Front End (UI / UX) developer

Position: Frontend Developer

Location: Baner, Pune

Experience: 2+ Years

We are looking for a Senior Developer in the team who will take part in developing our product, mentor other team members, and find creative solutions for customer needs. The ideal candidate is one who is able to communicate well in person, on paper, and in code. You love to make an impact and thrive in small, collaborative, energetic teams. You are a product-focused, self-driven individual taking pride and ownership of your work.

About FlytBase

At FlytBase, we’re not just creating a product—we’re on a zero-to-one journey, building a whole new global category that’s never existed before.

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What does that mean? We’re on a mission to unlock the world’s third dimension with fully autonomous drones. It’s the first of its kind. Therefore, everything we do requires first-principle thinking, bold experimentation, and a willingness to push boundaries.

If you’re bored of cookie-cutter playbooks and ready for something fresh, exciting (and yes, involving drones), this is your place.

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Don’t believe it? Challenge us—We’d be more than happy to tell you why we’re so confident in what we’re building!

Role and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers for carving out the right front-end architecture.
• Develop web applications that are secure, reusable, modular, and scalable.
• Develop robust, modular, and testable code
• Optimize frontend load times, debug rendering issues, and overall provide a smooth experience to the user.
• Work directly with UI/UX, Product, and Customer Success to help create impacting customer features as the product face of FlytBase.

Best suited for candidates who

• Experience in building scalable and component-based UI architecture for the enterprise using Angular and/or any modern front-end framework.
• Strong coding experience in TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Implementing micro-frontends patterns using technology like NgRX, NgXS, and Web Components.
• Experience working in a complete Software Development life cycle involving analysis, technical design, development, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, documentation and Agile Methodology
• Good understanding of REST APIs and Microservices. 
• Should have an understanding of how resources are organized and how applications should align based on the same.

• Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.
• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Identifying web-based user interactions.
• Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using react concepts.
• Writing application interface codes using JavaScript following react.js workflows.
• Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
• Documenting application changes and developing updates.

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

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
• Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
• Good understanding and the 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
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Familiarity with JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js and AMD
• Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Grunt and Gulp.js
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance

Job Description

Experience should have minimum 2 years.

Proficient with ReactJS/Redux

Designing and developing user interface solutions for websites, web and Mobile applications.

Design product and website layouts, assets, flows, sitemaps etc.

Create and maintain UI guidelines and templates.

Extensive knowledge of web technologies and building large scale web applications.

Expertise in JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 and Adoptive / Responsive web Design & Cross browser experience.

Expertise with cross-browser, cross-platform, and design constraints on the web.

Interact with other team members to incorporate innovations and vice versa.

Experience in working with Agile Methodology.

Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.

Should possess excellent communication skills.

Your Responsibilities

• You will be a rockstar front end engineer bringing to life designs and solutions created in collaboration with designers and product managers. You will be responsible for converting the requirements to fast, optimised, usable interfaces, loved by our users.
• You will be the main source of knowledge on everything “front end” related and guide the team to make correct technical decisions to ensure the speed and scale of the solutions deployed.
• Collaborate daily with back-end developers and web designers to improve the usability
• You will be a key person in ensuring that agile processes created by the team are adhered to and you actively contribute to the improvement of these processes. You will be responsible for estimating your tasks and ensuring that promised timelines are met.
• You will be responsible for the performance, security, scalability, reusability and quality of the applications under you. You will collaborate with senior engineering managers/architects to refine & improve your solutions. You will cascade the same culture across the team by supporting and mentoring team members, helping build truly scalable applications
• You will need to collaborate closely with product managers, designers and business stakeholders to achieve predictable results at a rapid pace. 
• You will be able to handle competing priorities and chart the best course of action for yourself and your team members ensuring blockers are removed
• You will help in attracting and evaluating tech talent to help build the engineering brand of the organization.

Desired background & skills

• 3-9 years of experience as an engineer at top tier digital product companies across consumer or SMB. 
• 3+ years of experience in working on front end JS frameworks like React/Angular/Vue
• Excellent knowledge of working with responsive and adaptive designs. Expert in HTML5, JAVAScript, JQuery & CSS. Basic knowledge of SEO.
• Experience of design collaboration tools such as Zeplin, Figma, XD, Invision. 
• Bonus if either you’re a full stack developer with knowledge of the back end or have experience with cross-platform mobile technologies such as React Native or Flutter.
• You have strong problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms. 
• Passion to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment. conscientious, curious, hard-working individual who craves accountability and loves to solve complex problems.
• You get a kick out of people using and loving your produced outcome.

We are building a global content marketplace that brings companies and content

creators together to scale up content creation processes across 50+ content verticals and 150+ industries. Over the past 2.5 years, we’ve worked with companies like India Today, Amazon India, Adobe, Swiggy, Dunzo, Businessworld, Paisabazaar, IndiGo Airlines, Apollo Hospitals, Infoedge, Times Group, Digit, BookMyShow, UpGrad, Yulu, YourStory, and 350+ other brands.
Our mission is to become the world’s largest content creation and distribution platform for all kinds of content creators and brands.

Our Team

We are a 25+ member company and is scaling up rapidly in both team size and our ambition.

If we were to define the kind of people and the culture we have, it would be -

a) Individuals with an Extreme Sense of Passion About Work

b) Individuals with Strong Customer and Creator Obsession

c) Individuals with Extraordinary Hustle, Perseverance & Ambition

We are on the lookout for individuals who are always open to going the extra mile and thrive in a fast-paced environment. We are strong believers in building a great, enduring

a company that can outlast its builders and create a massive impact on the lives of our

employees, creators, and customers alike.

Our Investors

We are fortunate to be backed by some of the industry’s most prolific angel investors - Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal (Snapdeal founders), YourStory Media. (Shradha Sharma); Dr. Saurabh Srivastava, Co-founder of IAN and NASSCOM; Slideshare co-founder Amit Ranjan; Indifi's Co-founder and CEO Alok Mittal; Sidharth Rao, Chairman of Dentsu Webchutney; Ritesh Malik, Co-founder and CEO of Innov8; Sanjay Tripathy, former CMO, HDFC Life, and CEO of Agilio Labs; Manan Maheshwari, Co-founder of WYSH; and Hemanshu Jain, Co-founder of Diabeto.
Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners