Front End Engineer

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll be part of the Innovation Projects team at GradRight. This team works on third party integrations and adopting new tools/technologies to help build a cutting edge platform for the higher education space.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular frontend.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
• Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
• Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
• Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation

Requirements:

• At least 3 years experience as an SDE
• Strong experience with at least one frontend framework, preferably vue.js
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Really quick learner and able to dive deep into new ideas/experiments at breakneck speed
• Passion for trying out new technologies and focusing on iterative development
• Experience with team management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

• Worked in a full-stack capacity at high growth startups
• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR

* Bachelor's degree in computer science or related fields preferred.

* 8+ years of experience developing core Java applications across enterprise, SME, or start-up

environments.

* Proven experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures.

* Expertise in Spring Boot, Spring Framework, and RESTful API development.

* Experience in designing, building, and monitoring microservices.

* Solid background in persistence technologies including JPA, Hibernate, MS-SQL, and

PostgreSQL.

* Proficient in Java 11+, including features like Streams, Lambdas, and Functional

Programming.

* Experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or

AWS DevOps.

* Familiarity with major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS preferred).

* Front-end development experience using React or Angular with good understanding of

leveraging best practices around HTML, CSS3/Tailwind, Responsive designs.

* Comfortable in Agile environments with iterative development and regular demos.

* Experience with container orchestration using Managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, or GKE).

* Working knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) concepts.

* Hands-on experience integrating applications with cloud services.

* Familiarity with event-driven technologies (e.g., Kafka, MQ, Event Buses).

* Hospitality services domain experience is a plus.

* Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and in a team.

* Proficiency in Agile methodologies and software development best practices.

* • Skilled in code and query optimization.

* Experience with version control systems, particularly git

Responsibilities

Develop high quality, secure, stable code for use in products and solutions for

customers, making it easier for other developers to maintain, enhance, reuse,

and localize

Work with Product Owner and/or Product Manager/Team to understand and help

refine functional requirements for new products

Develop and outline architecture and relationships between subsystems and

participates in review of those designs

Investigate and, if necessary, prototype technologies and algorithms relating to

the task

Break down a large problem into smaller components and provide a clear

solution for each piece

Ensure new code, feature or software product meets performance goals/metrics

Research external best practices and emerging technologies for possible

incorporation into company products and methodologies

Write and maintain the code following Test-Driven-Design principles

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline from reputed engineering

college

5 to 7 years of strong programming skills in Web and Cloud Technologies

Should have a very strong foundation in JavaScript, and must have a clear

understanding of basic web fundamentals such as prototype based inheritance,

scopes, Event Loop, Memory Management in JS, etc

Should be good at developing modular front-end applications and is expected to

have the knowledge to create good abstractions that can be reused . Should also

have in-depth understanding of latest ES6 standards such as spread operators,

arrow functions, etc

Should have strong programming skills in Web and Cloud Technologies

Should be strong in OOAD Concepts

Should have a strong hands-on in React, Typescript

Should have Hands-on experience in any of the backend language.

Should understand latest paradigms in Front End Development such as Pub-Sub

Pattern, Redux, RxJS, Service Workers, Client Caching, Lazy Loading, Dynamic

Injection, Bundle Optimisation, etc

Should have very good hands-on knowledge of CSS3 & HTML5

Should have good knowledge of Postman API Platform

Should have experience with Amazon web services – ECS, Lambda, S3, SQS, etc

Should have Hands-on experience of developing RESTful web services and

integrating the same with heterogeneous clients

Should have Hands-on experience with Relational or NoSQL Database’s

Should have a very clear understanding of TDD is expected and should have

good exposure to writing UT's and designing UI components with testability in

mind

Should have Strong Communication and Analytical skills

Flexibility under changing conditions and the ability to multi-task between

projects

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with C++

Nice to have experience with Python

Nice to have experience with CI/CD tools like Docker, Jenkins, etc

Nice to have a hands-on & Understanding of CSS Pre-processors such as SASS,

LESS, etc

Job Description:

We are looking for good JavaScript developers who are proficient with React.js. 

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js.
• Have 2-4 years of experience.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Skills:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding and knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS etc.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them

• Possesses a high degree of technical competency to design and develop digital applications using cutting-edge tools and technologies
• Collaborative working with the client's technology and business staff day to day
• Proactive and willing to go above and beyond to satisfy the client and deliver on project goals
• Codes, tests, debugs, implements, and documents complex applications
• Prepares for, and actively facilitates hand-off at project completion to ensure a smooth transition to the larger organization
• Extensive experience in Angular (i.e., designs new templates, tests styles or sheets, fixes bugs; collaborates heavily with core team members (especially UX and Design))
• Integration knowledge and experience with exposed services (e.g. REST, SOAP, etc.)
• Familiar with common security and performance pattern (e.g.: OATH)
• Additional Requirements for Application Platform: Angular
• Level of expertise with Angular SSR applications
• Knowledge of Micro Frontends or Micro UI
• Interaction paradigm with UI elements
• Exposure to CSS and Javascript

• Programming Languages: Java, Objective-C, C++, JAVASCRIPT, NodeJS
• Web Technologies: Angular 9/10, ReactJS, ES6, NgRx, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, BOOTSTRAP, JQuery, PHP, AJAX, PolymerJS
• Web Services: REST, SOAP
• Web Service Protocols: HTTP, XML, WSDL, UDDI, SOA
• Databases: MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB

• Solid knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3 web standards
• Solid knowledge of JavaScript as well as Browser APIs
• Angular 2+
• RxJS, Typescript, JQuery.
• Experience writing unit tests
• Webpack, Babel
• Familiar with SASS and Responsive Design
• Experience using any CSS naming convention
• Experience debugging using JavaScript-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
• Solid understanding of Git
• Good understanding of SEO principles
• You are self-organized and can work autonomously
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written and verbal communication skills

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and debugging responsive web and mobile applications for the company. Using JavaScript (React), HTML, and CSS, this candidate will be able to translate user and business needs into functional frontend design. Someone with prior experience with Gatsby, Hasura, Redux, etc and live projects to showcase will get prioritised.

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science
• 2+ years' experience in frontend development
• Familiarity using Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building object oriented web applications in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

If a misaligned shadow bothers you, we already like you 😆

• Master's / Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Self taught developer.
• 3+ years of experience in fundamentals of web, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Vue or React.
• Understanding of product design, user experience and skills to recreate and match high quality pixel perfect designs and can go above and beyond in detailing.
• Has ability to build a ground up resoluble components and in-house UI system that can scale across the product.

A collaborative role with Individual ownership ✅

• Ownership of developing UI related features. Work with with the rest of the engineering team to develop, launch or maintain features.
• Take ownership of design <> dev collaboration and participate in the education of both sides.
• Work closely with design team and become a bridge between engineering and design.
• Maintain code integrity.