Front End Developer - React Js

At Shipthis, we work to build a better future and make meaningful changes in the freight forwarding industry. Our team members aren't just employees. We are comprised of bright, skilled professionals with a single straightforward goal—to Evolve Freight forwarders towards Digitalized operations, enhance efficiency, and drive lasting change.

As a company, we're just the right size for every person to take initiative and make things happen. Join us in reshaping the future of logistics and be part of a journey where your contributions make a tangible difference.

Learn more at www.shipthis.co

JOB DESCRIPTION

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the frontend of Shipthis's suite of SaaS products
• Drive the implementation of new technologies and architect frontend solutions to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Work closely with backend developers to ensure seamless integration of APIs and data between the front and back end.
• Define and enforce coding standards, guidelines, and best practices for the team, ensuring high code quality and performance.
• Actively participate in planning and strategy discussions, contributing to technical decisions that influence the product roadmap.
• Troubleshoot and resolve high-priority technical issues, ensuring the stability and performance of the system in production environments.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers and product managers to shape the user experience, ensuring that complex data workflows are intuitive and accessible.
• Mentor and guide junior developers within the team, providing code reviews and feedback to ensure quality and best practices are followed.
• Stay current with industry trends and developments, recommending tools, libraries, and processes to improve the frontend development workflow.

Desired qualifications include:

• 2+ years of experience in frontend development with a solid track record of delivering successful web applications.
• Experience leading frontend teams or working as a senior developer in a collaborative environment.
• Proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks (preferably Angular 12+), along with a strong understanding of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Proven ability to architect scalable frontend solutions for large, complex web applications.
• Experience with performance optimization techniques, code-splitting, lazy loading, and browser rendering behavior.
• Familiarity with frontend testing frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Jest, Jasmine, or Cypress).
• Strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to work effectively across teams and with stakeholders at all levels.
• Solid understanding of web development principles, including responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards.
• Knowledge of backend / ionic apps for android/iOS
• A strong portfolio of previous frontend work that demonstrates technical depth and design skills.

We welcome candidates

• Who is Immediate Joining
• Female candidates returning to work after a career break are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

JOB SYNOPSIS:

• Job Role: Frontend Engineer
• Location: Bangalore
• Job type: Full-time, permanent
• Experience (2-3) years
• Industry Type: Software Product
• Functional Area: Software Development

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.

Responsibilities

• Work in a fun and fast-paced environment.
• Participate in requirements gathering, design, development, QA, support.
• Communicate with different stakeholders such as QA, Project Managers and Product Owners
• Discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Groom, mentor and upskill team members with modern technologies and development practices

Key Competencies:

• 5-8 Years of relevant experience in front-end development.
• At least 5-4 years of working experience with the React ecosystem.
• In-depth knowledge of TypeScript, CSS, and HTML.
• Strong proficiency in Vanilla JavaScript, DOM, Browser API’s and ES6 Features.
• Strong Knowledge of State Management with React and relevant workflows.
• Good Understanding of Modern frontend workflows with NPM, Webpack, Babel etc.
• Knowledge of modern programming paradigms like functional and reactive programming.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks including Chai, Mocha and Sinon or equivalent.
• Experience with using browser-based dev tools for trouble shooting and enhancing the performance.

Good to have skills:

• Knowledge of cloud-based services like AWS and GCP.
• Working knowledge of Video streaming and playback
• Knowledge of modern programming paradigms like functional and reactive programming.

Responsibilities :

1. Develop user-facing stack from scratch
2. Build reusable code and libraries for future use
3. Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
4. Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
5. Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Technology Skills :

1. Proven 4 years work experience as a ReactJS Frontend developer
2. In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
3. Good experience with Typescript and ReactJS (17.x). NodeJS knowledge is a plus.
4. Familiarity with Unit Testing Frameworks, UI Testing, Monorepos and Graphql principles
5. Knowledge of Alerting and Monitoring tools
6. Knowledge of SPA principles
7. UI Performance: should have hands on experience of optimising page load, rendering, caching
8. Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective.

Soft Skills :

1. Obsessed with best practices, structuring, documentation and have an eye for detail.
2. Self starter with a high level of drive and commitment.
3. High energy and drive to work in a startup environment.
4. Conceptual thinking, flexibility and ability to juggle with multiple responsibilities.
5. Ability to work under pressure and confidence to deal with complex issues.
6. Good communication skills.
7. Hands-on and detail oriented.

We are looking for a JavaScript Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of
programming. Responsibilities will include implementing visual elements and their behaviors with user
interactions. You will work with both front-end and back-end web developers to build all client-side logic. You will also be bridging the gap between the visual elements and the server-side infrastructure, taking an active role on both sides, and defining how the application looks and functions.

Responsibilities
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Work with an international team. Remote work / telecommuting is possible

Desired Skills and Experience
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds (our platform is pure JS)
• Solid experience (2+ years) with related Web Technologies ( HTML5, CSS3, SVG )
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Proficient understanding of CORS issues and ways to work with such issues
• Proficient understanding of social network APIs
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance
• Experience in mobile web development ( iOS / Android / Windows Mobile )
• Fluent with Linux/Unix environments
• Knowledge of PHP optional but desirable
• Writing and maintaining batch jobs to streamline processes (Shell, Perl etc.)
• Ability to set priorities and meet deadlines in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Inclined to take ownership of tasks and to ship highly polished products with excellent attention to detail
• Responsible, self-motivated worker and team-player; excited about new technologies
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

• Work with other developers to ensure that the website is functional and visually appealing.
• Liaise with the client to gauge their needs and expectations.
• Plan the layout of the website.
• Ensure that the website is optimized for various devices.
• Use analytics to test client enjoyment.
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Implementation of security and data protection.

Requirements:

• Experience should be at least 3 Years
• Should be good in UI
• Should be proficient in Typescript, React Native and React Js
• Proficiency in HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of key design principles.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Would prefer to have someone from the gaming industry/poker industry or someone who is interested in the poker game development

• Looking for 0-30 Days and Immediate joiners
• Minimum total experience should be 7 Years
• Overall with 4+ years experience in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and OOJS
• 2+ years' experience working with any JavaScript framework/library, preferably ReactJS or VueJS
• In-depth understanding of JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 (pre-processors LESS/SASS) and relevant concepts.
• Proficiency with browser based debugging.
• Understanding of progressive web apps.
• Experience with a testing framework (Jest/Mocha).
• Experience using Git

• Portfolio is must for the profile.
• Good understanding of Javascript, CSS, HTML5, AJAX.
• Hands on with React JS.
• Understanding of responsive frameworks such as BootStrap or SemanticUI.
• Extensive knowledge of DOM scripting with native JavaScript and JS frameworks such as jQuery.
• Experience in delivering Cross-browser and cross platform compatible solutions.
• Basic knowledge of UI design.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Experience with agile development practices such as continuous integration and deployment.
• Fluency with version control platform Git.
• Minimum 1+ years of UI development experience.