Front End Lead

Software Engineer - Frontend

Experiencing the world we live in is fundamental to our collective happiness and progress as a society. Headout’s mission is, and will always be, to unlock this happier world by connecting amazing in-person experiences with people all over the globe, giving them the opportunity to be entertained, educated and inspired. We are evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences at the push of a button. By combining delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations, our single minded focus is on solving a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time? On this mission, we've already served 7M+ guests from 190 countries who have headed out to an experience with us. While building scale that drives $200M+ in annualised sales, we hit profitability that is such a rarity on the back of our superior model.

As travel and in-person experiences recover, Headout is playing a critical role in our return to our way-of-life. With pent-up demand, generation and digitisation of experiences having been pushed forward by a decade, there is no better time to build than NOW.

We at Headout, like to solve real-world problems in the simplest & most elegant manner possible. We're seeking Frontend Engineers with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. We also love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun. ;-)

👩‍💻 The Role

• Craft the front-end architecture, develop our core features, and collaborate with our Product & Design teams to build something useful and beautiful.
• Build slick UI interfaces to provide the best user experience.
• Get your hands dirty with cross-platform architectural challenges, new frameworks, design patterns, and technologies.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• 2+ years of experience developing front-end platforms preferably in a high-growth startup.
• Solid hands-on experience with Javascript ES5 and ES6.
• Experience with NodeJS, Typescript, browser dev-tools etc.
• An opinion and preferably hands-on experience of CSS in JS vs old school style of writing CSS.
• Experience developing responsive designs using open source frameworks or even better, an attempt at your own framework.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and it's underlying communication protocols.
• People who give up anything to optimize that animation that they just created.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in UX, travel, local experiences & hospitality.

JOB SUMMARY

Position - Lead UI 

Location - Bangalore. 

Take part to the development and the maintenance of the FM SAAS Platform.

• Write technical designs (conception, architecture, data model)
• Maintain/enhance CI/CD processes ( Basic Knowledge is mandatory)
• Develop and maintain the platform
• Support UI developers
• Identify and resolve incidents
• Representing FM in global UI architecture meetings

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Customers

Delight our customers by:

• Delivering high quality, bug free software
• Respecting customer commitments
• Respecting UX designs
• Assisting operations (incl. support, delivery and pre-sales) with subject matter expertise when needed
• Providing expected effort to solve customer issues
• Understanding fully the FM Strategy

Teamwork

Work together by:

• Providing a transparent reporting to both the scrum team and the UI team
• Helping other team members to achieve their commitments
• Sharing knowledge
• Driving other UI developers
• Working closely with his/her scrum team
• Working closely with the FM UI team
• Working closely with QA
• Working closely with SRE
• Working closely with the global UI team
• Working closely with the UX team

Innovate

Innovating by:

• Keeping in touch with latest technologies
• Sharing (business/technical) ideas with the team and the management
• Proposing new development tools
• Proposing enhancement to our CI/CD processes

Improve (KPI’s)

Constantly improving by:

• Being proactive and autonomous
• Actively participating to retrospective
• Communicating with other BT UI teams
• Helping others

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Required Skills

• IT Master’s Degree or equivalent such as Engineering school
• Strong/proven knowledge of Javascript development language
• Strong/proven knowledge of React and its usual ecosystem
• Basic knowledge of Docker
• Strong analytical and algorithmic skills
• Strong communication skills
• Autonomy
• Adaptability
• Team working skills
• Ability to propose and discuss API contract with backend tech leads
• Heightened sense of client service
• Quality and documentation
• Sense of responsibility
• Strong attention to detail

Good to have Skills

• Rigorous, methodical and organized
• Ability to work both independently and within a team
• Knowledge about Single spa
• Knowledge about Kubernetes
• Knowledge about GitLab
• Knowledge about ArgoCD
• Knowledge of SWIFT banking environment would be an advantage
• Knowledge of Open Banking would be an advantage
• Mastery in software engineering tools

Job description:- 

• Strong experience of Angular 2+ and above along with other technologies like HTML5, CSS, jQuery, AJAX with good knowledge of ECMA Scripts.
• Strong knowledge of JS Fundamentals.
• Design & development of Angular applications as per desired specifications, along with experience in frameworks/libraries like jQuery, Bootstrap, Typescript etc.
• Architecture design, development, testing and maintenance of Web Apps, Implementation based on Angular Application MVC Patterns.
• Own end to end product modules/features (from the requirement to going live)- Design & code review, troubleshoot & help team members on issues.
• Gather requirements by interacting directly with the end-users.
• Research on open source framework/technology required for developing the feature/application.

Responsibilities

• Translate functional requirements into technical design
• Interact with clients and internal stakeholders to understand the visulaisation and platform requirements in detail 
• Design, Develop and Deliver reusable components and front-end libraries
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code 
• Optimise components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Work closely with QA team and ensure the application is bug-free

Candidate Requirements

• Strong knowledge for charts
• 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)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• 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.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimisation
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX4Familiarity with browser testing and debugging

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• 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

• 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 (Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• 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
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)