Frontend Developer

**Job Title**: UX Designer

**Location**: Remote

**Job Type**: Freelancing

**Introduction**:

We are seeking a creative and detail-oriented UX Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong portfolio of successful UX and other technical projects and will be responsible for designing the overall functionality of the product and ensuring a great user experience.

**Responsibilities**:

– Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.

– Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.

– Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

– Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.

– Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.

– Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.

– Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

– Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas.

**Qualifications**:

– Three or more years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.

– Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.

– Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.

– Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.

– A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.

– Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.

– Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.

– A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.

– Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.

**Benefits**:

– Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

– Opportunities for professional development and career growth.

– Flexible working hours, including provisions for remote work.

– A creative and inclusive work environment.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Plan, architect, integrate, and develop back-end and database driven features using the Python language and frameworks (Django, Flask, Tornado)

• Experience on Micro service architecture

• Strong knowledge on Web services/API

• Strong Knowledge on AWS/Azure, Docker, etc..

• Having great knowledge on software development methodologies, languages, technologies, security threats, etc.

• Create decoupled, interactive web UIs using JavaScript (Angular, Ember, jQuery, React Js)

• Provide technical advise and recommendations for language and software choices

• Develop code that is cross-browser and cross-platform friendly

• Collaborate with project stakeholders to ensure all requirements are met

• Evaluate technologies and manage technical planning

• Support and ongoing development for existing projects

• Provide clean code and proper documentation for each project

• Assists in resolving moderately complex production support problems

• Strong writing and speaking skills (English)

Technical Requirements:

• At least 4+ years experience developing and deploying websites and applications

• Experience with Django

• Experience with Agile/SCRUM practices

• Hands on experience on database like PostgreSQL,MySQL, Mongo db, etc.

• Custom web based application development experience

• Comfortable collaborating with designers, front-end developers and other team members

• Object-oriented design and development strategies

● 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

• Deep understanding of JavaScript and Angular Framework
• Understanding of Git and pull requests
• Clear written and spoken communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• 2+ years in web development using Angular

Company Overview: We are a fast-growing vertical SaaS company in Chennai. Our product - GrowSmart - is used by leading project contracting companies across India. Our team values the following: respect for every individual, excellent learning opportunities, challenging work environment, larger responsibilities earlier in your career, commitment towards results, recognition for hard work. Website: https://growsmartsmb.com 

Job Overview: You will be part of the core product engineering team. It’s a small, highly productive team building a large and complex product. Our web app is built with React and Redux. The mobile apps are built with React-Native. The backend is built with NodeJs and PostgreSQL. So, javascript is the language we speak 😉. If you are fluent in javascript, you will be a great fit! This position is primarily for the front-end, but we encourage full-stack developers.

You will be a team player working collaboratively with product leaders, UI designers, and the testing team. Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Unit Testing, and Integration Testing are the major activities you will take up. You will own a feature from UI design to go live.

Skills Expected:

1. Sound understanding of HTML/ DOM / Javascript / CSS.
2. Strong practical expertise in React and Redux.
3. Good understanding of usability, error handling, performance, and reusability concepts.
4. Ability to learn new concepts rapidly.
5. Ability to handle complexity - you will work on a large and complex app, often more than one task at a time.
6. Being self-driven - you enjoy taking ownership; you don’t need constant follow-up from a manager.

Job Highlights: Great opportunity to work on the full-stack in a large and complex product, with a small core team. Modern workplace at the heart of the city – Ashok Nagar. Young and flat team – you get full freedom to learn and grow. Excellent growth opportunity – can take up bigger responsibilities earlier in your career. Medical insurance for self. Due recognition and appreciation for hard work.

We are looking for a smart, passionate hands-on engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible to drive innovation in full-stack development of complex web applications, while improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

You should:

1. Have thorough knowledge of JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap.
2. Be familiar with different PHP CMS (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla) and frameworks.
3. Be able to unit test the code components; Document the code and the functionality.
4. Be a good and quick learner, and open to learn new technologies in JavaScript Frameworks.
5. Good to have experience in MySQL/ MariaDB databases.
6. Good to have experience working with outside data sources and API’s.
7. Have Good Communication skills.

1. Deliver stable and scalable solutions in HTML, and JavaScript
2. Update existing components to support changing needs.
3. Improve the internal team culture of high-quality software development.
4. Cooperate with team members on maintaining existing solutions beyond means of code development.
5. Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

What we offer:

• Various challenges ranging from scratch design/architecture to end-user experienced performance.
• Flexible working process, openness to suggestions and a fresh point of view.
• Room for self-improvement and knowledge exchange within the team.
• Close cooperation with Customer Experience Team providing actual feedback on end-user experience.
• Transparent cooperation with business stakeholders.