
The Opportunity
Near is looking for a Front-End Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce the application's visual elements. You will work with the Near Design team and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks and works.
You will be part of one of the fastest-growing Enterprise SaaS companies – an excellent opportunity for people who can work independently and are self-driven.
Tasks include
- Optimize applications for maximum speed.
- Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability.
- Get feedback from, and build solutions for users and customers.
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Write functional requirement documents and guides.
- Support back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting.
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and skills.
Skills and Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in engineering, Design, Fine Arts, or related field.
- 5+ Years of total experience; should have worked with Angular for more than two years.
- Expertise in designing and developing customer-facing web applications at scale.
- Proficiency in web markup, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6).
- Proficiency in client-side scripting and JavaScript & CSS frameworks, including jQuery, Bootstrap.
- Basic knowledge of image editing tools to crop, resize, or perform minor adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Illustrator and Photoshop is a plus.
- Proficiency in cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
- Proficiency in code versioning tools, such as GIT.
- Knowledge about Highchart and Mapbox will be a plus.
- Passionate about learning new technologies.
- Excellent problem solving, analytical, and organization skills with an eye for detail.
About Near
Near is the world's largest source of intelligence on people and places, processing data from over 1.6 billion monthly users across 44 countries. The Near Platform powers data-driven marketing and enrichment offerings through a suite of SaaS products. The users of the platform can leverage audience, spatial, retail, among other data in a privacy-led environment.
Founded in 2012, Near is headquartered in Singapore with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Bangalore, Tokyo, and Sydney. Today, marquee brands such as News Corp and Mastercard work with Near to provide enhanced customer experiences.
Near is backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, JP Morgan Private Equity Group, Cisco Investments, Telstra Ventures, and Greater Pacific Capital. Visit www.near.co to find out more.

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· Experience as a front-end or full-stack software engineer in AWS environment
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· Ability to work in a team with other developers, with UX Designers, and with Product Management
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About Upswing
Open banking is a reality of this decade and it needs robust, customizable and secure rails to run on. Our mission is to enable consumer companies to offer differentiated financial products and empower financial institutions with greater reach through our Secure, Scalable, and easy-to-integrate API platform.
Every company today has an opportunity to extend financial services to make banking experiences lively and delightful. Our open finance-as-a-service platform is highly customizable, simple, and modular which significantly reduces the integration effort for our partners to launch financial products in weeks, not years.
At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.
What will you do if you join us?
- Implement responsive web design principles to ensure that our company website renders well across multiple devices
- Design a framework for creating user apps that grow with the needs of the company
- Monitor website performance, watch for traffic drops related to site usability problems, and rectify the issues
- Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team
- Assist in the development of applications and features that will be put on the website and in internal functions as well
You should have
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 3+ years of web development experience. Development experience for Mobile screens would be a plus
- Strong knowledge of Javascript. Proficiency in Typescript & React Js would be a plus
- Strong knowledge of web development tools and programming languages
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.
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- Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux.
- Experience with user interface design.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills.
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Job Summary
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Responsibilities and Duties
- Develop highly interactive web applications utilising JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, JSON, Vue js / Nuxt js, and integrating Restful API’s, external web services ensuring high performance on Mobile and Desktop.
- Create custom general use modules and components extending the elements and modules of core Nuxt.js / Vue.js
- Write non-blocking code using advanced techniques such as multi-threading, javascript dependency management.
- Work with the web app development team in continuing to add features in creating innovative solutions.
- Conceptualize, design and develop user interface designs in a fast-paced online/mobile environment. Consumer applications as well as enterprise platforms
- Understand UI/UX best practices and drive improvements in designs and methodology.
- Establish a high-level vision for the solution.
Key Skills
Vue.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Nuxt.js, Integrating REST APIs, UI/UX Designing, Git
Required Experience and Qualifications
Portfolio of Vue.js/Nuxt.js project(s)
Expected Start Date: 10/9/2020
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- Experience with a modern JavaScript framework preferably React.js. But would consider Angular.js or Vue.js
- Good understanding of layout and responsive design
- Good writing and communication skill
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