Frontend Developer (React)

DESIRED SKILLS: React.js, JavaScript, Redux, RESTful APIs, TypeScript

JOB SUMMARY
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
Familiarity with RESTful APIs
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JWT 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 (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
Familiarity with any ReactJS testing framework is plus

• Implement responsible web design principles to ensure that our company website renders well across multiple devices
• Design a framework for creating user apps that grows with the needs of the company
• Monitor website performance, watch for traffic drops related to site usability problems and rectify the issues
• Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team
• Assist in the development of applications and features that will be put on the website and in internal functions as well.
• Ensuring user experience determines design choices.
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Striking a balance between functional and aesthetic design.
• Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
• Building reusable code for future use.
• Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
• Utilizing a variety of markup languages to write web pages.
• Maintaining brand consistency throughout the design

• We use cutting edge technologies to build our products which means you get to be updated on the latest tech stack.
• You don’t need to have experience in any of our specific technologies;we are good at teaching our Engineers. Our diverse group of Engineers are a great team to work with and to learn.

• We deploy changes to production multiple times a day.
• Blameless culture and a continuous learning mindset

• Making a global platform with the scale of millions of users.
• Working directly with designers and PMs to make a world class test taking experience.
• Building a platform for companies and writing an ML based algorithm to match candidates and companies.
• Building an Ed-Tech product for the upskilling of candidates.

• Strong understanding of JS fundamentals and going deep into it coupled with experience in modern frameworks like ReactJs, Vuejs etc.
• The ideal person has worked with product teams in startups and taken features (or entire product modules) to production deployment which was then consumed by real users.
• Proficiency in building a highly scalable frontend.
• Ownership mindset- Taking end to end ownership of frontend initiatives and being part of the core team in driving the overall growth of the organisation in achieving its vision.

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in Frontend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Relevant work experience as a UI Developer. Proficient in JavaScript , ReactJS and/or React Native, Angular , JQuery Experience with HTML, CSS, Knowledge of web services and related technologies (REST) Experience with Web Services and API integration
• Candidate should have a stronghold on HTML & CSS
• Can understand and troubleshoot REST APIs calls
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Knowledge of SASS & LESS will be a plus as well
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Use JavaScript and cutting-edge JS frameworks to develop front end applications that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models
2. Solve and articulate complex problems through application design, product development, and user experiences. 
3. Develop software used by people who are not software developers--ensure the exceptional software you create influences them to be exceptional professionals in their respective fields
4. Collaborate with other programmers and mentor junior engineers through the development process
5. Leverage the knowledge of your peers to better understand business trends, customer communities, and technology adoption patterns
6. Evolve your language skills in JavaScript by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools.

Responsibilities

Ability to work on a cross-functional team within a very agile team, delivering on time and with high quality

Adjusts and defines new processes as they arise due to known and unknown customer/engineering requirements as it relates to frontend web development

Provides feedback on frontend architecture, code organization and CI/CD infrastructure for the team

Staying up to date with the best practices and future frontend development

Provides frontend leadership expertise and mentoring to other developers on not only the team, but the engineering organization as a whole

Takes pride in delivering ground breaking UI to web applications

Working closely with UX designers to turn their ideas into reality as it relates to creating visualizations for next generation cybersecurity

Qualifications

Proficient in developing large REACT Web Applications

Experience with Django applications

Proficient with TypeScript

Experience with Postgres or other relational database(s)

Experience developing REST APIs with authentication and scaling

Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

Cloud computing architectures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Experience with Docker a plus

Mandatory experience: 8 + years