Frontend Developer

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Frontend Developer to join our team, responsible for building fast, scalable, and maintainable web applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript,Flutter and relevant frameworks, with a passion for creating intuitive and engaging user interfaces.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design and develop responsive, mobile-first UI components and features

- Write clean, modular, and reusable code

- Collaborate with backend developers and designers to integrate APIs and design assets

- Implement accessibility and web performance optimization techniques

- Troubleshoot and debug frontend issues

- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of the codebase

Requirements:

- 3+ years of experience in frontend development

- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and relevant frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Flutter)

- Experience with build tools like Webpack, Gulp, or Grunt

- Knowledge of version control systems like Git

- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

- Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice to Have:

- Experience with modern frontend build tools and workflows

- Familiarity with backend technologies and APIs

- Knowledge of web performance optimization techniques

- Experience with accessibility guidelines and best practices

About us:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behaviour to scan applications for 8300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As an SDE I Front-End Engineer at our company, you will play a crucial role in the development of the dashboard for our SaaS security platform.

Your primary focus will be on utilising Next.js, React, TypeScript, shadcn/ui (built on Radix UI), Tailwind CSS & TanStack Query to create an intuitive and efficient dashboard that meets the evolving needs of our users.  You will have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals, collaborating to deliver innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in web development. The role requires deep collaboration with the leadership, product, design, back-end and QA teams.

Join our team and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge SaaS security platform, where high-quality engineering and continuous learning are at the core of everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product managers, product designers, and backend engineers to understand project requirements and translate them into code.
• You will research, design and code. What you create is also what you own.
• Develop consistent and user-friendly web interfaces based on Figma designs, using Next.js, React and shadcn/ui
• Utilize TypeScript for type safety and enhanced development workflows, ensuring code quality and reliability.
• Implement designs using shadcn/ui design kit (built on Radix UI) for consistent and modern UI components + utilize Tailwind CSS to style components and ensure a cohesive visual experience across the dashboard.
• Integrate Tanstack Query & Jotai for efficient data fetching and state management.
• Optimize web performance and ensure compatibility across different browsers and devices.
• Write clean, modular, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices, security and coding standards.
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring code quality.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues pre/post production, ensuring timely resolution to minimize impact on users. Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Ensuring timely delivery of the features/products
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends, incorporating them into the development process when appropriate.

Requirements

• 3+ year of work experience with Next.js (preferred) or React
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Strong proficiency in Next.js and React, with demonstrable experience building web applications.
• Experience working with design systems and UI libraries, preferably shadcn/ui (built on Radix UI).
• Proficiency in CSS, particularly with Tailwind CSS, for styling and layout.
• Familiarity with state management libraries such as Tanstack Query(React Query)/Jotai.
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.
• Understanding of basic UX principles and what makes a great user experience
• Solid understanding of web development concepts such as HTML, JavaScript, and responsive design principles.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote team environment.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies and methodologies.

Benefits

• Embrace the cosy remote work lifestyle.
• Feel the startup adrenaline pumping through your veins.
• Revel in our open, growth-centric ambiance; it's like a digital playground.
• Dive deep into the captivating world of cybersecurity.
• And yes, get ready for some unforgettable workcations—think Chikmagalur & Jim Corbett. 

Core responsibilities

•      Collaborate with product teams to more accurately define new features

•      Collaborate with UX in the building of a design system/component library

•      Ensure high performance of all systems developed

•      Aware of the relationship between development and business with a strong sense of ownership

•      Employ the latest techniques such as agile software development

•      Good knowledge of highly scalable server-side development

•      Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux

•      Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Javascript (Angular/React)

•      Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills

•      Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts

Job Brief

•      JavaScript and Typescript expertise with Angular Framework

.    Must have Monorepo experience with Nx from initial setup to CI/CD and maintenance. 

•      Experience with libraries such as bootstrap, Ag-grid, formly, observables, and ngrx

•      You enjoy working with new technologies, and are curious and energetic

•      Experience working with REST APIs

•       Good understanding about authentication and security

•      Create and maintain various unit and integration tests

•      You enjoy working in a creative and agile environment that moves fast

•      Ability and interest in providing mentorship to junior members of the team

•      Write high quality code and Conduct code reviews

•      Being resourceful and detail-oriented, along with being an outside the box thinker!

•      Experience being a great team player, who work collaborative, and brings a positive attitude

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions.
• May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm.
• The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages.
• Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability, and scalability.
• Review code of development team to ensure quality and adherence to best practices and standards.
• Mentor junior developers to develop their skills and build strong talent.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure partners to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments.
• Define scalability and performance criteria for assigned applications.
• Ensure application meets the performance, privacy, and security requirements.
• Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements.
• Support business and technical presentations in relation to technology platforms and business solutions.
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls.
• Help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements.
• implement technology-specific best practices that are consistent with corporate standards.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project deliverables.
• Manage the software development process.
• Drive new technical and business process improvements.
• Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense.
• Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and contributes to the solution design.
• Construct application Architecture encompassing end-to-end designs.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree required with Masters, or equivalent experience preferred
• Minimum of 7 years of related experience.
• 7+ Years of Active Development Experience/ Expertise in Java/J2EE Based Applications proven ability with Hibernate, JPA, Spring, Spring MVC
• Exposure to XML/XSD, JSON and similar data presentation components
• Familiarity with Microservices based architecture and distributed systems.
• Ability to develop and work with REST APIs using Spring Boot framework.
• Knowledge of IBM MQ and messaging protocols such as JMS
• Understanding of Unix/Linux OS including shell scripting
• Strong database and PL/SQL skills
• Experience with CI/CD technologies like GIT, Jenkins, JoCoCo and Maven
• Experience with UI frameworks - Angular, NodeJS and NPM is a plus
• Experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and similar UI frameworks (jQuery, React Angular) is a plus
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology

Responsibilities:

● Develop and maintain front-end dependencies/codebase.

● Building responsive and elegant mobile & desktop web applications

● Good to have experience of one or more relevant languages (Python, Ruby, Node.js etc.)

● Work closely with the product manager, designer & development team to collaborate to develop the best in class web applications.

● Optimisation of the website as per industry trends.

● Evaluate competitive and innovative products and design approaches to identify best practices and encourage innovation.

Skills:

● Hands on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript

● Experience in modern web development technologies and techniques, including HTML5, CSS3.

● Experience in any of the frameworks: ReactJs/ Angular / VueJs.

● Experience in translating design mockups and prototypes into frontend applications.

● Experience in effective componentization/abstraction during design translation.

● Experience in effective state management strategies like redux and hooks to scale application better.

● Understands how to optimize the delivery of code and assets (e.g., images, fonts) to a browser or device (e.g.,lazy loading assets, using CDNs caching, compression, etc)

● Understands how to be efficient with resource usage (e.g., application impact on memory and CPU, caches as needed, respectful of customer's device limits etc).

● Good understanding and hands on with PWA (AMP is good to have).

● Good knowledge of version control systems.

● Good understanding of any of the following frontend frameworks, bootstrap, material-UI, semantic-UI.

● Ability to provide deliverables within specified deadlines with a quality bar.

● Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

● Highly motivated, self-driven, self-learner

● Experience in flutter is good to have.

JOB PURPOSE

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• Develop application using Angular JS (worked on Express JS, JEST), Angular 6 
• This is a hands-on role which involves writing code, testing, and deploying finished web applications and libraries

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITY

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• Design, rapid prototype, and implement a scalable, reliable and maintainable node based web application
• Enforce code quality through test driven development
• Enhance, refactor, and continuously improve the existing codebase
• Collaborate closely with team to define product requirements
• Aggressively collect, analyse, and act on data about product performance
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical people
• Proactive in keeping your skills updated

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

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• Excellent working knowledge of core Java, Node JS, JavaScript, ES6, Micro services
• 4-6 year's overall development experience (At least 2 years of experience in Node JS and Angular JS)
• Good understanding of security in Micro service and Web Applications
• Good understanding of OOP, and design patterns
• Experience in working with databases - SQL and Non-SQL Databases

EDUCATION

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• Minimum education: Any Graduate BE/B.Tech would be desirable
• Languages: Excellent English written & spoken

• Participate in the design of the solution based on business requirements gathered
• and analyzed by analysts
• Develop new features for mobile/web applications
• Build reusable code and libraries across platforms
• Optimize applications in terms of scalability and stability
• Use the best coding standards and practices, to assure the quality of the code
• Perform development testing
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• 4+ years of experience in Frontend Development
• Angular 6 and Above
• REST API
• Typescript , HTML, CSS ,JavaScript
• React Native
• Having experience in both Mobile/Web development

• Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science or in similar areas
• Minimum of 4+ years work experience in creating front-end (mobile/web)
• applications, using Angular 6+, Typescript, JavaScript and React Native
• Experience with HTML, CSS and Bootstrap.
• Experience with Agile (SCRUM) methodologies
• Experience with Unit Testing and TDD
• Experience with REST based APIs
• Knowledge of iOS or Android development is a plus
• Excellent capacity to work autonomously or integrated in a team
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proactivity and ability to adapt in a context in which priorities often change
• Developed sense of responsibility, oriented to customer solutions and associated
• improvements
• Fluent in English - written and spoken (mandatory)

Build large scale web applications with Single Page Applications (SPA) architecture.

Experience to develop MV(C) based front end frameworks.

Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS.

Experience with JavaScript frameworks like Angular, preferably React.JS.

Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, AJAX and Redux.

Proficient with Chrome Developer Tools.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Restful API services.

Experience in using performance, analytics and UX tools.

Experience with pull request process and contributing to OSS on github.com.

Experience with unit testing frameworks Mocha and Chai.

Experience with Jenkins.