Frontend Engineer

Frontend Developer

We are inspiring the next generation of young innovators and entrepreneurs in India. We're an education startup co-founded by a Computer Science grad from MIT/Harvard and the former CEO of Apple India. We started out as code school, offering creative tech boot-camps on topics like Drone Programming, Android App Development, Game Programming, Full-Stack Web Development to k-12 students across the nation, and now we're building web and mobile products to deliver powerful learning experiences to students online, at scale.

Job Description

We are looking for a Front End developer who is excellent with JavaScript (React.js + Redux). Some proficiency with Node.js preferred as you’ll be hooking up your front-ends to APIs and occasionally writing your own.

Your primary focus will be to develop the UI/UX for highly interactive / social / multiplayer learning platform, across the Student Product, Parent Product, Teacher Product, Virtual Classroom, and more.

Responsibilities

• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality React code
• Styling re-usable components with pixel perfection and mobile responsiveness
• Structuring state and information flow across your front-end app using Redux
• Optimizing your code for SEO and maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Skills / Required Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with React.js
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Redux
• Bonus: past experience with Socket.io and WebRTC
• Writing and consuming REST APIs with Node.js 
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

PayGlocal is building the next-gen payments stack for a globally connected world. That is how we derive our name and motto – Stay Local, Pay Global. Our vision is to build a state-of-the-art payments stack that helps businesses worldwide collect payments from customers around the world in the best way possible. 

We are a well-funded early-stage startup with a passion to grow and a commitment to solving payments-related challenges in an innovative way. And we are hiring talent to join our early team to grow together. Work with smart, passionate, and fun-loving folks.

Position Summary

Passionate and creative designer who will design, develop, manage, build, and maintain internal websites and applications using Webflow.

What will you work on?

• Provide development and design on internal web applications through Webflow.
• Work closely as a project team to iterate on UI/UX designs.
• Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
• Develop custom code in Webflow to add functionality or integrate third-party tools and APIs.
• Work collaboratively in an Agile environment.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Debug and troubleshoot technical issues.
• Provide hands-on support with web development and maintenance as needed.
• Build reusable code and libraries that drive complex web applications.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, SEO and responsiveness.
• Conduct testing of completed applications, websites and software to assess user experience.
• Write custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript for existing websites and applications. Must be comfortable with React.js
• Keeping up with the latest technological advancements in web and mobile app development
• Willing to commute to Bangalore office
• Should be able to join immediately

Qualifications

• Working experience – 2 to 4 years.
• Proven experience with WebFlow development.
• Experience in creating wireframes using Figma.
• Strong HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
• Advanced CSS, animations, and responsiveness.
• Excellent communication and time management skills
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

We are looking for a React Native developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes—React Native moves fast and often breaks things.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Transition existing React web apps to React Native.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Collaborate with other team members

You’ll be a good fit if you:

• Have 1+ years of experience developing user facing features
• Have a deep understanding of basic UI/UX/design principles
• Are self-motivated and can solve problems independently
• Experience leveraging web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript(ES6)
• Experience using the latest CSS layout methods such as Flexbox and Grid
• Experience with CSS preprocessors like Sass or LESS
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with Node.js ecosystem and leveraging Javascript libraries / frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue
• Experience with testing frameworks (Jest) and writing unit tests
• Competency in building responsive layouts
• Practical knowledge of performance optimization techniques
• Collaboration in a GitHub repository with many contributors and comfortable with workflows like code reviews, forking, pull requests, etc.