Front End Lead

About Upswing

Open banking is a reality of this decade and it needs robust, customizable and secure rails to run on. Our mission is to enable consumer companies to offer differentiated financial products and empower financial institutions with greater reach through our Secure, Scalable, and easy-to-integrate API platform.

Every company today has an opportunity to extend financial services to make banking experiences lively and delightful. Our open finance-as-a-service platform is highly customizable, simple, and modular which significantly reduces the integration effort for our partners to launch financial products in weeks, not years.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

What will you do if you join us?

• Implement responsive web design principles to ensure that our company website renders well across multiple devices
• Design a framework for creating user apps that grow with the needs of the company
• Monitor website performance, watch for traffic drops related to site usability problems, and rectify the issues
• Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team
• Assist in the development of applications and features that will be put on the website and in internal functions as well

You should have

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 3+ years of web development experience. Development experience for Mobile screens would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of Javascript. Proficiency in Typescript & React Js would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of web development tools and programming languages

Frontend Developer (ReactJS)

About Company

Egregore Labs (www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology.

Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Frontend engineer with ReactJS development experience to join our team.

We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks.

Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

Implement responsive and performant UIs with user centered approach with frontend technologies including ReactJS, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc

Write meaningful test cases for frontend &amp

Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services

Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc

Ideal Background / Experience

At least 3 yrs of diverse experience in web development for product or services oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments

Expertise in programming using Python/ReactJS or similar scripting languages

In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs

Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Nice to have exposure to any of

AWS

Azure

ELK

Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)

Google APIs

Microservices Architecture Pattern

NodeJS / ExpressJS

Must Have: ReactJS, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, Databases (SQL & NoSQL)

Work From Home

Package: upto 10L

• Design and implementation of the frontend applications and Mobile apps
• “Pixel-perfect” implementation of our approved user interface
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Break features into simpler granular tasks, estimate effort required, and identify dependencies
• Work with Analyst and back end developers to deliver a seamless user experience
• Write clean, efficient, maintainable code with good test coverage
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use and optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Test and Debug as required

Expected Qualifications and Key Skills

• BSc or B.E in Computer Science / Engineering from a tier-1 college in India or abroad
• Proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Strong understanding of UI/UX, responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, AJAX, and general web standards
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript/TypeScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Proficiency with Git / Version control

Company Introduction

iSchoolConnect is an online platform that makes the University Admissions process hassle-free, fun and accessible to students around the globe. Using our unique AI technology, we allow students to apply to multiple universities with a single application. iSchoolConnect also connects with institutions worldwide and aids them in the transformation of their end-to-end admission processes using our various cutting-edge use cases. Our technologies include the Conversational AI chatbot, Document Grader, Video Interview Analyzer, and a Single application use case which aids institutions with International Enrollment Management.

For more information visit: https://ischoolconnect.com/">https://ischoolconnect.com/

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Job Description

Designation: Senior Frontend Developer

Location: Malad, Mumbai (Currently Remote)

Reports to: Product Manager 

Principal Accountabilities:

• Develop, Enhance, and Modify Applications for a Global Market Environment.
• Design, Code, Test, Debug, and Document programs for corporate systems architecture.
• Work closely with Business stakeholders to define requirements for system applications

Work Dimensions:

• Working on any of the frameworks - Vue/ Angular/ React.
• Should be able to quickly take visual specs and produce responsive web pages.
• Building cross-browser and cross-platform web applications.
• Working with scalable, high-performance systems.
• Unit & E2E testing of Front-End web applications using JavaScript frameworks such as Karma, Jest, Cypress, etc.

• Strong Core JavaScript & ES6 programming skills.

• Understanding of Front-End tools and bundlers.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

Work Context:

• A fast moving, high growth, entrepreneurial environment.
• Need to work on Git and work in a highly collaborative environment.
• Good communication skills and timely reporting are required.
• Ensure full legal and ethical compliance and conduct of business at all times and under all circumstances.
• Attention to detail needed to maintain a global standard of work output.
• Supervise, mentor, coach a small team of associates on a day to day basis for better management of the collective performance.

Role requirements:

• 2 to 6 years of experience in the IT industry
• 2+ years of hands-on front-end experience working with incremental versions of Angular
• Practical work knowledge of Semantic & Accessible HTML.
• Practical work understanding of Modern CSS techniques, as well as experience working with common CSS libraries like PostCSS, TailwindCSS, etc.

• Strong problem-solving ability 

• A good team player
• Graduate degree (B.Tech/ BSc. IT) in IT/Engineering/Computer Science

•    Angular developer (3 - 5 years of experience)

•      Should have expert level knowledge to Design, Develop and test Web Apps with Angular versions 6 and above.

•      Primary Skills – Angular6+, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript.

•      Node JS as backend will be advantage

•      Knowledge of Mongo, MySql will be advantage

•      Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript, TypeScript, various JavaScript,TypeScript patterns and frameworks.

•      Should have experience in publishing and consuming Services using REST API

•      Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, and communication skills. Capable of handling multiple projects and related complexities at the same time.

•      Compensation - As per industry standards.

•      Joining – at earliest.

We are looking for programmers with a keen eye for design for the position of Front End Developer. Front end Developers are responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency and maintaining brand consistency across all web pages, among other duties.

Front End Developers are required to work in teams alongside Back end Developers, Graphic Designers, and User Experience Designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. This requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Determining the structure and design of web pages.
• Ensuring user experience determines design choices.
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Striking a balance between functional and aesthetic design.
• Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
• Building reusable code for future use.
• Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
• Utilizing a variety of markup languages to write web pages.
• Maintaining brand consistency throughout the design.

• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Understanding of key design principles.
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
• Understanding of server-side CSS.
• Experience with graphic design applications such as Adobe Illustrator.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• Understanding of SEO principles.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.