Lead Frontend

Job Title: Senior React.js Developer

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Pune

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled React.js Developer with 5+ years of experience to join our team. You’ll build scalable, high-performance web and mobile applications, work closely with designers and backend developers, and ensure responsive and user-friendly UI/UX across platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop dynamic, reusable components using React.js, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Integrate wireframes and UI/UX designs into functional front-end interfaces
• Ensure cross-browser/platform compatibility and responsive design
• Optimize apps for speed and scalability
• Implement and maintain unit and E2E tests (Jest, Playwright, Puppeteer)
• Integrate with RESTful APIs and backend services
• Maintain code quality and performance standards
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and backend engineers
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to best practices

Required Skills:

• 5+ years in front-end/UI development
• Strong in React.js, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3
• Experience with Redux, SASS/LESS, REST APIs
• Familiarity with performance optimization tools
• Solid understanding of UI/UX design principles
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain web applications using Java and React JS.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

• Maintain code integrity and organization.

• Develop new user-facing features using React JS.

• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.

• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code.

• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.

• Participate in team meetings and discussions to understand user needs and functionalities.

• Perform code reviews and improve and maintain code quality.

• Work closely with product management and back-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

• Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure applications are current and competitive.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.

• Strong proficiency in Java and React JS.

• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.

• Experience with React JS workflows such as Redux, Flux, and Webpack.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and web services.

• Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.

• Excellent troubleshooting skills.

• Good project management skills.

• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud services such as AWS or Azure.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

• Knowledge of database management systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

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 &amp
• 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

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.

Are you passionate in coding, art and blockchain? Do you wish to face challenges ahead, develop and deliver features that will be extraordinary towards users? We are looking for experienced developers (blockchain, frontend, backend) to join our team and start a revolution!

About the role as a full stack engineer at Torum, you will be remotely working alongside our core development team from India, Turkey, Malaysia and other regions in the future. A good mindset of forward planning should be cultivated to better your performance!

You will also get involved in constant discussions with our Lead Developer and Operational team members regarding the ideas, concepts as well as feature specifications to further enhance our platform.

Qualifications and Experience location GMT+8 or GMT+5:30

• Ability to work remotely or on-site (if Malaysia)
• More than 2 years of hands-on experience with React JS and Redux
• Ability to communicate (verbally and writing) well with the team in English
• Possess strong logics and understanding to come up with optimum solution in JS programming
• Played an active role in the design and architecture of the solutions
• Experience in creating apps with high priority on user experience
• Passion for best design, developing and coding practices
• Maximizing application performance, uptime, and scalability, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Unit/integration testing experience

Highly Favored Personality & Experience 

• Passionate
• Eager to learn and explore new things
• Trustworthy, easy-going, and honesty
• Experience with Solidity
• More than 1 year of experience with Web3 JS
• Good software engineering skills, insights, and experience
• Good knowledge of cryptography
• Hands-on experience with back-end framework and database is a bonus (Preferably Node.js and MongoDB)
• Experience in leading, or being a Senior/Lead in the front-end team to build, constantly improve and optimize a commercial level product, with a decent user base is a bonus
• Experience in building large-scale apps like Social Media, E-commerce, etc. where performance, scalability, and availability are the top priorities

We are looking for an experienced Front End Architect who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing efficient Front End layers using well known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these applications are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important. 

Responsibilities: 

• Architecting large scale Enterprise application Front End layers for:
• Maintainability (Modularity, Testability)
• Reusability (ComponentizationCommon Functionality)
• Performance (Caching, Resource Utilization) 
• Security
• Developing new user-facing features using React.js 
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use 
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code 
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers 
• Leading a team of high performing team React JS developers

Primary Skills:

• React JS, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Jquery, SASS and Typescript
• Develop  user-facing features using ReactJS
• Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.
• Having Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript.
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus.
• Strong Proficiency in HTML 5, CSS 3
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, etc.
• Knowledge of functional or object-oriented programming.
• Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code.
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts.
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage. 

Experience: 

10+ years of overall experience with 4+ years of mandatory experience with React JS development

Job Description:

The UI Engineer(4-7)  will design; develop front-end for AgroStar product solutions.

 Key areas of responsibility:

1. Responsible for core UI framework, implements and maintains it.
2. Operates effectively as an individual for quick turnaround of enhancements and fixes.
3. Responsible for the development of the front-end applications and components.
4. Responsible for architecture & design of the product.
5. Co-ordinate with the backend engineers & designers for requirement gathering of the product.
6. Responsible for creating POCs to design a scalable system.
7. Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
8. Responsible for quality assurance including web usability, accessibility, testing and debugging.

 As an ideal ‘Agstar UI Engineer’, you will need:

 3-7 years of prior hands-on experience in building responsive web interfaces for consumers

Significant experience with Git and GitHub including managing branches, merges, and administration

Ability to translate product requirements into functional code.

Ability to estimate the scope of work for sprint planning.

Top-notch programming skills.

Self-motivated and able to work in a small team with minimal supervision

Strong development experience on the following technologies -

HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX,  working with REST APIs.

Must be fluent in writing code in  ES6+ along with linters.

CSS preprocessor - SCSS/ LESS.

Front end frameworks/library such as ReactJS, Redux.

Web standards, Responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility, SEO, Accessibility.

We are looking for enthusiastic intrapreneurs who want to work at the ‘grass root’ level and want to make a difference to India’s biggest sector. We hope this excites you as much as us and looking forward to the next few conversations.

Technical Skill :