Frontend Tech Lead

About Us

GradRight is an Ed-fintech startup focused on global higher education. We are committed to enabling global youth aspirations by helping students find the "right education" at the "right cost". We aim to assist students in discovering their best fit universities and funding plans.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK. Since September 2020, we have received over US$500 million in loan requests and successfully secured over US$75 million in loan approvals for more than 1600 students.

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll build beautiful front-end experiences and enable flexible customer journeys while focusing on an international audience.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead design discussions and decisions around building a scalable and modular front-end architecture
2. Write clean and modular code
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as an SDE, with at least 2 years experience leading teams
2. Strong experience with vue.js
3. Able to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
4. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
5. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
6. Passion for solving complex problems
7. Experience with team management
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience with GraphQL and micro-frontend architectures
2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

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/

We’re looking for an experienced Frontend Engineer to join our growing engineering team to help build and maintain HappyFox’s product offerings.

What you can expect as a Frontend Engineer at HappyFox:

• You will implement product features by writing clean, robust, reusable code with tests.
• You’ll work alongside the Product, Design, and, Backend Engineering teams to iterate on new features within HappyFox products.
• You'll help improve the overall experience of our product by improving the quality of the front-end features.
• You’ll help identify areas of improvement in the codebase and initiate projects to make HappyFox better.
• You’ll contribute to and follow our workflow process, alongside the rest of the Engineering team.

You should apply if:

• You have at least 3 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 have experience building single-page web apps and a good understanding of best practices in front-end development.
• You have experience in reviewing other team members' code and providing actionable comments.
• You have experience in following industry-standard coding practices.
• You have experience optimizing code and looking for ways to resolve performance issues.
• You are passionate about solving complex technical problems and troubleshooting issues.

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

● Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript as well as HTML and CSS

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Working knowledge and integration knowledge with RESTful APIs

● Knowlegde of websockets implementation is a must.

● Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

● Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.

● A knack for benchmarking and optimization

● Familiarity with code versioning tools {such as Git}

● Added advantages if you have working knowledge of AWS

Web Application Developer

Job Description

Educational Qualifications:

Post-Graduation (Preferred): MCA/MSc/M.Tech. (Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics).

Graduation (Mandatory): BE/B.Tech. (Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics).

Certifications:

Relevant certification(s) would be an added advantage

Total Experience:

5+ years

Positions:

2

Work Experience:

• 5+ years of experience with designing and building web applications using Java and Angular JS

• 3+ years of experience in writing JavaScript, CSS, and HTML

• 3+ years of experience in developing application codes and unit tests in AngularJS, Java Technologies, and Rest Web Services

• 3+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

• Experience developing complex software systems from the ground up, that have been successfully delivered to customers

• Proficient in CSS, HTML, and writing cross-browser compatible code

• Experience using JavaScript building tools like Gulp/ Grunt etc.

• Knowledge of JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks including AngluarJS

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

• Experience in software processes, web services, multi-tiered systems, workflow modeling, systems testing, and enterprise application integration

Tools & Techniques:

• Strong experience with Java and Angular JS

• Strong experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational/non-relational databases

• Strong knowledge in OOPS concepts and very good debugging skills

Personality traits (desired):

• Excellent analytical and reasoning skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to communicate with both business stakeholders and technical teams

• Ability to take full ownership of tasks and willingness to learn and experiment with new technology

• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines

Responsibilities:

• Prepare technical requirements, software design specifications and unit test cases

• Design, code and modify webpages, from layout to function and according to the design specifications

• Upgrade, configure and debug existing web applications

• Create reusable, effective, and scalable code

• Identify bottlenecks and bugs in the system and develop solutions

• Adapt interface for modern internet applications using the latest front-end technologies

• Take ownership and responsibility of components/processes within the team

• Support other developers with code review, etc.