Frontend Developer

Certa (getcerta.com) is a Silicon Valley-based tech product start-up that is automating the vendor, supplier, and other stakeholder onboarding processes (think background checks, agreements, and the works) for companies across industries and geographies. With multiple Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 clients, at Certa's tech team, you will be working on stuff that is changing the way huge companies do business.

We recently raised Series A: https://www.businessinsider.com/certa-no-code-startup-raises-15-million-to-speed-procurement-2022-3

Must Haves

1. 3+ years of experience
2. Previous experience in building & architecting SAAS applications
3. A rock-solid understanding of the core JavaScript language, ReactJs library, HTML5, and CSS3.
4. Proficiency in Test-driven development and writing well-tested code.
5. Proficiency in developing well-structured web applications using modern JavaScript tools like React and Redux/Recoil/Context APIs/React-Query.
6. Experience with the latest ReactJS features like hooks and context
7. Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
8. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
9. Experience with Typescript or flow
10. Previous experience working in a remote environment
11. A knack for ownership & mentoring junior engineers.

Perks:

• Best-in-class compensation
• Performance-based ESOPs
• Workstation setup allowance-
• Fully-remote work
• Flexible schedules
• Paid vacation
• Yearly offsites
• Engineering-first culture
• Continuous learning
• Massive opportunities for growth
• Rockstar team to work with (we mean it!)

Who we are:

FlexiLoans is a technology based Digital financing platform started with an endeavor to solve the problems that small businesses face in accessing Quick, Flexible and Adequate funds for growing their Businesses. Our vision is to give "Financial access at a click". Our talent pool has rockstars from diverse backgrounds - ex- Founders, investment bankers, e-commerce and payments with the passion to make a difference to the lives of 70 mn+ MSME businesses in India.

FlexiLoans.com is a pioneer in the ecosystem-based digital lending for small businesses in India. Till date, we have disbursed over 45,000+ loans worth over Rs. 1600 Crs+ to small sized businesses across 1,600+ cities without having a single branch! We are the leaders in using technology and risk models that focus on alternate / surrogate methods for scoring customers. Our origination is 100% digital with over 100 embedded partnerships like Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa, Paisabazaar, etc. for providing credit access to MSME businesses.

Founded by CA/ISB alumni, FlexiLoans is funded by marquee bankers such as Sanjay Nayar (Chairman, KKR and Ex-CEO, Citibank South Asia), Gunit Chaddha (Ex-CEO, Deutsche Bank, Asia Pacific), Anil Jaggia (Ex-CIO, HDFC Bank), Vikram Sud (Ex-COO, Kotak Mahindra Bank), Narayan Seshadri (Ex-Managing Partner, KPMG), Gopal Srinivasan (Chairman, TVS Capital) and Siddharth Parekh (Co-Founder, Paragon Partners) to name a few.

Our product offerings and value proposition can be accessed on our website: https://www.flexiloans.com/

FLEXILOANS VALUES - COLLABORATION | AGILITY | INNOVATION | RESPECT | OWNERSHIP

Why join us?

A two times certified ‘Great Place to work’ workplace, at FlexiLoans you will be working with top tier talent from diverse backgrounds hungry to make a dent in the MSME universe. We believe in people owning what you do and providing support to folks for making decisions (sometimes even wrong decisions!) all the while learning and growing with the organization. FlexiLoans is your front row seat to the MSME Fintech revolution in India!

What you will work on:

• Develop User interfaces for Modern Rich Internet Applications with the latest Front End Technologies
• Perform product analysis and development tasks of an increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.
• Writing tested and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Make design and technical decisions for AngularJS/React projects.
• Develop application code and unit test in the AngularJS/React, Rest Web Services and Java technologies for the Application Development Center.
• Ensuring high performance

The ideal candidate:

• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques
• Experience with RESTful services
• Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp
• Expert in any one of the modern JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks (AngularJS/React, jQuery, NodeJS, Grunt JS)
• Familiar with testing frameworks (Ex. Jasmine)
• Test runner framework (Ex. Karma)
• Hand on and implements complex AngularJS applications, directives, controllers, services Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Qualification and Experience:

• 3+ years’ Experience with Angular
• BS/BE/BTECH degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Role:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Company delivers, and how these link to Company’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Company processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or supporting them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Requirements:

• Acquired strong proven professional Front End Development experience.
• Proven track record and experience working on Javascript and front end frameworks like React (preferred) and Angular
• Knowledge and experience working with Node.js, Go or any other back end programming language is a plus .
• Experience of turning UI/UX designs to applications and keen interest in the UI/UX side of an application. 
• Able to build prototypes quickly and work with the product teams to test a concept. 
• Demonstrable experience in building front end or UI/UX development practices in previous jobs. 
• Building and implementing a product on cloud based infrastructure.
• Good understanding of Microservice Architecture, Cloud Technologies, CI/CD and Serverless.
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using Agile Methodologies such as Kanban or Scrum to build quality software.
• Good communication skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a similar field.
• At least 5-10 years' experience working as a React.js Developer.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML and front-end languages. Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Web pack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux, Vuejs, Angular++, Python and latest technology skills.
• Experience with user interface design. Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software. Excellent troubleshooting skills. Good project management skills.

Previous experience as a UI Engineer.

Must have hands-on knowledge of web 2.0, including HTML5, CSS3
Must have hands-on knowledge of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as SASS/LESS
Must have hands-on knowledge in JavaScript frameworks like Object Oriented JS, Typescript (ECMAScript 6)
Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
Good understanding of REST API Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Working knowledge of design specs (style guide) tools like Zeplin, Invision etc.

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer with 4+ years of experience who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality products are very important.

Responsibilities

● Developing new user-facing features using React.js

● Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

● Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code

● Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

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 (such as Flux, Redux, or Redux Saga)

● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript ● Knowledge of Node.js is considered a big plus

● Knowledge of D3.js is considered a plus

● You are always mindful of quality attributes like maintainability, performance, security, scalability, usability, and testability. As a result, you have successfully contributed to the architecture and UI/UX proposals and decisions.

● Strong experience creating pixel perfect and responsive designs

● Strong CSS skills (SCSS / Styled-components)

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Knowledge of Reactjs functional components and react hooks.

● 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.

● 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)

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and implement components of our web application, and admin panel
• Build a robust, lightweight, and high-performance client-side app
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Write documentation and guides for web app & admin panel

Key Qualifications

• Expertise in ReactJS/Redux
• Working knowledge of TypeScript or Flow is a plus
• PURE experience of 1.5 Years and more in Frontend Development
• Expert-level knowledge of developing, shipping, and maintaining Javascript applications
• Knowledge of general software design patterns
• Deep understanding of Javascript
• Up-to-date on the latest build tools, and libraries such as ES6, Webpack, Babel
• Proficient in Javascript with strong object-oriented design skills
• Able to work independently and drive results