Frontend Developer - VueJS

Job Summary:

As an Application Developer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and configuring applications to meet business process and application requirements using Angular.

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Job Responsibilities:

• Building and implementing high-quality user interfaces using JavaScript and the Angular framework
• Works independently with a broader perspective on the project
• Participates in requirements analysis, development, unit testing and documentation.
• Writes quality code to fit unique customer needs and configurations.
• Troubleshoots and debugs (with some guidance from senior team members if needed)
• Achieves better understanding of the company platform and processes and suggests improvements.
• Understanding the system architecture and technical goals of the product.
• Follow development process (source control, branching, testing, Code Review etc.) without assistance.
• Actively troubleshoot issues and assist with complex support queries which require further analysis.
• Provides mentoring/guidance to junior Software Engineers
• Delivers training and participates in knowledge sharing.
• Achieves better understanding of the company platform and processes and suggests improvements.

Job Requirements:

Must Have:

• Minimum 5+ years’ experience 
• Extensive experience in Angular
• Extensive experience in Typescript
• Strong of NodeJS
• Strong of multiple front-end languages (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and their libraries
• Extensive experience of consuming REST API
• Designing, coding, testing, and deploying the application.
• Debugging issues in the application code to ensure it is working correctly.
• Communicating with other team members on any pending tasks or changes in the project.  
• Experience of writing unit tests.
• Experience of implementation on cloud.
• Use of tools such as JIRA, Git, GitHub.
• Ability to write cross-browser compatible code
• Good Communication skills.
• Ability to participate in team discussions.
• Positive attitude, willingness to learn and self-motivated.

Good to have:

• Exposure on SPA Front End App
• Exposure on Rxjs, Ngrx/store, Nx monorepo, Deck.gl
• Exposure on Turf.js (GIS), cypress 
• Exposure on Storybook 
• Experience of Docker
• Familiarity with database technologies such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB
• Experience with Serverless.
• Ability to document code inline using JSDoc

About Upswing

Open banking is a reality of this decade and it needs robust, customizable and secure rails to run on. Our mission is to enable consumer companies to offer differentiated financial products and empower financial institutions with greater reach through our Secure, Scalable, and easy-to-integrate API platform.

Every company today has an opportunity to extend financial services to make banking experiences lively and delightful. Our open finance-as-a-service platform is highly customizable, simple, and modular which significantly reduces the integration effort for our partners to launch financial products in weeks, not years.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

What will you do if you join us?

• Implement responsive web design principles to ensure that our company website renders well across multiple devices
• Design a framework for creating user apps that grow with the needs of the company
• Monitor website performance, watch for traffic drops related to site usability problems, and rectify the issues
• Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team
• Assist in the development of applications and features that will be put on the website and in internal functions as well

You should have

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 3+ years of web development experience. Development experience for Mobile screens would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of Javascript. Proficiency in Typescript & React Js would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of web development tools and programming languages

• Proficient knowledge of a NodeJS and Express.
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms (such as mobile vs, desktop), and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jade, EJS, Jinja, etc. depending on your technology stack)
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors (such as Stylus, Less, Sass etc. depending on your technology stack)
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS.

• VueJS
• Express
• Socket.IO
• NuxtJS
• MongoDB (3.x)
• Mongoose

About the role

We are looking for experienced developers, who have the aspirations and appetite in working in a start-up environment, and with relevant industry experience to make a significant contribution to our Digilytics^TM platform and solutions. 

Responsibilities

• Implementing High quality applications using front end technologies like Angular JS or Angular latest versions.
• Wherever possible take part in backend implementation.
• Suggest better and suitable alternative technologies and frameworks.
• Interacting with clients and gathering and documenting business requirements and solution designs to a high degree
• Recruiting and managing other personnel as relevant and achieving a high performance for self and the team
• Ensuring that clients are satisfied and do not have any negative feedback about the Company and the Executives provision of services
• Understand the Digilytics^TM vision and help in creating and maintaining a development roadmap
• Contribute to product development team and deliver product releases in a timely manner
• Ensure the quality of the product delivered
• Develop client-specific solutions using the product
• Liaise with multiple stakeholders and coordinate with our onshore and offshore entities

Expected and Desired Skills

• Strong programming skills and deep understanding of technical delivery
• Excellent understanding of analytical techniques and technology landscape
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate ideas clearly at all levels
• Ability to work in unfamiliar business areas and to use your skills to create solutions
• Flexible approach to working environment and hours to meet the needs of the business and clients

Experience

• A start up mind set with proven experience working in both smaller and larger organisations having multicultural exposure
• Between 3-4 years of experience working closely with the relevant technologies, and developing world-class software and solutions

Education Background

• A Bachelors degree, or equivalent, preferably in Software Engineering and Computer Science

React JS & AWS

• Proficient working knowledge of React JS,Redux, ES6, Node JS, VSCode, ES Lint, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap 4
• Ability to learn and adapt on customer expectations
• Passion for user experience and user - centric development
• Strong communication skills that include leading design - related conversations, ability to build and nurture good relationships and foster an environment for collaboration
• Self - starter and passionate learner
• Creative problem - solver with a strong eye for detail
• Experience with version and source control, preferably Git Lab
• Should have knowledge on micro services.
• Overall experience between 4 yrs to 8 yrs.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and debugging responsive web and mobile applications for the company. Using React Js, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, this candidate will be able to translate user and business needs into functional frontend design. 

Responsibilities

- Must have

    - Experience with React and Redux or similar programming

    - Experience in Rest API integration

    - Passionate about user experience

     - Android and IOS development

- Other requirements

    - Good knowledge of Javascript functions and operators

    - Responsibility for major tasks and chores

    - Willing to resolve technical debt in the early step

    - Good understanding of sprint cycle in agile

    - Can communicate with developers and non-developers

    - Can work independently but a great collaborator

    - Serverless API experience is not counted

    - Good to have Git workflow knowledge

    - Good to have Github collaboration experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science
• 2+ years experience in frontend development
• Familiarity using Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building object-oriented web applications in React Js, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3