, and interactive interfaces across multiple devices.

§ Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating awesome interactions from designs, writing reusable components and maintainability of the code.

§ Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills.

§ An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.

§ Write unit and integration tests to improve and maintain high code coverage.

Skills, Knowledge, Experience:

• Excellent programming skills in JavaScript

• Experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance web applications

• Expert in SPA Frameworks React JS

• Solid understanding and demonstrated ability of creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.

• Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and cross-browser compatibility issues.

• Solid understanding of CSS box model and flex layouts.

• Proficient in SASS.

• Experience with REST APIs, Node JS/.Net Web API/Golang is a plus.

• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Experience with unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD) with various test frameworks (like Jasmine, Karma, Protractor).

• Experience in optimizing the application for performance and scalability.

• Experience in state management using Akita and cross-browser support.

• Experience with Git.

• Experience with DevOps tools for CI/CD

• Working with USA or European clients is a plus.

• Experience working with multi-vendor, multi-culture, distributed offshore and onshore development teams in dynamic and complex environment.

• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Meeting with the design team to discuss the needs of the company.
• Building and configuring Magento 1x and 2x eCommerce websites.
• Coding of the Magento templates.
• Developing Magento modules in PHP using best practices.
• Designing themes and interfaces.
• Setting performance tasks and goals.
• Troubleshooting integration issues.
• Updating website features and security patches.

• 5+ years of experience as a Full Stack front end developer
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3.
• Good understanding of client-side scripting and advanced JavaScript libraries/frameworks, AngularJS
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, knowledge of AngularJS practices and hand on implementation of complex AngularJS applications, directives, controllers, services.
• Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques.
• Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp.
• Proficient with the JavaScript language and its modern ES6+ syntax and features.
• Proficient with .NET framework and its core principles
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT/Bitbucket.
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills.
• Good time management skills.
• Great interpersonal and communications skills.

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Extreme CSS skills
• Experience with ReactJS or NextJS is a MUST
• Strong communication skills
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
• Sound knowledge of clean code, no unused code, optimized code and more.
• Always starting with a document and then implementing in a systematic and organized manner
• Past experience as a frontend developer building modern JavaScript-based web applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and

influencing skills.

Experience:

• Min 5 years experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• 2-7 years of experience in Mobile application development domain
• A minimum 2 years of React native production level dev experience
• At least 2 React native published apps
• A firm grasp of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• An expert level knowledge of React Native, Redux, Rx & related stack
• An excellent knowledge of Tools
• Some native Android & iOS development experience (preferable)