Frontend Developer

Primary Skills : 

React

Redux

Node basics for API integration

Convert design to code

Good HTML CSS

JS Fundamentals

Job Description:

We are hiring Javascript developers to join our team in developing enterprise mobile applications. This person will work closely with the UX team, as well as, other engineering teams while developing applications and user interfaces.

Experience & Expertise:

• Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript with at least 2+ years of extensive experience on Javascript libraries and micro frameworks
• Expertise on frameworks like , React JS, React Native, Redux, Typescript, etc is highly preferred
• Should have strong hands on mobile cross-platform application development
• Experience integrating user interfaces with middle-tier code and back-end data sources
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and detail-oriented skills
• Must be able to work both on a team or individually, in an adaptable, agile environment
• Excellent communication skills

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the user experience team to develop functional prototypes
• Work with development teams to implement user experience deliverables
• Contribute UI component code to a shared controls library and resource dictionary
• Participate in product definition and strategy development
• Collaborate with team members, developers, and third parties to ensure the integrity of the interaction is maintained throughout the project development life cycle
• Support quality assurance testing processes

Skills Required:

Ionic Framework, Angular 2, Redux, TypeScript, Cross platform, Micro frameworks, React JS, React Native,

Software Engineering

• 4+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining React-based applications
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing medium to large-scale applications using Javascript frameworks
• Experience with projects that involve, improving the reliability and performance of your web-apps, by leveraging different observability tools like Lighthouse, Sentry, and Datadog.
• Good understanding of functional programming paradigms and UI architecture patterns
• A decent understanding of cloud infrastructure like AWS to orchestrate and manage our applications.
• Experience with testing frameworks like JEST, modern auth mechanisms, and server-side rendering through frameworks like NextJS
• Experience with backend technologies like JAVA, and Kotlin would be good to have.

Product Development

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to resolve dependency risks.
• Well-versed in working in an agile environment and being involved in different stages of SDLC - Design, Development, Code Review, Testing, and Release Management
• Ability to work with different CI/CD frameworks, with hands-on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Continuously refactor applications so that they are easy to maintain, easy to extend, and contribute to

Your Tech Stack

Web Application Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails

Programming Languages: ReasonML/Rescript, Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, HTML, CSS

Tools and Libraries: Webpack, Sentry, NextJS, NodeJS, Jest, Figma

Communication: HTTP, GraphQL, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS

Observability: Google Analytics, Lighthouse, Sentry, Kibana, Datadog

What you will build with us?

The front-end platform at Porter is geared toward developing a variety of products for customers, partners, and our internal teams. You will be a part of Porter’s Web Engineering Platform team.

What will be your primary focus?

1. enabling our engineering teams to create highly reliable and scalable software systems, reduce client and server outages and increase system hygiene.
2. building the right set of tooling and flows for our web and mobile teams, for improving developer productivity. This will enable our application teams to churn out user features rapidly and will help them build the best-in-class product solutions for our business teams.
3. work on security initiatives, to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

What will you closely influence?

1. Providing the right user experience to our customers, partners, and cc agents when they reach out to us
2. Building tools to help boost user growth on our platform including our driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models. A step towards sustainable user growth and providing personalized experiences, on our platform
3. Unlocking new growth levels for Porter, in form of our new vibrant customer base through business initiatives like Packers and Movers, Part-Load, and help Porter on its journey to becoming a super Logistic App.
4. Enabling us to engage our partner ecosystem better with our fast-moving initiatives in the Insurance and Lending segments. Your work here will directly impact the livelihood of our partners
5. Solving problems related to optimal pricepoint for partners and customers, matchmaking with supply and demand, and building confidence around payment experience and location tracking.

● 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 as well as HTML and CSS

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

● Working knowledge and integration knowledge with RESTful APIs

● Knowlegde of websockets implementation is a must.

● 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}

● Added advantages if you have working knowledge of AWS

Job Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, the individual must have the following experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, computer science, and/or business, or equivalent work experience.
2. You have experience with developing, maintaining and supporting production applications which have live users using Angular.
3. You have experience with State managment and NgRx (ideally) or any other framework
4. You are NOT a fresh graduate with no production experience
5. You have excellent English speaking skills
6. Strong understanding of the DOM, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
7. 3+ years of in-depth experience with Angular (2/4/8/x)
8. 1+ years of experience with additional web libraries and frameworks. Preferred: NgRx, Rx.js.

Additional Skills Desired

1. Ability to be empathetic and form strong working relations with your team members.
2. Strong understanding of debugging and ability to quickly debug code, find problems and produce fixes.
3. Experience with Responsive Web Design (RWD) patterns
4. Experience with unidirectional data flow patterns (Redux, etc.)
5. Experience with RxJS or other Reactive programming techniques/libraries
6. Experience using ES2015 (ES6) and TypeScript 2.x
7. Indepth experience in using GIT and understanding of GIT workflows Experience in building and maintaining a reusable components library in angular
8. An excellent eye for detail to bring our products designs to life using pixel perfect styling, interactions and animation.
9. Familiarity with agile development practices (a/b testing,unit testing,continuous deployment,continuous integration,scrums) and worked in a product driven environment.
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate technical concepts to a wide variety of audience.
11. Proven ability to work with designers and other non-technical and technical team members (wireframes, rapid prototypes, PoC’s, white boarding)

• Experience in developing large scale, highly available, complex front-end development using JavaScript, React.js and ReactNative.
• Strong knowledge in both web and mobile application development.
• Knowledge, skills, and experience to write detailed design documentation, and functional specifications for application development.
• Write well designed, efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Work with other senior Developers to resolve/debug program errors.
• Knowledge and ability to apply OOD (Java, HTML, XML, Java Script, and Patterns) and impact to the application development process.
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies (preferably Scrum).
• Knowledge of database design and data structure libraries,(e.g., Immutable.js).
• Developing new user-facing features using React.js.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Actively aid the consulting team in different phases of the project including problem definition, effort estimation, diagnosis, solution generation, design development and deployment.
• Experience with data structure libraries,(e.g, Immutable.js).
• Contributing to team meetings, troubleshooting development.
• Good understanding of HTML CSS and front-end design technologies.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships, supporting company leadership and other team members.
• Ability to manage multiple and changing priorities/tasks.
• Must like to continuously improve code, product and process.
• Must work with a strong professional and ownership mindset.
• Strong working experience in JavaScript, ReactNative and ReactJs is required.
• In-depth understanding of Javascript, the DOM, and relevant concepts.
• Proficiency in Typescript.
• Should have hands-on experience with testing libraries like jest & enzyme.
• Must be strong in logic and coding abilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must be passionate and self-motivated.
• Excellent team player and good communication skills.