Front End Developer

E2M is not your regular digital marketing firm. We're an equal opportunity provider, founded on strong business ethics and driven by more than 300 experienced professionals.

Our client base is made of digital agencies that need help with solving their bandwidth problems, cutting overheads, and increasing profitability. We need diligent professionals like you to help us help them. If you're someone who dreams big and has the gumption to make them come true, E2M has a place for you.

Job Brief

We are looking to hire a skilled WordPress Frontend Developer to implement attractive and functional websites for our clients. You will be responsible for implementing WordPress themes and plugins and site integration and security updates.

Responsibilities

• Implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
• Ensuring high performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning into a working theme and plugin
• Optimize applications for maximum speed optimize applications for maximum scalability help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting

Requirements

• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience developing responsive design websites
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome Inspector, etc.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Ability to convert comprehensive layouts and wireframes into working HTML pages
• Knowledge of interacting with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML). – must have
• A high level of experience with UI layouts, SASS, LESS, Bootstrap, and the CSS GRID system • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
• Understanding of PHP back-end development
• Understanding of WordPress Structure and Plugins
• Exposure with Woo-Commerce Projects
• Experience on WordPress multi-network and Multi-lingual sites
• 3rd Party integration on WordPress sites
• Candidate Should have Experience with Diverse Set of Themes. Like X-Theme, Astra, Avada, Bridge, Divi, Engage, GeneratePress 

About us:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behaviour to scan applications for 8300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As an SDE I Front-End Engineer at our company, you will play a crucial role in the development of the dashboard for our SaaS security platform.

Your primary focus will be on utilising Next.js, React, TypeScript, shadcn/ui (built on Radix UI), Tailwind CSS & TanStack Query to create an intuitive and efficient dashboard that meets the evolving needs of our users.  You will have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals, collaborating to deliver innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in web development. The role requires deep collaboration with the leadership, product, design, back-end and QA teams.

Join our team and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge SaaS security platform, where high-quality engineering and continuous learning are at the core of everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product managers, product designers, and backend engineers to understand project requirements and translate them into code.
• You will research, design and code. What you create is also what you own.
• Develop consistent and user-friendly web interfaces based on Figma designs, using Next.js, React and shadcn/ui
• Utilize TypeScript for type safety and enhanced development workflows, ensuring code quality and reliability.
• Implement designs using shadcn/ui design kit (built on Radix UI) for consistent and modern UI components + utilize Tailwind CSS to style components and ensure a cohesive visual experience across the dashboard.
• Integrate Tanstack Query & Jotai for efficient data fetching and state management.
• Optimize web performance and ensure compatibility across different browsers and devices.
• Write clean, modular, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices, security and coding standards.
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring code quality.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues pre/post production, ensuring timely resolution to minimize impact on users. Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Ensuring timely delivery of the features/products
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends, incorporating them into the development process when appropriate.

Requirements

• 3+ year of work experience with Next.js (preferred) or React
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Strong proficiency in Next.js and React, with demonstrable experience building web applications.
• Experience working with design systems and UI libraries, preferably shadcn/ui (built on Radix UI).
• Proficiency in CSS, particularly with Tailwind CSS, for styling and layout.
• Familiarity with state management libraries such as Tanstack Query(React Query)/Jotai.
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.
• Understanding of basic UX principles and what makes a great user experience
• Solid understanding of web development concepts such as HTML, JavaScript, and responsive design principles.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote team environment.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies and methodologies.

Benefits

• Embrace the cosy remote work lifestyle.
• Feel the startup adrenaline pumping through your veins.
• Revel in our open, growth-centric ambiance; it's like a digital playground.
• Dive deep into the captivating world of cybersecurity.
• And yes, get ready for some unforgettable workcations—think Chikmagalur & Jim Corbett. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the marketing team to build high conversion landing pages. Maintain and improve our marketing codebase
• Contribute ideas and efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of the marketing workflows
• Write code using agile methods and tools. Plan, create, and execute (manual and automated) frontend tests.
• Staying up to date with current technologies and providing insights on cutting-edge software approaches, architectures, and vendors

Required Skills:

• Minimum 2-4 years of experience in Front-end development.
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, Bootstrap
• Good knowledge of Node.js and Rest APIs
• Experience in page speed optimization 
• Experience in writing responsive and cross-browser compatible frontend code
• Good understanding of the modern frontend ecosystem.
• Strong problem-solving skills. Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment
• You are a self-starter, capable of working independently.
• True love for technology and what you do. 
• Maniacal attention to detail. 

Good to have:

• Experience in WordPress theme development
• Understanding of basic technical SEO principles
• Knowledge of a frontend framework like Angular

Experience:

• Very strong hands on experience of web and mobile technologies: - HTML JavaScript,  HTML5/CSS3,OOJS.

• 5 + years of UI Development Experience using JavaScript Frameworks

• 3+ years of Angular Development Experience

• Strong in OOJS(Mandatory)

• Has implemented coding patterns and built UI framework

• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience

• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system

• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS

• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments

• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API

Responsibilities:

• Design the overall architecture of the web application.
• Maintain code integrity, and quality, and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Address and improve any technical issues.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Must have strong experience in designing and maintaining a database.
• Work with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience with Full stack paradigm required.
• Handle technical queries raised by the development team and provide support and guidance to them.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues, perform testing, and optimize application performance
• Collaborate with front-end and back-end engineers to design and create advanced, elegant, and efficient systems.

Skills:

• Strong proficiency with 3 - 5 years of experience.
• Expertise in Laravel and a good understanding of other core PHP frameworks using REST APIs.
• Professional, definite communication skills.
• Excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS, Ajax, jQuery, and JavaScript.
• Extensive experience in designing and maintaining databases such as MySQL.
• Mastery of CMS such as WordPress and Magento is an advantage.
• Comprehensive knowledge of version controlling – GIT.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.
• Optimizing client and server-side code for maximum speed.

• 2-3 yrs of strong experience in building mobile web frontend for b2c products using React.
• Understanding of server side rendering, nextjs.
• Ability to build progressive web applications with optimized lighthouse score.