Frontend Developer

Skills:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (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 modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• 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, SVN, and Mercurial)

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Lead the delivery of high quality, innovative, flexible, cost-optimized, and scalable technical solutions that meet business requirements
• Design, Develop, test, and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Microservices, and scalable cloud-native apps.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
• Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve quality and productivity of deliverables
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with cross-functional team along with the client's team
• Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User-Focused, Adaptive
• Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
• Project planning, timelines, and milestones for execution and deliverables
• Participate in the Evaluation Review of your team member

Primary Skills

• Experience in building an enterprise web application using ReactJS as the frontend framework
• Experience with Redux and React Hooks
• Expert in HTML5, CSS3
• Experience in Bootstrap4 or CSS pre-processor like Less or Sass is highly desirable
• Strong knowledge of best practices and modern web design trends is necessary.
• Some experience with modern web-based typography.
• Excel at rapid prototyping and at writing good code.
• Experience with testing/debugging in multiple browsers and platforms.
• Expertise in using JavaScript
• Should have worked on REST client and WebSockets
• Should be able to write Unit testing using any one of the frameworks like Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, Jest, Enzyme, or any other similar framework.
• Should have experience in either one of the Build scripts like Gulp or Grunt or Webpack
• Low-Latency UI, Page optimization, and bundle build+caching
• Problem-solving and debugging skills
• Component-based architecture

Position: Lead Frontend Engineer

Location: Bangalore, IN (currently remote)

Employment: Full time

Who We Are?

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You can also checkout our https://emptycup.in/">website to know more about our product offering.

Job Description

• Use your passion and deep understanding of front-end technology to create high-impact and performant user experiences.
• Lead the most creative collaboration in a cross-functional team, having design, product, and frontend teams.
• Brainstorm features with product and design teams to influence decisions guided by the possibilities and limitations of the codebase as well as the current state of technology.
• Proactively perform code reviews and participate in architecture and design discussions.
• Adopt and ensure best practices while developing, testing, maintaining, and deploying code.

Requirements

An engineer passionate about front-end who can work on projects independently, collaborate across teams, and provide mentorship and guidance to others.

• Has an experience of 4-5 years in the work
• Experience with ReactJS (knowledge of internals is a plus)
• Well versed in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and in a variety of design patterns
• Experience with build tools like webpack, babel, etc.
• Understanding of core UI/UX concepts
• Hands on experience Rest API, Databases, Microservices, Architecture
• Understanding of front-end security and performance testing

Mentor To Go is an android and web based platform to help students improve their work readiness through self-learning sessions, personalised mentorship provided by mentor professionals from a range of careers, and work experience opportunities.

The technology platform implements  functionalities such as: screening surveys of mentors and mentees, training content for mentors, matching through an algorithm, and mentorship through the delivery of structured activities. 

The application technology architecture comprises of the following:

o   a Python Django web application with NGinx and Gunicorn

o   PostgreSQL database

o   A React Android and Web app

o   Rest APIs which interact between the Android app and the Django webserver

Our vision at Mentor To Go is to provide career mentorship to young people anywhere, anytime across the length and breadth of India.

We are looking for a frontend software developer who is passionate about using web technologies to solve social problems and creating experiences that are elegant and effective.    You will own the front end development of features  of the Mentor To Go web and mobile platforms, from conceptualisation through design and testing. You will work closely with other developers,the technical project manager, and the program operations team. You are user-centric, continuously demonstrate strategic & analytical abilities, and are laser focused on executing at speed. You must have the ability to succeed in a fast paced environment, where success is dependent on your ability to collaborate with cross-functional team members  in a positive, productive, and transparent way.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferably  CS  or related discipline
• 3+ years experience with the development of applications for Android, iOS and  web preferably using React Native/ReactJS

• Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
• Experience with a complete mobile software development life cycle
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with version control software such as Git

Desired  requirements

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs

About Mentor Together

https://mentortogether.org/">Mentor Together is India’s first and largest youth mentoring  non-profit organization with a mission to facilitate empowering mentoring relationships and networks that help young people break the inequalities of opportunity and actualise their potential.

http://bit.ly/mentortogo">Mentor To Go is the world’s first mobile mentoring platform created by Mentor Together with the support of Cisco India, LinkedIn Social Impact, British Telecom and Sterlite Technologies.