Frontend Developer

Front-End Developer Job Description

We are looking for programmers with a keen eye for design for the position of a frontend developer. Front-end developers are responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency, and maintaining brand consistency across all web pages, among other duties. Front-end developers are required to work in teams alongside product managers, back-end developers and graphic designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. This requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Front-End Developer Responsibilities:

Determining and creating scalable structure and design of web pages.

Building and maintaining reusable code for future use.

Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.

Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.

Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications

and prototypes

Striking a balance between functional and aesthetic design.

Troubleshooting and debugging existing applications.

Following standard predefined design guidelines.

Delivering assigned tasks on time.

Front-End Developer Requirements:

Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And knowledge of JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS, and VueJS.

Knowledge of typescript, es-lint, webpack and bundling of applications.

Familiarity with CSS frameworks such as CSS, less.

Experience with responsive and adaptive design.

Degree in B. Sc (IT or CS), BCA, MCA, MSc, BE, ME

Knowledge of agile development methodology.

Good problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

Excellent verbal communication skills.

Job Title - Senior Frontend Engineer

About Tazapay 

Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. They offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates. 

They are licensed and backed by leading investors.   www.tazapay.com 

What’s exciting waiting for You? 

This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc. 

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together. 

Are you ready for the ride? 

Find what interesting things you could do with us.

About the Frontend Engineer role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• Lead core development efforts for our front-end applications, ensuring high-quality code that is performant, scalable, secure and maintainable.
• Collaborate closely with the product team to understand user needs and translate them into exceptional user interfaces (UI).
• Partner with the design team to achieve pixel-perfect implementation while maintaining and evolving our design systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable JavaScript with a focus on performance optimization and scalability.
• Champion the use of modern build tools like Vite to streamline development workflows.
• Implement effective unit tests to ensure code quality and stability.
• Take complete ownership of features, from initial discussions with the product manager to incorporating customer feedback.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of modern front-end architecture and best practices.

The Ideal Candidate

Experience

• Proven experience as a senior frontend engineer with a strong track record of building and shipping complex web applications.
• In-depth knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6+), Tailwind CSS, Git, npm, and Sentry.
• Familiarity with integration of front-end with backend web services.
• Strong experience with a popular front-end framework like React, Angular, or Vue.js (Vue.js experience a plus).
• Prior experience developing and maintaining a UI component library.
• Familiarity with modern build tools like Vite and a passion for exploring new technologies.
• Understanding of Git version control and experience with GitHub workflows.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Advanced knowledge in web security best practices to write secure and robust front-end code
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Passion for building high-quality user experiences.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers.
• Active contributions to open-source projects in the front-end development space.

Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.
• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions
• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues
• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach
• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills
• Excellent planning, organisational, and prioritisation skills

If you're a talented and experienced frontend engineer who is passionate about building beautiful, performant, and scalable web applications, we want to hear from you!

Location - Chennai - India

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!

Your Buddy

Tazapay

• Our engineers are involved in all parts of the product lifecycle: brainstorming, design,prototyping, planning, execution, and deploying.
• We brainstorm to understand and explore the difficult problem and come up with the best solution for the hardest problems that impact the world.
• You will develop broad-ranging skills working on a wide variety of initiatives. You will take responsibility for your projects, but you'll also have teammates who look out for you.
• We operate in a “get s**t done” environment where the goal is always to execute and implement. While doing all of this...You will not forget to have fun!

WHAT WE VALUE

• You're cool with working with others. Our jobs aren’t done in a vacuum and everyone contributes to get the job done.
• You’re not afraid to make mistakes because without challenge, you’re not learning.
• Speaking of learning, you have a constant desire to grow and develop.
• You care about great design, not only in the product and visual sense, but also in your code and technical architecture.
• You are passionate about product craftsmanship, and can balance that with deploying something relevant.
• You move fast with a sense of urgency. You want to work on things that make an impact on the world.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• Candidate Expectations: Design, code, deploy and maintain scalable software infrastructure to meet Blowhorn's demands.
• 3+ years’ experience in a start-up environment or any reputed product based company
• Build APIs for business clients to integrate blowhorn into their systems.
• Setup processes and methodology for sustainable software development.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Good understanding of JS frameworks (AngularJS, ReactJS, VueJS), Angular 5+ and Bootstrap.
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Some exposure to Analytics/Dashboard and related client frameworks (D3.js, Apache superset)
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Has worked extensively on Google maps and features like live tracking, geo fencing
• Good API integration skills (with backend frameworks)
• Mobile frameworks like Flutter is a plus
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as (Git / Mercurial / SVN)
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.

• Write performant code using core Vue, Vuex, and Vue Router to create websites and web applications 
• Create tests for code written by yourself and other web developers, full-stack developers, and software engineers
• Integrate Vue into legacy projects
• Diagnose and fix bugs and other software defects in new and existing Vue applications
• Run code optimization tools and analyzers to spot and refactor inefficiencies to create highly performant code

• Bachelor’s degree or several years of experience in enterprise products, computer science, or other related fields
• Strong understanding of JavaScript and React JS, including the latest revisions of ECMAScript
• Good knowledge of the Vue.js framework and related components such as Vuex and Vue Router
• Experience with standard tools and services in JavaScript front-end development and software development, such as Git, JIRA, HTML5, Laravel, Angular, Node.js, and npm
• The ability to work as part of a team, taking ownership of individual components and following coding guidelines to create performant components that fit into more-comprehensive projects
• An understanding of advanced JavaScript concepts, such as dealing with asynchronous requests and dynamic content 
• Experience with integrating and maintaining external software libraries and APIs using a command-line interface and package managers

About our organization background: http://sportsit.net/" target="_blank">http://sportsit.net/ 

SportsIT A London headquartered global technology firm specializing in working with technology firms and IT organizations in the emerging technologies such as Web 2.0, SaaS, Cloud, Open-source, BI/DW, Mobility, Automation, DevOps and Big Data. 

We work only on the Sports, Games, Betting and Gambling industry.   

Job Description: React.JS Developer role

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

Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.

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

Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript.

Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus.

Familiarity with RESTful APIs.

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

Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.

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

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

A knack for benchmarking and optimization.

Familiarity with code versioning tools.

Your Responsibilities

• You will be a rockstar front end engineer bringing to life designs and solutions created in collaboration with designers and product managers. You will be responsible for converting the requirements to fast, optimised, usable interfaces, loved by our users.
• You will be the main source of knowledge on everything “front end” related and guide the team to make correct technical decisions to ensure the speed and scale of the solutions deployed.
• Collaborate daily with back-end developers and web designers to improve the usability
• You will be a key person in ensuring that agile processes created by the team are adhered to and you actively contribute to the improvement of these processes. You will be responsible for estimating your tasks and ensuring that promised timelines are met.
• You will be responsible for the performance, security, scalability, reusability and quality of the applications under you. You will collaborate with senior engineering managers/architects to refine & improve your solutions. You will cascade the same culture across the team by supporting and mentoring team members, helping build truly scalable applications
• You will need to collaborate closely with product managers, designers and business stakeholders to achieve predictable results at a rapid pace. 
• You will be able to handle competing priorities and chart the best course of action for yourself and your team members ensuring blockers are removed
• You will help in attracting and evaluating tech talent to help build the engineering brand of the organization.

Desired background & skills

• 3-9 years of experience as an engineer at top tier digital product companies across consumer or SMB. 
• 3+ years of experience in working on front end JS frameworks like React/Angular/Vue
• Excellent knowledge of working with responsive and adaptive designs. Expert in HTML5, JAVAScript, JQuery & CSS. Basic knowledge of SEO.
• Experience of design collaboration tools such as Zeplin, Figma, XD, Invision. 
• Bonus if either you’re a full stack developer with knowledge of the back end or have experience with cross-platform mobile technologies such as React Native or Flutter.
• You have strong problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms. 
• Passion to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment. conscientious, curious, hard-working individual who craves accountability and loves to solve complex problems.
• You get a kick out of people using and loving your produced outcome.