Frontend Developer

Sizzle.gg is an exciting new startup that’s changing the world of gaming.  At Sizzle, we’re building AI to automate gaming highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube streams. We’re looking for a superstar front-end engineer that can work closely with UI/UX designers and continuously improve our site.  

You will:

• Work closely with UI/UX designers and the management team to make iterative enhancements to the website, using React, HTML & CSS
• Keep iterating and improving our client video player in React and Meteor.js
• Run numerous A/B tests on the website design, layout, color scheme, button placement, images/videos, and other objects to optimize time on site and conversion
• Create other online assets in similar style, such as HTML emails, ad landing pages, and more
• Work closely with marketing and management team to ensure successful adoption of the app, and make iterative changes to make them more user-friendly
• Work with the rest of the engineering team (back-end engineers, AI engineers) to optimize the user experience across both the site and the apps

You should have the following qualities:

• Must be an expert in React.js, HTML5, HTML, CSS, and related web technologies.  Ideally also have expertise in Meteor.js.
• Must have expertise in Bootstrap and have built responsive websites with high polish
• Familiarity with AWS environments
• Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment
• Have a point of view on designs, usability, and delivering what the user wants
• Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results
• Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online
• Looking for someone in Bangalore or willing to relocate

What you will need

• 3-6 years of experience.
• Bachelor's Degree and/or master’s degree in Computer Science (or relevant equivalent)
• Proficient with Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different OS versions and mobile devices.
• Proficient with Kotlin, Compose, Jetpack, coroutine, flow, live data and retrofit.
• Familiarity with Material Design guidelines, common mobile UX patterns, and anti-patterns
• Good knowledge of Android framework activities, fragments, related life cycles, intents, content providers etc.
• Debugging skills, including identifying memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, and using tools like MVVM, KMP, etc
• Experience in working in an agile environment and project management tools like Jira

What You will do

• Work alongside product managers and the backend team to design the architecture
• Design, build and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable code.
• Lead design, and implementation of customer-facing features.
• Implement new features in production across Live streaming, Games & Creator pods
• Discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development

Roles and Responsibilities :
- To  analyze business requirements, prepare design and implementation recommendations and estimate development effort
-  Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Lead or participate in design reviews, code reviews and architecture evolution discussions
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Skills Required :
- Experienced with front end programming language with React JS.
- 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).
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
- Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, ).
- Candidates with Good communication Skills. 

·  4 – 5 years of experience in Front end development

·  2 years of experience using React and Redux

·  3 years of experience in using HTML, CSS

·  1 year of experience in any of the Headless CMS such as Ghost or Strapi or Cockpit.

·  2+ years using JavaScript consuming, displaying and updating data using Web APIs (JSON).

·  2+ years of experience using Material UI and JSS.

Do you love React / Javascript / Frontend?

Like solving different problems, up for learning new stuff every day? Do you Like frontend but also like full stack? Like JavaScript but also like other languages? We are looking for the constantly curious and willing-to-try-new things type of people! 

We are mostly React but not only, but we do also push into all types of strange and common.

Typical tools in our toolbox are:

React
Typescript
Redux (RTK toolkit)
Recoil
Create React App
React-Router
CSS / Sass
a lot of vanilla JS
Figma
Git

Great, if you are familiar with:

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.

Position: Lead Frontend Engineer

Location: Bangalore, IN (currently remote)

Employment: Full time

Who We Are?

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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