Front end Developer

Front-End Developer Job Description

We are looking for programmers with a keen eye for design for the position of a frontend developer. Front-end developers are responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency, and maintaining brand consistency across all web pages, among other duties. Front-end developers are required to work in teams alongside product managers, back-end developers and graphic designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. This requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Front-End Developer Responsibilities:

Determining and creating scalable structure and design of web pages.

Building and maintaining reusable code for future use.

Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.

Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.

Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications

and prototypes

Striking a balance between functional and aesthetic design.

Troubleshooting and debugging existing applications.

Following standard predefined design guidelines.

Delivering assigned tasks on time.

Front-End Developer Requirements:

Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And knowledge of JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS, and VueJS.

Knowledge of typescript, es-lint, webpack and bundling of applications.

Familiarity with CSS frameworks such as CSS, less.

Experience with responsive and adaptive design.

Degree in B. Sc (IT or CS), BCA, MCA, MSc, BE, ME

Knowledge of agile development methodology.

Good problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

Excellent verbal communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable server-side solutions using Java.
• Write optimized front-end code using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Write unit, automation, and integration tests
• Implement quality application logging for operational monitoring at scale
• Investigate, debug and resolve production site issues
• Work with co-located teammates to deliver on common goals

TECHNICAL & FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Professional experience in enterprise Java software development using Spring MVC frameworks, RESTful APIs, and SOA
• Proficiency in HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices
• Experience with Selenium for UI automated tests written in Cucumber or Scala will be a plus
• Working knowledge of design patterns and CI/CD principles
• First class communication skills in written and verbal form
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• A commitment to producing high-quality code with an attention to detail
• Dedication and a self-motivated desire to learn
• A collaborative, team-orientated attitude
• Experience working in the Cloud (AWS)
• API development experience
• Exposure to monitoring tools such as ELK, Splunk

• Proven at least 2 to 3 years of work experience as a Front-end developer
• Hands-on experience with markup languages
• Experience with JavaScript,Next.Js and Tailwind is a must
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Understanding of layout aesthetics
• Excellent analytical and multitasking skills
• Engineering Graduates preferred

About the company:

NowPurchase is transforming the 140B$ Metal Manufacturing industry. The metal industry forms the backbone of the economy and the fundamental block of the physical world - be it transportation, construction and every machinery. NowPurchase is building a rich, digital marketplace where Metal Manufacturers can procure high quality raw materials in a trusted manner. At the same time we are building the OS (Operating System) that will supercharge their productivity and processes to ultimately make procurement autonomous. Now Purchase raises USD 2.4 million in Nov 2021, led by Orios Venture Partners, InfoEdge Ventures.

About you: 

We are looking to add an immensely talented Senior Front End Engineer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet our vision. Expect to build a lot of web interfaces and dashboards both for the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises. You need to lead the front end team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and are constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
• Deliver high quality modular code deployed over web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets.. This would include visual dashboards and real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
• Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
• Own your Agile projects and lead the team from software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
• Transform UI designs and mockups into pages and flows using CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks. Be ready to do the mockups yourself sometimes.
• Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.
• Have an exceptional understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and service workers and command over the internals of JavaScript, React and Redux.
• Continuously evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.

Required Skills and qualification:

• 4+ years’ experience developing rich UI/Front-end for user-facing web applications.
• Strong experience with React or similar frameworks, TypeScript, SSR (Server Side Rendering), SPA (Single Page Application), PWA (Progressive Web application), OOP (Object Oriented Programming), Reactive programming, and Unit tests.
• Demonstrated ability to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Tech Stack skills required:

• React/Redux
• Python/Django/Celery
• Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
• PostgreSQL/Redis/S3

Location: 

On- site: Kolkata, West Bengal

Compensation & Benefits:

• Cash Compensation: As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
• ESOPs: 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
• Medical Insurance: Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
• Generous leave structure and WFHs including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
• Complete Relocation Expenses: We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.

Company Link: https://nowpurchase.com">https://nowpurchase.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/

About PoshVine: 

PoshVine aspires to become the world's leading transaction-driven loyalty and engagement platform by providing a mutually beneficial ecosystem for people, banks and retailers. Our products around programmatic offers, rewards, and loyalty help retailers increase contextual engagement and financial institutions increase share of spends, while end-users maximize their rewards and savings. PoshVine works with all the global payment networks and many marquee financial institutions, including 7 of the top 10 banks in India. 

Frontend at PoshVine:

We are building super-slick, easy-to-use rewards and loyalty experiences inbuilt in banking and payment journeys. The frontend team at PoshVine strives to build solid frontend foundations, infrastructure and top-notch experiences.

We are looking for passionate, collaborative, and empathetic Frontend Developers (team-leads and individual contributors) to join us, help create outstanding user experiences leading to high customer delight and help build the future of payment-linked loyalty and engagement. You can expect:

• Freedom to evaluate and introduce new tools, libraries and coding standards.
• Work on developer productivity and platform tooling.
• Evangelise tech and share knowledge in internal and external forums.
• Contribute to Product and Design ideas and implement them like it’s your own product. 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

1. Architect and implement various engineering initiatives like tooling, config driven systems, common libraries, etc.
2. Collaborate with senior leaders of the company, the engineering team and designers, and take end-to-end ownership of the frontend development charter and initiatives. 
3. Proficiency with Javascript fundamentals, Object oriented programming and Web concepts.
4. Proficiency with AngularJS, or any other frontend framework.
5. Develop frontend application features of PoshVine's enterprise dashboards to make them more modular and consumer-facing bank / fintech app integrations more delightful.. 
6. Can work independently and go from zero to production in weeks.
7. Collaborate the workflow with back-end developers and UX designers to connect web applications to backend services with RESTful APIs. Write functional requirement documents and guides.

You’ll be a good fit if: 

1. You’re awesome at JavaScript. We prefer people who are strong in web concepts and fundamentals, and are open to learning any framework/library.
2. You have the ability to build features from scratch which are modular and scalable, and can deliver it end-to-end.
3. You have demonstrated experience in creating front end applications using Angular and/or React, HTML5, CSS3, Jquery, Bootstrap, Backbone.js, Semantic UI, Postgres, etc. Our current platforms are mostly Angular 8+ in frontend and Ruby on Rails / PostgreSQL / MongoDB on backend. 
4. You are comfortable working on CI/CD toolchain, Kubernetes, etc.
5. You are willing to explore new frameworks and languages while bringing in expertise and customer-centric usability best practices. 

Role Summary

We are looking for Front-End Web Developers who are motivated to combine the art of

design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX

design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You

will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and

technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the

application looks as well as how it works.

Responsibilities

• Develop new user-facing features
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS/SCSS
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Builds the interactive data visualization and data interfaces using web technologies.
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual
• elements of the application.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 3 + years of experience in ReactJS / Native development
• Experience in writing extensive unit test.

• 
  8+ years of experience in software development using modern languages (ReactJS/Native etc)
• Thorough understanding of ReactJS, Redux, Node.Js, Express Js etc
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Design and develop scalable, performant and responsive FE architecture.
• Ability to deliver in test-driven method
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Nice to have worked on mobile products (IOS & Android)
• Experience in writing extensive unit tests
• Own code quality and experience in writing extensive unit tests
• Proven ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks quickly
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving capability.
• Team player
  Good time-management skills

Experience in years: 3+.  Less than 7.

Type: Individual contributor with good hands on proficiency.

Specifics:

• Writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Being up on latest practices is a must, e.g., HTML5, CSS3, and ECMAScript 6 (minimum)
• Familiarity with a relevant and globally supported framework— both front-end and back-end, if necessary — React & React Native.
• Ideally, familiarity with CSS preprocessors, bundlers, and associated languages/syntaxes/libraries - Sass, Less, webpack
• Experience implementing testing platforms and unit tests
• Integrating front-end UI with the constructed API, using REST, GraphQL api

Soft skills:

• Appreciation for clean and well documented code

What you will do at Tradyl

• Partner with a highly skilled external consultancy and lead the effort of building a new modern front end to our website. 
• We use a no code platform for rapid development in this phase of our Journey. You will develop features on this platform. This might involve integration with back end APIs via REST.  
• Do short experiments: Example,  Evaluate a backend headless commerce software as a potential candidate for our backend tech stack.

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