Javascript Developer

We're looking for a skilled Frontend Developer to join our team and help us build innovative web applications. You'll be responsible for creating intuitive user interfaces and ensuring a seamless user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain user-facing features using modern web technologies, such as React.js .
• Collaborate with designers and product managers to translate design mockups and user stories into responsive and engaging web applications.
• Optimize application performance and ensure cross-browser compatibility.
• Implement best practices and coding standards to ensure high-quality and maintainable code.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to drive innovation in front-end development.

Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience in building web applications using React.js .
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integrating front-end applications with backend services.
• Understanding of responsive design principles and mobile-first development.
• Knowledge of version control systems, such as Git.
• Ability to work collaboratively in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

.Frontend Developer for a Construction Tech startup.Kolkata-based or with roots in Kolkata.

Requirements:React.js,Javascript

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

Skills Required:

• Deep understanding of React.js and its fundamentals, ideally including modern features like hooks
• Excellent understanding of TypeScript/Javascript including the OOP concept and how shadow DOM and DOM work
• Experience with widely used React.js state managers like Flux/Redux
• 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

As a UI Developer with 2+ years of experience

Strong with Javascript/ Typescript with good understanding of DOM

Experience with UI frameworks such as React/ Angular/ VueJS 

Good with CSS/ SCSS/ SASS and handling responsive UI development

Experience using standard UI frameworks such as bootstrap, bulma, material ui etc

Ability to split code into logical components with impetus towards writing reusable components/ styles

Experience with handling state management, separation of layers with the right kind of abstraction 

• Experience in developing modern web applications using React and Redux.
• Strong proficiency in CSS, JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Good understanding of Database schema, design, optimization, scalability.
• Great communication skills, strong work ethic.
• Ownership of the product from start to finish.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.

• Experience with AWS
• Expert level understanding of the HTML DOM and underlying event model
• Prior Open source contributions
• Experience building responsive design.