Frontend Developer

Role: UI Lead

Exp: 8+ Years

CTC: up to 30 LPA

Mode of Interview: 2 rounds onsite + 2 online

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead the UI team in designing and developing scalable, responsive, and performant user interface components. 
• Define and enforce UI coding standards, best practices, and guidelines. 
• Collaborate with UX designers to translate wireframes and prototypes into high-quality code. 
• Work closely with product managers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions. 
• Mentor and coach UI developers, providing guidance and support on technical challenges. 
• Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality, performance, and adherence to design principles. 
• Stay updated with the latest UI trends, technologies, and best practices. 
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement within the UI development process. 

Required Skills and Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). 
• Proven experience (>8 years) as a UI developer with expertise in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript 
• Proven experience in front-end frameworks React (must), Angular(good to have), Vue.js(good to have). 
• Solid understanding of responsive web design, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility. 
• Experience leading a team of UI developers in an agile environment. 
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues. 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. 

Job description:- 

• Strong experience of Angular along with other technologies like HTML5, CSS, jQuery, AJAX with good knowledge of ECMA Scripts.
• Strong knowledge of JS Fundamentals.
• Design & development of Angular applications as per desired specifications, along with experience in frameworks/libraries like jQuery, Bootstrap, Typescript etc.
• Architecture design, development, testing and maintenance of Web Apps, Implementation based on Angular Application MVC Patterns.
• Own end to end product modules/features (from the requirement to going live)- Design & code review, troubleshoot & help team members on issues.
• Gather requirements by interacting directly with the end-users.
• Research on open source framework/technology required for developing the feature/application.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain mobile applications using React Native.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code.

• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge with the team.

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and familiarity with ES6+ syntax.

• Experience with Redux or other state management libraries.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect mobile applications to back-end services.

• Knowledge of mobile app architecture and design patterns.

• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.

• Understanding of mobile development best practices.

• Ability to write well-documented, clean code.

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

1.     Significant experience of working in front-end web development
2.     Extensive programming experience in HTML5, CSS3, SASS or LESS, and Bootstrap, Foundation or Materialize
3.     Angular Material, Chart Libraries(D3, Leaflet, Amchart etc).
4.     Solid understanding and development experience in Angular
5.     Experience with Typescript
6.     Experience with tools like Redux, Webpack, Angular CLI and/or Gulp
7.     Experience consuming REST APIs

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.

Do you thrive on working with cutting-edge technology, with innovators in the early stages of ideas, products, or platforms? Do you have the passion to be a core member of a fast-growing start-up? Are you an expert or aspiring to become one who can work on the Full Stack of an application? Do you have a genuine interest in all software technologies? If the answer is yes, do reach out to us - Crediwatch is the place for you!

You will be exposed to work on every level of the stack in a highly agile, fast-growing, start-up FinTech environment while ensuring Breakthrough Simplicity in innovation and Diving Deep to arrive at a solution-based approach to problem-solving and idea creation.

The environment at Crediwatch is vibrant and innovative! You will learn and regularly interact with peers who are the best at what they do and will motivate you to be the best version of yourself, technically and professionally.

The Role Expectation

• You will play a key role in the design and development of the core UI, working directly with the Product team on realizing their needs and translating it into the product.

• You will be involved in developing user-facing features using React.js, building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use, and translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code

• You will participate in the overall design and architecture of the application, maintaining quality and ensuring performance and compliance to software standards and guidelines

• You will help in optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

• You will adhere to the best practices of the Agile & TDD

• You will collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design, prioritize and launch new features.

• You will take ownership for organizing code and maintain its integrity at all points in time.

• You will be responsible for understanding and implementing security and data protection best practices

• Guide and mentor to the team and help them grow in a professional and personal capacity

• You will bring in a passion for technology and hunger to learn

You Have

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

• Thorough understanding of JavaScript frameworks and browser

• Experience with popular Rearect.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

• Experience with utility libraries (e.g., Immutable.js, Lodash, Underscore)

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of modern authentication and authorization mechanisms such as Oauth2.0 and SAML2.0 and exchange of claims using JWT tokens

• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

• Good understanding of browser JavaScript engines and its compatibility issues

• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and technologies

Good to Have

• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus

• Knowledge or experience of back-end languages and technologies

• Prior experience in developing code on large scale distributed systems and knowledge of cloud deployments on AWS/Azure

• Prior experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment.

Your Background

• At least 2 - 4 years of hands-on development experience

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a related field

You Believe-in & will align with our Business Objectives

• Customer Obsession - Consistently listen to customers; test, enhance and improve the customer experience.

• Breakthrough Simplicity - An innovative approach to making everything simpler

• Diving Deep -Technique used to arrive at a solution-based approach to problem-solving and idea creation

• Drive for Results - Focus on end result of any task

• Encourage and Improve - Encouraging and promoting teamwork and focus on continuous self-development at every stage.

• Be Ethical and Respectful - Willingness to do the right thing – even if it is hard; courteousness and being focused on the best in others.

Who We Are

We build innovative technology everyday!

Crediwatch is a ‘Data Insights-as-a-service’ company that provides lenders, businesses with actionable credit intelligence on private entities they need to improve trust and increase their lending and trading activity. Crediwatch does this with no human intervention by deploying the latest practical AI and technology tools that provide the most reliable comprehensive real-time inputs.

Each day at Crediwatch is about striving for transparent insights, analysis, and accurate results. If this aligns with your interests and aspirations, we have interesting positions for you.

You Will Enjoy

Our start-up environment - fun, casual, informal, family & pet-friendly! Ours is a highly energized playground where brilliant minds come together to make bold, impactful decisions every day! Needless to say, we have excellent filter coffee, health drinks round the clock, lunch buffets, PS4, and Foosball breaks, and a stocked kitchen. We play to win and have fun doing it! We work to engage your brain by organizing brilliant TechTalks by industry leaders and frequent high-on-energy hackathons and engage your crazy fun side at our well-planned retreats. We are a highly eco-conscious team and we encourage and support our team’s physical & mental wellbeing.

All these and a great set of people to work with - We Are Crediwatch!

The Role

• Create fast and functional and intuitive interfaces.
• Create mobile responsive web pages that work on desktop, tablets and smart phones.
• Create well-written JavaScript, as well as expanding current JavaScript code.
• Create and maintain web forms that integrate with our CRM.
• Assist with API integration for dynamic email/web prospect and customer communications.
• Translate designs and style guides provided by the UI/UX team into functional user interfaces, ensure cross-browser compatibility and performance.
• Create functional pages and banners from design mock-ups.
• Test code across platforms and browsers.
• Document work and communicate issues when they arise.
• Assist troubleshooting production issues.

Requirement:

• Associate degree in a technology-related field required (bachelor’s degree preferred).
• 3+ years of experience in front-end development in a start-up or similar work environment.
• 1+ experience with Front End frameworks such as Angular 2.0/React JS/React Native.
• Knowledge of web standards and accessibility (W3C and s508).
• Ability to create production-quality CSS, SASS, and HTML for web applications with support for mobile and tablet devices.
• Good understanding of web-based application architecture.
• Designing/coding to overcome browser/platform constraints.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and JavaScript Knowledge.
• Ability to learn new tasks outside immediate range of skills.
• Able to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues
• Deadline oriented and able to multi-task in a fast pace environment.
• Knowledge of unit test frameworks like karma, Jasmine, Mocha, Chai etc.