Frontend UI developer

Company Overview

VC-backed Fintech startup with an innovative online trading application seeking an experienced Frontend Engineer to join our growing team.

We're based out of UK and have our engineering team in India.

Job Description

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Responsibilities

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js
2. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
3. Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
4. Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
5. Maintain existing React systems, including fixing bugs
6. Handling backend infra written in Next/Node/Express

Skills

1. Strong proficiency in debugging, JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
2. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
3. Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
4. Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
5. Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
6. Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
7. Knowledge of isomorphic Next js and Node js is a plus
8. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
9. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
10. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
11. Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
12. Familiarity with basic authentication mechanism and security
13. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
14. A knack for benchmarking and optimization
15. Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git

[Please note: Our HQ is in Wales and we're in the process of creating an Indian Entity. This means that the candidate will be responsible for all Tax related compliances until the entity is setup.]

Murf AI is a fast-growing Series A-funded startup backed by Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners India. Founded in 2020 by alumni of IIT Kharagpur, we have served 2 Mn+ voice-over projects through our core product, the Murf Studio, which now caters to customers in 100+ countries. 

We are working on simplifying voice audio and making high-quality voiceovers accessible to everyone, using artificial intelligence. Murf helps users create lifelike voiceovers in a matter of minutes, without the need for any recording equipment. (https://murf.ai/).

Some interesting facts about Murf AI:

Customers in 100+ countries

1Mn+ registered users

7X growth in revenue in the last 12 months

120+ voices in 20+ languages offered by Murf Studio

Job Description

We are looking for a React.js developer who has a good knowledge of modern (ES6+) Javascript to build the next generation of Murf AI Studio’s frontend. You would be responsible for building a feature packed cloud based tool for generating and editing synthetic media. You will build user-facing components and implement them with different workflows and toolchests like Redux and Flux. Your primary focus will be to develop a stable, robust, aesthetic and maintainable product. You also need a good understanding of the toolchain of modern web development including packers and transpilers and apply these pragmatically to achieve high quality deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Create new features or parts of applications, with a natural ability to deliver on short timelines.
• Develop components and libraries that are reusable and future-proof
• Confident in using UI/UX designs or wireframes to create the respective code and the application
• Use your knowledge on React.js and its lifecycle to maximise components performance across different devices and browsers
• Work with design and content teams, to improve customer facing landing and resource pages. 

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in building complex react based applications
• Bachelor's degree in CS or similar fields
• Deep understanding of React.js and its fundamentals, ideally including modern features like hooks
• Excellent understanding of Javascript including the OOP concept and how shadow DOM and DOM work
• Experience with widely used React.js state managers like Flux, Redux, Thunks or Sagas
• Knowing modern ECMAScript
• Experience with data structure libraries like Immutable.js
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools like Webpack, Babel, NPM etc.
• Knowledge of the overall browser rendering behaviour and measuring and optimising performance
• Strong hands-on experience with source code management systems like Git
• Understanding of what the business / stakeholders need and transfer that into your project

Extra Awesome

• Animation skills using CSS/SVG/JS
• Experience with AWS technologies such as Cloudfront, Lambda, S3.
• Understanding of authorisation mechanisms like OAuth, JSON Web Token
• Understanding of on-site Technical SEO and accessibility concepts

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of high quality, innovative, flexible, cost-optimized and scalable technical solutions that meet business requirements
• Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Micro services and scalable cloud native apps.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
• Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve quality and productivity of deliverables
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with cross functional team along with client's team
• Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User Focused, Adaptive
• Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
• Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
• Participate into the Evaluation Review of your team member

Desired Candidate Profile

• Experience in building enterprise web application using ReactJS as the frontend framework
• Experience with Redux and React Hooks
• Expert in HTML5, CSS3
• Experience in Bootstrap4 or CSS pre-processor like Less or Sass is highly desirable
• Strong knowledge of best practices and modern web design trends is necessary.
• Some experience with modern web-based typography.
• Excel at rapid prototyping and at writing good code.
• Experience with testing/debugging in multiple browsers and platforms.
• Expertise in using Javascript
• Should have worked on REST client and WebSockets
• Should be able to write Unit testing using any one of the frameworks like Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, Jest , Enzyme or any other similar framework.
• Should have experience in either one of the Build scripts like Gulp or Grunt or Webpack
• Low-Latency UI, Page optimization, and bundle build+caching
• Problem-solving and debugging skills
• Component-based architecture

UI Developer :

Experience in developing Web Applications/websites using HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap4 or above is essential

Experience in CSS preprocessors like Less, Sass

Experience in developing Responsive and Mobile First design products/websites using wireframes & mock-ups is essential

Experience in tailwind CSS is a must (config, create custom util function)

Experience in the latest design principles and animations is essential

Experience in Photoshop / Sketch tools and collaborative products like Invision / Figma is desirable

A fair understanding of JavaScript programming / Jquery is essential

Experience in working with React

Good knowledge of web standards and SEO principles is desirable

About Xpresslane:
Xpresslane is a universal one-click checkout platform for eCommerce. We want to transform the way online shoppers buy, Democratize optimized checkout and post checkout experience. We have achieved 150+ signups from D2C merchants in the last year alone and are aggressively adding new features to help solve problems in their checkout process.

Engineering @Xpresslane:
We are a small group of Tech Enthusiasts, Product Managers. We give incredible value to design and UX is our topmost priority. We've implemented products using Go, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, Temporal, GraphDB, Svelte & React, Cypress, Gitlab CI/CD.

Why Engineering @Xpresslane:

• Opportunity to Design & Implement new features which are internet-facing.
• Opportunity to Design Scalable Distributed System spanning many regions.
• Freedom to learn & work across Frontend/Backend/Devops/Design Expertise.
• 2-4 years of experience in Frontend Engineering.
• Expertise in one or more frontend frameworks like React/Angular/Vue/Svelte
• Style the frontend applications with an incredible focus on design & UX.
• Self-driven in identifying opportunities to make things better and efficient.
• Ensure code quality and reliability through automated test implementations.
• View frontend as Engineering i.e, plan & implement components for reusability, testability
  and scalability.
• Nice to have, experience in using Figma/Sketch for quick mockups & prototypes
• Nice to have knowledge of cache busting, CSRF, XSS attacks.