Frontend Developer - Lead Software Engineer

Who are we?

With millions of transactions each month, Animall is one of the world’s fastest growing agritech companies. We continue to re-imagine and re-engineer the dairy ecosystem in India, and each team member will have significant ownership of the key components that go into this mission!

Till now, Animall has primarily focused on building a peer-to-peer cattle trading platform and the journey of Animall has been very encouraging and promising - we have reached more than 5 million dairy farmers within a short span of 1.5 years. More than 300,000 cattle have been sold through Animall which amounts to 4000 Crore Rs of GTV and is now at a monthly run rate of 320 Crore Rs GTV.

Our dairy farmers have rated us 4.6 out of 5 and 60% of our dairy farmers refer Animall to at least one friend on a monthly basis.

How will you succeed?

• Passion for building high-impact, well-performing user experiences
• Independent, proactive, and able to deliver production-ready code with minimal guidance
• Great communication and collaboration skills working cross-functionally with other engineers, product managers, and designers
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, and coding standards.
• Live and grow the Animall https://www.notion.so/Our-Culture-2ec96ec0e96b427b9187cc94cdd61b28">Culture

Who are we looking for?

• Proficient in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript with at-least 6 years of hands on experience.
• Familiarity with MVC & MVVM design patterns.
• Experience with modern https://reactjs.org/">React development using https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html">Hooks & https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html">Context.
• Familiarity with Typescript and/or ES6 is a must.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs

What we offer

• A fast paced environment to learn and grow. You’ll get opportunities to represent the company in events like Devoxx, Google Developer Days India etc.
• Very high autonomy; freedom to take risks, to experiment and to fail.You’ll collaborate with product managers and designers, data scientists and algorithm experts, even dairy farmers, to build exciting new features
• An opportunity to work on something that really matters. Check out the reviews for our app.
• Very high transparency.
• We pay top of market with excellent benefits
• Personal CFO Services with IndMoney.
• Employee assistance program- Counselling and consultation services for work and home- life topic
• Group medical insurance family floater for Employee, spouse and kids
   
   
   

Prelude

Required Skills

• 2+ years of RELEVANT EXPERIENCE in ReactJS
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals - data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of ReactJS Ecosystem (State management, Component-based design, Hooks, Responsive design)
• Good with CSS (converting UI designs to code)
• Writing clean and maintainable code
• Proficient understanding of APIs and wiring them   
• Strong testing, debugging, and problem-solving skills
• Familiar with modern development practices - writing clean code, git versioning, understanding development workflows

Profile Overview:

We are looking for passionate and keen-eyed front-end developers with 5+ years of experience in React JS for a major project to join our creative front-end development team who can add optimization and efficiency to the user experience and maintain brand consistency across all web page of the web products.

The front-end developer will closely coordinate with our back-end developers, graphic designers and UI designers to ensure all elements of the web creation are consistent.

Responsibilities:

• Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating excellent interactive forms of designs, writing reusable modules and maintainability of the code.

• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.

• Review and optimize the application usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.

• Determining the structure and design of web pages.

• Ensuring user experience by analyzing the design choices.

• Developing features to enhance the user experience.

• Striking balance between functional and aesthetic design.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, computer applications or related fields.
• Proven working experience as a React Developer for 5+ years and above.
• Hands-on experience with HTML5, CSS3, and  CSS frameworks.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Web services, Web API, REST services & GraphQL.
• Expertise in UI design and development of responsive web applications using React, Redux, Flask and Hooks.
• Applicable knowledge of Social API integration, Core location APIs, Web Views, Payments integration
• Proficiency in understanding layout aesthetics.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and multitasking skills.
• Ability to solve novel and challenging React problems.
• Capability to understand, develop and sustain continuous integration and delivery.

• Good understanding of UI, cross-browser compatibility, general web functions, and standards.
• Ensuring the technical feasibility by communicating and co-ordinating with the UI/UX teams.
• Optimizing applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Working closely with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements.
•   Expertise and hands-on experience with Web Applications and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap.
•   Knowledge of using (Ex: advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as Angular, NodeJS, ReactJS, VueJS, etc.).
•   Developing mobile and desktop responsive web applications.
•   Maintaining code integrity and organization.
•   Assisting in updating the application development policies to ensure that all future applications meet the latest technical requirements.
•   Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders for requirements.

• Have 3 - 6 years of experience working in a high speed Product B2B start up doing Full-stack or ReactJS software development
• Have demonstrated experience in Front-end developer tooling, React js and its core principles
• Have experience with popular React js workflows (such as Hooks and Redux), React Material UI,Data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable js)and with RESTful APIs
• Have experience in debugging, problem-solving, and improving application performance. 
• Are willing to learning new technologies on your own.
• Have knowledge in best practices for the whole software development cycle (TDD/CI/CD) and agile methodologies.
• Have good knowledge of version control.
• Have the ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools. 
• Have good communication ability and can articulate business needs and translate them into technology solutions. 

• You will be part of a growing high functional team, responsible for delivering various frontend products to the end-users. Simplifying complex workflow and make it easy for the end-users.
• The team designs and develops various products from - financial apps targeted to invoice users, data-heavy app oriented to operational and support teams, a productivity app for sales teams,
• SDK that will be integrated into third-party apps, etc.
• You will work with business, product, and backend teams to work on new features and products.
• You are expected to drive the products to maximize its business impact and customer delight.
• You are expected to stay on top of tech innovations in the Web development space, experiment them and make suitable suggestions to enhance tech stack. Research and propose software programs that are compatible with future technologies.

• Design and implement Single Page Applications (SPAs) using modern JavaScript frameworks
• Integrating data from various back-end services
• Develop a simple-to-use user interface for a complex product, apply new technologies, best design practices and usability patterns
• Contribute to end-to-end system architecture, working with/as cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with UX teams, product managers and other technical teams to create optimized and delightful user experiences
• Apply expertise of HTML5, bootstrap/foundation CSS frameworks
• Analyze the performance of layers in the frontend, backend and engineer designs/code to solve them
• Work with the product team to build flow and detail out the requirements
• Conversant with development for desktop and mobile browsers and hybrid apps.

• Proven working experience in web programming
• Top-notch programming skills and in-depth knowledge of modern HTML/CSS
• Solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices
• Working with respectable size Single Page Application (SPA) project
• Expert in MVC like design patterns, modern JavaScript frameworks
• Hands-on experience with network diagnostics, network analytics tools
• Solid CS, OOP/OOD, design patterns
• Good grasp on usability and interaction design
• Track record in large-scale system software development
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques

• Any framework - ReactJS, AngularJS, Backbone, Ember, VueJS
• DOM and Virtual DOM understanding
• API Integration. Understanding of session management. 

• Experience with server-side processing such as templating, packaging and delivery
• Some end-to-end system design experience, sensitive to security
• Experience working with webviews on Android and iOS
• Exposure to React Native
• Demonstrated visual design and layout skills
• Design and development of backend REST endpoint applications