Lead Front-end Engineer

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Frontend Engineer, you will

• Own our frontend engineering applications for two products each of which run as independent applications which query our backend systems via REST APIs

• 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 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

UPCRED powers AI-Recommendation on Social Content Creators, helping them discover content monetisation and helping Brands/Businesses explore Influencer Marketing.

The company’s advert platform is powered by artificial intelligence, which is used by businesses for Influencer Discovery, Campaign Management, and Campaign Analytics through UPCRED Pixel Management.

Our technology visions to have one-third of the world's social consumers discover new things through recommendation feeds from their favourite social media creator and which connects advertisers to these audiences to grow their business.

UPCRED Social has long-term partnerships with a variety of digital content creators and has the vision to democratize the social earning for content creators in India.

UPCRED Advert wants to be an all-in-one influencer marketing platform designed to help businesses own their influencer relationships.

Responsibilities:

The React Developer will own and drive web development—including decisions about tools, technologies, and processes - for UPCRED.

This is an incredible opportunity for anyone interested in being a part of a high-performing, fast team with a massive learning curve. Our team moves fast and develops world-class products by pushing the boundaries of React development. If hired, you will be part of UPCRED's in-house Product & Engineering team.

Develop cross-browser & cross platform supported web applications in React which customers love using.

Work with product, design, backend teams to develop features.

Work on bindings and integrations required with react libraries & REST api's.

Plan, estimate, and delivery your project with minimal supervision.

Skills:

1 - 5 years of React experience with some hands-on experience with web application development.

Experience with React Ecosystem (React Router, Styled-components, Server-side rendering, Context API, React Hooks) is strongly preferred.

Experience with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX is a huge plus.

Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues

Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, offline storage, state

management.

Experience with Content/Video-based website.

Understanding of Social Video-based web Architecture

HOW?

Apply, and let us know your interest?

UPCRED, that's how we grow, fair and transparent!

Note: Candidates who is having a notice period of more than 45 do not apply

Work Profile

• Delivering a complete front end application in AgularJS
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and browser with reusable and modular components spanning cross multiple projects
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Integrate with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services for 3rd Party tools and services integration

Requirement

• Experience and proficiency with AngularJS, JavaScript and HTML5
• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ability to provide SEO solutions and optimization
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS

• Strong in Vue.js or React.js, HTML, HTML5, DOM(Document Object Model) concepts
•  Must know Nuxt.JS a Vue Framework.
• CSS3, SASS, SCSS, Bootstrap 4, Webpack, Box Modelling, Grid System
• Responsive Design, Cross browser/device development
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript
• OOJS - Object-oriented JavaScript

• Develop new-user facing features using React.Js and Redux, D3.Js
• Build robust, reusable, and easy to maintain components.
• Translate designs and mock-ups into high quality code.
• Work closely with the Support team and Product team to identify issues and bugs in the platform and fix it.
• Completely own the SDLC of your tickets. From dev to production.
• Talk to existing clients about platform bugs and ensure the bugs are fixed.

• Minimum 4 years’ experience with React.js and Redux
• You are a well-organised self-starter with excellent communication skills
• You have thorough and demonstrable understanding of React.js and it’s core principles
• You have experience with code versioning (GIT) and CI/CD (Jenkins, Circle, etc.) tools
• You have ability to translate business requirements into high quality, high performance code
• You are familiar with RESTful API’s
• You enjoy working independently with minimal supervision
• You have broad understanding and experience in Javascript based technologies
• You are comfortable working in fast paced environment
• You are familiar and up-to-date with common front-end dev tools (e.g. Babel, Webpack, NPM, Yarn, etc..)
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• 2-3 yrs of strong experience in building mobile web frontend for b2c products using React.
• Understanding of server side rendering, nextjs.
• Ability to build progressive web applications with optimized lighthouse score.

• Substantial experience in building large complex and performant web applications using HTML5, CSS3, Typescript and Javascript across multiple browsers (Especially IE11).
• Experience in frameworks such as React (Redux, Redux Thunk or Saga, React Router, React Hooks) , Node JS and good understanding of the basics of these frameworks and their life cycles.(MUST HAVE)
• Experience in frameworks like Bootstrap and CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS is desirable.
• Deeper understanding of network layer, HTTP, HTTPS, cookies, local storage.
• Knowledge to handle real-time async data would be a plus.
• Good knowledge on build tools like Webpack and Gulp
• Good knowledge on testing tools like Jest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, etc
• Experience in Git source control 
• Deeper understanding of Chrome Dev Tools.
• Deeper knowledge of UI optimizations and performance.
• Excellent communication skills, good visual design sense, in-depth experience in developing web-based applications.
• Experience leading multi engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers.
• Command an impressive portfolio of the latest UI technologies is a plus