ob Purpose :
- To lead Design, Development and Maintenance of Frontend Technology for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT, plan & innovate to deliver best-in class product features, ensuring market leadership and future readiness.
- Head the technology team for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT by enhancing and future proofing the technological infrastructure and capabilities to build a world class product.
Key Responsibilities :
Technological Readiness :
- Strengthen VOOT's technological capability
- Evaluate Frontend technology stacks and choose best in class relevant solutions for business
- Build internal capability for technological functions for future readiness
- Drive technical and technological efficiencies to save cost
Technological Innovation :
- Identify avenues for product enhancement
- Convert relevant ideas to POC (Proof of Concept)
- Act as the technical product owner and work with product management team to deliver features and manage releases and enhancement
- Deliver best-in-class product functionality by minimizing crash rate, reducing improving playback time performance and ensuring maximum device coverage
Collaboration and Partner Management :
- Evaluate and finalize new partners for product enhancement from technical perspective
- Developing technological road maps in collaboration with Product team & external technology partners
- Timely and quality delivery of product/features, including outsourced functionalities and services with no downtime
Resource management of external partners to deliver results
Team management
- Work with the HR partner to create a workforce plan
- Review performance on regular basis
- Ensure optimum levels of engagement through appropriate recognition channels
- Provide inputs on hiring and succession planning
- Identify training needs by using TNA method
Key Performance Indicators :
- Develop best in class product functionality
- Ensure technological readiness for product
- Increase in the number of active daily video viewers
- Application Store rating
- Maintaining a crash rate & Maintain playability above 90%
- No. of new & high quality features rolled out on the platform
Skills : Front End, Android, iOS
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Here’s what we are looking for:
- You must know the in and out of JavaScript to design optimized and modular components that need to be used across our platform.
- You must be well versed in the React/Redux framework.
- Strong understanding of semantic HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3
- Experience in setting up the full UI workflow layer right from Development, Testing, Building, and Deployment.
- Good understanding of MVC architecture.
Good to have:
- Experience in frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, and CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS.
- Exposure to page speed improvement techniques.
- Exposure of building responsive websites at scale.
- Prior work experience in Angular, Backbone, React
- Reach at 91 084 76999
💥 What will you do?
As a Lead Frontend Engineer, you will
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Own our frontend engineering applications for two products each of which run as independent applications which query our backend systems via REST APIs
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Act as a leader and coach within the front-end engineering team, collaborating with and mentoring senior engineers.
- Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
- Write and review modular, reusable components and features (React.js / Vue.js) and integrate backend APIs to create a seamless front-end user experience
- Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience. These include 3rd party plugins which provide customer support and analytics plugins that help improve the user experience we provide to customers.
- Actively participate in code reviews
- Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites
🙋 What are we looking for?
While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are
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Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with frontend frameworks as React.js or Vue.js would be essential to work on our application stack.
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You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.
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You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.
- You have an eye for pixel-perfect UI and micro-interactions.
- You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.
📢 Other information you may want to consider
- We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
- Our frontend tech stack includes React.js, Vue.js, Netlify for CI / CD, TestCafe for UX testing, d3.js, and Regraph for visualizations.
We're seeking skilled front-end developers tasked with creating user-friendly experiences. Working closely with back-end developers, your focus will be on crafting visually appealing layouts, enhancing user interface/interaction, and optimizing overall user experience.
Key Skills Required:
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- Collaborative mindset to work seamlessly with back-end developers and cross-functional teams.
- Strong understanding of responsive design principles for various devices and browsers.
- Knowledge of UI/UX best practices and a keen eye for design aesthetics.
- Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git.
- Problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot issues efficiently.
- Awareness of web performance optimization techniques.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
- Continuous learning mindset to stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.
The Job Overview
We are seeking a dedicated Vue.js front-end developer to join our growing company. You will work as
part of a team to develop fast, well-tested, and performant code for various web and mobile
applications using Vue.js. As a Vue.js front-end developer, you will be expected to work with standard
programming tools such as version control and deployment software, follow industry best practices,
write tests for the code you write, and follow all applicable coding guidelines.
Your duties will include taking part in daily scrums, writing and developing modules for existing Vue
applications, integrating Vue into existing projects, writing code and tests for code, taking part in code
review sessions, and using version control software to push and pull code for testing and deployment.
Responsibilities
Write performant code using core Vue, Vuex, and Vue Router to create websites and web
applications
Create tests for code written by yourself and other web developers, full-stack developers, and
software engineers
Integrate Vue into legacy projects
Diagnose and fix bugs and other software defects in new and existing Vue applications
Run code optimization tools and analyzers to spot and refactor inefficiencies to create highly
performant code
Skill Sets:
Bachelor’s degree or several years of experience in e-commerce, computer science, or other
related fields
Strong understanding of JavaScript and React JS, including the latest revisions of ECMAScript
Good knowledge of the Vue.js framework and related components such as Vuex and Vue Router
Experience with standard tools and services in JavaScript front-end development and software
development, such as Git, GitHub, HTML5, Laravel, Angular, Node.js, and npm
The ability to work as part of a team, taking ownership of individual components and following
coding guidelines to create performant components that fit into more-comprehensive projects
An understanding of advanced JavaScript concepts, such as dealing with asynchronous requests
and dynamic content
Experience with integrating and maintaining external software libraries and APIs using a
command-line interface and package managers
Builds reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
Responsibilities
Develop new user-facing features
Build reusable code and libraries for future use
Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
Collaborate with other team members
Skills and Qualifications
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 JavaScript.
Good understanding of React JS
Familiarity with React Native is a plus.
Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT
Excellent problem-solving ability and desire to learn new technologies and platforms
Work Experience: 2- 6 years
React.js Developer
Software engineering - Bengaluru and remote
Description:
Building products at BiCSoM is about turning dreams and ideas into lovable technology and design solutions. As a mindful member of the BiCSoM team you will create rule-breaking mobile applications and websites using React.JS, Redux, HOCs, Jest, Tailwind and Chakra.CSS. Large number of people across the globe use our products everyday, we take pride in wearing ‘Made with love in India’ on our sleeves.
Requirements:
What are we looking for?
- We expect you to have your domain knowledge of React.JS, Redux, Next.JS, HOCs, Functional components, Tailwind.CSS, Chakra.CSS, Bootstrap and Jest
- There are few skills which you need to have from get-go:
- You are a problem solver, polite and someone who values team members and customers
- You respect time and understand, lost time never comes back
- You have the ability to explain your algorithms and solutions and understand how to ask questions with respect to mobile app development and web development scenarios
- You are a smart and energetic talent from engineering and computer science background
- Based on the situations you can contribute individually or work with team and make work productive and fun
- In terms of day to day work, for 2 to 5 years you should have done the following:
- At least 4 to 5 live projects in React.JS
- Thorough understanding of stage management in React
- Writing frontend code with SOLID principle
- Unit testing of your code with Jest
- Collaborative development with BitBucket or GIT and handling of code merge conflicts
- Documenting frontend code
- Knowledge of different browsers and various databases supported by browsers locally
- Proficient in Linux, and understanding of Ubuntu OS
- Knowledge on Vue.JS or Svelte is a plus
Other information:
- Work location: Bengaluru city and Remote
- Working days - 6 days a week
Welcome to BiCSoM careers:
BiCSoM Technologies Private Limited is committed to breakthrough innovation and success for its team members. From our mindful culture of compassion and wisdom to passionate customer success philosophy, this is one awesome place to work! So come and experience what it takes to build digital products which are loved by millions of users across the globe. You will find speed, agility, fun and supportive culture where we are responsible for each other’s success.
- BiCSoM is a registered startup under the Startup India initiative of Government of India and a DIPP registered MSME
- BiCSoM was recognized as one of the top AR/VR startups in India in 2018 in DCB Bank innovation carnival
- 2+ years of experience participating in the delivery of technology services.
- A proven ability to learn new applications & innovate in technology
- Strong Experience in technologies like Redux, React
- Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX etc
- Exposure to Node, Angular desirable
- Experience in common third-party APIs (Google Maps, Google Charts, etc)
- Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
- Experience in integrating, designing and developing solutions is desirable
- Experience with CI/CD and TDD is desirable