Frontend Developer

Location: Mumbai

Experience Required: 2+ Years

Job Type: Full-Time

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Front-End Developer to join our product engineering team. The ideal candidate must have experience working in a product-based software development company and should have hands-on involvement in e-commerce platform projects.

Mandatory Criteria

• Candidate must be currently working or have prior experience in a product-based software development company
• Candidate must have worked on at least one e-commerce platform project (end-to-end involvement)

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain responsive, high-performance web interfaces using React.js
• Translate UI/UX designs into pixel-perfect, reusable front-end components
• Optimize components for maximum performance and cross-browser compatibility
• Integrate front-end components with backend RESTful APIs
• Collaborate with design, backend, and QA teams to deliver seamless user experiences
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and agile development ceremonies

Required Skills

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), React.js, HTML5, and CSS3
• Experience with state management libraries such as Redux or Zustand
• Solid understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and API integration
• Knowledge of version control systems like Git
• Understanding of performance optimization, debugging, and front-end testing practices

Description:

Looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. primary focus will

be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known

React.js workflows with Redux.

Requirements:

Experience with web technologies (REACT, REDUX, AJAX, SCSS/LESS/CSS,

Hooks,HTML)

Excellent conceptual understanding of DOM, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and cross browser

rendering, behavior and performance. The candidate should have high level knowledge

on user experience, asset loading, browser rendering, responsive design, state

management, JavaScript asynchronous patterns, request handling, partial page updates, and REST APIs

with AJAX

Experience implementing static typing in JavaScript (Babel, Typescript)

Familiar with TDD practices. Comfortable with Jest, Jasmine, Cypress, Webdriver.io,

and other automation frameworks to develop and keep the test suite up to date.

Familiarity with front-end build/publish tools, such as npm. Grunt/Gulp.js, Webpack,

browserify.js

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT.

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Role

We are looking for an experienced Frontend engineer with ReactJS development experience to join our team.
Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Implement responsive and performant UIs with user centered approach with frontend technologies including ReactJS, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc
• Write meaningful test cases for frontend &amp
• Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc

Ideal Background / Experience

• At least 12 months of diverse experience in web development for product or services oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments
• Expertise in programming using Python/ReactJS or similar scripting languages
• In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Nice to have exposure to any of

• AWS
• Azure
• ELK
• Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)
• Google APIs
• Microservices Architecture Pattern
• NodeJS / ExpressJS

• Strong programming skills in JavaScript
• Experience with Angular JS
• Experience with frontend frameworks like bootstrap, Jquery
• Object Oriented concepts
• Good knowledge in HTML5, CSS, CSS3
• Experience in working with RESTful APIS
• Experience with HTTP, HTTPS and WebSockets
• Building responsive design
• Knowledge in version control- Git, Subversion
• Good problem-solving skills 

• Convert design to Angular 5 components.
• Must have good experience in UI Developer + Angular.
• In-hand experience on UI Developer, Discovery, Angular, Brand and platform exploration, Styleguide, Proof of concept, Design production, Usability testing.
• Use SCSS as the CSS macroprocessor.
• Integrate the Angular services with APIs from the backend team.
• Test your screens using a tool for all browsers and resolution compatibility.
• Handle and track tasks assigned using Agile methodology.
• Strong commitment towards quality and schedule.
• Cross team coordination.
• Implement UI development best practices to write optimized and non-buggy code.
• Work in Agile environment with sprint releases ranging from 2 to 4 weeks.
• Feasibility study of requirement and suggest multiple approaches for a problem after sufficient RnD.
• Keep abreast with trending recent UI tools, technologies, plugins and software in the industry.
• Roll-up your sleeves attitude to get things done.

Responsibilities:

• Build customer facing technology product for global customers.
• Own the Product's frontend and backend development, building reusable, testable, and scalable code
• Research, evaluate, analyse and implement technical requirements
• Collaborate with product management teams to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
• Mentor Junior members of the team

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building scalable products, distributed applications product/services in JavaScript and one of Angular/React
• Should have sound knowledge and experience in HTML and CSS
• Familiarity with UI layout, and CSS grid system or experience working with Bootstrap or any other CSS frameworks is a must
• Should have worked on the complete UI lifecycle of converting UI/UX designs into prototypes, write reusable modules
• Implement UI development principles to ensure client side scaling and clean and maintainable code that performs well on various performance metrics
• Understanding of multiple delivery platforms, such as Mobile & Web and developing Responsive UI
• Designing Unit Test cases, integrated test cases using Selenium and Protractor
• Strong coding and problem solving skills
• Ability to own end-to-end deliveries, right from requirements till release
• Excellent coding skills and ability to produce high quality, bug free and testable production grade code
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Ability to review code and continuously push for higher standards of development
• Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL database services and related tools with the expertise to create efficient schemas, preferably MongoDB would be nice to have