Frontend Developer

Passionate about education? Join us at CK-12 !!

CK-12 (www.ck12.org) is on the lookout for talented, creative, and dedicated people to join our mission to provide great education to students around the world. We are looking for candidates to join our office in Bangalore.

We have a strong education platform that has served over 352+ Million users, have got over 2.88+ Billion questions answered, and have more than 350 thousand customized Flexbooks. We have embarked on an exciting journey to build an AI-powered student tutor and Teacher Assistant to build the next generation of learning platforms.

About CK-12 Foundation

CK-12’s mission is to provide free access to open-source content and technology tools that empower students as well as teachers to enhance and experiment with different learning styles, resources, levels of competence, and circumstances.

To achieve this noble and ambitious vision, we at CK-12 are challenging the traditional model of education to transform it dramatically. Technology has opened up lots of opportunities to revolutionize education for the benefit of students, teachers and parents.

We have chosen to be non-profit so that we can effectively realize our mission and do the right thing! It also provides us with the ability to experiment with big and bold ideas. CK-12 is backed by Vinod Khosla, a renowned technology venture capitalist.

At CK-12, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and non-bureaucratic environment where you will get a lot of cool things done than you ever imagined! We are a small group of passionate folks who are determined to disrupt the current form of education.

Technology is key to scale education and we deeply believe in it. Come develop great solutions on our cloud-based (AWS) and AI-first platform delivering rich and interactive content.

Does our mission, people and technologies excite you? If the answer is YES! and you are a great technologist who will challenge status-quo (no order takers please!) by innovating, please come join us! Together, we will change the world!

Check out our latest product offerings

• Introducing Flexi 2.0
• Flexi, our AI-powered Student Tutor – https://www.flexi.org/
• AI-powered Teacher Assistant – https://www.ck12.org/pages/teacher-assistant/

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/NkA2Hr8JhtE3raWr5

Frontend UI Developer (React)

Location: Bangalore

Basic

• Passion for creating great user experiences that are simple and intuitive.
• Good understanding of CS fundamental algorithms and Data Structures.
• Great problem solver.
• Understands and researches different front-end frameworks and patterns to implement great user interfaces.
• Implements solutions keeping in mind the user experience, multi-devices, performance across devices, and bandwidths to provide intuitive user experiences on multiple devices.
• Ability to work in an Agile environment with rapid iterations.
• Creates and reviews high-level designs.
• Creates detailed designs from high-level designs and reviews designs of other team members.
• A Code Craftsman who follows the best software development and coding practices, delivering understandable and maintainable code with thorough unit test coverage.

Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of experience.
• Hands-on experience with front-end frameworks like React, Redux, Webpack, and Lerna.
• Expert knowledge of Object Oriented Programming, design, and development.
• In-depth knowledge of browser internals and architecture.
• Expert knowledge of Object Oriented JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, CSS3 transitions and transformations, JSON, Web Services (REST), XML, and W3C standards.
• Experience with responsive web design, media queries, and delivering functionality that works across a range of client devices/browsers from desktops and laptops to mobile platforms.
• Experience with UI design patterns, security, performance, and usability.
• Familiarity with standard development tools like version control systems (Git) and build tools like Grunt.
• Adept at AI coding assistants, leveraging them beyond prompting.
• Working experience in skill and tool development and usage in AI coding tools.

Desired

• Working experience with ES6 and Node.js.
• Experience in a driven, distributed, and agile development environment.
• Experience with performance optimizations to deliver a great website experience to all users.
• Familiarity with Storybook for React or similar frameworks.

What you need to have:

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Lead the delivery of high quality, innovative, flexible, cost-optimized, and scalable technical solutions that meet business requirements
• Design, Develop, test, and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Microservices, and scalable cloud-native apps.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
• Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve quality and productivity of deliverables
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with cross-functional team along with the client's team
• Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User-Focused, Adaptive
• Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
• Project planning, timelines, and milestones for execution and deliverables
• Participate in the Evaluation Review of your team member

Primary Skills

• Experience in building an enterprise web application using ReactJS as the frontend framework
• Experience with Redux and React Hooks
• Expert in HTML5, CSS3
• Experience in Bootstrap4 or CSS pre-processor like Less or Sass is highly desirable
• Strong knowledge of best practices and modern web design trends is necessary.
• Some experience with modern web-based typography.
• Excel at rapid prototyping and at writing good code.
• Experience with testing/debugging in multiple browsers and platforms.
• Expertise in using JavaScript
• Should have worked on REST client and WebSockets
• Should be able to write Unit testing using any one of the frameworks like Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, Jest, Enzyme, or any other similar framework.
• Should have experience in either one of the Build scripts like Gulp or Grunt or Webpack
• Low-Latency UI, Page optimization, and bundle build+caching
• Problem-solving and debugging skills
• Component-based architecture

Roles and Responsibilities

• Looking only for Front end Developer with Minimum 1 Year experience in ReactJS
• Good communication skills
• 3-4 years
• Working on different React Technologies along with HTML/CSS, RESTful APIs, 

PLEASE NOTE - WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE IMMEDIATE JOINERS OR WHO CAN JOIN WITHIN 15 DAYS

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using ReactJS
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Building robust applications that can handle both unexpected errors and heavy load

• 3+years experience in Reactjs
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and Typescript
• Strong Knowledge of Redux/React Context/Hooks
• Strong Knowledge of frontend end technologies such as HTML/CSS
• Experience developing with responsive applications
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools like Webpack or Create React App
• Familiarity with Git