Frontend Developer

Avegen is a digital healthcare company empowering individuals to take control of their health and supporting healthcare professionals in delivering life-changing care. Avegen’s core product, HealthMachine®, is a cloud-hosted, next-generation digital healthcare engine for pioneers in digital healthcare, including healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies, to deploy high-quality robust digital care solutions efficiently and effectively. We are ISO27001, ISO13485, and Cyber Essentials certified; and compliant with the NHS Data Protection Toolkit and GDPR.

Job Summary:

Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for developing, designing, and maintaining the core framework of mobile applications for our platform. This includes tasks such as creating and implementing new features, troubleshooting and debugging any issues, optimizing the performance of the app, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and staying current with the latest advancements in React Native and mobile app development. We are looking for exceptional candidates who have an in-depth understanding of React, JavaScript, and TypeScript, can create pixel-perfect UI, and are obsessed with creating the best experiences for end users.

Your responsibilities include:

1. Architect and build performant mobile applications on both iOS and Android platforms using React Native.
2. Work with managers to provide technical consultation and assist in defining the scope and sizing of work.
3. Maintain compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, ISO 13485, and Cyber Essentials that Avegen adheres to.
4. Lead configuration of our platform HealthMachine™ in line with functional specifications and development of platform modules with a focus on quality and performance.
5. Write well-documented, clean Javascript/TypeScript code to build reusable components in the platform.
6. Maintain code, write automated tests, and assist DevOps in CI/CD to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
7. Lead by example in best practices for software design and quality. You will stay current with tools and technologies to seek out the best needed for the job.
8. Train team members on software design principles and emerging technologies by taking regular engineering workshops.

Requirements:

1. Hands-on experience working in a product company developing consumer-facing mobile apps that are deployed and currently in use in production. He/she must have at least 3 mobile apps live in the Apple App Store/Google Play Store.
2. Proven ability to mentor junior engineers to realize a delivery goal.
3. Solid attention to detail, problem-solving, and analytical skills & excellent troubleshooting skills.
4. In-depth understanding of React and its ecosystem with the latest features.
5. Experience in writing modular, reusable custom JavaScript/TypeScript modules that scale well for high-volume applications.
6. Strong familiarity with native development tools such as Xcode and Android Studio.
7. A positive, “can do” attitude who isn’t afraid to lead the complex React Native implementations.
8. Experience in building mobile apps with intensive server communication (REST APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets, etc.).
9. Self-starter, able to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with multiple priorities.
10. Excellent command of version control systems like Git.
11. Working in Agile/SCRUM methodology, understanding of the application life cycle, and experience working on project management tools like Atlassian JIRA.
12. Good command of the Unix operating system and understanding of cloud computing platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
13. Hands-on experience in database technologies including RDBMS and NoSQL and a firm grasp of data models and ER diagrams.
14. Open source contributions and experience developing your own React Native wrappers for native functionality is a plus.

Qualification:

BE/BTech/MS in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

Role - Principle Engg | Reactjs

Skill Set - Programming

• React js with Redux,
• HTML5/CSS3
• Javascript
• Mobx (optional)
• Storybook (optional)

Unit Test Cases: Jest & Enzyme

Code Quality:

• SonarQube Knowledge
• Strong hold on unit-testing frameworks and writing effective unit tests

Other Important Skills:

• Engineering & Design Skills
• Good analytical & problem solving skills
• Ability to ship features end to end without much guidance
• Experienced with Agile methodologies

Soft Skills

• Good communication skills
• Zeal to learn new technologies & Methodologies

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About Us
We are a company dedicated to helping people find the food they love, no matter what food interests or dietary preferences they may have. You’ll be joining in the very early stages of the company, and have the chance to influence the direction of the company with your ideas and contributions.

Our Tech Stack (Front End):

• JQuery
• Bootstrap
• EJS templates
• HTML/CSS All new modules
• js with a team-maintained and crowd-sourced component library Middleware/Back end.
• Express
• js
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• API layer
• Elastic Search

Desired attributes:

• Enjoys iterative/agile development – We will iterate based on internal and customer feedback until we make an awesome product! We also have a very deep and compelling product roadmap we make consistent progress against.
• Works well collaboratively with other developers, contributing to the codebase, performing code reviews, and mentoring a team of junior developers. We have a lot of junior developers learning to code that need mentorship/leadership.
• A passion for food would be great, our business is to help pair people up with amazingly good food.
• Results-oriented

Responsibilities:

• Ability to build on and maintain a fully functional responsive web application
• Experience building API-driven applications

Qualifications:

• CS Degree is great but development skills are more important than degrees
• Ability to build and maintain a fully responsive website
• Prefer proficiency in our tech stack, but willing to teach people who are highly motivated and can spend significant time on the project for equity.
• GitHub or similar source code management system experience
• Nice to have: Experience developing customer-facing web applications

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the design and backend team to build and develop web applications for our forward-thinking products.
• Design large-scale systems with high complexity to support our high throughput applications.
• Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving such large-scale problems.
• Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible.
• Adopt problem-solving as a way of life - always go to the root cause.
• Develop scalable front-end engineering, for the largest FinTech companies in India who use our product.
• Actively think about improving UX and UI.
• Collaborate with the team to discuss and implement ideas.
• Build responsive, robust, and optimized applications.

• Professional development experience with Angular 10
• At least 1-2 years of JavaScript development experience for web applications.
• Strong eye for design, UI, and UX.
• Passion for front-end development.
• Willingness to learn and experiment with new technologies.

We're looking for developers who are interested in solving problems. We like people who are willing to work across the technology spectrum. 

An example of a typical problem would be a product feature that requires UI/UX (Typescript/React/HTML/SCSS), server changes (Java/Scala/R), and database changes (MySQL).

You will own some or all of a product/feature. You will also mentor others, read and review code, maintain code, deploy code, tune the performance of systems, as required.

Requirements :

- We're looking for 4 years or more of relevant work experience. That being said, if you think you have the necessary skills to make the number irrelevant then do talk to us

- Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, and sufficient knowledge of database concepts to write efficient queries

- Working experience in one or more of React, Redux, Typescript, and associated tools such as Webpack, Grunt, Gulp etc.

- Working experience in HTML, (S)CSS

- Working experience writing unit/functional/integration tests

- Knowledge of Java 8 features such as streams and lambdas is a plus

- Knowledge of REST concepts and design is a plus

- Knowledge of ES6 features/syntax is a plus

- Knowledge of functional programming concepts is a plus

- Knowledge of build/deploy tools such as Ant, Maven, Gradle, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc. is a plus

- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages such as Awk, Bash, Perl, Python, Rubyetc. is a plus

- Ability to use modern IDEs such as VSCode, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse etc. is a plus

- Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc. is a plus

Bonus Points :

- For product experience. We're a product company. Talk to us if you have worked on software products

- For startup experience. Have you worked in a any startups? We're always looking for people who have startup experience

- If you've developed and deployed any software for your own, or others- use

- If you've contributed to open source projects

- If you've spoken at developer conferences, published articles in tech websites, published podcasts

- If you communicate well. Do you blog? Can you explain ideas clearly and succinctly? Can you answer questions in short, clear sentences?

- If you have technical certifications such as AWS, Docker, Redhat etc.

- If you're self taught. Have you learned other programming languages, technologies etc. on your own? Share the details of the courses you took online, for instance.

- For deep knowledge in one or more areas. We like people who dig down, understand concepts in detail

- If your code/work is out there in public. We'd love to see what you've developed and deployed to the external world