Frontend Designer and Developer

Frontend Developer

We are inspiring the next generation of young innovators and entrepreneurs in India. We're an education startup co-founded by a Computer Science grad from MIT/Harvard and the former CEO of Apple India. We started out as code school, offering creative tech boot-camps on topics like Drone Programming, Android App Development, Game Programming, Full-Stack Web Development to k-12 students across the nation, and now we're building web and mobile products to deliver powerful learning experiences to students online, at scale.

Job Description

We are looking for a Front End developer who is excellent with JavaScript (React.js + Redux). Some proficiency with Node.js preferred as you’ll be hooking up your front-ends to APIs and occasionally writing your own.

Your primary focus will be to develop the UI/UX for highly interactive / social / multiplayer learning platform, across the Student Product, Parent Product, Teacher Product, Virtual Classroom, and more.

Responsibilities

• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality React code
• Styling re-usable components with pixel perfection and mobile responsiveness
• Structuring state and information flow across your front-end app using Redux
• Optimizing your code for SEO and maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Skills / Required Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with React.js
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Redux
• Bonus: past experience with Socket.io and WebRTC
• Writing and consuming REST APIs with Node.js 
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

Requirements

• 3.5+ years of experience in React JS and Redux
• Expert in React.j, ideally using TypeScript language extensions
• Good understanding of JavaScript Design Patterns
• Good experience writing front-end test cases
• HTML5, CSS3 and Responsive web design are mandatory
• Exposure to Scrum methodology and XP technical practices such as unit testing, pair programming, test-driven development, continuous integration or continuous delivery
• Self-motivated, fast learner, detail-oriented, team player and a sense of humour

• Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages
• Maintain and improve website
• Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
• Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
• Help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting
• Ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

• Proven work experience as a Frontend developer
• Hands on experience with markup languages
• Experience with JavaScript, CSS and jQuery and Bootstrap framework
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Understanding of layout aesthetics
• Knowledge of SEO principles and AMP is a plus
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent analytical and multitasking skills
• BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field

• 5+ years in architecting and building Single Page Applications (SPA)
• Shipped at least 2+ applications using Angular/AngularJs
• 6+ years expertise in building Angularjs and Angular with integration and unit tests.
• Good working knowledge of other frameworks such as REACT, nodejs, meteor etc.
• Experience with package management tools such as webpack for minification, uglification etc
• Experience with creating embeddable widgets
• Expertise with CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap4

• Demonstrated expertise of building cloud native applications
• Familiarity with administration of CI/CD such as jenkins
• Responsibilities
• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to create UI/UX designs
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• AngularJS, Angular: 5 years (Required)
• Single Page Applications: 5 years (Required)
• CI/CD: 2 years (Preferred)
• webpack: 2 years (Preferred)
• CSS: 5 years (Preferred)
• Cloud Native: 2 years (Preferred)
• React, vuejs: 1 year (Preferred)

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

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding and 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
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them

Your Responsibilities:

• Own UI of Company's web & mobile app
• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
• Design graphic user interface elements, like screens, menus, tabs and widgets
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
• Create original graphic designs (e.g., images, sketches and tables)
• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images

Your qualifications:

• Knack for design
• Understanding of human centered design
• Experience in designing web & mobile apps for B2B users

• Experience JavaScript, Typescript, ReactJS, StencilJS, CSS, Bootstrap, CSS, Nginx, Node.JS. Hands on in ReactJS is a must.
• Good to have Gradle/Maven, Git, Log4J, Mockito
• Knowledge of Spring and Java
• Knowledge of AWS platform is a plus

We are cloud enthusiasts on a mission to help cloud engineers build their own cloud management platform without the need for coding or integrating other tools.

We are looking for an experienced UI Developer to work with us as a freelancer. You will be part of the core development team working on state-of-the-art advanced cloud-based technologies.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Understand and improve the user experience across the site

- Make web apps responsive and pixel perfect

- Perform unit testing and automation testing of the features developed

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

- Proficient and good experience in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Typescript, Bootstrap 4, React.js.

- 4-8 years of relevant working experience

- Strong understanding of Object-oriented concepts and ECMA2015 standards

- Experience in identifying and implementing page performance improvements

- Attention to detail, and ability to multitask and meet deadlines

- Passion for quality and engineering excellence at scale and code quality

- Strong communication and conflict resolution skills