Front-end Engineer

At Shipthis, we work to build a better future and make meaningful changes in the freight forwarding industry. Our team members aren't just employees. We are comprised of bright, skilled professionals with a single straightforward goal—to Evolve Freight forwarders towards Digitalized operations, enhance efficiency, and drive lasting change.

As a company, we're just the right size for every person to take initiative and make things happen. Join us in reshaping the future of logistics and be part of a journey where your contributions make a tangible difference.

Learn more at www.shipthis.co

JOB DESCRIPTION

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the frontend of Shipthis's suite of SaaS products
• Drive the implementation of new technologies and architect frontend solutions to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Work closely with backend developers to ensure seamless integration of APIs and data between the front and back end.
• Define and enforce coding standards, guidelines, and best practices for the team, ensuring high code quality and performance.
• Actively participate in planning and strategy discussions, contributing to technical decisions that influence the product roadmap.
• Troubleshoot and resolve high-priority technical issues, ensuring the stability and performance of the system in production environments.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers and product managers to shape the user experience, ensuring that complex data workflows are intuitive and accessible.
• Mentor and guide junior developers within the team, providing code reviews and feedback to ensure quality and best practices are followed.
• Stay current with industry trends and developments, recommending tools, libraries, and processes to improve the frontend development workflow.

Desired qualifications include:

• 2+ years of experience in frontend development with a solid track record of delivering successful web applications.
• Experience leading frontend teams or working as a senior developer in a collaborative environment.
• Proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks (preferably Angular 12+), along with a strong understanding of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Proven ability to architect scalable frontend solutions for large, complex web applications.
• Experience with performance optimization techniques, code-splitting, lazy loading, and browser rendering behavior.
• Familiarity with frontend testing frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Jest, Jasmine, or Cypress).
• Strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to work effectively across teams and with stakeholders at all levels.
• Solid understanding of web development principles, including responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards.
• Knowledge of backend / ionic apps for android/iOS
• A strong portfolio of previous frontend work that demonstrates technical depth and design skills.

We welcome candidates

• Who is Immediate Joining
• Female candidates returning to work after a career break are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

JOB SYNOPSIS:

• Job Role: Frontend Engineer
• Location: Bangalore
• Job type: Full-time, permanent
• Experience (2-3) years
• Industry Type: Software Product
• Functional Area: Software Development

We are looking for a skilled react.js developer to join our front-end development team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing user interface components using React.js concepts and workflows such as Redux, Flux, and Webpack.

You will also be responsible for profiling and improving front-end performance and documenting our front-end codebase.

To ensure success as a react.js developer, you should have in-depth knowledge of JavaScript and React concepts, excellent front-end coding skills, and a good understanding of progressive web applications.

Ultimately, a top-class react.js developer should be able to design and build modern user interface components to enhance application performance.

React.js Developer Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a similar field.

Previous experience working as a react.js developer.

In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.

Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux.

Experience with user interface design.

Knowledge of performance testing frameworks

Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.

Excellent troubleshooting skills.

Good communication skills

React JS Developer Responsibilities:

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.

• Observe, strategize, develop and design user-friendly UI/UX using markup languages like HTML.
• Designing Client-Side and Server-Side Architecture and Rendering and Static Site Generation.
• To confer with users - by studying systems flow, data usage & work related bottlenecks.
• Design and implement Front-End code
• Interact with the production team, understand their workflow and find new ways to visualize their workflows on web apps.
• Integrating Python Scripts with Python-based UI interfaces like Dash and Flask.
• Maintain and improve web-app
• Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Design mobile-based features
• Integrating APIs with front-end user interfaces.
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
• Work with data scientists and analysts to visualize their analysis reports
• Help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting
• Ensure high-quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

• Strong Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery and Prototyping.
• Strong knowledge of client-side dynamic and rich UI applications development.
• Hands-on experience in C#, Python, .Net
• Strong hands-on experience in popular frameworks and JavaScript ecosystem – JS, Node, Angular, Jquery.
• Experience in Spark, Hadoop, Scala, and Elastic Search is a plus point.
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• Experienced in building applications that meet enterprise needs – secure, scalable, loosely coupled design
• Exceptional design, coding, and problem-solving skills, with a bias for architecting at scale.
• Experience using NPM, Web-Pack, Gulp.
• Familiarity with performance testing and optimization’s.
• Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms, and design patterns
• Write robust modular front-end code using the latest technologies, test and optimize it to work for high performance and scale and deploy it to the UiPath cloud platform.
• Work with various horizontal teams such as Structure, Electrical, Mechanical, Accessibility, Legal, and Finance and also interact with other core teams across locations at UiPath
• Own the smooth running of your cloud service or docker service, and respond to live site issues.
• Strong oral and written communication, and other soft skills are critical to collaborating and engaging with teams

• Develop new-user facing features using React.Js and Redux, D3.Js
• Build robust, reusable, and easy to maintain components.
• Translate designs and mock-ups into high quality code.
• Work closely with the Support team and Product team to identify issues and bugs in the platform and fix it.
• Completely own the SDLC of your tickets. From dev to production.
• Talk to existing clients about platform bugs and ensure the bugs are fixed.

• Minimum 4 years’ experience with React.js and Redux
• You are a well-organised self-starter with excellent communication skills
• You have thorough and demonstrable understanding of React.js and it’s core principles
• You have experience with code versioning (GIT) and CI/CD (Jenkins, Circle, etc.) tools
• You have ability to translate business requirements into high quality, high performance code
• You are familiar with RESTful API’s
• You enjoy working independently with minimal supervision
• You have broad understanding and experience in Javascript based technologies
• You are comfortable working in fast paced environment
• You are familiar and up-to-date with common front-end dev tools (e.g. Babel, Webpack, NPM, Yarn, etc..)
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in full project life cycle (including requirement analysis, system design, development, and support if required).
• Partner with Project Managers, Business Analysts, and other developers to plan project work by providing estimates, risk analysis, technical options.
• Support and work collaboratively with teams across areas of design, development, quality assurance, and operations.
• Help define the vision for a product, identify dead ends and routes with untapped potential.
• Attend meetings to discuss and demonstrate solutions at both a technical and business level.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of web application development experience using at least one of the following: Javascript, Web Components, Angular, Polymer, ReactJS, Redux, LitElement, Svelte, VueJS, or knockout.js. Web Components is used and preferred.
• Experience with SPA (Single Page Application) design and implementation
• Experience with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/ and AJAX
• Experience working with a variety of APIs and RESTful interfaces
• Experience with performance optimization
• Experience integrating security best practices into the SDLC
• Experience with Git
• 1+ years of Agile development experience
• Experience manipulating and working with data in a variety of forms: csv, xml, json, structured and unstructured
• Intellectual curiosity and drive; self-starters will thrive in this position
• Passion for Technology: excitement for new technology, bleeding edge applications, and a positive attitude towards solving real world challenges

Desirable Skills

• SQL experience. PostGreSQL a plus.
• Knowledge of AWS or other cloud environments is a plus.
• Knowledge JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, or BitBucket a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD is a plus.
• Experience working with databases and web applications in analytics, reporting or Business Intelligence is a plus.