Frontend Developer

Job description

Problem Statement-Solution

Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.

One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.

About Koo

Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.

Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.

Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.

Founding Team

Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs – Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).

Technology Team & Culture

The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.

Technology skill sets required

• Work Experience between 3 to 5 years in web development with desire to work in fast-paced startups.
• Should be capable of handling a couple of high traffic websites without much of a guidance. Good at debugging and solving cross browser issues.
• Must have experience with Express, ReactJs, Redux, Webpack etc. First hand knowledge of building PWA is preferred.
• Must understand how to optimize web page performance for SEO and snappy user experience. Must have used tools like light-house etc.
• Must be adept in using REST APIs and defining best suited contracts and schema for interacting with them. 6. Knowledge of building isomorphic (with some parts of the page as server side rendered) web applications is desirable.

• Skillset -
• 1. Strong knowledge in Angular 2+ , Typescript and JavaScript
• 2. Able to write unit test cases.
• 3. Proficient in HTML, CSS, Bootstrap & jQuery
• 4. Strong Knowledge in Services, observables & routing usage in Angular
• 5. Strong knowledge in directive, component, decorators, RxJS & HTTP client.
• 5. Strong Analysis and Problem-Solving Skills
• 6. Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques
• 7. Experience with RESTful services
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• Roles and Responsibilities :
• 1. Creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app.
• 2. Write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
• 3. Delivering a complete front-end application
• 4. Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• 5. writing cross-browser, cross-platform compatible code.

Ideally  from IIT, NIT, IIIT ,top colleges or hackers with project demonstrating exceptional problem solving capability.

Note : This job is for immediate joining. Please apply ONLY IF you can join immediately.

Experience :- Junior role : 1 to 3 years/Senior : 5 to 7 Years

Industry: FinTech / BFSI

Functional Area: Core Platform Programming, Maintenance

Role Category: Programming & Design

Role: Software Developer

Employment Type: Permanent Job, Full Time

Overview:

We are looking for a passionate, talented, and motivated UI/UX  Front End Angular Developer to join our team and help build out the next set of kick-ass features.

FE/UIX  Developer at Konectbox, you’ll deliver high-quality technical solutions to build UI/UX  using a range of different technologies. You’ll be involved in the entire product development lifecycle including the design, development, deployment and maintenance of new and existing features.

You should apply to us if you’re excited about working on the newest technologies and delivering value with a sense of ownership. If selected, you get to be a part of a small but committed group of technologists who are trying to improve how events are ticketed and marketed in India.

About the role:

• Highly skilled at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript, various JavaScript libraries and micro frameworks (Angular, Prototype, Backbone), HTML and CSS
• Translates designs and style guides provided by the UI/UX team into functional user interfaces, ensuring
• Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies
• Self-directed team player who thrives in a continually changing environment
• Builds mobile software applications Follows coding standards, builds appropriate unit tests, integration tests and deployment scripts
• Assists in defining architectures Collaborates with teams to explore existing systems, determines areas of complexity and learns the applications capabilities
• Owns success Takes responsibility for successful delivery of the solutions
• Communicates continually with the project teams Explains progress on the development effort
• cross browser compatibility and performance
• Contributes to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or use of new technologies
• Nice to have : 
• Complete understanding of internal code library (jquery or any other)
• Some record of contribution to any front end open source project.

Perks :

• You get to work at a fun filled atmosphere
• Have ample chances of learning leadership, mentor-ship skills
• A solid salary package along with chance to get good value of ESOPs.

Salary Range : 6 LPA to 12 LPA 

(based on qualifications, experience and skills)

Key Skills : Javascript, Angular, Backbone, Prototype, HTML, CSS

If you are looking to be part of the early-stage start-up team that is charting the course and solving a key pain point for the CXO, this opportunity is for you. The opportunity will provide you join a company where you can contribute to all aspects of the product definition, product building and solving some key challenges.

• Architect solutions and execution through hands-on development, quality-assurance, and prototyping 
• Collaborate with a UX/UI designers and other front-end and middle-tier engineers to design, prototype, and build user interface for complex cloud-based product 
• Participate in complete development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing and production release 
• Develop and maintain a scalable web and responsive applications 
• Exhibit Devops mindset – Work on continuous integration, including provisioning, deployment, testing, and version control of the software 
• Mentor new software developers and junior engineers

• Passionate engineer with 5 – 8 years of hands-on experience of developing next-generation user interface with high quality and performance 
• Strong desire to learn & evaluate new libraries/frameworks, and share knowledge with others 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile development environment 
• Sound knowledge of front end standards and practices 
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code 
• Knowledge of Redux, React.js and its core principles 
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, JSON, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model 
• Experience with popular JS frameworks and libraries (React, Angular, JQuery, Ember, Babel, Webpack etc.) 
• Experience of building Single-page Web Apps 
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
• Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing 
• Proficient with debugging and testing tools to troubleshoot and optimize the UI 
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design and programming concepts, core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises

Good to have

• Full-stack development experience 
• Prior Startup Experience 
• Prior experience in developing real-time web applications 
• Experience with continuous deployment 
• Proficiency with Git/Github 
• Experience with GraphQL

Success Factors

• Start-up mindset 
• Good problem solving abilities 
• ‘Can-do’ attitude 
• Prior experience of working with globally distributed teams is an added advantage 
• Work with minimal supervision 
• Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team

• In-depth knowledge in Core Python with Django building end to endapplications development.
• Experience in Web technologies-HTML, CSS, Javascript.

• Database - SQL Server/Postgres/ NoSQL database.
  
  
• Good understanding of Algorithms, data structures.
• Knowledge in ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
  
  
• Experience in integrating multiple data sources and databases into onesystem.
  
  
• Knowledge in REST / SOAP API
• Knowledge in version control tools like Git
• Experience with various cloud technologies.