Frontend Developer

Who are we?  

Whatfix is the #1 Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) for Enterprises. We are disrupting the way Learning, Training and Application Support content is consumed. We provide large enterprises with a SaaS platform that helps accelerate product adoption and reduce support & training efforts by providing contextual and step by step guidance inside any web application at the exact time a task is being performed. The product has redefined the way companies onboard, train, and provide support to users. 

What sets us apart from the rest?

With over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies already onboard as customers, Whatfix has been named among the top 20 B2B tech companies alongside the likes of Adobe, PayPal, and Cisco.

With a YoY growth of 300%, we have also been recognized among the top 50 fastest growing SaaS companies worldwide in the SaaS 1000 list and as a Market Leader by Gartner in the Digital Adoption space. 

We are pleased to have an Employee rating of 4.6 on https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Reviews/Whatfix-Reviews-E1016569.htm" target="_blank">Glassdoor and our Customer obsession can be seen in our reviews on platforms like https://www.g2.com/products/whatfix/reviews" target="_blank">G2 Crowd & https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/customer-communications-management-software/vendor/whatfix/product/whatfix" target="_blank">Gartner Peer Insights.

The employees are happy, the customers are happy, but what about the investors? Take a look for yourself - http://www.sequoiacap.com/" target="_blank">Sequoia Capital || http://www.stellarisvp.com/whatfix-what-we-learnt-from-series-a-to-series-b-in-a-saas-business/" target="_blank">Stellaris || https://blogs.cisco.com/innovation/tomorrows-customer-experience-why-cisco-invested-in-whatfix" target="_blank">Cisco || https://eightroads.com/en/news/our-investment-in-whatfix" target="_blank">Eight Roads || http://www.helionvc.com/blog/we-are-pleased-collaborate-whatfix.html" target="_blank">Helion Ventures

“Hustle Mode ON” is something we live by.

Our Team:

The Engineering team at Whatfix provides end-to-end engineering throughput that forms part of core platforms and services that drive Whatfix's business.

Our team is responsible for creating the Customer Platform and everything around it - be it Analytics, Infrastructure, or Core Algorithms. The team owns and is responsible for all pieces that we design, build and support end to end for Whatfix product/ business.

Our product is built around a core of JAVA with enterprise businesses using the Whatfix system. On a monthly basis, millions of interactive guides are processed. Building, testing, and deploying to any of our environments are as simple as pushing a commit to a git branch. We like to keep our technology up-to-date. All of the technology is built and maintained by this small development team, so from day 1, the software you write will be used by people from all over the world.  

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and develop highly scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant systems for one of the world’s fastest-growing startups
• Work with business to define requirements
• Perform technical design and hands-on coding for development and enhancement efforts
• Develop new user-facing features
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end services
• Promote best practices in design and coding
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Understand the customer needs & implement
• Articulate complex problems communicating viable architecture and design approaches in a clear and concise manner
• Enhance the agile SDLC within the Development Team through new learning, continued growth, and applying industry best practices and processes
• Occasionally participate in customer demos & provide inputs wherever required
• Keep optimizing & automating mundane tasks

You'll be a core member of the team.

Individual growth is important to us. We schedule time every week to explore an interest or learn something new. Team members have also used it to do everything from learning new algorithms to playing with the new framework, to exploring what the new analytics layer could be used for. We also take some time each day to discuss what we're working on, and even pair programs to teach each other about parts of the codebase. There's no risk of stagnation in this job, you would still be hands-on after a few years.

REQUIREMENTS:

We are looking for a Front-End Engineer to help us scale and go deep on our technical capabilities.

• 4 -12 years of professional front-end development experience
• Hands-on experience with Front end technologies - JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, CSS
• Experience with React Ecosystem (React Router, Styled-components, Server-side rendering, Context API, React Hooks) is strongly preferred
• Experience with state management libraries such as Redux is a huge plus.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Experience in backend programming languages such as Java is strongly preferred 
• Experience in building Web applications using frameworks like Spring, Microservice architecture
• Work experience, preferably from internet companies, products, or startups
• Expertise in design principles and their application
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Fast Learner & a Team Player

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

• Great skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and cross browser implementations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience and knowledge about React.js and Next.js
• Strong understanding of how SSR (Server Side Rendering) works.
• Taking figma/zepline files from designers, slicing and/or recreating elements via CSS to match the design perfectly
• Ability to make modifications to libraries as per requirement of a project
• Extensive knowledge of fonts, embedding from third parties like Google, Typekit & Font Deck etc. Knowledge of optimizing CSS/JavaScript performance, coding practices and tools.
• Passion and follow through for their work. Excited and curious about learning new technology, as well as the sharing of ideas. Exceptional collaboration, listening, written, and verbal communication. Able to own individual projects as well as the ability to work within a team.
• Awareness of current design trends in the visual arts, working knowledge of the latest computer packages and an understanding time limits which can impact on the design.
• Knowledge of GIT or any other version control software.

• Good experience on Next.js, with great css skills.
• Should also know the latest strategies available on Next.js v12.

• Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.
• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Identifying web-based user interactions.
• Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using react concepts.
• Writing application interface codes using JavaScript following react.js workflows.
• Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
• Documenting application changes and developing updates.

We are looking for a Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Skills And Qualifications

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding of ReactJS, Native
• Basic understanding of Django REST framework
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as (Git / Mercurial / SVN)
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.

Experience- 3 to 8 years 

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

REQUIREMENTS

• 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
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and sockets
• 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
• Experience with PWAs and React Native is a huge plus

Job Description:

• We are looking for a seasoned front-end developer to join our product team. This role requires you to be a tech-savvy contributor in translating the customer needs and user expectation into interactive web apps. You’ll be an exceptional problem solver and take responsible actions in ensuring the application is optimized both in technology and in delivering the best user experience. You’ll be working on various projects in collaboration with different teams.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces across multiple devices.
• Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating excellent interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules and maintainability of the code.
• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.
• Review and optimize the app usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.
• Responsible for the development of a complete set of architectural views for an enterprise in accordance with numerous open-source technologies, messaging/web service protocols (REST, JSONRPC, SOAP, etc.) and one of the more common architecture frameworks.
• Understanding and presenting the immediate/tactical and strategic benefits of adopting a consistent architectural approach within the context of the client’s business to help the stakeholders justify investments. 
• Assessing the requirements and presenting architectural recommendations that are in line with the strategic vision for the enterprise and wider best practice. 

Requirements:

• 5 to 7 years of relevant work experience as a UI developer, JavaScript expert or front-end engineer
• Sound knowledge in HTML and CSS
• Familiar with UI layouts, SASS, Bootstrap, and the CSS GRID system
• Proficient with JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, Angular 2+ and Ionic framework
• Experience debugging using JavaScript-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
• Passionate to create good design and usability
• Knowledge of Pixi js (is plus)
• Strong business analysis skills and experience, including development of business vision and strategies, functional decomposition, requirements capture, process modeling. 
• Strong knowledge of design and architectural patterns. 
• Experience of software development methodologies and structured approaches to system development. 
• Write high quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines

Person Specification: 

• Should have strong communication and interpersonal skill
• Bright and enthusiastic, self starter
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Outstanding presentation skills
• Implemented CI and Automated frameworks in Enterprise environment 
• Past experience in CI/CD/DevOps practices 
• Qualified in any technical skill assessment platform (Eg: Hacker Ranker, member, stars) in respective technical capabilities 

• Design and develop cloud native enterprise applications as per the strategic application roadmap of DSP
• Ensure strict adherence to code quality, coding standards and overall deliverable quality as per the defined standards
• Write automated unit and integration tests to ensure defect free code
• Learn and develop proof of concepts with newer technologies when required