Frontend Developer

**TL;DR:** Seeking an experienced Front-end Developer proficient in React and Next.js to build user-friendly interfaces for Proof of Skill, a blockchain-based protocol for skill verification and credentialing.

Proof of Skill protocol is a decentralized system where industry experts (Validators) evaluate candidates' skills and issue verifiable Skill Credentials. Organizations can then shortlist candidates based on these credentials.

**Qualifications and Skills:**

5+ years of experience in front-end development, with a strong focus on React and Next.js

Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and related front-end technologies

Solid understanding of React ecosystem, including Redux, React Router, and React Hooks

Experience with Next.js and its server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG) capabilities

Familiarity with modern front-end build tools and workflows (e.g., Webpack, Babel, ESLint)

Knowledge of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility

Experience with RESTful APIs and integration with back-end services

Familiarity with web accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices

Understanding of blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps) is a plus

**Responsibilities:**

Design and develop user-friendly interfaces for the Proof of Skill platform using React and Next.js

Implement reusable and modular front-end components following best practices

Integrate with blockchain-based back-end services and decentralized data sources

Optimize performance, scalability, and security of the front-end applications

Collaborate with the design team to ensure pixel-perfect implementation of UI/UX designs

Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code

Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards

Stay up-to-date with the latest front-end technologies, frameworks, and industry trends

**Ideal Candidate Traits:**

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Attention to detail and commitment to writing clean, efficient code

Passion for creating intuitive and engaging user experiences

Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to take ownership

Curiosity and eagerness to learn and grow in a dynamic environment

Experience building for crypto is a huge plus

About the job:

It’s not just a job but an opportunity to grow.

We are looking for frontend engineers to join our team where their responsibility will be to build, evolve and maintain user interfaces in a highly technical and rewarding environment.

We're Looking For Someone Who:

• Has a thorough understanding of modern JavaScript.
• Has strong experience and knowledge of React.js
• Has good experience with HTML/CSS
• Has working experience with Typescript
• Is independent, curious and smart.
• Loves building beautiful, reusable interfaces and learning new skills, languages, and frameworks
• Likes being part of a healthy team with fun people working on worthy challenges

To us, it doesn’t matter if you’re not highly proficient in all of the requirements. If you’re good at React with experience in JS, an unwavering learning attitude, a problem-solving mind, and an eye towards a higher career trajectory then we’ll be delighted to have you.

We will ensure that you have all the necessary tools and knowledge to work with the clients. And for this, we will provide the necessary tools to succeed with us and move forward leaps and bounds in your career.

Requirements:

1. React.js: 2+ years of experience
2. React Hooks: 2+ years of experience
3. Javascript: 2+ years of experience (ES6+ recommended)
4. HTML/CSS: 1+ years of experience(Knows ins/outs of CSS with responsive approach)
5. GIT
6. Redux

Nice to have:

1. Node.js
2. Material UI
3. Mongo/SQL

Are you a software developer who possesses magical React skills? Do you enjoy crafting intuitive, responsive, and scalable user interfaces? If so, we want you to join our team at Portle!

As a software engineer at Portle, you will have the opportunity to:

• Work on challenging problems everyday
• Design and develop excellent user experiences using React
• Collaborate with other engineers to ensure that our codebase is scalable, maintainable, and easily readable
• Learn to balance the creation of tech debt with delivering business requirements
• Understand complex problems, break them down into smaller ones, and solve each modularly

We are looking for someone with the following profile:

• Expertise in data structures and algorithms (extremely important)
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with React and its latest features, such as hooks
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in an unstructured startup environment

At Portle, we value self-motivated individuals who do not need supervision to perform at their peak levels. We're looking for someone who's passionate about React and loves to wield its magic to create amazing software. If you're a React Sorcerer who's ready to take on a new challenge, we want to hear from you! Apply today and let us see your sorcery in action!

• 2+ years of experience as a react/react-native developer
• Must have skills: ReactJS
• Deep understanding of javascript, typescript and react
• Familiarity with multiple state management techniques
• Knowledgeable about design patterns and their utility in day to day problems
• Worked on and shipped large scale react/react-native applications
• Great product sense; you care about usability and good design
• Strong communication skills
• Bonus if you have worked on Android/iOS apps or nodejs backend.

• Work collaboratively with everyone in the team to deliver best in class user experience
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code in typescript and react-native
• Implement pixel perfect designs with advanced interactions, which are a joy to use
• Implement unit and UI automation tests
• Own a feature end to end and ensure its usability
• Continuously discover, evaluate and implement new technologies to enhance user experience
• Support other developers on the team with code reviews, design feedback, and other advice and guidance

About the company:

NowPurchase is transforming the 140B$ Metal Manufacturing industry. The metal industry forms the backbone of the economy and the fundamental block of the physical world - be it transportation, construction and every machinery. NowPurchase is building a rich, digital marketplace where Metal Manufacturers can procure high quality raw materials in a trusted manner. At the same time we are building the OS (Operating System) that will supercharge their productivity and processes to ultimately make procurement autonomous. Now Purchase raises USD 2.4 million in Nov 2021, led by Orios Venture Partners, InfoEdge Ventures.

About you: 

We are looking to add an immensely talented Senior Front End Engineer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet our vision. Expect to build a lot of web interfaces and dashboards both for the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises. You need to lead the front end team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and are constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
• Deliver high quality modular code deployed over web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets.. This would include visual dashboards and real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
• Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
• Own your Agile projects and lead the team from software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
• Transform UI designs and mockups into pages and flows using CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks. Be ready to do the mockups yourself sometimes.
• Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.
• Have an exceptional understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and service workers and command over the internals of JavaScript, React and Redux.
• Continuously evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.

Required Skills and qualification:

• 4+ years’ experience developing rich UI/Front-end for user-facing web applications.
• Strong experience with React or similar frameworks, TypeScript, SSR (Server Side Rendering), SPA (Single Page Application), PWA (Progressive Web application), OOP (Object Oriented Programming), Reactive programming, and Unit tests.
• Demonstrated ability to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Tech Stack skills required:

• React/Redux
• Python/Django/Celery
• Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
• PostgreSQL/Redis/S3

Location: 

On- site: Kolkata, West Bengal

Compensation & Benefits:

• Cash Compensation: As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
• ESOPs: 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
• Medical Insurance: Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
• Generous leave structure and WFHs including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
• Complete Relocation Expenses: We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.

Company Link: https://nowpurchase.com">https://nowpurchase.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/

Job Description:

The UI Engineer(4-7)  will design; develop front-end for AgroStar product solutions.

 Key areas of responsibility:

1. Responsible for core UI framework, implements and maintains it.
2. Operates effectively as an individual for quick turnaround of enhancements and fixes.
3. Responsible for the development of the front-end applications and components.
4. Responsible for architecture & design of the product.
5. Co-ordinate with the backend engineers & designers for requirement gathering of the product.
6. Responsible for creating POCs to design a scalable system.
7. Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
8. Responsible for quality assurance including web usability, accessibility, testing and debugging.

 As an ideal ‘Agstar UI Engineer’, you will need:

 3-7 years of prior hands-on experience in building responsive web interfaces for consumers

Significant experience with Git and GitHub including managing branches, merges, and administration

Ability to translate product requirements into functional code.

Ability to estimate the scope of work for sprint planning.

Top-notch programming skills.

Self-motivated and able to work in a small team with minimal supervision

Strong development experience on the following technologies -

HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX,  working with REST APIs.

Must be fluent in writing code in  ES6+ along with linters.

CSS preprocessor - SCSS/ LESS.

Front end frameworks/library such as ReactJS, Redux.

Web standards, Responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility, SEO, Accessibility.

We are looking for enthusiastic intrapreneurs who want to work at the ‘grass root’ level and want to make a difference to India’s biggest sector. We hope this excites you as much as us and looking forward to the next few conversations.