Front End Engineer

.Frontend Developer for a Construction Tech startup.Kolkata-based or with roots in Kolkata.

Requirements:React.js,Javascript

A bit about EnKash (www.enkash.com)

EnKash, one of the fastest growing financial technology firms in the B2B space, focuses on enabling businesses to digitize and simplify their commercial payments through its state of the art technology platforms. It’s comprehensive all-in-one commercial payments platform has led to businesses having a hassle free and frictionless payments experience and thereby, focus on their core business.

EnKash, with its unique business solutions, young team and a vibrant work environment has been making formidable marks in this segment. With several banking partners and more than 60000+ businesses onboarded on our platform in a short span, we are poised to grow rapidly from here on.

EnKash has also been covered by reputed national and international media and received many accolades and recognition that include:

- “Best B2B payment solution provider” in 8th Payments and Cards Award Summit

- “Amongst the top Start Ups to watch for “ by Inc 42 media

You should excel in this role, if you have:

PHP/wordpress Background

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in web development.
• Complete mastery of HTML/CSS/JS and responsive design.
• Expertise in javascript/css animations and Canvas API
• Knowledge of PHP and MYSQL.
• Knowledge of web frameworks like Laravel, Codeigniter, Cake Php. etc.
• Knowledge of Wordpress, experience in creating custom themes.
• You are comfortable with Figma, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Knowledge of SEO techniques
• You are creative and involved.

OR

Node JS Background

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in web development.
• Complete mastery of HTML/CSS/JS/Jquery and responsive design.
• Expertise in javascript/css animations and Canvas API
• Knowledge of NodeJS and MYSQL.
• Knowledge of web frameworks like Express JS, Strapi, Koa, etc.
• Knowledge of any CMS in node js, experience in creating custom themes.
• You are comfortable with Figma, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Knowledge of SEO techniques
• You are creative and involved.

Here’s what’s in store for you:

- A fast-paced, mentally stimulating and fast growth-oriented environment.
- No bureaucracy whatsoever, respect for logical and analytical minds.
- Witness the venture of entrepreneurship.
- Excellent performance bonuses and perks.
- Affable and competitive teammates.
- Flexible work regime

• Build fluid, scalable, responsive, and consumer-centric web platforms that target users across a wide array of devices
• Collaborate closely with designers & backend developers and contribute to the full product development life-cycle from design and development to roll out
  Take ownership of work and deliver quality results consistently
• Own the delivery of multiple features in a fast-paced work environment
• Build optimized and modular components to provide performance-oriented solutions
• Work in a dynamic and collaborative culture ensuring good teamwork and communication with remote team members when needed

• 4+ Years of experience in frontend web development (1+ in ReactJS)
• Strong past experience of building, scaling and maintaining feature-rich customer-facing single-page applications
• Ability to translate designs into UI elements with accuracy and an eye for fluidity and responsiveness; strong grasp of any of CSS / sass / less
• Proven ability to implement key concepts of state management, security, and caching practices in enterprise-level web applications used at scale
• Proficient understanding of compatibility issues across different browsers and web and mobile devices and available ways to work around them
• Familiarity with the react ecosystem and popular libraries in that ecosystem
• Strong grasp over core web development concepts like HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, general Web 2.0 techniques, and working without modern component libraries
• Experience with designing secure web applications with a strong understanding of common security vulnerabilities and best practices
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming
• Strong grasp over concepts of performance, optimization, lighthouse, etc
• Strong handle over Git, following best practices to facilitate collaboration

• Hands-on experience with supporting payments and integrating payment gateways
• Experience with progressive web apps, service workers
• Strong grasp over frontend unit and end-to-end testing frameworks

Role and Responsibilities

• Making technology work for small holder farmers is the primary function of this team, the individual joining this team should be self-driven towards creating impact.
• A keen listener and has a pro-active approach to problem solving.
• Should understand the role of digital transformation in a company’s journey.
• An individual who follows technological advancements closely and thinks of new and innovative use cases that such technology can solve.
• Having previous experience in product management and/or platform development projects is a plus.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle and software configuration management tools preferred.
• The candidate should demonstrate high bias-for-action and should drive results that matter to the function and to the entire organisation.
• Build from ground up, a scalable server infrastructure and client applications.
• Design, develop and deploy features and consume APIs with high quality standards.
• Manage the infrastructure hosted in the cloud.
• Contribute significantly in reviewing code, design & test-cases authored by peers.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• 2-6 years experience of design and development experience building scalable & distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from reputed institutes.

SKILLS

• Agile Project Management
• Software Development Life Cycle and Software Configuration Management
• Excellent coding, debugging skills.
• Hands-on experience on the following tech stacks:
  ReactJs, NodeJs, TypeScript, PostgresSQL/MongoDB, Nginx, Pm2, Redis, Bootstrap, CSS
• Knowledge of Microservices and REST APIs.
• Must have: Experience with managing server infra in hybrid cloud AWS & GCP.
• Must Have: Very good understanding of OOPS and design patterns.
• Nice to have: Hands-on-experience with analytics using ELK stack/ Mixpanel.

Responsibilities 

• Convert wireframes into rich interactive prototypes. 
• Work with backend development team to integrate front end code. 
• Understand business requirements and convert into functional specifications. 
• Participate in architecture and technical level discussions and takes initiative. 
• Passion for web design and eager to learn and implement the latest trends.
• A focus on delivering high-quality code through strong testing practices
• Working on Information architecture and Designing wireframes and prototypes.

Skills Required:

• 4+ years of commercial-grade web/front-end development experience.
• Strong experience in JavaScript, ideally ES6 or ES7, Node.js, building Single Page Web Applications with modern frameworks (Angular or AngularJS, React, Vue).
• 2+ years hands on experience with frameworks like react/relay/Redux/node.
• 2+ years with JS build tools like grunt,webpack,gulp etc.
• Knowledge in ES6, Webpack is a plus.
• Experience in creating web applications with delightful user experience.
• Experience working with REST APIs.
• Experience in TDD, Writing Clean & Readable code.
• Experience in Version control - Git.
• Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations 
• Experience in creating responsive pages and cross-browser support.
• Ability to clearly communicate thoughts and ideas by rapid prototyping.
• Debugging skills, familiar with debugging tools of all major browsers.

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience in Fintech Startups
• Knowledge of Node.js, Express js, AWS (EC2, S3, Elasticsearch)
• Knowledge and working experience with MongoDB, NOSQL