Frontend Developer (React Js)

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement user-centric features on web platforms to enhance overall experience and usability.
• Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, and product teams to deliver cohesive and scalable products.
• Solve diverse technical and integration challenges by building efficient solutions that connect with automation systems.
• Apply best practices to create reusable, testable, and maintainable components and frameworks.
• Optimize application performance and ensure responsive and adaptive design across multiple devices and browsers.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of modern front-end development frameworks and architecture.
• Hands-on experience building interactive, high-performance web applications.
• Proficiency with:
• React, Redux, html, css, javascript
• Build tools like Vite, CSS preprocessors such as Less/Sass
• Solid grasp of UI/UX principles, responsive design, and accessibility standards.
• Experience integrating front-end solutions with REST APIs or automation systems is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.

1. 1. Experience with React JS, React Native, JavaScript including DOM Manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
   2. Thorough understanding of React Native and its core Principles.
   3. Hands on experience on React Native Framework at least 1 year.
   4. Understanding of native build tools like Xcode, Gradle etc.
   5. Capability to write Well-documented code with Javascript that is easily readable.
   6. Good Knowledge of HTML5, CSS.
   7. Familiarity with code versioning tools (Such as Git or SVN)
   8. Knowledge about Offline Storage, REST APIs, and document request model
   9. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
   10. Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Web pack, NPM and YARN etc.
   11. Experience with Native Mobile app deployment on App store and google play store.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Create highly responsive B2C web-app using a wide range of open source frontend and backend technology.
• Create single page applications using a wide range of javascript & cutting edge libraries/frameworks.
• Responsible for the full lifecycle of a project, including development, unit testing, system testing and change management.
• Research technical issues and provides recommendations to enhance JavaScript products.
• Manage/Lead a team of 10+ javascript fullstack developers to handle a wide range of projects across different products.
• Code reviews, Overall project estimations, Estimation reviews, Project planning.
• Interact with stakeholders for the development requirements gathering.
• Layout a technical career growth plan for the team members.
• Working with multiple projects.

 What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferably from IIT,NIT & other premier institutes.
• Rockstar Javascript developer, who appreciates the intricacies of JS as well as passionate to follow new trends in JS.
• Experience with product companies.
• 9-12 yrs of software development on advanced JavaScript stack (Native Javascript, Asynchronous Request Handling, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, etc).
• 2-4 yrs of experience in leading and mentoring a team. 
• In-depth knowledge in ReactJS & NodeJS
• Proficiency in any other modern web frameworks will be a plus.
• A solid knowledge of advanced data structures & algorithms.
• Proficient in Computer Science fundamentals & object-oriented design.
• Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to tackle those.
• Must possess a track record of building Single Page responsive UI.
• Experience with Databases such as NoSQL and any RDBMS will be a plus.
• Experience with transport protocols such as TCP, HTTP & WebSocket.
• Expressing and appreciating design patterns is a real addition.
• Critical of coding practices and development methodologies.

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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 Reactive 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.

We are an IIT Bombay incubated, healthcare start up developing a mobile based Ai technology to help reduce health risks for women during their pregnancy. Our Founders are Harvard and Columbia University alums with extensive experience in digital health in the US and India.

Mobile Development Engineer - React Native (Location: Mumbai)

Requirements:

2-4 years of experience on React Native. Good understanding of start up environment.

1.     Advanced knowledge of React Native.

2.     Excellent knowledge of React native libraries, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript.

3.     Excellent knowledge on android and iOS UI design principles, patterns and best practices.

4.     Experience working with publishing on stores.

5.     Experience working with Rest APIs.

6.    Knowledge of integration and utilization of cloud services and payment systems.

7.    Should have played a key role in conceptualising to deployment of apps using React Native.

8    Project management, scheduling, allocation and delivery.

9.    Proven experience of agile development, sprint planning and backlog management.

10.   Keen focus on customer, excellent communication skills, with high level of responsiveness and responsibility.

Good to Have:

Full Stack experience.

Experience working on chat apps, community, and healthcare domain. 

Exposure or Interest in NLP, Machine Learning.

Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms. Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.

Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.

Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes—React Native moves fast and often breaks things.

Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality. Transition existing React web apps to React Native.

4+ years Experience with React Native

BS degree or higher in Computer Science or Engineering

Firm grasp of the JavaScript (and TypeScript or ClojureScript) language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax

Knowledge of functional programming

Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code

Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle, Android Studio

Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage Experience with automated testing suites, like Mocha