Frontend Lead- React

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the development of our platform’s front end.
• Work with the product and design teams along with the founders to build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, implementation, and maintenance.
• Work closely with founders and internal/external stakeholders to build products, tools, and services from scratch and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• You'll leverage your frontend knowledge to help improve performance and reliability, and polish existing features.
• Share your technical expertise to help the team make thoughtful and scalable design decisions and identify performance bottlenecks to troubleshoot quickly.
• Manage product development priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Ensure high-performant and responsive web applications and websites.

Skills & Qualities we’re looking for

 

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 2-4 years of experience as a frontend developer (rare exceptions for highly skilled developers) at a fast-paced, preferably early / growth stage start-up.
• You're familiar with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a React-like UI framework.
• Knowledge of codebases and version control systems (Git).
• You have experience debugging performance issues with UI in modern browsers across multiple platforms.
• Well-versed with SQL database design & RDBMS concepts.
• Strong arithmetic reasoning, logical and analytical thinking skills.
• Strong knowledge of code quality maintenance and performance analysis.

About the Company:
PlanetSpark is on a mission to build the next generation of confident speakers and
creative writers. We are a global company impacting over 11 countries through live 1:1
personalized classes on Public Speaking and Creative Writing through the handpicked top
1% teachers.
We are Series A funded by some top VCs and are on a 30% month-on-month growth
curve. We have our footprint in India, the Middle East, North America, and Australia.
Come join a passionate team of over 500 young and energetic members and 400+
expert and handpicked teachers.
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What would you be building:
You would be working on global consumer-facing products at a fast-growing startup that
would give you great exposure to all different aspects of full-stack development. You
will work on:

• Complete website redesign: The website of the company has been completely redesigned by collaborating with one of the country’s top designers who has worked with brands such as Treebo, Bira 91, etc. You will get the opportunity to create this from scratch.
• Learning Product: Creating the world’s first and most comprehensive live learning product to help kids become confident communicators
• Teacher Product: Ever thought of how millions of Uber drivers are managed completely by technology? You now have the chance to build technology that will manage the entire lifecycle of thousands of teachers across the globe.

Your Roles and Responsibilities
As a front-end developer, you will be a part of a close-knit team of 10x engineers who
will get complete accountability for designing the front of all the products of the company.
Some of the responsibilities include:

•  Break down tech problems and determine a workable solution.
•  Integrate front-end design and/or code into the back-end system.
• Develop incrementally and iteratively to elicit feedback over a short period of time.
• Write a clean, readable code that doesn’t necessarily need to be commented on.
• Collaborate with the business and design teams
• Continue learning and growing in emerging web technologies and methodologies

Growth Path

• As a developer in a funded product company, you will find immense avenues of growth, in the form of knowledge, exposure to different technology, exposure to different products, career progression, and aggressive monetary growth based on performance.
• All 10x engineers will get unparalleled career growth and will outperform their batchmates by two times.
•  You will get complete accountability – you could proudly say that you have built complete products on your own

Requirements

• Work experience as a front end developer with a reputed organization
• Good Understanding of  ReactJs or Next Js
• Intermediate understanding of relational databases, specifically SQL-based systems, and language.
• Basic to intermediate understanding of front-end languages and technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, etc.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented development and design patterns.
• Good understanding of testing concepts and practices, including unit, integration, and use case testing.
• A BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field or comparable experience in web application development required.

Responsibilities:
● Take part in applications GUI development (including its UI and 3D elements).
● Champion the latest UI technologies using React, SCSS, CSS, JavaScript.
● Be responsible for working with business owners to propose high-quality user
experience solutions for web applications.
● Collaborate with Business Analysis and UI/UX teams to help them to implement use
case scenarios and provide the best customer experience.
● Be responsible for design and implementation of UI components in React.
● Develop web-based user interfaces, applications, and Web Service integration APIs
using REST API.
● Work as a team with backend developers and other front-end developers to provide
full end-to-end solutions.
● Interact with the SQA team to ensure high quality of the software delivered.
● Be responsible for working with the configuration management and administration
teams to provide accurate build and deployment instructions.
● Ensure application development principles, standards, and best practices are followed
for each project.

Skills & Experience:
● Understanding of key design principles.
● Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
● DS & Algo
● Understanding of server-side CSS.
● Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
● Good problem-solving skills.
● Determining the structure and design of web pages.
● Ensuring user experience determines design choices.
● Developing features to enhance the user experience.
● Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
● Building reusable code for future use.
● Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
● Utilizing a variety of markup languages to write web pages.
● Maintaining brand consistency throughout the design.

We are looking for a Product Engineer - Senior or Lead Frontend Engineer to join our early stage startup with experience in building B2C products. 

If you have experience of working in product based companies (preferably startups), good to excellent coding skills in react js and typescript, have a keen eye for details in the UI, and are looking to build exciting things that children across the world will use - come talk to us!

What you get to do:

• Design and build advanced applications from scratch keeping scalability and performance in mind
• A good handle on both client and server architecture.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Comfortable in owning large scale products and continuously re-evaluating and innovating.

Who are we looking for:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science
• 5+ years' experience in frontend development
• Familiarity using Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building object oriented web applications in React JS, Typescript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Should be a quick learner and willing to go the extra mile in delivering the projects.
• Should be able to mentor junior folks whenever necessary.

Responsibilities:
* Research, guide, and execute frontend architecture changes
* Ensuring high performance of web app
* Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
* Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API


Skills and Qualifications:
* Proficiency with reactive Programming in JavaScript
* Deep knowledge of Angular2.0+/React practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
* Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
* Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system
* Extensive knowledge of HTML & CSS
* Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
* Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
* Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular2.0+/React
* Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end

12+ years of software development experience with emphasis on web technologies, cloud
computing, and SaaS.
 Structured thinker, effective communicator, with excellent programming and analytic skills
 Strategic mind with strong operational, project management and technical architecture skills
 A track record of highly influential technical and leadership achievements
 Demonstrated skill in aligning application decisions to an overarching solution and systems
architecture
 Strong design skills and technical leadership skills.
 Substantial experience leading application design efforts as a senior or lead software engineer
 Expertise in JavaScript frameworks: Ember, React, Angular and integration architecture and design.
 An expert in application development in one or more modern programming languages
 Strong Experience with JavaScript, CSS, XML, HTML, IIS
 Familiar with Agile methodologies
 Detailed oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude.
 Communicate professionally both verbally and in writing.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
 Accountable for the application architecture of all components within your assigned domain(s)
 Guide multiple development teams and work streams at once to ensure successful delivery of
projects
 Evaluate and implement solutions and technologies for team adoption
 Assess and communicate status, issues, risks and deliverables to stakeholders
 Be the “go-to” team member in your domain(s) for application design and patterns
 Assist teams by hands-on coding including but not limited to proof-of-concepts, code samples, and
application infrastructure/frameworks.
 Able to resolve complex problems in creative and effective ways
 Holds full Product Area responsibility
 JOB DESCRIPTION


 Acts as a point of escalation for high and low-level problems both for with in engineering team and
customers
 Develops high-quality, working code features on need basis.
 Makes implementation design decisions around new feature components.
 Produces contingency plans for critical projects.
 Analyzes technical requirements with the team to gauge level of effort.
 Breaks down complex projects and delegates work to junior engineers.
 Creates technical documentation for new features that can be easily understood by peers.
 Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.
 Keeps abreast of new technologies.
 Ensures designs and projects created comply with design library guidelines, internal best practices,
and coding conventions when applicable.
 Perform required collaboration with different stake holder like architects, product management etc.
 All other duties as assigned.

What you need to have:

Experience: 2 to 7 years

• Experience working with HTML5, CSS3 in user interface design.
• Understanding of web technologies including one or more of the following:, Javascript (React, Angular, Node, D3, etc.)
• Expert knowledge on CSS preprocessors like Sass and LESS
•  Experience on  RESTful API.
• Strong typography, layout and visual design skills.

• Good exposure to databases, SQL queries
• Good analysis skills in order to troubleshoot and resolve the problems.
• Creative to suggest ways to simplify the UI workflows

Are you looking for a place where growth opportunities abound, where you'll have the freedom to forge your own path, and where you can feel good about the work you're doing?We are looking for an experienced Front-end Developer who will be responsible for building the ‘client-side’ of our web applications. Your duties will include translating our company and customer needs into functional and appealing digital environment, ensuring great user experience.We believe that deep customer knowledge and great design are at the heart of any successful product. We believe in failing fast, working iteratively, and rapid prototyping. We want someone who takes pride in their work, constantly seeks to make themselves better, and doesn’t know when to quit. We are looking for someone who thrives in a small, and growing team. We honor diversity and creativity. We are committed to building an environment that challenges you, but where you can also have fun. We offer a competitive compensation package that rewards hard work and growth.RESPONSIBILITIESDelivering a complete front end applicationEnsuring high performance on mobile and desktopWriting tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSSCoordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourselfCooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful APICommunicating with external web servicesQUALIFICATIONSProficiency with Angular JS/React, JavaScript and HTML5Professional communication skillsDeep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experienceCreating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and componentsEnsuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file systemAbility to provide SEO solutions for single page appsExtensive knowledge of CSSThorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the systemValidating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedbackWriting non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when neededCreating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJSDocumenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventionsWriting extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks