Frontend Developer

Athena Education is a leading college counseling institute with offices in Gurgaon, Bangalore, and Mumbai, with students across India, the US, Singapore, and Dubai. At Athena, we have one deep, driving purpose: how to work with students towards their holistic development and get them into the world’s top universities.

Over the years, we have built an unmatched program in Athena’s Personal Mentorship, which is the most powerful counseling program in India for Ivy-League admissions.

Athena was founded five years ago by two Princeton graduates, Poshak Agrawal and Rahul Subramaniam. Both are passionate about India’s growth story and love operating in entrepreneurial environments, building educational institutions to provide the highest-quality mentorship and training. 
 

Athena's Counseling Process is tech-enabled and we want to make it more robust and tech-driven. We are working towards Athena being an Ed-Tech organization

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Familiarity with cutting edge technologies to be able to leverage them for product enhancement
• Analyze, organize raw data and generate reports
• Interpret trends and patterns 
• Collaborate with data scientists and architects on several projects
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Willingness to take on challenges to enhance your skills as well as benefit the company. 

Key Attributes

• Exceptional experience with modern component-based JavaScript frameworks and libraries like React.JS, Redux or other state management libraries 
• Proficiency in HTML and CSS
• Familiarity with server-side MVC frameworks
• Experience with cross-browser compatibility
• (Big plus!) Mobile and web UI/UX experience, passion for stunning Material Design interfaces
• Excellent analytical and time management skills
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
• Willingness to learn and help others learn newer or existing technologies 

 

Education and Experience

 

• BTech/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field (preferably from Tier 1/IITs)
• 2 years of relevant work experience. 

Location/Work Environment

The Vatika Triangle; Gurgaon, India

• We have built a creative space in a top corporate building in a prime location in Gurgaon
• The office is on M.G. Road, a 2-minute walk from the M.G. Road Metro Station.

Our team consists of creative and colourful characters, all goal-oriented and hungry for growth (and healthy snacks). The work environment is a mixture of formal and playful, as we all strive to get things done while sipping Italian coffee brewed in house. 

 

We are looking for a Lead Frontend Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the science of programming. - Responsibilities include ownership of front-end development for customer-facing dashboard, websites, applications, and translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application, as well as building the logic that powers these visual elements. - You will interface with a large bunch of APIs on a daily basis that acts as a source of data and feed them to customer-facing elements. - You will bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works Responsibilities : - Own the development lifecycle end-to-end, from system design, all the way to production - High level and low level design of the system - Decide the technologies to employ - Build reusable code and libraries for future use - Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs - Employ best practices that enable managing a large and rapidly growing codebase - Ensure automated testing and monitoring of the application - Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability Skills : - Excellent understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, like SCSS, HTML5, AngularJS, ReactJS, REST/JSON API is a must - Ability to evaluate and decide between a multitude of frameworks - Experience in designing and building large complex applications using javascript. - Experience in owning and managing large (at least a few thousand lines of code) codebases in JavaScript. - Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML, CSS - Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. - Experience in usage of JavaScript design patterns - Experience and focus on best practices for maintainable code - Expertise in performance optimization. - Knowledge of latest developments in the frontend technologies is an advantage.  - Being plugged-in into the same is a huge plus - Worked in B2B technology product will be plus Job Perks Insurance, Trave help and others

Responsibilities:  Develop our product’s frontend  Strengthen and improve architecture of our front end.  Optimize applications for maximum speed  Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability  Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers  Write functional requirement documents and guides  Strengthen and improve development and release processes within the team.  Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies Requirements:  Minimum of 6 years of work-experience as a Front-end developer  Experience in developing frontend applications at scale  Strong knowledge and experience with JavaScript, CSS, Angular, AJAX and jQuery  In-depth understanding of the entire web development process  Knowledge of high-level programming concepts like promises, data binding.  An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment  Excellent analytical and multitasking skills

Responsibilities :

- Handles the complete frontend architecture for COUTLOOT which is efficient with abstracted, reusable front-end pieces and systems.

- Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Mobile, Backend, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution.

- Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.

- Develop compelling features for awesome user flow.

- Work closely with UX designer to implement compelling front end solution keeping.

- Performance and cross-browser limitations in mind.

- Work directly with UI/UX, Product and Customer Success to help create impacting customer features as the product face of COUTLOOT.

Requirements :

- You have at least 3+ years software Frontend development experience, including working with modern Javascript frameworks.

- Strong understanding of JavaScript/Object Oriented JS, its quirks, and workarounds.

- Proficient understanding of Cross-Browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues.

- Understanding of UI Componentization and Modularization.

- You have experience with one or more of these: Angular, React & Node.js.

- Working knowledge of GIT and Agile tracking software.

- Ability to understand and identify problems across multiple code languages and provide solutions or thoughts

- You are familiar with writing testable code with coverage.

- Backend integration and API design, as well as considering security measurements of the complete stack SEO Knowledge will be Plus.

- Experience in building responsive web UI which works flawlessly on web & mobile.

We are looking for a Web Designer who will be responsible for creating great websites for our clients. Primary duties include conceptualizing and implementing creative ideas for client websites, as well as creating visual elements that are in line with our clients' branding. You will be working closely with our web development team to ensure a proper and hassle-free implementation.

Web Designer Responsibilities:
Conceptualizing creative ideas with clients. Testing and improving the design of the website. Establishing design guidelines, standards, and best practices. Maintaining the appearance of websites by enforcing content standards. Designing visual imagery for websites and ensuring that they are in line with branding for clients. Working with different content management systems. Communicating design ideas using user flows, process flows, site maps and wireframes. Incorporating functionalities and features into websites. Designing sample pages including colors and fonts. Preparing design plans and presenting the website structure.

Web Designer Requirements:
A relevant diploma in related field. Proficiency in graphic design software including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and other visual design tools. Proficiency in front-end development web programming languages such as PHP, HTML and CSS, JQuery, and JavaScript,MYSQL. Good understanding of content management systems. Good understanding of search engine optimization principles. Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues. Excellent visual design skills. Up-to-date experience with international web protocols, standards, and technologies. Creative and open to new ideas. Adaptable and willing to learn new techniques. Excellent communication skills.

We are looking for a highly skilled Front End Developer who is passionate to create a user- friendly environment by writing code on the client side of our web applications. This is a great opportunity to work on existing and new applications, and gain tremendous experience in multiple functional areas setting the stage for a well rounded career in development. Responsibilities Collaborating with back-end developers and designers to build and maintain high quality products on the web Developing new user-facing features Taking ownership of the features built and maintaining them by using software engineering best practices Constantly learning new best practices and technologies and adopting them Requirements Proficiency in web markups including HTML5 and CSS3 Strong fundamentals in Javascript and clear understanding of Javascript classes, prototype based inheritance, modules, etc Knowledge of Javascript frameworks such as AngularJS / EmberJS / ReactJS and libraries like Backbone / JQuery Experience in CSS preprocessors like SASS and LESS Working knowledge of cross-browser and cross-platform design issues Willingness to learn new best practices and technologies