Frontend Developer

As a Frontend Engineer with a focus on Next.js and React, you will play a crucial role in crafting and delivering exceptional user experiences for our users.

Position: Frontend Engineer (Next.js/React)

Location: Hyderabad

Type: Full-time

Job Overview:

We are seeking a skilled Frontend Engineer with a strong foundation in Next.js and React to join our talented development team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating visually appealing and highly functional web applications. As a Frontend Engineer, you will collaborate closely with designers and backend developers to bring our products to life while ensuring the best possible performance and user experience.

Responsibilities:

Develop user-facing features and components using Next.js and React

Collaborate with UI/UX designers to translate design mockups into responsive web applications

Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability

Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality, performance, and adherence to coding standards

Collaborate with backend engineers to design and integrate RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints

Identify and address performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot UI issues

Stay up-to-date with the latest frontend development trends and best practices

Contribute to architectural decisions and technical discussions

Mentor junior developers and provide guidance on best practices and coding techniques

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)

2 to 3 years of professional experience in frontend development

Proficiency in Next.js and React.js is a must

Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (ES6+)

Experience working with RESTful APIs and GraphQL

Familiarity with version control systems such as Git

Solid understanding of responsive and mobile-first design principles

Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX) is a plus

Knowledge of build tools like Webpack and Babel

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team in an agile environment

Portfolio of past projects demonstrating frontend expertise is a plus

Benefits:

Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Collaborative and inclusive company culture

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects with a talented team

Qapita is a SaaS-Net startup with offices in India & Singapore. Qapita’s vision is to transform how equity is managed and traded in the private capital markets in this region. Qapita’s software solution seeks to automate the equity management process for startups including workflows around CapTables, ESOPs, Due-diligence, and transactions. Qapita’s market place solution seeks to facilitate liquidity to ESOP holders and shareholders via structured liquidity programs and secondary transactions. Qapita seeks to automate all processes for equity matters in private markets via its digital platform.

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Developer who is curious, craves for new challenges and loves to solve problems using latest technology. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing user interface components using React.js concepts and workflows such as Redux, Flux, and Webpack.

You will also be responsible for profiling and improving front-end performance and documenting our front-end codebase.

Our Tech stack:

Frontend: React, Typescript, Html, SCSS

Backend: Linux (Ubuntu), ASP.NET Core, C#, Nginx, MongoDB, EventStoreDB

Responsibilities: As a Senior Frontend Developer, you will be

• Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.

• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.

• Identifying web-based user interactions.

• Developing and implementing highly-responsive user interface components using React concepts.

• Writing application interface code using TypeScript following React.js workflows.

• Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application code.

• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.

• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.

• Documenting application changes and developing updates.

Desired Skills and Experience :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a similar field.

• Previous experience working as a React.js Developer (4+ years).

• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML and front-end languages.

• Knowledge of TypeScript a plus.

• Knowledge of React tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux.

• Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.

• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.

• Excellent troubleshooting skills.

Your primary focus will be developing web applications and components. You'll implement them with the React.js framework, following generally accepted practices and workflows. You will ensure that you produce robust, secure, modular, and maintainable code. You will coordinate with other team members, including backend developers and UX/UI designers. Your commitment to team collaboration, good communication, and a quality product is crucial.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js and workflows like Redux.
2. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
3. Translating designs and wireframes in high-quality code.
4. Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
5. Integrating APIs for complete functionality.
6. Write technical documentation.

Responsibilities include:

1. Experience developing desktop and mobile applications for a minimum of 2 years.

2. Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

3. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

4. Should have experience with Redux and respective middlewares (eg. redux-thunk or redux-saga)

5. Familiarity with RESTful APIs

6. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

7. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

8. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

9. Knowledge of D3.js would be plus

Skills Required: HTML/CSS, Javascript, React.js, Redux.

Required Experience: 2 - 4 year of experience

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in Frontend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Relevant work experience as a UI Developer. Proficient in JavaScript , ReactJS and/or React Native, Angular , JQuery Experience with HTML, CSS, Knowledge of web services and related technologies (REST) Experience with Web Services and API integration
• Candidate should have a stronghold on HTML & CSS
• Can understand and troubleshoot REST APIs calls
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Knowledge of SASS & LESS will be a plus as well
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Use JavaScript and cutting-edge JS frameworks to develop front end applications that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models
2. Solve and articulate complex problems through application design, product development, and user experiences. 
3. Develop software used by people who are not software developers--ensure the exceptional software you create influences them to be exceptional professionals in their respective fields
4. Collaborate with other programmers and mentor junior engineers through the development process
5. Leverage the knowledge of your peers to better understand business trends, customer communities, and technology adoption patterns
6. Evolve your language skills in JavaScript by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools.

• Delivering a complete Front-end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the web service/ application
• Communicating with external web services

Technical/Functional Skills:

• 3 to 5 yrs of experience working as an Angular Developer
• Experience in Angular 7,8,9 versions are mandated.
• Proficiency in CSS, HTML, javascript
• Experience on Multi-Language is preferable
• Knowledge on Arabic design is a plus
• Experience on Components based Architecture
• Experience on CSS Grids and Flex Layout mandatory
• Well versed with coding standards
• Be able to provide effort estimations based on the customer requirements
• Experience of implementing enterprise level Angular applications and the related Architecture
• Implementation knowledge on Agile, working experience on Continuous Integration (CI) process is required
• Experience of integration with SAP is highly desirable
• Working knowledge with databases ORACLE, SQL Server, mySQL
• Be hands-on technical and should work as either individual contributor or team member
• Must have knowledge in code version mechanism using tools like TeamCity, GitHub
• Knowledge on Agile scrum and waterfall methodology
• Optimizing performance of code and reviewing code of junior developers
• Work closely with the architecture team and provide architecture inputs
• Experience with understanding of mobile related frameworks like Cordova is a plus
• Comfortable dealing with APIs and utilizing oDATA/REST / JSON interfaces
• End-to-End experience - Discovery to Deployment of Angular applications Soft Skills Required
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Candidates should be independent thinkers, thought leaders, good presentation and communication skills and great at solving problems

TECHNICAL SKILLSET

• You have strong experience with semantic HTML5, CSS3, and a CSS preprocessor of your choice SASS or LESS, understanding of writing modular CSS (Must)
• You have strong knowledge of Object Oriented JavaScript (Must)
• You have strong experience with Angular or any other frameworks like Ember, Backbone or React (Must)
• You have working experience with large scale front-end architectures
• You have good knowledge in using restful web services
• You have a strong focus on performance
• You have knowledge of CSS animations
• You have experience with automation tools like Web-pack, Grunt or Gulp
• You have knowledge of unit testing tools like Jasmine, Karma etc.

Job Role

• As a Frontend Developer you will be responsible for extending and optimizing product user interfaces. You will work in a team of developers and designers to build cutting edge, graphical appealing user interfaces that provide a great user experience
• Develop web applications using various JavaScript frameworks 
• Have attention to detail and identify potential performance weak spots
• Find and share frontend best-practices with team members and other developers
• You will be actively involved during the entire technology development lifecycle.
• Responsibilities will include all aspects from design, coding, testing, customer feedback cycle changes and support.
• Work with a team of amazing developers and designers involved in the design and development of global platforms, participate in Agile sprints
• Invent and prototype new features, build, test and ship them to customers as SaaS, cloud based or hosted product platforms
• You will be working on one of the fastest growing e-Commerce platforms in exciting application areas like core commerce, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment, merchant and offline to Online, mobile commerce, analytics, automation, DevOps and a lot more for the global markets positioned for Asia.
• Participate in a fun, open learning environment with great benefits and smart talented folks that represent among the best globally.

Qualification

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Quinbay is an upstart digital platforms and products company with a core focus on disrupting traditional markets and business models with the strength of our innovation driven digital value. We harness the power of our open innovation culture, our unique talent selection approach, the skills and expertise of our people across various industries, domains and technologies and a unique blend of analytics driven strategies for creating future digital platforms.

OPPORTUNITIES : Pursue opportunities in and learning/growth interests in Mobile, product development, product management, Analytics, Machine learning, UI/UX design, DevOps, Automation, Drones, bots and Java / open source development frameworks and methodologies – on a variety of domains like eCommerce, Logistics and fulfilment, Mcommerce and a whole lot others.

Opportunities to be part of fastest growing eCommerce platforms in exciting application areas like core commerce, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment, merchant, mobile commerce, analytics, automation and a lot more for the global markets positioned for Asia.