About KAFQA
At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.
Founder & Team
The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.
Role
We are looking for an experienced Frontend engineer with ReactJS development experience to join our team.
Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Implement responsive and performant UIs with user centered approach with frontend technologies including ReactJS, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc
- Write meaningful test cases for frontend &
- Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc
Ideal Background / Experience
- At least 12 months of diverse experience in web development for product or services oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments
- Expertise in programming using Python/ReactJS or similar scripting languages
- In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs
- Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
Nice to have exposure to any of
- AWS
- Azure
- ELK
- Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)
- Google APIs
- Microservices Architecture Pattern
- NodeJS / ExpressJS
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💥 What will you do?
As a Lead Frontend Engineer, you will
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Own our frontend engineering applications for two products each of which run as independent applications which query our backend systems via REST APIs
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Act as a leader and coach within the front-end engineering team, collaborating with and mentoring senior engineers.
- Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
- Write and review modular, reusable components and features (React.js / Vue.js) and integrate backend APIs to create a seamless front-end user experience
- Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience. These include 3rd party plugins which provide customer support and analytics plugins that help improve the user experience we provide to customers.
- Actively participate in code reviews
- Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites
🙋 What are we looking for?
While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are
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Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with frontend frameworks as React.js or Vue.js would be essential to work on our application stack.
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You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.
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You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.
- You have an eye for pixel-perfect UI and micro-interactions.
- You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.
📢 Other information you may want to consider
- We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
- Our frontend tech stack includes React.js, Vue.js, Netlify for CI / CD, TestCafe for UX testing, d3.js, and Regraph for visualizations.
Role Summary:
Front-end Developer who would contribute towards building a highly flexible and scalable front-end by bringing deep core technology expertise.
Job Description:
- Ensure proper offline access using service workers and PWA
- Develop components which are SEO friendly
- Have experience in server-side rendering
- Drive evolution of application performance
- Ensure project scalability by having good project architecture
Skill Requirements:
- Good experience in HTML5, CSS3, JS - React
- React native
- Angular - Redux exposure - Have handled service workers and PWA caching and updates - CSS pre-processors knowledge like sass - Knowledge of webpack, parcel, grunt etc.
-Knowledge of pre-processors like SASS/LESS, CSS-Modules.
- Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts (Gulp / Grunt)
-Have an eye for good UI/UX, Progressive Web Apps, Responsive Design
-Interested in writing code, actively experimenting along with learning new things.
Individual applying to the role should ideally have the following attributes
-Passionate about Frontend Development and continually follow the platform & innovations
-Strong and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions
-Interested in working on fast-paced
- Excellent communicator (written and verbal, formal and informal)
- Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership of problem resolution
- Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to prioritize when under pressure.
Mandatory Requirements
- Strong MVCC frontend development experience in Angular, React, Vue, Angularjs, REDUX, or similar frameworks
- Strong foundation skills in HTML, CSS, SASS, LESS, SCSS, Javascript, OO Javascript (OOJS), and JQuery
- Responsive design techniques, highly proficient with strong security and performance optimization techniques.
- Experience building reusable components using modern techniques
- Experience building PWA and Hybrid applications using Ionic, React Native, etc. is a plus
- If you don’t have experience with MVCC frameworks like Angular, we will still consider if your fundamental skills (HTML, CSS, JS) are strong
Job Responsibilities:
- Collaboratively work with UX team, product managers, back-end engineers and other technical teams to create new, delightful and scalable UI
- Mentor junior members through training and individual support
- Responsible for all front end development on a project
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
- Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
- Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
- Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images
- Optimize existing user interface designs
- Proactively learn and accordingly apply new technologies, best design practices and usability patterns
The ideal candidate must -
- 5+ years of experience working with React or React-based frameworks
- Proficiency with browser-based debugging and performance testing
- Proficiency in Git and version control
- Considerable experience with a testing framework (Jest/Mocha)
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and GraphQL
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JWT Tokens
- Good understanding of common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, Yarn etc
- Hands-on experience with CSS-in-JS libraries
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
- Keen to learn, mentor and willingness to take ownership of work items
- Possess strong communication and self-accountability
At Toddle we help teachers do better what they do best - teach!
We do this by creating intuitive technology tools that empower teachers across all stages of teaching and leaning. Our mission is to amplify teaching for 60 million K-12 educators globally and support them in delivering meaningful and personalised learning experiences.
Our first product is a collaboration platform for IB PYP teachers. Be it curriculum planning or parent communication, student portfolios or reports creation, Toddle makes working together simple and fun. Within 5 months of launch, Toddle is being used by 70+ IB schools across the world with an ARR of USD 300 thousand. All our growth has been 100% organic and fuelled by positive word of mouth. Given this encouraging takeoff, we are confident that Toddle is ideal for the needs of progressive educators across the world. Over the next 2 years, our goal is to become the preferred teaching partner of more than 50% K-8 teachers across the world.
Job Description
We are looking for a passionate and skilled Frontend Engineer, one who partners with us in creating beautiful products for teachers, students and parents alike. As a Frontend Engineer, you will play a major role in designing, developing and deploying high-quality web platforms. In this multifaceted role, you will get the opportunity to work along curriculum experts, teachers, and students, and user-test the product in real school settings.
Required Skills:
• Frontend: ES6, HTML5/CSS3, React, Redux/Apollo, Sense of Design & UX
• Tooling: Webpack, Babel, Git Basics, Chrome DevTools (Profiling)
• Soft Skills: Having a bias towards action, a good sense of design, empathy, and good communication skills
• Experience: 2 to 6 Years
Good to have: • Ability to manage a small team and distribute work • Working experience in ReactNative (iOS & Android) • Basics of Photoshop, Sketch
• JavaScript competence
• Experience using a MV* framework (such as Backbone.js, Ember.js, AngularJS, ReactJS, …)
• Experience with web interface development and frameworks (Ajax, Angular, Jquery, and similar)
• Experience in using a version control system, preferably Git
• Knowledge of HTML5, DOM traversal/manipulation and event capturing, jQuery, CSS Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in responsive design, touch interfaces
• Ideal candidates will show excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, with an enthusiastic attitude to support and resolve customer problems
• Experience designing and supporting large-scale distributed systems in a production environment
• Self-starter, quick learner and passionate problem resolver
About the Company
Openplay represents dynamism and potential, youth and effort, style and technology- bundled together in the quest for breakthrough performance. We are always on the look-out for young, determined and hungry minds that are ready to take the world by storm.
All we require of you is passion to make a difference, to create something fascinating as well as practical.
Openplay provides the perfect atmosphere for creativity and development. The flexible reporting hours and casual dressing only adds to the fun. We believe that the best ideas are born, when work and fun go hand in hand.
If you are self-motivated, innovative and believe in taking the road less travelled, you might become one of our proud working partners and a stake-holder in company's growth.
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Location: Hyderabad
Salary: Best in the Industry (no constraint for right applicant).