Frontend Developer

Roles and Responsibilities

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior React Web Developer to join our product development team. As a Senior React Web Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our web applications using ReactJS and Material UI. You will work closely with other developers, designers, product managers, and stakeholders to create high-quality, user-friendly, and scalable software.

Key Responsibilities:

● Design and develop high-quality, responsive, and user-friendly web applications using ReactJS and Material UI.

● Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to ensure the project meets the business requirements and user needs.

● Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

● Optimize the application for maximum speed, scalability, and usability.

● Develop reusable UI components and libraries.

● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.

● Identify and troubleshoot bugs and issues.

● Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in ReactJS, Material UI, and front-end development.

● Participate in code reviews and contribute to the development of best practices.

● Mentor and guide junior developers in the team.

Requirements:

● Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

● At least 7 years of experience in front-end development, with at least 4 years of experience in ReactJS and Material UI.

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and related web technologies.

● Experience with Redux, Redux Saga, and other state management libraries.

● Experience with building scalable and complex web applications.

● Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

● Experience with Agile development methodologies.

● Strong communication and collaboration skills.

● Experience with Git and version control.

● Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred:

● Experience with GraphQL and Apollo Client.

● Experience with server-side rendering using Next.js.

● Experience with AWS or other cloud providers.

● Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation.

● Experience with testing frameworks like Jest, Enzyme, or Detox.

● Experience with UX/UI design and prototyping tools.

About us:
Equal parts creative agency, engineering firm, and consultancy, Grappus has a reputation of doing things differently. We work with brands big and small, far and wide, helping them understand, prototype and deploy a broad range of custom tech. We value design and we cringe at bad UX. Each project is a clean slate, we don’t have frameworks, or any pre-made formulas. We’re not here to just grow big, make money and win awards. We’re here to crack the process of building truly innovative products from scratch. Products that make people say ‘damn’.

People at Grappus usually experience a highly accelerated career growth well beyond the narrow constraints of their ‘job description’. Here, the growth ladder is tailored to you. It operates exactly as fast as you can manage to grow. We think it's a waste when smart people are unable to make an impact. Our aim is to unleash your potential by giving you massive challenges and the freedom to solve them.

We’re in a fluid world, where we don’t know what technologies we’ll use next, or the projects we’ll work on. We’re actively searching for ways to shine a light on our blind spots, whether it is in the products we want to build, the problems we like to solve, or the company culture we try to create. That’s what makes life at Grappus so exciting. Grappus is an ongoing experiment and you are a part of it. We'll be a different company a few years from now because you are going to change it for the better. We can’t wait to see where you take us.

About the role:
We are seeking a Sr. Frontend Developer who has a knack for coming up with creative solutions to unique problems, planning development cycles and writing technical documentation while leading a team of developers. You can get in where needed to write clean, reusable, and performant code, with creative sensibilities to push projects towards perfection. You should have good time management skills and be able to work both autonomously and collaboratively with a cross-discipline team of product managers, strategists, UX designers, art directors, and developers. Most importantly, you have an eye for detail and the ability to make beautiful designs come to life through code.

What we’d like to see:
● Ability to write elegant and readable code
● Excellent problem solving skill and love technical challenges
● Lead a team of developers and showcase managerial skills
● Comfortable working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
● Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
● Stays plugged into emerging technologies/ industry trends and applies them proactively
● Knowledge of software best practices, like test driven development and continuous integration

Must have:
● BE/ B.Tech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
● Proven working experience in frontend programming for a minimum of 3 years
● Good understanding of frameworks like Bootstrap, Backbone, ReactJS, Redux and libraries like jQuery, LESS and Ajax
● Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest
● Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software
● Strong understanding of server-side scripting and Javascript frameworks, including jQuery
● Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills and client handling skills
● Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques
● Experience with coaching and mentoring junior web developers
● Experience in working with a variety of external frameworks and libraries
● Proven experience integrating with, along with a deep understanding of, service-based Web APIs including REST and/or GraphQL
● Good knowledge of User Interface patterns and techniques to solve common UI problems

Nice to have:
● Familiarity and experience using a variety of architectural design patterns
● Personal projects or contributions to the open source community
● Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
● Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines
● Team player (those great personality types that people love to work with)
● Great communication skills

Why you’ll love it here:
(Besides working with our team with infinite charm)

● We have no fixed work timings or leave policy, you can take unlimited leaves and start your day whenever you want. (Just make sure others in your team don’t suffer)
● We don’t track these hours you put in or ask you to fill time sheets. We don’t believe in
micromanaging, if you’re struggling, ask for help. If someone else is, offer some support.
● We never mind if people make mistakes or screw up in any way, and offer full encouragement to help people learn fast by failing fast.
● We always encourage people to be completely candid, raise alarms, or log complaints
anonymously in our feedback tool, no matter how harsh.
● We are a ‘Work from Anywhere’ company, since passionate, driven people can work from
anywhere they want; their homes, or cafes, or mountains, or beaches, anywhere.
● We have a 15-day notice period. We want to build a place where people work willingly and passionately.

Senior React JS Developer

Responsibilities:

Translate Business requirements into Technical Requirements and conceptualize solution by breaking it up into logical units of work.

Plan and execute product roadmap with product manager and other stakeholders.

Develop and implement integration solution with high quality, exception handling and low maintenance in accordance with the project timeline, adherence to global standards/principles, design standards

Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining the project during the transition to production by working closely with production support team during production release and troubleshooting production issues

Responsible for effectively communicating the plan, status and updates to stakeholders and scrum team

Proactively raise issues to Product Owner and Scrum leads when necessary

Independently assess and represent development team - covering all aspects of technical feasibility, complexity and timelines during project / program review meetings.

Lead , manage , mentor team of developers.

Design and build new features, simplify existing services, and scale our systems as we rapidly grow and evolve

Create reusable patterns that improve the consistency of the codebase

Collaborate with your engineering teammates through planning, pairing, testing, reviewing and delivery of the features that you build

Work with the product team to translate powerful ideas into everyday business value

Write sustainable, testable, high-quality, high-performance code

What Makes You a Great Fit

6+ years of relevant front-end development experience writing modular / reusable / Object Oriented / functional Javascript code.

At least 5 years of working experience on React JS framework

Firm grasp of JavaScript (or Typescript) and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax

Strong expertise with HTML5, CSS3  (with media queries) and writing cross-browser compatible code

Grid system understanding

CSS preprocessor experience (SASS or LESS), Responsive design, Accessibility

Familiarity with code versioning tool like GitHub.

Experience with RESTful services

A strong, demonstrable portfolio of past web applications including websites.

Self-motivated, fast learner with attention to detail and quality

Excellent diagnostic, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Required Skills:

6+ Years of experience

Should be able to work independently and must be hands on in development.

Should be able to take a problem and produce an architectural pattern plus a proof of concept utilising best practices when it comes to developing enterprise integration software.

Should have excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Strong proficiency with Spring Boot, Microservices, Spring MVC, Coding and Spring Integration.

Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and asynchronous messaging patterns is required.

Experience with working with process modelling software is a nice to have.

Experience in working with rule based systems is a nice to have.

Strong fundamentals in object oriented programming is a must have.

Experience in working with at least one relational and one no sql database is preferred.

Strong experience in working and designing message structures using xml and json.

Strong knowledge of SDLC Lifecycle Process and Agile Methodology.

Experience in BPMN would be added advantage.

Experience in working with security protocol (e.g. TLS, OAuth) and understands security in development.

Experience with containerization using Docker, orchestration using Kubernetes, Continuous Integration/Delivery tools - Jenkins, Maven, GIT.

Experience in Messaging with MQ based Messaging Systems.

Communication:

Should be able to communicate effectively with product team members, clients and stakeholders.

Clarifies and communicates product objectives and problem solving.

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.