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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About Our Client
Our client is a Currency Exchange in India. Built with user experience and security in mind, Our Client provides instant fiat to crypto conversions with zero fees, so that users can have access to a diverse suite of financial products and services that are backed by industry-leading security processes and insurance protection. Our Client aims to be the global gateway to cryptocurrencies. Its proprietary liquidity aggregation model provides its users with access to liquidity from leading global crypto exchanges. Our Client is recognized and awarded for its contribution to the Indian emerging tech space.
Why Our Client?
Cryptocurrency Traders are looking for a strong global platform that can help them trade faster, better and smarter. We are building a platform that can solve their needs. The opportunity is big, and the journey is tough. Now that’s a challenge that needs to be addressed. You do that. You are phenomenal in solving these complex challenges. You help our team do more.
As a Front End Developer - Angular, you do all of the above and more. You make a difference.
What will I do?
- Delivering a complete front end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services
• Ensure high-quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
What skills should I have?
- Must have 7+ years of experience in frontend development with an internet startup.
- Deep knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
- Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5
- Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performance visual effects and keeping the frame rate above 30fps at all times
- Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
- Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
About Plum
We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.
Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.
Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.
Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)
Having found exceptional product/market fit, we’re in the midst of transitioning from 'start-up' to ‘scale-up’, and looking for frontend engineers in React to help us scale Plum.
You will have a direct impact on the customer experience through the design and implementation of new features and functionalities in our product. You'll work as part of a small but rapidly growing high-energy team delivering incredible, creative improvements to our product. You'll be in charge of reviewing the implementation of applications following code standards and style guides.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Push things over the line, ship awesome features, and delight customers
- Spec, build, test, and deliver new features while improving the performance and quality of the product.
- Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
- Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code Solve complex CSS, HTML, and User Interface compatibility issues across browsers.
- Implement front-end development workflows: build systems, dependency management, quality checkers (linting), etc.
Experience and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building web applications with React or similar framework.
- Understanding of chakra is a plus, not mandatory.
- Comfortable with Responsive Web Development and with a strong product design sensibilities and has an obsessive attention to detail.
- Write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
- Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.
- Having experience with building and maintaining an open source project or design library is a plus.
We are looking for a great JavaScript developer with experience in the range of 2 to 6 years, who is proficient in frontend techlogies 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 product is important.
We are hiring 2 ReactJS Developers. Candidates having experience of working on charts/graphs like d3.js, chart.js will have an added advantage.
Selection Criteria
If your profile has selected then you have to attend a 5 hours assignment to move your candidature to the final round of interview.
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
Technical 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 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 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.
Role and Responsibilities
- Making technology work for small holder farmers is the primary function of this team, the individual joining this team should be self-driven towards creating impact.
- A keen listener and has a pro-active approach to problem solving.
- Should understand the role of digital transformation in a company’s journey.
- An individual who follows technological advancements closely and thinks of new and innovative use cases that such technology can solve.
- Having previous experience in product management and/or platform development projects is a plus.
- Knowledge of software development life cycle and software configuration management tools preferred.
- The candidate should demonstrate high bias-for-action and should drive results that matter to the function and to the entire organisation.
- Build from ground up, a scalable server infrastructure and client applications.
- Design, develop and deploy features and consume APIs with high quality standards.
- Manage the infrastructure hosted in the cloud.
- Contribute significantly in reviewing code, design & test-cases authored by peers.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- 2-6 years experience of design and development experience building scalable & distributed systems.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from reputed institutes.
SKILLS
- Agile Project Management
- Software Development Life Cycle and Software Configuration Management
- Excellent coding, debugging skills.
- Hands-on experience on the following tech stacks:
ReactJs, NodeJs, TypeScript, PostgresSQL/MongoDB, Nginx, Pm2, Redis, Bootstrap, CSS - Knowledge of Microservices and REST APIs.
- Must have: Experience with managing server infra in hybrid cloud AWS & GCP.
- Must Have: Very good understanding of OOPS and design patterns.
- Nice to have: Hands-on-experience with analytics using ELK stack/ Mixpanel.
- You have 4-8 years of experience in Frontend for web based applications with strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Frameworks like Angular or React
- You love building things, and have built complex consumer web applications in the past.
- You have a sound understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- You are an expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
- You are an expert in at least one JavaScript framework, such as Angular 7+, React or Vue.
- You understand how website-backend interacts with frontend as well as external APIs.
- You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.
- At least 4+ years experience in Angular.js / React.Js
- 4+ years of strong programming experience in UI/Web development using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap.
- 2+ years of strong programming experience in Unit Test Code Coverage using Jasmine / Karma.
- Strong in OOAD, design concepts & software engineering fundamentals.
- Strong inclination towards delivering quality software.
- Should be a good team player. Should have experience working in Agile Scrum Teams.
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong experience in defining & implementing software quality improvement measures: CI/CD setup, Jasmine, Karma Unit Testing
- Experience in working with tools like TFS, GIT.
- Should have strong problem-solving skills.
- Experience in UX will be good to have.