Frontend Developer - Tech lead

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop new user-facing features, optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs,
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Freshers, thanks for your interest, but this is not the right role for you

Desired Candidate Profile

• 2-10 years experience on UI design, creative flair
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, such as AngularJS, ReactJS , KnockoutJS, BackboneJS etc.,
• Proficient understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, AJAX and Restful API calls
• Proficient understanding of Bootstrap and web markup, including HTML5, CSS3. Server-side CSS pre-processing platforms such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of responsiveness and cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Basic understanding of image authoring tools such as Gimp, PhotoShop etc
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / Mercurial / SVN

Perks and Benefits

• Health insurance
• A learning environment
• Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies
• Exposure to key customers in India and abroad
• Work closely with senior leadership that has already developed world class products

Murf AI is a fast-growing Series A-funded startup backed by Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners India. Founded in 2020 by alumni of IIT Kharagpur, we have served 2 Mn+ voice-over projects through our core product, the Murf Studio, which now caters to customers in 100+ countries. 

We are working on simplifying voice audio and making high-quality voiceovers accessible to everyone, using artificial intelligence. Murf helps users create lifelike voiceovers in a matter of minutes, without the need for any recording equipment. (https://murf.ai/).

Some interesting facts about Murf AI:

Customers in 100+ countries

1Mn+ registered users

7X growth in revenue in the last 12 months

120+ voices in 20+ languages offered by Murf Studio

Job Description

We are looking for a React.js developer who has a good knowledge of modern (ES6+) Javascript to build the next generation of Murf AI Studio’s frontend. You would be responsible for building a feature packed cloud based tool for generating and editing synthetic media. You will build user-facing components and implement them with different workflows and toolchests like Redux and Flux. Your primary focus will be to develop a stable, robust, aesthetic and maintainable product. You also need a good understanding of the toolchain of modern web development including packers and transpilers and apply these pragmatically to achieve high quality deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Create new features or parts of applications, with a natural ability to deliver on short timelines.
• Develop components and libraries that are reusable and future-proof
• Confident in using UI/UX designs or wireframes to create the respective code and the application
• Use your knowledge on React.js and its lifecycle to maximise components performance across different devices and browsers
• Work with design and content teams, to improve customer facing landing and resource pages. 

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in building complex react based applications
• Bachelor's degree in CS or similar fields
• Deep understanding of React.js and its fundamentals, ideally including modern features like hooks
• Excellent understanding of Javascript including the OOP concept and how shadow DOM and DOM work
• Experience with widely used React.js state managers like Flux, Redux, Thunks or Sagas
• Knowing modern ECMAScript
• Experience with data structure libraries like Immutable.js
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools like Webpack, Babel, NPM etc.
• Knowledge of the overall browser rendering behaviour and measuring and optimising performance
• Strong hands-on experience with source code management systems like Git
• Understanding of what the business / stakeholders need and transfer that into your project

Extra Awesome

• Animation skills using CSS/SVG/JS
• Experience with AWS technologies such as Cloudfront, Lambda, S3.
• Understanding of authorisation mechanisms like OAuth, JSON Web Token
• Understanding of on-site Technical SEO and accessibility concepts

• Experience with Web Components and Custom Elements
• Understanding of data visualization concepts and technologies (SVG, D3.js)
• Familiarity with JavaScript build tools such as Webpack.
• Git Source Control
• Unit and E2E Testing - Cypress.io / Chai / Karma / Jasmine / etc.
• Experience building responsive interfaces.
• Good sense for building visually appealing products.
• Some Node experience
• Experience using RESTful Web Service Architecture
• Experience working in Agile Environments
• To be considered for this role, you must have:
• A deep understanding of building complex, single-page JavaScript apps using frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue
• Fluency with JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS and SASS

• In this Senior Front End Engineer position, you will:
• Inherit a well-architected, clean and robust codebase built with TypeScript, Angular, and SCSS/SASS with a modern interface
• Work with our design team and other engineers to make sure our application is performant and intuitive to use
• Evaluate and implement new libraries and components
• Ensure best practices are followed in the design and development of the application
• Contribute to and help manage our open source libraries

Job Brief

The job requires Sr Frontend Developer. This Developer is expected to have strong technical skills, work closely with the other team members in development and ability to work stand alone. Ability to work on a small team with minimal supervision, Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

Skills Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field plus 3-5 Years of frontend relevant experience
• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC)
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS and Bootstrap
• Understanding of server-side CSS
• Strong knowledge of frontend scripting languages like JavaScript, jQuery, React js or Angular etc.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design
• Experience with GitHub, Tortoise SVN Version Control
• Understanding of key design principles
• Strong attention to detail
• Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
• Sound analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Collaborating with coworkers to facilitate the creation of large, complex developments, as required.
• Reformulating existing code to ensure adherence to stipulated guidelines.
• Checking your code to detect and remedy errors and omissions.
• Testing your outputs to ensure that they are in excellent working order.
• Deploying developments and monitoring uptake by the target audience.
• Using clients' feedback to inform the creation of subsequent versions of each development.
• Remaining abreast of coding and technological changes that will impact your work.

The  will be responsible for :

• Designing and development of Responsive Web Application
• Strong Knowledge of HTML5, CSS & Java Script
• Strong Understanding of concept of DOM (Document Object Model)
• Understanding of how browsers (Chrome, Mozilla) work behind the scene
•  Knowledge of React JS, CSS Flexbox (Preferred or Optional )

We are building a global content marketplace that brings companies and content

creators together to scale up content creation processes across 50+ content verticals and 150+ industries. Over the past 2.5 years, we’ve worked with companies like India Today, Amazon India, Adobe, Swiggy, Dunzo, Businessworld, Paisabazaar, IndiGo Airlines, Apollo Hospitals, Infoedge, Times Group, Digit, BookMyShow, UpGrad, Yulu, YourStory, and 350+ other brands.
Our mission is to become the world’s largest content creation and distribution platform for all kinds of content creators and brands.

Our Team

We are a 25+ member company and is scaling up rapidly in both team size and our ambition.

If we were to define the kind of people and the culture we have, it would be -

a) Individuals with an Extreme Sense of Passion About Work

b) Individuals with Strong Customer and Creator Obsession

c) Individuals with Extraordinary Hustle, Perseverance & Ambition

We are on the lookout for individuals who are always open to going the extra mile and thrive in a fast-paced environment. We are strong believers in building a great, enduring

a company that can outlast its builders and create a massive impact on the lives of our

employees, creators, and customers alike.

Our Investors

We are fortunate to be backed by some of the industry’s most prolific angel investors - Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal (Snapdeal founders), YourStory Media. (Shradha Sharma); Dr. Saurabh Srivastava, Co-founder of IAN and NASSCOM; Slideshare co-founder Amit Ranjan; Indifi's Co-founder and CEO Alok Mittal; Sidharth Rao, Chairman of Dentsu Webchutney; Ritesh Malik, Co-founder and CEO of Innov8; Sanjay Tripathy, former CMO, HDFC Life, and CEO of Agilio Labs; Manan Maheshwari, Co-founder of WYSH; and Hemanshu Jain, Co-founder of Diabeto.