Front End Developer (React.js)

Position: Frontend Engg (Angular)

Exp Level: 2-4 years

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, test, debug and document new and existing components to ensure that our software meets business, quality and operational needs.

• Focus on scalability, speed, cross-browser compatibility, security, and availability of all applications and processes.

• Collaborate with peer organizations, devops, support organizations on technical issues and provide guidance.

• Work with a team to troubleshoot code level problems quickly and efficiently.

Required Skills:

• 2-4 years of professional software engineering experience in Angular

• Detail oriented and conscientious in implementing designs you have signed off on

• Self-motivator with strong communication skills

• Degree in computer science or a related field is preferred, but not required

• Designing and developing user interfaces using Angular best practices.

• Thorough knowledge of Angular modules, components, services, routing, web pack, material, flex box.

• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Good to have - Experience with Agile methodologies

• Integrating front end UI with constructed APIs.

• Experience with NgRx and Rxjs for state management and reactive programming.

• Familiarity with tools like GitHub and Azure.

FirstFiling is a FinTech startup that is managed, operated, and driven by Chartered Accountants, Company secretaries, IT engineers, and Lawyers. We provide registration and financial compliance services to businesses and individuals across India.

Our aim is to simplify the lives of people by helping individuals and businesses with mandatory compliances, filings, and statutory requirements while promoting financial literacy among the masses. 

Technology Profile-

The candidate must have experience in the following technologies (the more the better):

Frontend:

Core - JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, etc.

Frameworks - ReactJS, Angular, Vue, etc.

Requirements:

• Ability to reuse components
• Proven experience in working with Git and Github 
• Creating and consuming a RESTful API
• You must have clear concepts of client-server architecture
• Familiarity with MVC (Model-View-Controller) design patterns
• Understanding of OOP concepts

Furthermore, the candidate must have built or published any web app or project through which they can demonstrate their experience and knowledge of the aforementioned technologies and requirements. 

Job Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, the individual must have the following experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, computer science, and/or business, or equivalent work experience.
2. You have experience with developing, maintaining and supporting production applications which have live users using Angular.
3. You have experience with State managment and NgRx (ideally) or any other framework
4. You are NOT a fresh graduate with no production experience
5. You have excellent English speaking skills
6. Strong understanding of the DOM, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
7. 3+ years of in-depth experience with Angular (2/4/8/x)
8. 1+ years of experience with additional web libraries and frameworks. Preferred: NgRx, Rx.js.

Additional Skills Desired

1. Ability to be empathetic and form strong working relations with your team members.
2. Strong understanding of debugging and ability to quickly debug code, find problems and produce fixes.
3. Experience with Responsive Web Design (RWD) patterns
4. Experience with unidirectional data flow patterns (Redux, etc.)
5. Experience with RxJS or other Reactive programming techniques/libraries
6. Experience using ES2015 (ES6) and TypeScript 2.x
7. Indepth experience in using GIT and understanding of GIT workflows Experience in building and maintaining a reusable components library in angular
8. An excellent eye for detail to bring our products designs to life using pixel perfect styling, interactions and animation.
9. Familiarity with agile development practices (a/b testing,unit testing,continuous deployment,continuous integration,scrums) and worked in a product driven environment.
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate technical concepts to a wide variety of audience.
11. Proven ability to work with designers and other non-technical and technical team members (wireframes, rapid prototypes, PoC’s, white boarding)

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.

What your role would be?

We are seeking a Front End Developer to join our core engineering team. Teams are explicitly small and built on mutual respect and high trust. It's not a fit for everyone, but when there's a fit, it’s one of the most rewarding places to work.

Job Responsibilities and Duties

We believe the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business. To join us on this journey, you'll be required to:

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize applications for performance and scalability.

Job Requirements:

You’ll thrive as a Front End Developer at StoryXpress if you:

• Have a good understanding of the core fundamentals of JavaScript
• Have 2+ years designing and implementing rich front-end experiences in React
• Are an expert in web technologies ( HTML5 | CSS3 | ES6 )
• Possess a thorough understanding of the MVC principle and JS design patterns
• Have experience with building user interfaces consuming data from REST APIs

Brownie points!

Your application would be seriously prioritized if you:

• Are a self-starter: you have started something on your own before - a startup, an open-source project, something else.
• Experienced in building and/or maintaining chrome extensions
• Indulged in projects around Data Visualization
• UX design principles and frameworks
• Are acquainted with testing frameworks and performance measurement tools

If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements. We’re building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another.

Why work with us?

You'll love working and growing with StoryXpress if you are comfortable:

• With and curious about working outside of a traditional narrow engineering role.
• Engaging in collaborative problem-solving with your teammates.
• Moving fast: we build, solve problems quickly, and ship often!

Ready to apply?

Are you excited at the possibility of developing an already stellar team to meet the growing needs of our platform and business? Does this opportunity to be a part of one of our young and supportive teams and solve hard problems sound amazing to you? If you share our values and enthusiasm for empowering the world, we’d love to review your application!

• Designing, developing, and testing UI for mobile and web applications
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Accurately translate user and business needs into functional frontend code.
• Developing new user-facing features using React and redux
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code with proper standards.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs.
• Added Advantage: Knowledge and experience in Cloud Computing

• Make good engaging user interface
• Integrate apis and make it functional
• Writing tested and documented JS, HTML and CSS
• Perform product analysis and development tasks of increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.
• Make design and technical decisions for REACT-JS projects.
• Ensuring high performance

• Build, extend, and maintain reusable UI components that will be used across many applications.
• Develop best practices and guidelines for contributing UI and reusable components to a central component library.
• Perform installation of code releases and patches and write scripts or programs for IT applications.
• Work closely with our UX design team to ensure usable designs with a consistent look and feel.
• Maintain high-quality code and ensure best practices for UI development.
• Ensure designs follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Work in a fast-paced agile environment partnering with software engineering teams.

Job responsibilities

·        Understand the current technical architecture including constraints related to platforms, standards and skillsets.
·        Review and integrate all application requirements, including functional, integration, security, performance, quality, and operations.
·        Review designs, documents and have hands-on coding exp.
·        Follow up the activities and team commitments to deliver the right solution at the right time.
·        Review and integrate the technical architecture requirements for the development and make all final decisions regarding system software.
·        Follow and adopt approaches, methodologies, and SDLC standards.
·        Apply techniques and skills required to identify a root cause of a given software integration issue.
·        Escalate encountered technical software issues to project leadership in a timely fashion and respond back consistently on time.
·        Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain and the technical leader within a team
·        Leads and sets the direction for design and implementation of software features/functionality, correction of defects and/or creation of new products
·        Applies advanced systems analysis techniques to evaluate newly created code
·        Provides thought leadership and innovation within a technical domain

.       documents and communicates on complex technical topics outside the immediate development team

Qualifications:

·        Bachelor/Master’s degree in CS or Computer Engineering required
·        5+ years of programming experience in web applications development
·        Hands on Angular development experience 
·        Working knowledge of HTML and CSS
·        Working knowledge in Designing, Developing, and Deploying RESTful web services and other Web APIs.
·        Deep knowledge of Web Application Architecture and Object oriented design. Should have practical knowledge of design on more than two web applications.
·        Should be able to technically lead a small group of members

Looking for someone to join our startup and work with us on several different projects. Strong communication skills are a must. 
Skills:

• Candidate with 2+ yrs of experience in UI development or theme implementation.
• Mandatory proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, Photoshop.
• Front-end (CSS) frameworks like Foundation or Bootstrap, Semantic UI.
• Design wireframe/layout for website, web application, mobile apps.
• Up-to-date, in-depth knowledge of modern HTML, CSS and JS.
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• An eye for design to pixel perfect website conversion.
• Hands on experience on creating responsive websites using media queries (not just Bootstrap).
• Working knowledge of cross-browser-compatibility and different sizes of different screens.
• Self-motivated, good communication and ready to learn attitude.
• Experience with various JS libraries like jQuery, BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS etc.
• Experience in layout designing & theme conversion on open source CMS’s like WordPress, Drupal.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.
• Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. - Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Responsibilities:

• Develop new user-facing features.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Develop functional and appealing web and mobile-based applications based on usability
• Provide website maintenance and enhancements.
• Translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Maintain graphic standards and branding throughout the product’s interface
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies promotes usability best practices.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability. 
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Create quality mockups and prototypes on tight timelines.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility, devices, responsive issues and ways to work around them.