Frontend Developer

Profile: React.js

Location:  Mumbai

Experience Required: 2+ Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum 2+ years of professional experience in React.js development
• Core Technologies:Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+)
• Extensive experience with React.js and its ecosystem
• Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design
• Experience with state management libraries (Redux, Context API)
• Knowledge of modern build tools (Webpack, Vite, etc.)
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git)
• Technical Skills:Understanding of RESTful API integration
• Experience with testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library)
• Knowledge of modern CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, Material-UI, Tailwind CSS)
• Familiarity with TypeScript is a plus
• Understanding of performance optimization techniques

Software Engineer - Frontend

Experiencing the world we live in is fundamental to our collective happiness and progress as a society. Headout’s mission is, and will always be, to unlock this happier world by connecting amazing in-person experiences with people all over the globe, giving them the opportunity to be entertained, educated and inspired. We are evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences at the push of a button. By combining delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations, our single minded focus is on solving a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time? On this mission, we've already served 7M+ guests from 190 countries who have headed out to an experience with us. While building scale that drives $200M+ in annualised sales, we hit profitability that is such a rarity on the back of our superior model.

As travel and in-person experiences recover, Headout is playing a critical role in our return to our way-of-life. With pent-up demand, generation and digitisation of experiences having been pushed forward by a decade, there is no better time to build than NOW.

We at Headout, like to solve real-world problems in the simplest & most elegant manner possible. We're seeking Frontend Engineers with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. We also love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun. ;-)

👩‍💻 The Role

• Craft the front-end architecture, develop our core features, and collaborate with our Product & Design teams to build something useful and beautiful.
• Build slick UI interfaces to provide the best user experience.
• Get your hands dirty with cross-platform architectural challenges, new frameworks, design patterns, and technologies.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• 2+ years of experience developing front-end platforms preferably in a high-growth startup.
• Solid hands-on experience with Javascript ES5 and ES6.
• Experience with NodeJS, Typescript, browser dev-tools etc.
• An opinion and preferably hands-on experience of CSS in JS vs old school style of writing CSS.
• Experience developing responsive designs using open source frameworks or even better, an attempt at your own framework.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and it's underlying communication protocols.
• People who give up anything to optimize that animation that they just created.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in UX, travel, local experiences & hospitality.

• Object-oriented JavaScript,
• jQuery,
• ES6,
• React JS (Versions 16.8 & below),
• Redux (Action Type, Action Creator & Reducers),
• Middleware(Redux-Thunk, Redux-Saga),
• React Hooks,
• Axios & Fetch library,
• Managing States & Props efficiently,
• React Forms,
• Validation (Schema & Non-Schema using any third-party library or custom),
• the candidate should be aware of the production build process,
• HTML5,
• knowledge of CSS,
• Rest API integration knowledge,
• Authentication(Token Based) & Authorization with Routes

• Building, Designing, Testing, and Deploying web apps.
•  Thoroughly explore & understand the under-hood of products in the market, strengths & fault-lines of each.
• Drive from Conceptualisation to Deployment of analytics suite of products that are robust and can stand the test of time when our data size is multiplying month-on-month.
• Work closely with designers & product managers to build things that are normally regarded as holy grails in browser-based analytics applications.
• Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
• Interacting with team members, and customers to continuously look for better innovations for all teams across Trade Brains

We are looking for a skilled and experienced 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 expectations into interactive web apps. You’ll be an exceptional problem solver and take responsible actions in ensuring the application is optimised both in technology and in delivering the best user experience. If you share our passion to create and define interactive web pages, we are happy to hear from you!

What You'll do-

• Work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces across multiple devices.
• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.
• Review and optimize usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs-Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating awesome interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules, and ensuring the maintainability of the code.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.

Technical Requirements-

• At least 1 to 3 years of relevant work experience as a web developer, UI developer, JavaScript expert, or a frontend engineer
• Be familiar with Responsive Web Design, common Web UX patterns and anti-patterns
• Be able to tell good design from bad design
• Be able to write clean, maintainable code which others can work on
• Familiar with UI layouts, SASS, bootstrap, and Material UI
• Experience debugging using popular JavaScript-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
• You have mastery in DOM manipulation (including jQuery) and understand components, CTAs
• Know browser behaviour, performance, compatibility and cross-browser issues
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git,
• You take pride in working on advanced CSS, animations and responsiveness
• You seem to have good architectural & design skills
• Ability to own, end to end responsibility - right from the requirement to release
• Ability to produce bug-free and production-grade code
• Be great at debugging, including identifying page speed and performance bottlenecks, using tools like Chrome Dev Tools, React Dev Tools, etc.
• The skills that we consider - CSS, JavaScript, React, Redux, Node.js

Required Skills

• Javascript, ReactJS, Redux, NodeJS, HTML, CSS

Good to have-

• Knowledge of TDD frameworks mocha, chai, jest etc.
• Understanding of Typescript
• Understanding of ReactJS based frameworks like NextJS, Gatsby, etc.
• Understanding of REST API
• Passionate to create good design and usability

Your Responsibilities

• You will be a rockstar front end engineer bringing to life designs and solutions created in collaboration with designers and product managers. You will be responsible for converting the requirements to fast, optimised, usable interfaces, loved by our users.
• You will be the main source of knowledge on everything “front end” related and guide the team to make correct technical decisions to ensure the speed and scale of the solutions deployed.
• Collaborate daily with back-end developers and web designers to improve the usability
• You will be a key person in ensuring that agile processes created by the team are adhered to and you actively contribute to the improvement of these processes. You will be responsible for estimating your tasks and ensuring that promised timelines are met.
• You will be responsible for the performance, security, scalability, reusability and quality of the applications under you. You will collaborate with senior engineering managers/architects to refine & improve your solutions. You will cascade the same culture across the team by supporting and mentoring team members, helping build truly scalable applications
• You will need to collaborate closely with product managers, designers and business stakeholders to achieve predictable results at a rapid pace. 
• You will be able to handle competing priorities and chart the best course of action for yourself and your team members ensuring blockers are removed
• You will help in attracting and evaluating tech talent to help build the engineering brand of the organization.

Desired background & skills

• 3-9 years of experience as an engineer at top tier digital product companies across consumer or SMB. 
• 3+ years of experience in working on front end JS frameworks like React/Angular/Vue
• Excellent knowledge of working with responsive and adaptive designs. Expert in HTML5, JAVAScript, JQuery & CSS. Basic knowledge of SEO.
• Experience of design collaboration tools such as Zeplin, Figma, XD, Invision. 
• Bonus if either you’re a full stack developer with knowledge of the back end or have experience with cross-platform mobile technologies such as React Native or Flutter.
• You have strong problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms. 
• Passion to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment. conscientious, curious, hard-working individual who craves accountability and loves to solve complex problems.
• You get a kick out of people using and loving your produced outcome.