Frontend developer (React)

About OpenGrowth:

At OpenGrowth, we are on a mission to empower entrepreneurs and transform their dreams into reality. We understand the challenges and aspirations that come with starting and growing a business, and our goal is to provide the necessary support and resources to help entrepreneurs thrive.

With a deep passion for fostering innovation and collaboration, OpenGrowth serves as a vibrant community where entrepreneurs can connect, learn, and grow together. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of services, including expert guidance, educational resources, startup services, and a virtual collaboration platform called OpenGrowth Hub.

We believe in the power of entrepreneurship to drive positive change and create financial independence. Through our tailored solutions, we aim to equip entrepreneurs with the knowledge, skills, and connections they need to succeed. Whether you're just starting out or looking to scale your business, OpenGrowth is here to support you every step of the way.

Join us on this exciting journey and be part of a dynamic community of entrepreneurs. Together, we can unleash your full potential and shape a future of innovation, growth, and success. Welcome to OpenGrowth, where entrepreneurial dreams become a reality.

Company Website - www.opengrowth.com

What You'll Be Doing

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

What We Need To See

• 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)
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• 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/SVN}
• Minimum Experience Required - 2+ Years (In React)

We are looking for a web designer who will be responsible for creating great websites for our clients. Primary duties include conceptualizing and implementing creative ideas for client websites, as well as creating visual elements that are in line with our clients' branding.

Responsibilities-

1.      Conceptualizing ideas with clients.

2.      Establishing design guidelines, standards, and best practices.

3.      Maintaining the appearance of websites by enforcing content standards.

4.      Designing visual imagery for websites and ensuring that they are in line with branding for clients.

Requirements-

• Proficiency in graphic design software including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and other visual design tools.
• Proficiency in front-end development web programming languages such as HTML and CSS, JQuery, and JavaScript.
• Good understanding of content management systems.
• Up-to-date experience with international web protocols, standards, and technologies.
• Creative and open to new ideas.
• Adaptable and willing to learn new techniques.
• Excellent communication skills.

Additional information-

Job type- Full time- in office

Minimum experience- 1 year 

• Meeting with clients to discuss website design and function.
• Designing and building the website front-end.
• Creating the website architecture.
• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
• Generating WordPress themes and plugins.
• Conducting website performance tests.
• Troubleshooting content issues.
• Conducting WordPress training with the client.
• Monitoring the performance of the live website.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.
• Proven work experience as a WordPress developer.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, and jQuery.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, and SVN.
• Experience working with debugging tools such as Chrome Inspector and Firebug.
• Good understanding of website architecture and aesthetics.
• Ability to manage projects.
• Good communication skills.

About our Client

Our client is a B2B2C tech firm backed by India’s largest retailer and tech venture capitalist founded by founders - IITB Graduates who are experienced in retail, ecommerce and fintech

It aims to become one app to manage all your brands loyalty points, cashback and coupons. It will have additional content and discovery layer for customers and brands for further engagement and commerce.

The company currently powers closed-loop loyalty programs for all different brands under its parent retail group. Currently, it has 20Mn+ registered customers and 3Mn MAU across 8 brands. Its vision is to be at the center of D2C Brands and the consumer consumption ecosystem

Job Location -Bangalore

Requirement

4+ years ​of experience building frontend for ​consumer facing​ products

- 2+ years​ experience on   ​React Native ​ and core principles

- Good to have experience with popular React.js

 - 1+ years ​of ​Team Lead/Management ​experience

- Develop all user-facing products in React

-Solid SQL / relational database experience MySQL is a plus

-  Thorough understanding of ​architecting​ the frontend system with ​Server Side   Rendering –

- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

 - Understands ​app development cycle

-Flexibility and deadline driven

Regards
Team Merito

As the technical lead, you will oversee the company's technical team and all projects they undertake, analyze briefs, write progress reports, identify risks, and develop work schedules. You should be able to work with your team and inspire them to reach their goals.

To be successful as a technical lead, you should always be expanding your industry knowledge and be able to quickly identify problems. Outstanding technical leads are accountable, trustworthy, and able to build lasting relationships with their teams.

Responsibilities:

• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• A 3-4 years of experience in a similar role would be advantageous.
• In-depth experience in working with Reactjs and Go.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with blockchain technology preferable.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities.

• A self-driven UI engineer with an eye for detail UI Design and Development
• Build solutions that’ll be used by thousands of enterprises globally
• Meld UX and great looking UI and Wireframe while keeping excellent code quality
• Thrive in a collaborative team environment and work with challenging timelines
• Design and build web apps that are scalable, puts user experience front and center
• Develop modular UI components for company-wide reuse
• Evolve a common design language for UI across apps
• Establish and advocate front-end coding guidelines
• Iterate UI features with high speed
• Work with ambiguous product requirements and shared backend APIs

REQUIREMENT-

• 2-4 years of experience with working on UI frameworks like Angular
• Experience in product companies would be a plus
• Must have a solid understanding of JavaScript and related libs, CSS
• Big plus if familiar with Django, Flask, Postgres, Linux, Git, AWS
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code
• Ability to define cross-core contracts and bring them to closure through collaboration.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of Git and proficiency with Jenkin

We are looking for a passionate hands-on engineer to join our Engineering team.

• To build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reusable front-end abstractions and systems.
• Work closely with Product Managers, UX designers, and back-end engineers to implement front-end solutions while embracing emerging standards and pushing the limits of what a browser can do.
• Explore and design dynamic and compelling consumer experiences.
• Command an impressive portfolio of the latest UI technologies
• Analyze system function and performance requirements to support design concepts.
• Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
• Interacting with other team members to passionately collaborate our innovations.
• Constantly and consistently implementing new features and optimizing existing ones from controller-level to UI. Vigilantly and rapidly fix bugs.
• Create and maintain software documentation
• Endorsing upcoming standards, launching, iterating, and making a difference.

Ideal Candidate

• Proficiency with HTML5, Javascript, Angular JS, React JS and CSS3
• Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable, highly performant code for Website and Web applications.
• Experience with scripting languages (PHP) will be preferable.
• Excellent communication skills, good visual design sense, in-depth experience in developing web-based applications.
• Architecting, configuring, and automating the build process.
• A solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, learn rapidly, and master diverse web technologies and techniques.
• Knowledge in WordPress will be a plus
• Flexibility to work under ambiguous conditions

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

• Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.
• Sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.
• Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems. 
• Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.
• Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact. 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field. 
• Minimum 3+ years of UI/Frontend development and a strong understanding of building complex layouts using JavaScript, CSS and HTML.

KEY SKILLS

• Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns including vanilla JavaScript, some experience with ReactJS, Redux, React Native, Webpack, and Typescript or similar library/tools.
• Obsessed with WPO (Web Performance Optimization) and web/mobile performance analysis.
• Experienced with web standards and protocols such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and socket APIs in general.
• Familiar with web security, SEO, accessibility and internationalization.