Frontend Developer

⚒️ About The Role

We're looking for an experienced Frontend Engineer to breathe life into the user interface of our product. Understanding that meticulous engineering not only drives the user experience but also influences our product development process, we aim to prioritize this role from Day 1

🚀 This Role

As a Founding Frontend Engineer at Upskillr.ai, your contributions will be vital in refining the user experience of our AGI Platform. You will also participate in evaluating user interfaces and crafting the frontend landscape for future products. Further:

• Creating and optimizing our frontend infrastructure, rendering captivating user experiences through your engineering prowess.
• Utilizing your specialized skills to navigate frontend development, from designing responsive layouts to implementing interactive features.
• Collaborating closely with founders on product development and with designers for harmonious UI/UX integration.

What you'll work on:

• Leading feature development from user research to production in collaboration with designers and AI engineers.
• Building responsive UI components using React principles and JavaScript.
• Establishing a flexible frontend architecture with supportive APIs.
• Demonstrating expertise in front-end performance optimization and contemporary standards.
• Pioneering the engineering and integration of optimal human ↔ AI interfaces for enterprise operations. We're trailblazing in a fresh domain of engineering that previously didn't exist. The onus is on us to explore and incorporate a novel interface that resonates with our users.

Technical Skills:

• Profound expertise in JavaScript and React, along with robust front-end coding abilities and an understanding of progressive web applications.
• Must possess skills in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, Flux, GIT, HTTP(s), Terminal, Build Tools, State Management, Type Checkers, Form Helpers, Routing, REST API, GraphQL, Utility Libraries, Internationalization, Server-Side Rendering, and Backend Framework Integration.
• Proficiency in browser-based debugging and performance testing.
• Experience in performance tuning, usability enhancement, automation, and continuous integration leveraging test-driven development methodologies (BDD/TDD).

🕵️ What We Look For

• Self-starters prepared to lead significant initiatives.
• Avid curiosity and passion for technology.
• Familiarity with UI/UX principles from an engineering perspective.
• Excellent communication abilities

😁 Perks & Benefits

🤝 Top-of-the-market compensation — At Upskillr.ai, we will offer top-of-the-market (90th+ percentile) compensation in both cash and equity. We believe that the best candidates deserve the best compensation, and we will ensure that it happens.

💯 High impact — You’ll be joining as a founding member of the team, and as such you will have a high level of ownership and influence over the direction of the company.

🧠 The gains — Collaborate closely with the founders. Experience the excitement of a rapidly expanding startup.

About Us

We build LLM Based Tools and Services for Enterprises.

Upskillr.ai, started by Aditya Saxena and Vikram Pandya, is a dynamic knowledge platform that combines the best of education and knowledge management powered by AGI.

What We Do

We are committed to delivering innovative and comprehensive solutions that address the diverse learning needs of individuals and organizations. The company is dedicated to leveraging Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), to provide personalized and tailored support, ensuring the success and satisfaction of its users.

Responsibilities

Develop high quality, secure, stable code for use in products and solutions for

customers, making it easier for other developers to maintain, enhance, reuse,

and localize

Work with Product Owner and/or Product Manager/Team to understand and help

refine functional requirements for new products

Develop and outline architecture and relationships between subsystems and

participates in review of those designs

Investigate and, if necessary, prototype technologies and algorithms relating to

the task

Break down a large problem into smaller components and provide a clear

solution for each piece

Ensure new code, feature or software product meets performance goals/metrics

Research external best practices and emerging technologies for possible

incorporation into company products and methodologies

Write and maintain the code following Test-Driven-Design principles

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline from reputed engineering

college

5 to 7 years of strong programming skills in Web and Cloud Technologies

Should have a very strong foundation in JavaScript, and must have a clear

understanding of basic web fundamentals such as prototype based inheritance,

scopes, Event Loop, Memory Management in JS, etc

Should be good at developing modular front-end applications and is expected to

have the knowledge to create good abstractions that can be reused . Should also

have in-depth understanding of latest ES6 standards such as spread operators,

arrow functions, etc

Should have strong programming skills in Web and Cloud Technologies

Should be strong in OOAD Concepts

Should have a strong hands-on in React, Typescript

Should have Hands-on experience in any of the backend language.

Should understand latest paradigms in Front End Development such as Pub-Sub

Pattern, Redux, RxJS, Service Workers, Client Caching, Lazy Loading, Dynamic

Injection, Bundle Optimisation, etc

Should have very good hands-on knowledge of CSS3 & HTML5

Should have good knowledge of Postman API Platform

Should have experience with Amazon web services – ECS, Lambda, S3, SQS, etc

Should have Hands-on experience of developing RESTful web services and

integrating the same with heterogeneous clients

Should have Hands-on experience with Relational or NoSQL Database’s

Should have a very clear understanding of TDD is expected and should have

good exposure to writing UT's and designing UI components with testability in

mind

Should have Strong Communication and Analytical skills

Flexibility under changing conditions and the ability to multi-task between

projects

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with C++

Nice to have experience with Python

Nice to have experience with CI/CD tools like Docker, Jenkins, etc

Nice to have a hands-on & Understanding of CSS Pre-processors such as SASS,

LESS, etc

Responsibilities:

• Developing new user-facing features using JavaScript framework React JS.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code which works across platforms.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Should be able to take initiatives and ownership and build the products from scratch.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of React.js, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e. g., Immutable.js ).
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming.
• 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.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as GIT.

This is a remote position.

About Company

Our client is angle funded,  growth stage B2B SaaS startup that enables a seamless and streamlined collaboration between big pharma, bio-techs and their external manufacturing partners.

Job Profile

• Develop all user-facing products in React.JS
  
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
  
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
  
• Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.
• Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Good foundation in design and a knack for designing interactions and elegant interfaces
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Good to have experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Experience with data structure libraries
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• A knack for bench-marking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git)
• Proficient in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards, Coding module, Prototypes etc.
• Experience in using debugging tools used for profiling/optimizing performance
• Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing UI components

• Deep understanding of JavaScript and Angular Framework
• Understanding of Git and pull requests
• Clear written and spoken communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• 2+ years in web development using Angular