Frontend Developer

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to the back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• 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
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• 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.
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Software Engineering

• 4+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining React-based applications
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing medium to large-scale applications using Javascript frameworks
• Experience with projects that involve, improving the reliability and performance of your web-apps, by leveraging different observability tools like Lighthouse, Sentry, and Datadog.
• Good understanding of functional programming paradigms and UI architecture patterns
• A decent understanding of cloud infrastructure like AWS to orchestrate and manage our applications.
• Experience with testing frameworks like JEST, modern auth mechanisms, and server-side rendering through frameworks like NextJS
• Experience with backend technologies like JAVA, and Kotlin would be good to have.

Product Development

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to resolve dependency risks.
• Well-versed in working in an agile environment and being involved in different stages of SDLC - Design, Development, Code Review, Testing, and Release Management
• Ability to work with different CI/CD frameworks, with hands-on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Continuously refactor applications so that they are easy to maintain, easy to extend, and contribute to

Your Tech Stack

Web Application Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails

Programming Languages: ReasonML/Rescript, Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, HTML, CSS

Tools and Libraries: Webpack, Sentry, NextJS, NodeJS, Jest, Figma

Communication: HTTP, GraphQL, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS

Observability: Google Analytics, Lighthouse, Sentry, Kibana, Datadog

What you will build with us?

The front-end platform at Porter is geared toward developing a variety of products for customers, partners, and our internal teams. You will be a part of Porter’s Web Engineering Platform team.

What will be your primary focus?

1. enabling our engineering teams to create highly reliable and scalable software systems, reduce client and server outages and increase system hygiene.
2. building the right set of tooling and flows for our web and mobile teams, for improving developer productivity. This will enable our application teams to churn out user features rapidly and will help them build the best-in-class product solutions for our business teams.
3. work on security initiatives, to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

What will you closely influence?

1. Providing the right user experience to our customers, partners, and cc agents when they reach out to us
2. Building tools to help boost user growth on our platform including our driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models. A step towards sustainable user growth and providing personalized experiences, on our platform
3. Unlocking new growth levels for Porter, in form of our new vibrant customer base through business initiatives like Packers and Movers, Part-Load, and help Porter on its journey to becoming a super Logistic App.
4. Enabling us to engage our partner ecosystem better with our fast-moving initiatives in the Insurance and Lending segments. Your work here will directly impact the livelihood of our partners
5. Solving problems related to optimal pricepoint for partners and customers, matchmaking with supply and demand, and building confidence around payment experience and location tracking.

• Possesses a high degree of technical competency to design and develop digital applications using cutting-edge tools and technologies
• Collaborative working with the client's technology and business staff day to day
• Proactive and willing to go above and beyond to satisfy the client and deliver on project goals
• Codes, tests, debugs, implements, and documents complex applications
• Prepares for, and actively facilitates hand-off at project completion to ensure a smooth transition to the larger organization
• Extensive experience in Angular (i.e., designs new templates, tests styles or sheets, fixes bugs; collaborates heavily with core team members (especially UX and Design))
• Integration knowledge and experience with exposed services (e.g. REST, SOAP, etc.)
• Familiar with common security and performance pattern (e.g.: OATH)
• Additional Requirements for Application Platform: Angular
• Level of expertise with Angular SSR applications
• Knowledge of Micro Frontends or Micro UI
• Interaction paradigm with UI elements
• Exposure to CSS and Javascript

• Programming Languages: Java, Objective-C, C++, JAVASCRIPT, NodeJS
• Web Technologies: Angular 9/10, ReactJS, ES6, NgRx, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, BOOTSTRAP, JQuery, PHP, AJAX, PolymerJS
• Web Services: REST, SOAP
• Web Service Protocols: HTTP, XML, WSDL, UDDI, SOA
• Databases: MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB

• Solid knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3 web standards
• Solid knowledge of JavaScript as well as Browser APIs
• Angular 2+
• RxJS, Typescript, JQuery.
• Experience writing unit tests
• Webpack, Babel
• Familiar with SASS and Responsive Design
• Experience using any CSS naming convention
• Experience debugging using JavaScript-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
• Solid understanding of Git
• Good understanding of SEO principles
• You are self-organized and can work autonomously
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written and verbal communication skills