Frontend Developer

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

• Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.
• Sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.
• Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems. 
• Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.
• Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact. 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field. 
• Minimum 3+ years of UI/Frontend development and a strong understanding of building complex layouts using JavaScript, CSS and HTML.

KEY SKILLS

• Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns including vanilla JavaScript, some experience with ReactJS, Redux, React Native, Webpack, and Typescript or similar library/tools.
• Obsessed with WPO (Web Performance Optimization) and web/mobile performance analysis.
• Experienced with web standards and protocols such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and socket APIs in general.
• Familiar with web security, SEO, accessibility and internationalization.

Job Description

Job Location - Hyderabad & Ahmedabad

What you'll do:

· Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development: Angular, ionic, Node, TypeScript, JavaScript, Apache Cordova, RESTful APIs and more

· Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible

· Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible

· Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Automate feature testing and contribute UI testing framework

· Become a subject matter expert for our mobile applications

· Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off

· Mentor junior developers on the team

What we’re looking for:

· Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around.

· A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time.

· A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts.

· Confidence, not ego. You have an ability to collaborate with others and see all sides of the coin to come to the best solution for everyone.

· Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary

Preferred Qualifications:

· Proficient with Apache Cordova framework

· Built or maintained custom Cordova plugin

· Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS

· Understanding of Apple certificate and profile management

· Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers

· Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8-12 years of experience in front-end development, with a strong focus on React.js.
• Proven experience with React.js and related technologies (e.g., Redux, React Router, Hooks, Context API).
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern front-end build tools (e.g., Webpack, Babel, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, Server Sent Events, WebSockets
• Hand’s on experience with web components, microfrontends
• Deep understanding of browser apis like history, intersectionobserver, event handling, virtual panes, drag and drop etc
• Ability to work on a complex and fast moving code base.
• Familiarity with TypeScript and its integration with React applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Drive UI/UX & design aspects of the platform Innovate on UX to provide the best possible experience to the customer
• Convert UI design wireframes to functional UI (HTML/CSS/JS)
• Build high performant UI features
• Optimise existing features for better performance
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Complete the assigned features with validations
• Should take end-to-end ownership and pride in building assigned features
• Collaborate across the teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Budget work and stick to the deadlines
• Requirements
  
  • 3+ years of experience as a front-end developer
  • At least one product built and published
  • Proven experience in building/or been a lead contributor in a tech set-up
  • Strong analytical and structural thinking skills
  • Passion to build beautiful, responsive and performant user experiences
  • Strong understanding and fundamentals in Javascript & JQuery
  • Proficient in React.js, material design concepts, UI/UX best practices and design standards
  • Willing to work on pure Javascript based projects as well as React.js based projects
  • Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and their solutions.
  • Proficient in HTML5 CSS3
  • Proficient with CSS preprocessors LESS and SASS

• 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

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding and knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS etc.
• 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
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them

Responsibilities :

• Manage product milestones, deployment cycles & overall product roadmap 
• Understanding of the threading limitations of AngularJs, reactjs, and multi-process architecture 
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies like AWS 
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns 
• Sound knowledge of Databases Postgres is a must including Performance Tuning, Designing and optimized Postgres databases and queries 
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audience 
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application 
• At least 3-5 years of experience in consumer product engineering and architecture, with proven track record of architect impactful products in the internal CRMand consumer domain. 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git 
• Ship great products under stringent deadlines and in the face of ambiguous requirements and changing business priorities 
• Maintain Code Quality, Implement Standards & improve overall understanding

What lands you in this role :

• Exceptional leadership skills and proven experience in shaping team culture
• Strong grasp of full-stack networking, scalable web back-end, and all genres of platforms
• Must have Bachelor degree in computer science from a Tier-1 College
• Multitasking & problem solving approach