Frontend Developer(SDE3)

We are seeking a highly motivated Software Development Engineer with expertise in building scalable, extensible and user-friendly web applications. You will work with a fast paced Product Engineering team to build efficient and reusable web applications for mobile and fixed devices. 

What you’ll do:

• Architect, Design, Code reviews and build scalable applications.
• You will be engaged in identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, and collaborate with other team members to innovate current/new products. 
• Identify, communicate and implement best practices for application engineering. 
• Ensure high scalability and performance

• You will advocate for good, clean, well-documented and performing code; define and follow standards and best practices for front-end development.

We’d love for you to have:

• Experience: 1-3 yrs recent experience of working in a scalable web product firm
• Education: B.Tech/M.Tech  in Computer Science from Top ranked colleges in India
• Excellent software development skills in developing web applications over client-side frameworks - Backbone, React (preferred) and/or angular frameworks (preferred); and server-side frameworks like node.js
• Excellent programming skills in object-oriented, modularised JavaScript, Typescript (preferred)
• Strong knowledge and working experience in server-side Event-driven programming using Node.js
• Excellent programming skills in Javascript,  jQuery, AJAX, YUI.
• Passion for writing optimized code using JS best practices  and design patterns
• Experience with JS or Java-based Unit/Integration Testing using Selenium, Appium, Selendroid
• Hands-on experience in building scalable web applications
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
• Good Knowledge of version control - GIT (preferred)
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle, design, develop, debug, document, and deliver (especially in a multiple site organization)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to deliver great results in an agile development
• Good to have: Working knowledge of web standards (i.e., REST) and OOPS
• Good to have: Experience in Data Structures, Algorithms and their optimization

Even if you don’t meet all of these qualifications above, we’d still love to hear from you. Tell us about your unique qualifications in your cover letter.

CaaStle is committed to equality of opportunity in employment. It has been and will continue to be the policy of CaaStle to provide full and equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical or mental disability. This policy applies to all terms, conditions and privileges of employment, such as those pertaining to training, transfer, promotion, compensation and recreational programs.

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

1. Good experience in react components, hooks and state.
2. Experiences in the implementation of responsive web layouts
3. Ability to discuss and explain design options.
4. Good experience with HTML5 & CSS3, Bootstrap Good understanding of JavaScript.
5. JavaScript libraries and CSS frameworks are preferred.

• 4.5+ years Experience with AngularJS
• Available for immediate joining 
• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques
• Experience with RESTful services
• Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp
• Expert in any one of the modern JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks (AngularJS, JQuery, NodeJS, GruntJS)
• Hand on and implements complex AngularJS applications, directives, controllers, services
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player