Front End React Developer

Frontend Developer

Responsibilities:

·         Develop our new products

·         Define and design common reusable components

·         Enhance and maintain our existing products

·         Interact with other teams, as well as with our users

·         Act on user feedback

Qualifications:

·         Experience as a front-end or full-stack software engineer in AWS environment

·         Knowledge of modern JavaScript and its fundamentals, as well as JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJs, Redux, Bootstrap, Jest, Material-UI

·         Strong understanding of web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3

·         Experience with a server-side language would be an advantage. We use mostly Python/Java, but any server-side language would be an advantage.

·         Knowledge of AWS API gateway, microservice architecture, serverless architecture, RESTful services

·         Proven ability to learn new technologies

·         Always using good software engineering practices such as code review, source control, continuous integration, and unit testing

·         Ability to work in a team with other developers, with UX Designers, and with Product Management

·         Ability to interact with our users and customers, with clear communication

·         Problem solving skills, strong analytical skills, strong hands on experience, delivery track record of medium/large complexity of projects, TDD/BDD, awareness of CI/CD pipeline

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

What you can expect as a Senior Frontend Engineer at HappyFox:

• You will consistently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. 
• You’ll work alongside the Product, Design, and, Backend Engineering teams to iterate on new features within HappyFox products.
• You will advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• You will solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• You will craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. 
• You will maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• You will recognize inefficiencies in our team, and propose solutions.

You should apply if:

• You have 5+ years of relevant professional experience in building web applications with javascript frameworks like Ember.js or React.js.
• You have a sound knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• You can clearly and concisely communicate complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough, iterative solutions.
• You are comfortable working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• You have demonstrated the ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• You have a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• You have experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• You are self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.

● 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 (such as Flux or Redux)

● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript as well as HTML and CSS

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Working knowledge and integration knowledge with RESTful APIs

● Knowlegde of websockets implementation is a must.

● 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 optimization

● Familiarity with code versioning tools {such as Git}

● Added advantages if you have working knowledge of AWS

• Build fast and efficient next-generation web applications
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones
• Collaborate with Designers to iterate on the design
• Work closely with Backend Engineers to integrate APIs and other services
•  Find and address performance issues
• Identify and communicate front-end best practices
• Customer-focused, whether responding to support queries or developing new features and functionality.
• Able to provide constructive feedback and effectively review code, guiding other UI engineers in the right direction

• 3+ years of experience in UI/frontend development.
• Hands-on experience using React as a front-end development framework.
• Sound knowledge of front-end development languages, tools and methodologies like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and associated technologies and toolsets (e.g. jQuery, Sass)
• Able to write front-end code that is cross-browser and cross-device friendly, through responsive or adaptive techniques is essential.
• Working knowledge of AWS for product development and deployment is preferred
• Experience using Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) systems for development and deployment.
• Proven knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Responsibilities 
- Develop new user-facing features 
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs 
- Optimize application for maximum speed

Skills And Qualifications 
- 2+ years of experience in ReactJS and Redux 
- 1+ completed project of reasonable size using server-side rendering 
- Knowledge of Preact is a plus 
- Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 
- Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS 
- Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX 
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. 
- Proficient understanding of Git