Lead Frontend Developer

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and experienced Engineering Leader to take up front-end development efforts. You will design and develop elegant interfaces that exceed client expectations in terms of value and benefit. You will collaborate on scalability issues involving visualizing massive amounts of data and information. You will identify, define and communicate best practices for front end.

You are passionate about building secure, high-performing and scalable front-end applications. Your design intuition inclines towards usability, elegance and simplicity. You are biased towards open-source tools and existing frameworks. You have demonstrated strong inter-personal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct UI/UX team, define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of advanced visualization products
• Define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of advanced visualization products
• Translate wireframes into functional requirements, write well-abstracted, reusable, high-performance code for UI components
• Work closely with design, product management and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces
• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies
• Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale. Support diverse clients from high-powered desktop computers to low-end mobile devices
• Understand and coach/teach others, show a high level of ethics and team-work

 Requirements

• Bachelor/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in developing responsive, elegant, efficient and cross-browser front-end applications
• Hands on experience on various MVC frameworks, UI libraries and tools such as Angular, ReactJS, HTML5, CSS3, D3.js
• Hands on experience on Map API’s like Google Maps, Openstreetmap and other powerful information-rich maps
• Familiar with UX processes and design
• Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision making skills

- To analysis business requirements, prepare design and implementation recommendations and estimate development effort

-  Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Lead or participate in design reviews, code reviews and architecture evolution discussions
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Skills Required :

- Experienced with front end programming language with React JS.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
- Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.
- Experience with popular React.JS workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
- Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, ).
- Candidates with Good communication Skills.

• Collaborate with team members to develop high quality software.
• Develop intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of the company.
• Professionally maintain all software and create updates regularly to address customer and company concerns.
• Analyze and test programs and products before formal launch. Troubleshoot coding problems quickly and efficiently.
• Designing, developing, and testing UI for mobile and web applications. Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Accurately translate user and business needs into functional frontend code

Responsibilities:

• Works as part of a team to continually refresh and enhance our users’ web experiences using an Agile Development Methodology. 

• Build and ship features with an understanding of Javascript, CSS and HTML best practices.

• Coordinate with back-end engineers to provide a cohesive experience.

Must-Have:

• 2+ years of extensive exposure in developing web applications using the latest front-end technologies

• Expertise in the following area:

• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and JS frameworks, such as jQuery,

• Responsive & Adaptive web design

• CSS frameworks like SASS/LESS

• Able to work both independently and in a team environment.

• Adequate knowledge of Version Control Systems like Git

Mandatory Skills to have:

• Drupal Must-Have:

• Prior hands-on experience with Drupal Projects.

About Xpresslane:
Xpresslane is a universal one-click checkout platform for eCommerce. We want to transform the way online shoppers buy, Democratize optimized checkout and post checkout experience. We have achieved 150+ signups from D2C merchants in the last year alone and are aggressively adding new features to help solve problems in their checkout process.

Engineering @Xpresslane:
We are a small group of Tech Enthusiasts, Product Managers. We give incredible value to design and UX is our topmost priority. We've implemented products using Go, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, Temporal, GraphDB, Svelte & React, Cypress, Gitlab CI/CD.

Why Engineering @Xpresslane:

• Opportunity to Design & Implement new features which are internet-facing.
• Opportunity to Design Scalable Distributed System spanning many regions.
• Freedom to learn & work across Frontend/Backend/Devops/Design Expertise.
• 2-4 years of experience in Frontend Engineering.
• Expertise in one or more frontend frameworks like React/Angular/Vue/Svelte
• Style the frontend applications with an incredible focus on design & UX.
• Self-driven in identifying opportunities to make things better and efficient.
• Ensure code quality and reliability through automated test implementations.
• View frontend as Engineering i.e, plan & implement components for reusability, testability
  and scalability.
• Nice to have, experience in using Figma/Sketch for quick mockups & prototypes
• Nice to have knowledge of cache busting, CSRF, XSS attacks.