
Frontend Developer for a US-based company (contractual)
at US based background check company
Long Term Contract Job
Senior Frontend Developer
About us
We are founded in 2007. Our mission is to develop a diverse portfolio of technologies, products, and services,that gives all people equal access to unbiased data and information. We believe that through this access people can empower and protect themselves in today’s
ever-changing world, filled with fake news, deception, and a lack of transparency.
About the Job
We are looking for a Sr. Front End Developer to join our growing team. Your
experience here will give you the opportunity to improve the fundamentals and learn about the
top notch technologies in front end development. If you are someone who is passionate about
building stellar user experiences and great products through elegant code this would be the job for you. You will play a key role in translating our customers and company needs into appealing and functional web pages while proving your ideas with testing.
What You Will Get to Do
- Work with your team to improve our conversion rates by coding out variations for A/B testing
- Build better user experiences
- Rigorously educate yourself with the latest development techniques and best practices
- Proactively anticipate issues and develop solutions
- Clearly communicate solutions to team members both verbally and in written documentation
- Implement new digital technologies or development techniques that help to meetbusiness objectives
- Look at existing practices and use your experience to help build better practices when necessary
- Work with our tech leads to decide what long term initiatives we should take on and then motivate others to embrace these initiative
What You Bring to the Table
- 4+ years of front-end development experience
- Experience with responsive web design and the ability to deliver outstanding functionality to the range of client devices from desktops and laptops to mobile platforms
- Familiarity with at least one JavaScript framework (MVW) and know when to do without one when necessary
- Understanding of HTTP and how clients interact with a web server
- Solid understanding of best practices. You read the YDKJS books.
- Capable of coding in ES5 and ES6 and understand the difference between them
- Up-to-date on HTML5 and CSS3 features
- Passionate about supporting all browsers, including IE11+
- Practical experience in design techniques for web UI applications
- Demonstrated ability to roll up sleeves to develop and implement new features and functionality
- Possess an excellent understanding of creative tools in order to develop leading-edge web pages with interesting and innovative client-side capabilities
- Be independently driven and resourceful to deliver results with minimal direction
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit with a drive to contribute new ideas for future development
- Have the ability to deliver what is required but at the same time, look at code objectively to see areas of improvement
- Have the ability to work with UX and technical teams to get things done
- Have the ability to handle multiple, competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
Pluses
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Experience with running experiments
- Experience in trying out modern frameworks and executing on migration plan
Super Pluses
- You know how to polyfill features that aren't cross browser friendly.
- You understand same-origin policy and cross-origin resource sharing.
- You understand prototypal inheritance vs classical inheritance.
Why Explore a Career with us?
We build exciting data products and then we market them with passion. We’re a fast-growing company that balances the culture of a startup with the stability of being an established, profitable company. We want to work with people that strive to be in the top .01% of their field. We understand that getting to the top takes hard work, constant improvement, and by making data-driven decisions. It’s a thrilling time to join the team, as we’re expanding our product offerings in exciting new ways, driving innovation through data, marketing, and web & app development.We believe in diversity and hiring people from all backgrounds and walks of life. You must be energetic, inventive, a team player, and looking to help build and grow the
company each and every day. You must have an inner desire to win and the idea of
losing is a non-starter. If you are looking for a position that allows you to work with a
group of smart and dedicated people who will support you but still provide the autonomy
you need to execute your strategy.

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Roles and Responsibilities

What we want to accomplish and why we need you?
Haptik is one of the world's largest Conversational AI companies, having reached over 500 + million devices, and processed over 5 billion+ conversations till date. Haptik has been at the forefront of the paradigm shift of interaction from clicks to conversations. We have built a robust set of technology and tools that can enable any kind of conversational application. With a 400+ member strong team that is set to double in the coming year, Haptik is truly poised to lead the Conversational AI revolution with some of the best minds in the industry.
We are a full-stack conversational AI company from building products to delivering bots for our clients. We are looking for a front-end engineer who can help us build the next generation of enterprise-grade conversational AI platform.
What will you do every day?
As a front-end tech lead you will be responsible for building the Haptik platform which is used by people across the globe. You will be working closely with the product, design and platform team on a day to day basis and be responsible for the look and feel of the product. While you know how to work hard, you also know how to have fun at work and make friends with your colleagues.
Ok, you're sold, but what are we looking for in the perfect candidate?
- Have a keen eye for detail and passionate about UI and UX
- Has worked with a team of FE engineers to set tech processes and standards.
- Has experience in mentoring junior engineers.
- Have a solid understanding of front-end technologies especially React
- Build, maintain and gate-keep the platform tools
- Work closely with the PM and designers to deliver high-quality features
- Work closely with the backend engineers to understand the Interkat Platform and build for scale
- High-level estimating and scoping/breaking down of tasks
- Document features to make them easily understandable to clients
- Participate in code reviews, automated and functional testing, and other aspects of our quality assurance process
- Use and promote standard good coding practices
- Fully participate in a scrum-based, agile development team
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices
- Work experience around optimizing build artifacts and performance monitoring
- Following security standards when using cookies/others to store user information etc.
Requirements :
- 5+ years of experience working on React.js
- Prior experience of leading/mentoring a team is a plus
- Knowledge of flux and redux
- Must have extensive experience working on Javascript, HTML, CSS, animations and UI/UX principles.
- Knowledge of backend technologies is a plus
- Good attention to detail, pixel perfect designs
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent
- Good Communication skills
- Hustler with the passion for writing good code
- Team player
- Must have experience in working in an agile environment, exposure to tools like Jira would be an added benefit.
Requirements is such a strong word. We don't necessarily expect to find a candidate that has done everything listed, but you should be able to make a credible case that you've done most of it and are ready for the challenge of adding some new things to your resume.


Duration: 3 Months
Type: Hybrid(Gurgaon); Paid
Joining: Immediate
Who's a fit:
- Experience with React Native and ReactJS
- Excellent problem-solving and logical thinking
- Completed a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Projects to showcase your skills



Requirements:
- Practical experience with AngularJS/Angular/ReactJs, etc.
- Practical experience with server side technologies like Django, Ruby on Rails, etc is a plus.
You must be:
- A quick, analytical thinker
- Someone who wants to learn how to write quality code
What you will be doing:
- A lot of heavy JS changes for improving the user experience.
- Help build out the front-end completely once all the information from the backend has been dumped to a template.
Software Engineering
- 4+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining React-based applications
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing medium to large-scale applications using Javascript frameworks
- Experience with projects that involve, improving the reliability and performance of your web-apps, by leveraging different observability tools like Lighthouse, Sentry, and Datadog.
- Good understanding of functional programming paradigms and UI architecture patterns
- A decent understanding of cloud infrastructure like AWS to orchestrate and manage our applications.
- Experience with testing frameworks like JEST, modern auth mechanisms, and server-side rendering through frameworks like NextJS
- Experience with backend technologies like JAVA, and Kotlin would be good to have.
Product Development
- Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to resolve dependency risks.
- Well-versed in working in an agile environment and being involved in different stages of SDLC - Design, Development, Code Review, Testing, and Release Management
- Ability to work with different CI/CD frameworks, with hands-on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
- Continuously refactor applications so that they are easy to maintain, easy to extend, and contribute to
Your Tech Stack
Web Application Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails
Programming Languages: ReasonML/Rescript, Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, HTML, CSS
Tools and Libraries: Webpack, Sentry, NextJS, NodeJS, Jest, Figma
Communication: HTTP, GraphQL, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS
Observability: Google Analytics, Lighthouse, Sentry, Kibana, Datadog
What you will build with us?
The front-end platform at Porter is geared toward developing a variety of products for customers, partners, and our internal teams. You will be a part of Porter’s Web Engineering Platform team.
What will be your primary focus?
- enabling our engineering teams to create highly reliable and scalable software systems, reduce client and server outages and increase system hygiene.
- building the right set of tooling and flows for our web and mobile teams, for improving developer productivity. This will enable our application teams to churn out user features rapidly and will help them build the best-in-class product solutions for our business teams.
- work on security initiatives, to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
What will you closely influence?
- Providing the right user experience to our customers, partners, and cc agents when they reach out to us
- Building tools to help boost user growth on our platform including our driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models. A step towards sustainable user growth and providing personalized experiences, on our platform
- Unlocking new growth levels for Porter, in form of our new vibrant customer base through business initiatives like Packers and Movers, Part-Load, and help Porter on its journey to becoming a super Logistic App.
- Enabling us to engage our partner ecosystem better with our fast-moving initiatives in the Insurance and Lending segments. Your work here will directly impact the livelihood of our partners
- Solving problems related to optimal pricepoint for partners and customers, matchmaking with supply and demand, and building confidence around payment experience and location tracking.

In 2020, CoVid 19 affected every business, few positively and many negatively. However, E-commerce adoption has gone through the roof and we have seen e-commerce spend grow from 15% to 25% of retail spend in just 8 weeks! (Compare this to a decade that it took to grow e-commerce adoption from 5 to 15%). This put us in a unique situation and provided a huge opportunity for us to help brands grow significantly on e-commerce channels.
At the back of strong product-market fit and a change in human behaviour due to CoVid that buoyed e-commerce, we tripled our revenue consecutively in 2019 and 2020. More than 50 consumer brands use our product to drive e-commerce growth. Our customers include named brands like Bayer Healthcare, J&J, Nestle, Hamilton Beach, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Kellogg, Kimberly Clark, Colgate, Mars, Inc. and many others.
Our focus in 2021 is to heavily invest in our engineering, product and customer success capability to bolster our product, make our customers successful and establish ourselves as a market leader in this rapidly growing market!
Are you ready to power intelligent commerce ?
@CommerceIQ, you will :
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Build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reusable and with prime focus on customer delight.
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Explore and design dynamic and compelling consumer experiences.
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Architect, develop, and test highly interactive front-end web applications and reusable components using current web technologies and frameworks.
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Identify and communicate best practices for application architecture.
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Participate in all phases of the software development cycle as part of a Scrum team.
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Obsess over quality in the product you create and the code you write.
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Work closely with the Product Managers, Designers and Backend developers to implement versatile front-end solutions.
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Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
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Interacting with other team members to passionately collaborate our innovations with teams across CommerceIQ.
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Analyze system function and performance requirements to support design concepts.
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Using New technologies like Vue.js.
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Work closely with the other team members to implement front end solutions, Endorsing upcoming standards, launching, iterating and making a difference.
Experience : 2-5 Years in architecting and delivering complex user interfaces.
Skillset :
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Hands experience in any JS framework like React / Vue.js.
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In depth knowledge of Javascript, functional programming and OOJS.
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In depth knowledge of HTML, CSS, CSS post processors.
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Hands on experience in debugging and improving webapp performance.
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Prior knowledge of ES6, node.js, npm and webpack is a plus.
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Experience with testing frameworks like Jasmine, Mocha, Cypress, Jest would be a plus.
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Passionate about implementing elegant User Interfaces using HTML and CSS.
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Extremely detail oriented to strive for pixel perfect implementation in major browsers.
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Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable, highly performant code for UI components
Design, build and Maintain advanced applications for the Android/iOS platform using Angular 6+
Strong Exp with Angular 6+
Demonstrated expertise with HTML5, CSS3 & Responsive Web Design, jQuery or jQueryMobile and consuming REST APIs.
Highly skilled Javascript developer using backbone, angular or similar frameworks
Exp with node js, NoSql databases.
Published atleast 2 apps in Google play store and Apple app store.
Functional Area:IT Software - Application Programming , Maintenance
Location : Andheri West, Mumbai


In this role you will
- Be a part of a small UI team and will work closely with the UXdesigner and product manager to shape the product design.
- Build web UI components for a cloud-native SaaS product.
- Drive clear requirements for the backend APIs working closely withthe backend engineers.
- Focus on quality and velocity by developing appropriate tests.
Requirements
- Highly motivated self-starter with a builder’s mindset.
- 5+ years of web UI development experience.
- Highly skilled in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
- Deep knowledge and experience of REST APIs.
Preferred: experience with frameworks such as React
Preferred: full stack development experience

