Lead Front-End Developer

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the development of our platform’s front end.
• Work with the product and design teams along with the founders to build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, implementation, and maintenance.
• Work closely with founders and internal/external stakeholders to build products, tools, and services from scratch and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• You'll leverage your frontend knowledge to help improve performance and reliability, and polish existing features.
• Share your technical expertise to help the team make thoughtful and scalable design decisions and identify performance bottlenecks to troubleshoot quickly.
• Manage product development priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Ensure high-performant and responsive web applications and websites.

Skills & Qualities we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 2-4 years of experience as a frontend developer (rare exceptions for highly skilled developers) at a fast-paced, preferably early / growth stage start-up.
• You're familiar with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a React-like UI framework.
• Knowledge of codebases and version control systems (Git).
• You have experience debugging performance issues with UI in modern browsers across multiple platforms.
• Well-versed with SQL database design & RDBMS concepts.
• Strong arithmetic reasoning, logical and analytical thinking skills.
• Strong knowledge of code quality maintenance and performance analysis.

React JS Developer Job Description

A React JS Developer is responsible for building reusable UI components and managing state changes to create efficient, scalable, and maintainable front-end applications. Here's a breakdown of the job:

Key Responsibilities

- Developing User Interfaces: Build reusable UI components using React, JSX, and CSS to create visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces.

- State Management: Manage state changes and props to ensure seamless data flow between components.

- Component-Driven Development: Develop components that are modular, reusable, and easy to maintain.

- Debugging and Troubleshooting: Identify and fix bugs, performance issues, and other problems to ensure high-quality applications.

- Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams, including designers, back-end developers, and project managers to ensure successful project delivery.

Essential Skills

- React: Strong understanding of React, including components, state, props, lifecycle methods, and hooks.

- JavaScript: Proficiency in JavaScript, including ES6+ syntax, closures, and asynchronous programming.

- HTML/CSS: Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and CSS preprocessors like Sass or Less.

- Front-end Development: Experience with front-end development best practices, including accessibility, performance optimization, and security.

• Core Javascript, HTML, CSS, JSON understanding is mandatory
• Expertise of functional programming using JavaScript (ES5, ES6)
• Expertise of UI framework - React / Redux, RXJS
• Preferred experience with new generation of Web Programming - using Micro Service, REST/JSON, GraphQL and Component UI models
• Expertise with data visualization flow development along with usage of modern charting and graphical java script libraries
• React / Redux, RXJS, HTML, CSS, Javascript (ES5, ES6), Data visualization and Chart Libraries
• Data Structure and Design Pattern
• Strong knowledge of JSON data handling, GraphQL and their working

Mandatory:

• 4-7 Experience in React JS,  (ReactJS 2.5yrs compulsory)
• Optional:

Knowledge in UX/UI design, Azure DevOps, Test Driven - and Domain Driven Development

• Developing of complex IT systems with various system integrations and configurations
• Data security/GDPR

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and debugging responsive web and mobile applications for the company. Using React Js, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, this candidate will be able to translate user and business needs into functional frontend design. 

Responsibilities

- Must have

    - Experience with React and Redux or similar programming

    - Experience in Rest API integration

    - Passionate about user experience

     - Android and IOS development

- Other requirements

    - Good knowledge of Javascript functions and operators

    - Responsibility for major tasks and chores

    - Willing to resolve technical debt in the early step

    - Good understanding of sprint cycle in agile

    - Can communicate with developers and non-developers

    - Can work independently but a great collaborator

    - Serverless API experience is not counted

    - Good to have Git workflow knowledge

    - Good to have Github collaboration experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science
• 2+ years experience in frontend development
• Familiarity using Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building object-oriented web applications in React Js, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

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• Master's / Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Self taught developer.
• 3+ years of experience in fundamentals of web, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Vue or React.
• Understanding of product design, user experience and skills to recreate and match high quality pixel perfect designs and can go above and beyond in detailing.
• Has ability to build a ground up resoluble components and in-house UI system that can scale across the product.

A collaborative role with Individual ownership ✅

• Ownership of developing UI related features. Work with with the rest of the engineering team to develop, launch or maintain features.
• Take ownership of design <> dev collaboration and participate in the education of both sides.
• Work closely with design team and become a bridge between engineering and design.
• Maintain code integrity.

•  6+ years of web UI development experience including 4+ years of deep, hands on experience in building robust, highly reusable and responsive web applications using HTML, CSS3, SVG, React, Redux, Thunk ecosystem
• Great problem-solving skills with solid data structures and algorithms knowledge
• Strong ability to translate the design/wireframes into reusable micro components
• Experience of leading, coaching and mentoring junior developers with good delegation and time-management skills
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles and has extensively worked with Redux, Thunk, Axios etc
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Oauth2 etc
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• A knack for perfection, benchmarking and optimization
• Writing and maintaining batch jobs to streamline processes (Shell, Perl etc).
• Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
• Worked with WebSocket, Push notifications etc
• Experience working with local-storage, cookies etc
• Proficient understanding of CORS issues and ways to work with such issues.
• Proficient understanding of social network APIs.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Inclined to take ownership of tasks and to ship highly polished products with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• BE/BTech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience

We are looking for programmers with a keen eye for design for the position of Front End Developer. Front end Developers are responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency and maintaining brand consistency across all web pages, among other duties.

Front End Developers are required to work in teams alongside Back end Developers, Graphic Designers, and User Experience Designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. This requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Determining the structure and design of web pages.
• Ensuring user experience determines design choices.
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Striking a balance between functional and aesthetic design.
• Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
• Building reusable code for future use.
• Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
• Utilizing a variety of markup languages to write web pages.
• Maintaining brand consistency throughout the design.

• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Understanding of key design principles.
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
• Understanding of server-side CSS.
• Experience with graphic design applications such as Adobe Illustrator.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• Understanding of SEO principles.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.