Frontend Developer

What are we looking for:

1. We are looking for someone that has an eye for design, solid experience in ReactJS, are value-driven and product-oriented. You will own all phases of user interface development.
2. From architecture and design to implementation and customer engagement. This role isn’t just about coding; it's about owning features end-to-end, translating them from concepts to user-centric products
3. Each engineer owns the feature they are building and is responsible for turning it into reality, and we will need your front-end expertise to find solutions to problems and challenges and deliver on roadmap objectives.
4. 4+ years of experience in web frontend technology, including React, TypeScript, and CSS-in-JS.
5. Significant experience with JavaScript frameworks and client-side state management, particularly React.js and Redux.
6. Knowledge of 2D visualization libraries like D3 and 3D visualization tools such as Three.js and WebGL is a plus.
7. Expertise in developing solutions for complex problems and integrations, with a strong product sense to balance technical and product requirements.
8. Skilled in working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including design, product, tech, learning experience & marketing.
9. Independent and capable of producing 'production ready' code with minimal guidance.
10. Proficient in performance optimization and CDN caching strategies.
11. Nice to have: Full stack experience working in backend.

Job Description

Role:- Software engineer - front end

About the company:-We are a social learning platform that allows us to learn the way we learn best. If our children are going to learn online we will have to make it social. That’s how learning happens best. We think we’re amongst the first few companies in the world trying to push the boundaries of edtech to a new era of highly social & community driven learning.

 Responsibilities:-

You will be responsible for taking end-to-end ownership of the development of beautiful, fast, and responsive mobile and web applications. You will have attention to detail. You will care about the quality of code, design patterns and testability. You will be working closely with designers, product managers and engineers to build products that will delight our educators, students and parents.

HTML, CSS and JavaScript ninja
Patient debugging skills
Using state of the art developer toolkit
React JS / React Native / Vue.js
Curiosity to remain updated with the newest technologies and frameworks

UI Development - Intern

Converts into a full time ‘UI Developer’ position based on performance

A UI Developer, for an early-stage Analytics startup who can help us translate UX designs into a responsive and rich user interface. Also help in improving design/functionality of product. End goal is to achieve product-market objectives

The candidate will have rich learning into what goes into designing, developing, and scaling a product from scratch. A chance to grow into a UI Development Owner in medium term

Responsibilities

1. Own UI Development closely with UX / Technology Owner

2. Implement and maintain product UI modules/sub-systems.

3. Perform bug verification, release testing and support for assigned products.

4. Conduct unit testing and integration testing.

5. Make sure the delivered product matches the business requirements.

Expectations from candidate

1. Ability: Good at logical thinking, problem solving

2. Inclination: Curious and strong willingness to learn from problems, write good code

3. Knowledge: Basics of UI Development (Some academic degree/certification or Prior experience/Projects preferred), Data visualization

4. Languages/Frameworks: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, NextJS

5. Interest in product focused work in a fast-moving start-up environment

6. Attitude: We are looking for a person with an owner mindset who can partner with us in building our product with a lot of commitment. We like people who are curious problem solvers and are interested in learning with us and working hard.

What we offer

1. Great culture focused on outcomes through learning and experimentation

2. Mentoring by experienced professionals from pedigreed backgrounds (IIT/IIMs)

3. Growth, ownership, and flexibility to achieve your goals.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

• 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

• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs

• Translate designs and style guides provided by the UI/UX team into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility and performance
• Build efficient and reusable front-end system that drive complex web applications
• Identify, address performance bottleneck and communicate best practices for front end engineering
• Responsible for meeting expectations and deliverables on time and in high quality
• Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to build/deliver next generation products
• Interact with other team members to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Rapid prototyping web user interfaces

• Substantial experience in building large complex and performant web applications using HTML5, CSS3, Typescript and Javascript across multiple browsers (Especially IE11).
• Experience in frameworks such as React (Redux, Redux Thunk or Saga, React Router, React Hooks) , Node JS and good understanding of the basics of these frameworks and their life cycles.(MUST HAVE)
• Experience in frameworks like Bootstrap and CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS is desirable.
• Deeper understanding of network layer, HTTP, HTTPS, cookies, local storage.
• Knowledge to handle real-time async data would be a plus.
• Good knowledge on build tools like Webpack and Gulp
• Good knowledge on testing tools like Jest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, etc
• Experience in Git source control 
• Deeper understanding of Chrome Dev Tools.
• Deeper knowledge of UI optimizations and performance.
• Excellent communication skills, good visual design sense, in-depth experience in developing web-based applications.
• Experience leading multi engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers.
• Command an impressive portfolio of the latest UI technologies is a plus