Fullstack Developer (Frontend)

Our client is a rapid growth stage Edtech start-up focused on solving the teacher shortage crisis in the US education system using technology by bringing teachers to the classrooms and giving them access to the right tools to teach students in a highly engaging manner.

They have a development center in Mumbai and they are looking to scale up the teams in Pune and Bangalore as well.

What does the role entail:

●Lead requirement/task and guide junior software engineers in the development process.

● Design, develop and maintain user interfaces for web and mobile applications.

● Strong understanding of UI design principles and best practices.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyse requirements, design solutions, and implement new features.

● Develop and implement unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality.

● Troubleshoot and debug applications.

● Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.

● Mentor junior software engineers and help them grow their technical skills.

Required Skills:

● B.E/B.Tech/master’s in computer science (or equivalent).

● 4 - 7 years of experience

● Skilled with one of Front end Technologies: Angular 10+/Flutter/React/Vue.

● Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript or Dart.

● Experience with state management libraries.

● Experience with UI testing frameworks such as Cypress.

● Experience with responsive design and developing mobile-first user interfaces.

● Knowledge of UI accessibility guidelines and experience implementing accessibility features.

● Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.

● General understanding of Agile software development methodologies.

● Understanding of development and operational support best practices.

 Lead Frontend Developer

We are an early stage EdTech startup founded by people from IIT-D, IIM-B, Flipkart, Google, Cure.Fit & ICICI Venture. Our vision is to help each child discover their hidden treasures. We want to provide the best learning platform to ensure all round holistic development of children (social, physical, intellectual, cultural, and emotional) by enabling them to pursue their passion. If you are passionate about helping the future generations to have holistic development and achieve their full potential, come talk to us.

Responsibilities :

1. Develop user-facing stack from scratch
2. Build reusable code and libraries for future use
3. Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
4. Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
5. Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Technology Skills :

1. Proven 4 years work experience as a ReactJS Frontend developer
2. In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
3. Good experience with Typescript and ReactJS (17.x). NodeJS knowledge is a plus.
4. Familiarity with Unit Testing Frameworks, UI Testing, Monorepos and Graphql principles
5. Knowledge of Alerting and Monitoring tools
6. Knowledge of SPA principles
7. UI Performance: should have hands on experience of optimising page load, rendering, caching
8. Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective.

Soft Skills :

1. Obsessed with best practices, structuring, documentation and have an eye for detail.
2. Self starter with a high level of drive and commitment.
3. High energy and drive to work in a startup environment.
4. Conceptual thinking, flexibility and ability to juggle with multiple responsibilities.
5. Ability to work under pressure and confidence to deal with complex issues.
6. Good communication skills.
7. Hands-on and detail oriented.

Responsibilities:

• Planning, estimation, requirement analysis, database designing, wireframing, layout design of the assigned project and other ongoing projects in a team with Project Manager / Developer / Designer.
• Handling coding works or major/complex parts of assigned projects and providing coding help and supervision to team members.
• Maintaining and auditing code/design quality as per set guidelines and standards in assigned projects.
• Testing of completed tasks in ongoing projects in the team before sending updates to reporting authority/client.
• Remove the technical impediments
• Focusing the team to ensure the on-time delivery of the agreed task.
• Reporting progress to the Project Manager.
• Facilitating code/design reuse.
• Training and mentoring of team members.
• Maintaining the skill set matrix of the team.
• Building and maintaining PWA.
• Work closely with the product team to accelerate A/B testing and maximize engagement.

Requirements:

• Excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS3.
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript, Jquery.
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript MVC architecture and OOP programming style.
• Good understanding and experience of working on Vue.js/React.js.

• Designing and developing user interfaces using Angular best practices.
• Adapting interface for modern internet applications using the latest front-end technologies.
• Writing JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
• Developing product analysis tasks.
• Making complex technical and design decisions for Angular
• Developing application codes and unit tests in Angular JS, Java Technologies, and Rest Web Services.
• Ensuring high performance of applications and providing support.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or similar.
• Should have 3+ experience as an Angular JS developer.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Salary is negotiable for a right fit.

Previous experience as a UI Engineer.

Must have hands-on knowledge of web 2.0, including HTML5, CSS3
Must have hands-on knowledge of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as SASS/LESS
Must have hands-on knowledge in JavaScript frameworks like Object Oriented JS, Typescript (ECMAScript 6)
Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
Good understanding of REST API Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Working knowledge of design specs (style guide) tools like Zeplin, Invision etc.

What you need to have:

Experience: 2 to 7 years