Frontend Developer

Opportunity Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic engineer with experience building Salesforce AppExchange apps to lead the development of Salesforce connectors for our marketing technology products.

What would you do?

·      Collaborate with stakeholders in establishing application requirements, determining features, creating customer-friendly solutions, and determining support needs and performance requirements. 

·      Plan, design, develop, test, and deploy software to satisfy these requirements. 

·      Work according to the agile programming application development methodology adhered to including test-first, iterative development, and continuous re-prioritization.  

·      Support the maintenance of our hosted technology solutions. 

·      Work with other team members in accomplishing group objectives and participating in code reviews. 

·      Ensure timely and robust implementation of the company’s development plans.

·      Ensure that all relevant parties are kept up to date on progress of projects and give feedback on an ongoing basis. 

·      Contribute to the review, selection, and adoption of proprietary tools and technologies. 

·      Use specialist knowledge and experience of information technology to provide technical advice and vision.

Technical Skills

The following skills are needed for this role.

Experience

·      5+ years’ experience in web application design and development 

·      Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline or equivalent experience 

Primary Skills

·      Strong background in Front-end technologies – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Angular, etc. 

·      Experience with node.js

·      An understanding of User Experience and a background in building intuitive interfaces. 

Secondary Skills (nice to have)

·      Experience with Shopify integrations.

·      Experience building native apps for other platforms.

·      Experience with Salesforce APEX, VisualForce, SOQL, etc.

·      AWS ecosystem and tools, particularly developing for serverless environments. 

·      Any experience with other languages will be beneficial.

Soft Skills

·      Proven ability to lead a team and mentor others. 

·      Thrives collaborating in a team environment with a diverse range of people.

·      Passionate about delivering an amazing customer experience.

·      Able to have a change of mind, and able to change the minds of others.

·      Writes clearly and concisely.

·      Capable of working without a company office, with a fully remote team.

Growth Skills

·      Possesses a good work ethic; a self-starter with a desire to grow.

·      Always looking for better ways to get the job done.

Role Summary:

Front-end Developer who would contribute towards building a highly flexible and scalable front-end by bringing deep core technology expertise.

Job Description:

- Ensure proper offline access using service workers and PWA

- Develop components which are SEO friendly

- Have experience in server-side rendering

- Drive evolution of application performance

- Ensure project scalability by having good project architecture

Skill Requirements:

- Good experience in HTML5, CSS3, JS - React

- React native

- Angular - Redux exposure - Have handled service workers and PWA caching and updates - CSS pre-processors knowledge like sass - Knowledge of webpack, parcel, grunt etc.

-Knowledge of pre-processors like SASS/LESS, CSS-Modules.

- Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts (Gulp / Grunt)

-Have an eye for good UI/UX, Progressive Web Apps, Responsive Design

-Interested in writing code, actively experimenting along with learning new things.

Individual applying to the role should ideally have the following attributes

-Passionate about Frontend Development and continually follow the platform & innovations

-Strong and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions

-Interested in working on fast-paced

- Excellent communicator (written and verbal, formal and informal)

- Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership of problem resolution

- Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision.

- Ability to prioritize when under pressure.

• Developing user interface components and implementing them following well known Reactjs workflows such as Flux and Redux
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality components.
• Should strong Component based programming and Concepts like Life Cycle Hooks and Communications.
• Ensuring that all components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain
• Coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure
• Should have capabilities to judge or choosing the right/suitable plugin for application requirements
• Should have knowledge of application build generation and optimizations.

Technical Experience:

• Should be strong in Development Life Cycles like Agile
• Should be strong Javascript Core (Core Concepts, Design Patterns, etc)
• Should be strong in Angular and ReactJS Concepts
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model Thorough understanding of Reactjs and its core principles
• Should be strong at least one javascript testing framework like Jasmine

,Enzyme

Required Skills:

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science with relevant industry experience
• At Least 7 years of Front end frameworks with at least 4 years on React
• Must be working on ReactJS project as on date.
• Experience in developing responsive Web Application Development
• Experience building reusable UI elements including trading grids, dialogs, and screen navigation widgets
• Expert level Programming experience in HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular and React JS
• Experience with AWS, developing and deploying application to cloud environment
• Experience in using the popular UI Frameworks, Libraries or Plugins
• Experience in Writing Test Cases and Generating Test & Coverage reports
• Experience with Git, Java, Maven, SQL, Jira and or Hudson/Jenkins

Responsibilities (KRA):

• Create Angular components with proper standards of the Angular.
• Create the applications with responsiveness and cross browser compatibility.
• Optimizing the performance on the browser by using the webpack custom confi
• Integrate with REST APIs built with modern authorization mechanisms such as JSON Web Token.
• Create test cases for each component by using any one of the testing library support provided in Angular.
• Ability to debug the Angular code in the browser to rectify the issues.
• Exposure to Progressive Web Apps (PWA) will be preferred.
• Exposure to latest technology trends and passion to grow is must
• Exposure to Insurance domain in past will be preferred

Required skills/Experience:

• Angular 6+, Redux, JavaScript
•  Node/NPM
• GIT
• JIRA 
• REST API, JSON
• Unit Test Cases - Jest/Enzyme/Mocha/Jasmine
• Visual Studio Code
• UI Library: Bootstrap / ng-zorro / Angular CDK Tomcat 

ob Purpose :

- To lead Design, Development and Maintenance of Frontend Technology for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT, plan & innovate to deliver best-in class product features, ensuring market leadership and future readiness.

- Head the technology team for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT by enhancing and future proofing the technological infrastructure and capabilities to build a world class product.

Key Responsibilities :

Technological Readiness :

- Strengthen VOOT's technological capability

- Evaluate Frontend technology stacks and choose best in class relevant solutions for business

- Build internal capability for technological functions for future readiness

- Drive technical and technological efficiencies to save cost

Technological Innovation :

- Identify avenues for product enhancement

- Convert relevant ideas to POC (Proof of Concept)

- Act as the technical product owner and work with product management team to deliver features and manage releases and enhancement

- Deliver best-in-class product functionality by minimizing crash rate, reducing improving playback time performance and ensuring maximum device coverage

Collaboration and Partner Management :

- Evaluate and finalize new partners for product enhancement from technical perspective

- Developing technological road maps in collaboration with Product team & external technology partners

- Timely and quality delivery of product/features, including outsourced functionalities and services with no downtime

Resource management of external partners to deliver results

Team management

- Work with the HR partner to create a workforce plan

- Review performance on regular basis

- Ensure optimum levels of engagement through appropriate recognition channels

- Provide inputs on hiring and succession planning

- Identify training needs by using TNA method

Key Performance Indicators :

- Develop best in class product functionality

- Ensure technological readiness for product

- Increase in the number of active daily video viewers

- Application Store rating

- Maintaining a crash rate & Maintain playability above 90%

- No. of new & high quality features rolled out on the platform

Skills : Front End, Android, iOS