Frontend Developer Trainee

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

Core responsibilities

•      Collaborate with product teams to more accurately define new features

•      Collaborate with UX in the building of a design system/component library

•      Ensure high performance of all systems developed

•      Aware of the relationship between development and business with a strong sense of ownership

•      Employ the latest techniques such as agile software development

•      Good knowledge of highly scalable server-side development

•      Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux

•      Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Javascript/Angular

•      Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills

•      Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts

Job Brief

•      JavaScript and angular expertise

•      Experience with libraries such as bootstrap, Ag-grid, formly, observables, and ngrx

•      You enjoy working with new technologies, and are curious and energetic

•      Experience working with REST APIs

•       Good understanding about authentication and security

•      Create and maintain various unit and integration tests

•      You enjoy working in a creative and agile environment that moves fast

•      Ability and interest in providing mentorship to junior members of the team

•      Write high quality code and Conduct code reviews

•      Being resourceful and detail-oriented, along with being an outside the box thinker!

•      Experience being a great team player, who work collaborative, and brings a positive attitude

We are building new-age billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies. As SaaS pricing evolves from vanilla subscription-based models to more granular usage-based models, billing and pricing infrastructure needs to be completely reimagined.

We're building our founding team and are looking for a front-end developer, who can take ownership of the user-facing side of our product. Your primary roles and responsibilities will evolve as the team grows.

Responsibilities:

• Taking full ownership of building a pixel-perfect frontend product
• Understanding code quality, maintainability, modularity, and scalability
• Break down large tasks into independent smaller chunks
• Implementing good testing practices to ensure rapid iteration
• Communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand their points of view and to discuss your own ideas

Requirements:

• A basic understanding of backend development is a plus
• 1-3 years of experience
• Capable of building the frontend part of web applications with minimal guidance
• Proficiency in Javascript, Reactjs, HTML, and CSS
• Knowledge of other Javascript frameworks is a plus. Tailwind CSS/Tailwind UI experience is preferred but not required.
• Comfortable with frontend build systems
• Good understanding of frontend optimization
• Good at making a designer's design come to pixel-perfect reality
• Good at making decent interfaces from basic wireframes (without a designer's help) when needed
• Understanding of SSR is a plus, but not required
• Familiarity with billing systems, CPQ, and accounting systems is a plus
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Self-driven individual with high ownership and a strong work ethic
• Good communication skills.

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Generous vacation policy
• Learning and development budget
• Team events and company offsites
• Choose your laptop
• Maternity and Paternity benefits

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding and knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS etc.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them

• Architect, Design, implement, and deploy solutions that are reliable and perform at scale in multi-tenant environment.
• Collaborate with UX design group and convert the design to actual UI components and pages to delight users of our cloud platform
• Evaluate technology and make choice based on performance, scalability, security and future expansion.
• Work with different stakeholders within and outside the team in a highly collaborative environment.
• Working with rapid and innovative development methodologies like: Kanban, Continuous Integration and Daily deployments
• Engage with Product Management and Business to create Product roadmap, own technical backlog and roadmap for technology supremacy.
• Continually learn about new technologies, generate new ideas and improve the use of technology in the product.
• Driving various organization wide activities like Hackathon, Ideathon, brown bag sessions and technical blogs

• Strong experience in Information Architecture and UI Design experience in delivering concepts, wire frames, prototypes, and compelling visual experiences.
• Possess the knowledge of the Graphic Design, Usability and ability to apply strategic thinking to deliver exceptional end to end user experience
• Expert understanding of strong Standards Based HTML Development as also strong JavaScript and JS libraries / UI Frameworks like Prototype.js, DHTMLX, ExtJS, JQuery (one Framework at the least is a must)
• Strong experience in Vue.JS/Backbone.JS or similar.
• Strong in CSS and AJAX / XML / XSLT / DOM / JSON
• Should have fundamental understanding of JavaScript - OOPs
• Understand Cross Browser issues and client side cookie
• Would expect the successful candidate to be highly proficient in Web Standards including W3C and WCAG
• Possess strong and relevant exposure to Web Accessibility/ Usability
• Would require to be intimately familiar with defining UI Specifications / Guidelines
• Would be essential to possess knowledge of web-based technologies and their impact on the feasibility of design solutions, including the capabilities and limitations of Web Technologies
• Experience in the Retail Domain or working on building Analytical Tools would be a plus
• Very good written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working with Agile development environments

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master degree in engineering
• 7+ years of work experience, 1+ years of experience as a lead
• Proficient understanding of HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Proficient understanding of ReactJs or similar library
• Good understanding of responsive web development
• Good understanding of SEO and analytics
• Ability to break the business problem into smaller features
• Ability to access the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility