Frontend Developer

About Supaboard

Supaboard is data analytics and BI platform that is build for business teams. You can browse through all your data in a from one centralised place, ask questions to our role specific data analyst and build dashboards that are realtime, dynamic and embeddable — all of this without writing a single line of code or data expertise.

About the Job

This is a full-time, on-site role for Frontend Engineer in Bangalore. This role will provide an unique and challenging opportunity to work on various projects within Supaboard, helping us ship quality products to our users.

How you will be contributing to the Engineering Team?

As a part of the engineering and development team, you will be working first hand with the founders to build a data analytics platform that can scale without compromising on user experience.

As a frontend developer, you will be responsible for:

• Maintenance of existing product codebase(s)
• Adding features based on requires provided
• De-triages and bug fixes
• Other tasks related to frontend development

You will also be working and communicating closely with the design team in order to improve UI/UX and understand the design philosophy and design system in place.

What Technologies you need to know?

Language and Frontend Framework:

• Typescript
• ReactJS
• NextJS
• Tanstack React Router
• Tanstack React Query

Charting Library: A thorough understanding of the basics of charting tools like D3.JS and DC.JS is necessary.

What does it take to survive at Supaboard?

• You have previously worked/want to work as a Frontend Engineer, preferably at a startup that has prioritised speed and quality above all else, and has shipped high quality products to their customers.
• You have a passion for building the next big piece of software that is going to revolutionise the industry and you do not like to limit or handheld by user stories and design wireframes.
• You have good communication skills that is not shy from asking questions for clarity, or discussing your own ideas, plans, and opinions with the team.
• You take pride in what you do, have the a positive arrogance towards the skillset you have, the humility to learn new things and the courage to fail and fix your mistakes.
• You can work autonomously and are open to feedback.

Some Extra skillsets that you will be great

• You have experience with building multi-tenant SaaS applications
• You understand how data analytics works
• You have worked with applications that handled and scaled huge amounts of data for online and offline data use-cases.
• You have experience working with GenAI applications

Why should you consider joining Supaboard?

• You will join the early team of Supaboard, work with product driven founders and have a greater impact on the evolution of the engineering organisation and the company
• You will have a lot of challenging work and the autonomy to take full ownership in solving those challenging problems and get to see the impact it generated with customers
• You get to have a fun work environment. We never know when the work ends and fun starts and vice versa
• As a part of the early team, you will have a competitive salary with ESOPs.
• You get to define how your product should evolve and have complete autonomy in experimenting with your ideas.

Responsibilities Include:

• Translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of custom analytics products and wide web applications
• Will work with the R&D and Analytics team to bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation
• Take an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works

Ideal Candidate

• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience developing new user-facing features
• Strong working knowledge of front-end frameworks (Angular 2+ versions)
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• Experience building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensuring 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

Desired Skills:

• Experience leveraging data analysis to construct strategic narrative
• Excellent problem-solving/analytical skills and ability to break down large complex concepts
• Knowledgeable in web standards and responsive design
• Strong UI/UX and design experience with the ability to simplify complex scenarios to the average user without losing functionality
• Knowledgeable in web standards and responsive design
• Familiarity with Agile project management principles
• Confidence to drive assignments to completion

Responsibilities:

• Works as part of a team to continually refresh and enhance our users’ web experiences using an Agile Development Methodology. 

• Build and ship features with an understanding of Javascript, CSS and HTML best practices.

• Coordinate with back-end engineers to provide a cohesive experience.

Must-Have:

• 2+ years of extensive exposure in developing web applications using the latest front-end technologies

• Expertise in the following area:

• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and JS frameworks, such as jQuery,

• Responsive & Adaptive web design

• CSS frameworks like SASS/LESS

• Able to work both independently and in a team environment.

• Adequate knowledge of Version Control Systems like Git

Mandatory Skills to have:

• Drupal Must-Have:

• Prior hands-on experience with Drupal Projects.

• Develop web-based application for analytics using Angular
• Integrate and extend Python REST APIs and create visually stunning UI experiences for analysts and users.
• Create flexible dashboards and reports (using plotly, d3, etc) and  leverage open source technology to create various components.
• Create a flexible UI for data analytics and big data usecases which can be used by Large Tier banks as well as smallscale agile startups
• Write unit tests and functional tests for the component using tools like Jasmine, Karma, Cypress, etc.
• Follow software development practices with continuous testing, development and integration (CD/CI)
• Write and maintain technical design documents and new-feature documents
• Collaborate closely with developers, engineers, testers, and product managers
• Participate in peer-based code reviews and design reviews
• Follow agile methodology and encourage collaboration with tools such as GIT, Confluence and Slack applications
• Undergraduate degree or above in computer science preferred

Required Qualifications

• Knows SPA and frontend technologies well
• Has used atleast 1 web framework: Angular / React / Vue / etc. and comfortable with Javascript/Typescript.
• Experience with styling (CSS / SCSS / others) frameworks like bootstrap, material, foundation, tailwind, etc. is a plus
• Knowledge on visualization frameworks like D3, plotly, highcharts, chart.js, etc. to make customizable dashboards.
• Has used testing libraries like karma, jest, jasmine, cypress, selenium, etc.
• Familiar with with frontend processes like State management (Redux), Reactive programming (rxjs), Authentication methods (JWT, SAML) etc. 
• Basic knowledge about APIs (flask, django, nodejs) and worked on deploying web applications (nginx or apache or cloud technologies like AWS, GCP, docker, etc.) will be beneficial.

• Strong development experience of 2 years using front end technologies such as HTML,  JavaScript, CSS, JQuery, HTML5, React JS, Angular 4 or higher , Type Script
• Skilled at Object Oriented JavaScript and having a working knowledge of at least one of  the following MVC Frameworks (Angular, Ember, React etc.)
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment) 
• Understanding of common frontend design patterns for developing high performance, user friendly and robust applications