Frontend Engineer

Skills & Qualifications 

●Should have experience of Angular 13 

●Should have 1 year of experience in NodeJS and RESTFUL API Development. 

●Strong knowledge of Front-End web development in Advance JavaScript (ES6, ES7, 

ES8, ES9), OOPS Concept PLUS exceptional debug skills 

●Experience in Unit test development (Test Driven Development – TDD) 

●Experience building progressive responsive web applications. 

●Experience in the concepts of code repositories (Preference GIT) and be able to commit 

code 

●A team player with good communication skills 

●Analytical thinking and problem-solving capability 

●Good to have - Continuous Integration (CI) tools like Jenkins. 

●Any experience on AWS will be a plus 

What are we looking for 

●5+ years of experience  in HTML5, CSS,Bootstrap,JavaScript,Tailwind,Angular (12.0 or higher), TypeScript and related technologies  

Educational Qualifications 

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with Project Manager or Project Consultant to develop front end of mobile and web application
• Delivering a complete front-end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Collaborate with the stakeholders, the users, the build team and other development partners to implement state-of-the-art user experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and ship new features
• Participate actively in discussions, presentations and decisions about front end development, web application, mobile app etc.
• Act as the impulse by providing clear guidance to the team’s questions during implementation phases
• Implement new technologies to maximize application performance
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

KEY COMPETENCIES & SKILLS:

• Strong object-oriented JavaScript
• Flat box, material design concepts
• AngularJS, MVC frameworks – Angular
• CSS precompilers like Sass and LESS
• Skills in one or more chosen frameworks/libraries like jQuery or Bootstrap
• AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
• HTML 5, CSS Modules, Web pack, Babel, npm
• jQuery, jQueryUI, RequireJS, doT.js (Templating Engine)
• Able to integrate existing API (REST)
• Understanding of java web application technology stack (core Java, spring core, Spring MVC, Hibernate, REST)
• Git/GitHub, Continuous integration using maven & Jenkins
• Integrate applications with network systems, servers and databases.
• Troubleshoot problems with application development and use
• Excellent conceptual, and critical thinking capabilities
• Self-directed and self-motivated with the ability to take charge or play a supporting role
• Strong understanding of product development
• Clear written and verbal communications skills (English), including presentation skill
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) is required.

Work Responsibilities

• What You’ll Do:
• Engineers will develop and improve features for products such as WebView pages called from within Mercari’s web version and native app, along with tools used by the Customer Support Team for answering user inquiries and providing transaction support.
• Senior engineers in the Frontend Team are expected to use their technical skills to lead the team and product development, train members through design and code reviews, and make contributions and improvements to the hiring process, including technical tests.
• Development Environment:
• Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Gatsby, Next.js, GraphQL, Apollo Client, Redux, Cypress, Rendertron, Lit, Playwright
• Infrastructures: Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, App Engine)
• Configuration management tool: Terraform
• Other: Circle CI, GitHub, Slack, JIRA, Crowi, Spinnaker, Datadog

Minimum Requirements

• Shared understanding and belief in Mercari Group's mission and values
• At least 3 years of experience in development related to frontend fields such as web browsers, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, or Redux
• Experience with developing and operating large-scale products
• Ability to design and develop with performance and scalability in mind
• Ability to use HTML and CSS to implement solid user interfaces
• Knowledge of JavaScript and experience developing with UI libraries or frameworks such as React, Vue.js, and Angular
• Able to understand and explain web operation principles and browsers
• Understanding of version management and ability to participate in development via Git
• Effective communication skills, needed for product development with team members and with other teams

Preferred Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of standard web technologies and specialized knowledge in some areas, like TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Redux
• Understanding of the characteristics of different libraries/frameworks and the ability to introduce them to projects where necessary
• Ability to design architecture based on the characteristics of the app
• Ability to consistently take initiative in implementing improvements to the app
• Project management and/or team leadership
• Cloud development experience (preferably GCP or AWS)
• Experience contributing to an open-source project
• Familiarity with CI systems and the release process

Working Conditions

Employment Status

Full-time

Office

Bangalore

• Hybrid Workstyle

Oddr is looking for an experienced senior frontend engineer to help us build modern web-based Cloud applications. The ideal candidate should be able to bring new ideas to the table and design and implement the frontend architecture with a strong emphasis on its robustness, testability, re-usability, performance, and ease of maintenance. As a senior engineer, the candidate should be able and willing to mentor and guide fellow team members as the team scales and grows. The candidate should demonstrate leadership qualities, be a self-motivated team player, and take pride in what they deliver.

The candidate should be interested in a long-term stable career to grow with our company. The candidate will need to work late night hours because of the geographic distribution of the team.

Technical Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in React.js and its core principles
• Solid understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and other standard frontend technologies and tools
• Experience with frontend test automation frameworks and tools
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Experience with modern authorization techniques like JWT
• Experience with monitoring and improving frontend performance
• General understanding and knowledge of the UI/UX best practices
• Ability to write clean, well-structured code with proper abstraction and re-usability
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, manage priorities, and take responsibility for delivering to time and quality requirements
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Minimum qualifications required:

• Bachelor's degree or relevant certification from a reputable institute.
• 5 years of experience with at least 2 years of building enterprise applications using React.js in recent projects.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Build, extend, and maintain reusable UI components that will be used across many applications.
• Develop best practices and guidelines for contributing UI and reusable components to a central component library.
• Perform installation of code releases and patches and write scripts or programs for IT applications.
• Work closely with our UX design team to ensure usable designs with a consistent look and feel.
• Maintain high-quality code and ensure best practices for UI development.
• Ensure designs follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Work in a fast-paced agile environment partnering with software engineering teams.

Learn from the best: Learn from leaders who have built Comm100 from ground up. Work under other engineers who handle different layers of the infrastructure.

Work in a data-driven team: Understand the importance of validating assumptions about user behaviour. Use various types of testing to ensure we're right (or discover where did we go wrong). Utilize data collection, enrichment, analytics, and visualizations to improve our systems.

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you'll need to have the following skills:

Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.

Sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative, and inventive.

Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems.

Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.

Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact.

KEY SKILLS

• Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns including vanilla JavaScript,
• Rich experience with ReactJS, Redux, React Native, or similar library/tools.
• Obsessed with WPO (Web Performance Optimization) and web/mobile performance analysis.
• Familiar with web security, SEO, accessibility, and internationalization.
• Experience with W3C standards, HTTP protocol and web browsers.
• Experience with common tools such as front-end compilation, construction, testing, etc. (Babel, Rollup, Webpack, Jasmine, etc.)