Frontend Lead

About Navi 

Navi is one of the fastest growing financial services companies in India providing Personal  & Home Loans, Insurance and Mutual Funds with a digital first approach. At Navi, our  mission is to build financial services that are simple, accessible and affordable. 

Founders: Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal 

Know what makes you a “Navi_ite” :

1.Perseverance, Passion and Commitment

• Passionate about Navi’s mission and vision 

• Demonstrates dedication, perseverance and high ownership 

• Goes above and beyond by taking on additional responsibilities 

2.Obsession with high quality results

• Consistently creates value for the customers and stakeholders through high quality outcomes 

• Ensuring excellence in all aspects of work

• Efficiently manages time, prioritizes tasks, and achieves higher standards 

3.Resilience and Adaptability

• Adapts quickly to new roles, responsibilities, and changing circumstances,  showing resilience and agility 

Key responsibilities:

• Develop the front-end for our products and collaborate with designers, other engineers, and product managers to build new features, iterate on current features, and build a world-class user experience;
• Build responsive & reusable UI components using any one Javascript framework: React, Angular, VueJS, as per the specifications and guidelines;
• Be familiar with Responsive Web Design, common Web UX patterns and anti-patterns;
• Should have hands-on experience of improving web performance including optimising page load, rendering, caching etc;
• Be great at debugging, including identifying page speed and performance bottlenecks, using tools like Chrome Dev Tools, React Dev Tools etc.

Required Skills:

• You should be well versed with RESTful APIs and it's best practices;
• You should be proficient with all core features of React or similar frameworks including Redux or Fluxn pattern;
• You should have experience in JavaScript (React JS/Redux), HTML, CSS, JQuery, HTTP for the Web platform;
• Strong proficiency in writing clean, robust javascript code is a must;
• You should be comfortable working with version controlled code environments ( eg. GIT);
• You should possess strong Object Oriented design and programming skills;
• You should have an understanding of XML, JSON, DOM, and w3c standards.

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

What you can expect as a Senior Frontend Engineer at HappyFox:

• You will consistently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. 
• You’ll work alongside the Product, Design, and, Backend Engineering teams to iterate on new features within HappyFox products.
• You will advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• You will solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• You will craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. 
• You will maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• You will recognize inefficiencies in our team, and propose solutions.

You should apply if:

• You have 5+ years of relevant professional experience in building web applications with javascript frameworks like Ember.js or React.js.
• You have a sound knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• You can clearly and concisely communicate complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough, iterative solutions.
• You are comfortable working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• You have demonstrated the ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• You have a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• You have experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• You are self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.

Key Result Areas: 

• Build world class Webapps for the Ola Electric ecosystem.
• Work on a full product development lifecycle from requirement gathering, product design, development, to roll out and maintenance
• Effectively collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders including product and design
• Own the delivery of multiple features of the product end to end 
• Advocate best development practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, automation (testing and infrastructure) and code modularity, extensibility, quality
• Experience in building Websites from Scratch is a big plus

Key Skills Required: 

• Min 3+ Years in Web Application Development
• Write clean, solid and testable code while keeping the user experience fast and reliable
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JS, JQuery, Reach, Redux 
• Proficient in Web Interface designing
• Experience in developing reusable UI components
• Deep functional knowledge or hands on design experience with Web Services 
• Strong grasp of security principles and how they apply to E-Commerce websites.

1. Work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive, and interactive interfaces across multiple devices.
2. Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating awesome interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules, and maintainability of the code.
3. Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.
4. Review and optimize app usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.
5. An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.
6. Developers should be team player or should work individually when required.
7. Developer should work parallel to backend developers.

1. 1 to 2 years of relevant work experience as a web developer, UI developer, JavaScript expert, or frontend engineer
2. Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
3. Good understanding of APIs and how to use them to get the work done fast.
4. Proficiency in writing clean and optimized code.
5. Familiar with UI layouts, SASS, Bootstrap, and the CSS GRID system.
6. Experience debugging using popular JavaScript-based tools like Chrome Developer Console.
7. Knowledge of ReactJs/VueJs & Python will be a plus