Lead Frontend Engineer

Our client is a rapid growth stage Edtech start-up focused on solving the teacher shortage crisis in the US education system using technology by bringing teachers to the classrooms and giving them access to the right tools to teach students in a highly engaging manner.

They have a development center in Mumbai and they are looking to scale up the teams in Pune and Bangalore as well.

What does the role entail:

●Lead requirement/task and guide junior software engineers in the development process.

● Design, develop and maintain user interfaces for web and mobile applications.

● Strong understanding of UI design principles and best practices.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyse requirements, design solutions, and implement new features.

● Develop and implement unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality.

● Troubleshoot and debug applications.

● Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.

● Mentor junior software engineers and help them grow their technical skills.

Required Skills:

● B.E/B.Tech/master’s in computer science (or equivalent).

● 4 - 7 years of experience

● Skilled with one of Front end Technologies: Angular 10+/Flutter/React/Vue.

● Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript or Dart.

● Experience with state management libraries.

● Experience with UI testing frameworks such as Cypress.

● Experience with responsive design and developing mobile-first user interfaces.

● Knowledge of UI accessibility guidelines and experience implementing accessibility features.

● Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.

● General understanding of Agile software development methodologies.

● Understanding of development and operational support best practices.

Brief Overview:

Through your work at Vauld, you will have the opportunity to change money for the 21st century. We’re a leading cryptocurrency platform and are passionate about increasing economic freedom around the world.

We are looking for a Lead frontend engineer who has hands-on experience with Angular/React in the front end responsibilities. You'll be involved with bringing features from idea to completion and mentoring an incredibly talented group of peers.

If you are looking for a challenging work environment where you can grow and deepen your technical skills as a frontend engineer and architect, we’d love to chat with you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with designers, product managers to collaboratively own the front-end layer for Vauld’s web and mobile applications.
• Architect, develop, maintain, and improve our front-end libraries.

Requirements:

• You have 5 years or more of front end development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance web applications.
• You are aware of Javascript design patterns and can architect a fairly complex UI without feeling the need for a framework.
• You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a particular language/framework.
• You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework.
• Experience in any of React/AngularJs/Vue js
• You have a deep understanding of javascript coding methodologies and can rightly judge/implement solutions to complex problems.
• You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production environment, and finally monitoring.

Preferred:

• Previous work experience in product-based (B2B/B2C) startups and fintech firms.
• Experience working with Visualisation/graphs/gaming
• Experience building for mobile platforms
• Understands the cryptocurrency landscape

Working at Vauld:

You will join a fun and intellectually stimulating work environment. If you’re excited by the idea of making a real impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves on being disruptive and ambitious, a career with Vauld is perfect for you.

Desired Candidate Profile

• You have 4-8 years of experience  in Frontend for web based applications with strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Frameworks like Angular  or React
• You love building things, and have built complex consumer web applications in the past.
• You have a sound understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• You are an expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
• You are an expert in at least one JavaScript framework, such as Angular 7+, React or Vue.
• You understand how website-backend interacts with frontend as well as external APIs.
• You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.

Job Description:-

• React.js with Redux and Typescript 
• Experience working with Git, JIRA
• End to end responsibility from development to production.
• Work with product and design teams to translate designs and wireframes into high-quality products.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Eager to learn new things in technology  

• Minimum 4 yrs of experience in React JS.
• Experience building single page frontend applications and reusable components
• Solid experience with the core React ecosystem like React Router, Redux etc.
• Master of HTML, CSS, and other display-centric web technologies.
• Comfortable using git, docker.
• Proficient in Javascript (ES6 / ES7) programming with at least 4/5 years of
• experience.
• Good knowledge in writing frontend test cases.

• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates and Promises.

• Strong Problem Solving skills.

• Strong skills in Javascript and ability to write well documented, clean JavaScript Code.

• Very good understanding of ES6/ES7, JSX and Component Lifecycle.

• Deep practical knowledge of native Javascript, ES6, understanding the internals of frameworks like ReactJS, Angular or any other view libraries.

• Knowledge of modern authorisation techniques, such as JWT Tokens.

• Good understanding of common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, Yarn etc.

• Has strong communication skills and self-accountability.