Frontend Developer

About the Role:

We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic React.js Web Developer to join our technology team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building high-quality user interfaces, enhancing user experience, and developing efficient web applications.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Develop responsive, interactive, and high-performing web applications using React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern front-end libraries.

2. Translate UI/UX wireframes into high-quality code and reusable components.

3. Optimize components for maximum performance across various devices and browsers.

4. Work with the team to design, structure, and maintain scalable front-end application architecture.

5. Integrate REST APIs, third-party services, and internal tools into the application.

6. Manage application state using tools such as Redux, Context API, or other state management libraries.

7. Write clean, readable, and well-documented code following best industry practices.

8. Conduct thorough debugging, troubleshooting, and performance enhancements.

9. Assist in deployment processes and ensure the application works smoothly in production.

10. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines is an added advantage.

11. Collaborate with the team on planning, development, and code reviews.

12. Stay updated with the latest technologies and development best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2 - 3+ years of experience in React JS development.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3.
• Hands-on experience with React Hooks, Redux, Context API, and component-based architecture.
• Good understanding of REST APIs and asynchronous request handling.
• Experience with build tools like Webpack, Babel, Vite, etc.
• Familiarity with Git/GitHub and version control workflows.
• Knowledge of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Time management skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• A positive attitude and willingness to learn new technologies.

Why Join Us?

• Competitive Salary and Professional development opportunities and training.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a fast-paced environment.
• A supportive environment that encourages learning and growth.
• Collaborative team culture focused on creativity and continuous improvement.

Software Engineer - Frontend

Experiencing the world we live in is fundamental to our collective happiness and progress as a society. Headout’s mission is, and will always be, to unlock this happier world by connecting amazing in-person experiences with people all over the globe, giving them the opportunity to be entertained, educated and inspired. We are evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences at the push of a button. By combining delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations, our single minded focus is on solving a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time? On this mission, we've already served 7M+ guests from 190 countries who have headed out to an experience with us. While building scale that drives $200M+ in annualised sales, we hit profitability that is such a rarity on the back of our superior model.

As travel and in-person experiences recover, Headout is playing a critical role in our return to our way-of-life. With pent-up demand, generation and digitisation of experiences having been pushed forward by a decade, there is no better time to build than NOW.

We at Headout, like to solve real-world problems in the simplest & most elegant manner possible. We're seeking Frontend Engineers with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. We also love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun. ;-)

👩‍💻 The Role

• Craft the front-end architecture, develop our core features, and collaborate with our Product & Design teams to build something useful and beautiful.
• Build slick UI interfaces to provide the best user experience.
• Get your hands dirty with cross-platform architectural challenges, new frameworks, design patterns, and technologies.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• 2+ years of experience developing front-end platforms preferably in a high-growth startup.
• Solid hands-on experience with Javascript ES5 and ES6.
• Experience with NodeJS, Typescript, browser dev-tools etc.
• An opinion and preferably hands-on experience of CSS in JS vs old school style of writing CSS.
• Experience developing responsive designs using open source frameworks or even better, an attempt at your own framework.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and it's underlying communication protocols.
• People who give up anything to optimize that animation that they just created.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in UX, travel, local experiences & hospitality.

• Object-oriented JavaScript,
• jQuery,
• ES6,
• React JS (Versions 16.8 & below),
• Redux (Action Type, Action Creator & Reducers),
• Middleware(Redux-Thunk, Redux-Saga),
• React Hooks,
• Axios & Fetch library,
• Managing States & Props efficiently,
• React Forms,
• Validation (Schema & Non-Schema using any third-party library or custom),
• the candidate should be aware of the production build process,
• HTML5,
• knowledge of CSS,
• Rest API integration knowledge,
• Authentication(Token Based) & Authorization with Routes

• Building, Designing, Testing, and Deploying web apps.
•  Thoroughly explore & understand the under-hood of products in the market, strengths & fault-lines of each.
• Drive from Conceptualisation to Deployment of analytics suite of products that are robust and can stand the test of time when our data size is multiplying month-on-month.
• Work closely with designers & product managers to build things that are normally regarded as holy grails in browser-based analytics applications.
• Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
• Interacting with team members, and customers to continuously look for better innovations for all teams across Trade Brains

Hands-on experience in React.js  and Good understanding of core concepts

Hands-on experience in state management libraries like Redux.

Hands-on experience in HTML5 & CSS3 and JavaScript.

Experience integrating with Restful web services

Proficient with ES6/7/8 syntax and concepts

Proficient knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues

Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Web pack, NPM.