Front End Developer

About Us

GradRight is an Ed-fintech startup focused on global higher education. We are committed to enabling global youth aspirations by helping students find the "right education" at the "right cost". We aim to assist students in discovering their best fit universities and funding plans.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK. Since September 2020, we have received over US$500 million in loan requests and successfully secured over US$75 million in loan approvals for more than 1600 students.

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll build beautiful front-end experiences and enable flexible customer journeys while focusing on an international audience.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead design discussions and decisions around building a scalable and modular front-end architecture
2. Write clean and modular code
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as an SDE, with at least 2 years experience leading teams
2. Strong experience with vue.js
3. Able to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
4. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
5. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
6. Passion for solving complex problems
7. Experience with team management
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience with GraphQL and micro-frontend architectures
2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

• Expertise in React tools including React.js, Webpack, Babel, Redux/Flux, React router.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
• Practised in any one CSS frameworks like material UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap, ANT design.
• Experient working on web API like RESTful Web services, • Proficiency in using Graphql, WebSocket, webhooks.
• Should be able to design and build modern user interfaces to enhance application performance.
• Hands-on experience in browser-based debugging, performance testing software and deployment, with an attention to detail that supports the software development cycle.
• Experience with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha
• Experience in an Agile environment

About UZIO Inc.

UZIO (HQ: Virginia, USA) http://www.uzio.com/">http://www.uzio.com With over 150+ partners, 1700+ employers, and 50,000+ employees relying on UZIO and 70+ health insurance carriers serving plans, UZIO provides an Integrated Benefits Administration and HCM SaaS technology platform for brokers, employers, and employees of SMBs in the United States.

Job Description

Requirements

• Must be having B. Tech. degree from Premium Institute with 4-6 years of proven experience in the relevant area.
• Proficiency in HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, CSS preprocessors like Sass, LESS
• Hands-on experience in JavaScript frameworks. Preferably React Native / AngularJS
• Understanding of JS-based build tools like Grunt, Gulp, and Bower
• Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• Maintain and improve product platform, Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Knowledge of browser compatibility issues
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Design with mobile-first principles
• Integrate with REST apis
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Develop technical and business requirements and always intuitive and user-centered solutions strive to deliver
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

 Responsibilities

• Collaborating with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience
• Conceptualizing original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards

Key Qualifications:

5 + years of experience in Software development in multithreaded Java/Python applications

3+ years of UI/UX stack experience (Angular JS/PHP/Javascript)

Extensive experience in coding and debugging Java applications and deployment

Should have experience/exposure to Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, SOAP, REST, Maven, Spring framework, hibernate, Kafka, Zookeeper, DHCP, DNS, SNMP

Extensive experience with MySQL and various NoSQL Databases like MongoDB, Elasticsearch

Modelling languages like Netconf, Restconf, Yang,Tosca, Yaml, XML

Skilled in data center, networking, Linux and cloud technologies especially IaaS

Understanding of the ETSI NFV architecture stack

2+ experience with SDN technologies

2+ experience with OpenStack, Kubernetes or other container orchestration platform

Agile programming methodologies

DevOps - CI/ CD experience with Git, Gerritt, Jenkins

Experience contributing to and working with open source communities like ONAP, ONF