Frontend Developer

React js Developer,5-7 yrs of experience, location will be Bengaluru, Core front-end developer, must have hands-on strong experience in redux, angular, javascript and typescript

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

About the position

F5 is looking for a Software Engineer with expertise in designing Web UI automation solutions to test high-scale distributed systems. You will collaborate with architects and application development teams to vet and validate test automation for an edge computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the product architecture and come up with a frontend testing strategy such that quality is driven into the heart of the development process

• Perform integration tests on web services & APIs using SauceLabs, Postman, Swagger and other testing tools

• Design test and automation infra to test functionality, scale, performance, and reliability to ensure predictable delivery of quality releases

• Design and implement different test strategies - black box, grey box, and white box - to ensure the product is finished, secure, and effective

• Research, recommend and implement tools as needed to ensure quality

• Build test frameworks working within CI/CD pipeline processes, and provide automation expertise to development teams

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in designing automation software from the ground up, choosing the right infrastructure components, evaluating both open source and closed source software

• Hands-on experience with JavaScript (TypeScript will be a plus)

• Strong working knowledge of test automation frameworks and tools: Selenium, WebDriver, SauceLabs, Protractor, Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Jasmine, Karma

• Practical experience with CI/ CD methodologies & tools

• Good understanding of Testing fundamentals, Bug life cycle, SDLC, STLC, Smoke testing, Sanity testing, Regression testing

• Prior working experience in Web-based projects with a strong understanding of UI, cross-browser compatibility, general web functions, and standards is a must.

• Good written and verbal communication skills and flexibility to work with teams in different time zones

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 6-10 years of experience in software development and/or test automation

Desirable:

• Experience with load balancer products such as F5, Envoy, Nginx, HA proxy

• Experience with Kubernetes container technology, Terraform, AWS

• Good understanding of networking protocols, HTTP/HTTPS, Proxies TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, FTP, origin pools, etc

About the company

F5 provides a distributed cloud platform to deploy, connect, secure and operate applications and data across multi-cloud and edge sites. Line-of-business leaders can drive business transformation and automation by distributing workloads closer to business activity. DevOps teams can manage fleets of applications and infrastructure with less complexity. Network teams can simplify application connectivity and security across clouds.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. 

• 2+ years of experience as a react/react-native developer
• Must have skills: ReactJS
• Deep understanding of javascript, typescript and react
• Familiarity with multiple state management techniques
• Knowledgeable about design patterns and their utility in day to day problems
• Worked on and shipped large scale react/react-native applications
• Great product sense; you care about usability and good design
• Strong communication skills
• Bonus if you have worked on Android/iOS apps or nodejs backend.

• Work collaboratively with everyone in the team to deliver best in class user experience
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code in typescript and react-native
• Implement pixel perfect designs with advanced interactions, which are a joy to use
• Implement unit and UI automation tests
• Own a feature end to end and ensure its usability
• Continuously discover, evaluate and implement new technologies to enhance user experience
• Support other developers on the team with code reviews, design feedback, and other advice and guidance

• Design and implementation of the frontend applications and Mobile apps
• “Pixel-perfect” implementation of our approved user interface
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Break features into simpler granular tasks, estimate effort required, and identify dependencies
• Work with Analyst and back end developers to deliver a seamless user experience
• Write clean, efficient, maintainable code with good test coverage
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use and optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Test and Debug as required

Expected Qualifications and Key Skills

• BSc or B.E in Computer Science / Engineering from a tier-1 college in India or abroad
• Proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Strong understanding of UI/UX, responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, AJAX, and general web standards
• 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/TypeScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• 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.
• Proficiency with Git / Version control

Required Skills

As a developer, you have a passion for development and a thirst to learn. You enjoy working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You are a quick learner who can step up and take ownership of work to get things done on time. You also enjoy and appreciate working and collaborating with others from various backgrounds as part of a team.

Job Requirement

• Full-stack developer with exposure working in building products from scratch
• Have 2+ years in implementing front-end of applications using ReactJS
• Proficient in HTML 5, CSS 3, Bootstrap Ant-D, Redux, JavaScript and writing cross-browser compatible code
• Good knowledge of MVC, MVVM, OOPS concepts, Web Development Concept.
• Experience with RESTful services
• Work experience any one of the backend technologies such as Java, NodeJS, .NET will be a major plus
• Experience in JavaScript build tools such as web-pack /gulp
• Familiar with testing frameworks (such as Jasmine) and Test runner framework (such as Karma) (good to have)
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Knows unit testing
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Duty /Responsibility

• Your specific duties in this role will include:
• Responsible for the front end/UI development for of the web-based and mobile-based application
• Responsible for communicating with clients
• Responsible for communicating with Designing Team and Team Manager
• Responsible for Requirement Analysis
• Responsible for mentoring junior front-end developers
• Responsible for researching new web technologies
• Responsible for developing POCs
• Respond to technical queries/requests from team members and customers.
• Coach, guide, and mentor junior members in the team.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of experience as a front-end developer
• Experienced in developing applications using JavaScript, ReactJS, Redux, Redux Saga, NodeJS, HTML5, CSS3/CSS4 and other UI technologies.
• Understanding and experience with ES6 concepts, asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation.
• Experience with REST API construction, documentation, and architecture, including API description languages like Swagger.
• Comfortable writing Unit Test Cases (Enzyme/ Jest)
• Familiar with cloud services: AWS, Dev-ops such as Git, Jira, Confluence
• Good to have experience/knowledge of
  • Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security)
  • Docker,
  • Scala,
  • Python
• Able to connect the dots between code and business value

Responsibilities

• Engage in high level conversations about business strategy and the role tech plays in it
• Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code that powers our application
• Write specs and do planning for everything we build
• Conduct application analysis, testing, and debugging
• Diligently document code to keep it clean and transparent
• Ensure cross-browser and device compatibility

You Are

• You believe it’s always on you to make sure anything you do is a success.
• You have the ability to make quick and effective decisions.
• In love with a challenge. You revel in solving problems and want a job that pushes you out of your comfort zone.
• Open to change. You’re inspired by the endless ways in which everything we do can always be improved.

Add-Ons/Interview Process

• You should be comfortable working in a Start-up for in-house product development.
• Will not be engaged with any Client, but with the internal team (in India & the US).
• Will be provided a hands-on exercise to complete and submit as a part of interview.