Lead Frontend Engineer

·      7+ years of professional experience in front-end development.

·      5+ years of hands-on experience with React.js and its ecosystem (Redux, Context API, Hooks, etc.)

·      Strong understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3.

·      Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and WebSocket integration.

·      Proficiency in modern build tools (Webpack, Vite, Babel, etc.).

·      Expertise in state management libraries (Redux, MobX) and React Query.

·      Solid understanding of UI/UX principles and responsive design.

·      Experience with testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, etc.).

·      Familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines and version control tools (Git).

Mandatory Skills 

1. Very strong hands on experience of web technologies: - HTML JavaScript,  HTML5/CSS3,
2.      3 + years of UI Development Experience
3. Has implemented coding patterns and built UIframework
4. Cross browsers support/experience and knowledge of DOM manipulation on different browsers
5. Performance enhancements on web page load and execution
6. Experience with tools like   Firebug.
7. Basics knowledge on Ajax, jsp etc.
8. Experience in Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Dreamweaver to mock up UIelements.
9. Knowledge in any prototyping tools.
10. Use responsive web design to create applications that automatically conform to multiple screen sizes/devices.
11. Conduct usability testing to identify and fix UIissues
12. Familiar with popular UIlibraries like Sencha, AngularJS, ExtJS & JQuery
13. Collaborate with business analyst to discuss user interface requirements and brainstorm UIideas.

Job roles and Responsibilities: 

• Ability to develop UIframework on JavaScript and CSS which confines to requirement of Solutions.
• Ability to work on cross browser compatibility
• Develop reusable components.
• Work closely with other developers in the team

• Good understanding and experience of HTML / CSS / Javascript / Webpack / Bootstrap.
• Hands-on experience with ES6 / ES7 / ES8 features.
• Expertise with Web Services / REST APIs.
• Proficiency in Linux and deployment on Linux.
• Familiarity with Redux Thunk / Redux Saga will be an added advantage.
• Skillful experience in Node JS / Express / MongoDB will be a plus.
• Understanding of mobile cross-platform frameworks like React Native.
• Knowledge of AWS services like S3, EC2 would be valuable.

Required Education: B.E/B.tech/ MCA 

Required Experience: 8+ Years

Location: Ahmedabad / Pune / Bangalore/ Broda/ Rajkot

Roles and Responsibilities

• Architect and drive complex software frontend framework refactor projects that incrementally modernize areas of the application and establish new guidelines for future product features
• Work with UI/UX designers, developers, and database administrators to analyze workflows and current implementation, and make a roadmap to refactor the frontend SPA that can be delivered in an incremental manner
• Efficiently working with various profiling and monitoring tools to identify performance and concurrency bottlenecks, propose and implement optimizations to improve cloud product
• Review end-user usage patterns, customer logged performance defects, and enhance page load performance based on gaps identified
• Understand application architecture, application interactions with backend applications and with other downstream systems
• Troubleshoot issues experienced by users and propose solutions

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in implementing and driving front-end engineering and refactor projects and solutions
• Advanced level experience with SPA, modern UI fundamentals, multi-tenant application, concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures
• Expert-level knowledge of JavaScript programming language
• Comfortable with Windows, SQL Server, .NET Framework/Core, GIT, Nuget, React Framework, ORM Framework NHibernate in terms of both tools and application development
• Passionate about finding software performance bottlenecks and optimizing code to produce a better customer experience
• Experience with APM (Application Performance Monitoring), RUM (Real User Monitoring), and other Dev tools used for Performance monitoring and analysis

Our client is the fastest growing company in the space of student mobility in Asia Pacific as per Financial times.

Job Location : Pune

More about them

- Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing).

- Helps 80M students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, nonstandardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process.

- Leading student housing platform globally, with 1M+ student housing units listed in 6 countries and across 80 cities.

- Growing rapidly and targeting $400M in annual gross bookings value by 2022.

Key responsibilities

Design and Build
Designing and developing user interface components and implementing
them following well-known Javascript (React.js) concepts and workflows.

You will ensure that these components and the overall application are
robust, easy to maintain and scalable.SDE 3 - Frontend Developer 2

Maintain a very high standard of UI Structuring, layout and ensuring a
delightful visual experience for users.

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 products are important.

Collaborate and Lead Collaborating within your product streams and team to bring best practices and leverage world class tech stack.

Measurable outcome You will need to set quantifiable objectives that encapsulate quality attributes of a system. The fitness of the application is measured against set marks.

Technical Skills
4+ years of experience, working with frontend technologies.
Experience working with modern Javascript libraries and tools like ReactJS
(mandatory), ES6/ES7, Webpack, Gulp.
Strong knowledge of HTML+HTML5, JS, CSS+CSS3
Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers.
UI Performance - should have hands-on experience in optimizing page load,
rendering, caching
Experience with unit testing in any modern javascript libraries
(Jest/Mocha/Jasmine)
Proficient with creating UI components, interaction patterns, task flows,
converting a design to web pages
Keeps an eye on new front-end ecosystem changes

Regards
Team Merito

• Our engineers are involved in all parts of the product lifecycle: brainstorming, design,prototyping, planning, execution, and deploying.
• We brainstorm to understand and explore the difficult problem and come up with the best solution for the hardest problems that impact the world.
• You will develop broad-ranging skills working on a wide variety of initiatives. You will take responsibility for your projects, but you'll also have teammates who look out for you.
• We operate in a “get s**t done” environment where the goal is always to execute and implement. While doing all of this...You will not forget to have fun!

WHAT WE VALUE

• You're cool with working with others. Our jobs aren’t done in a vacuum and everyone contributes to get the job done.
• You’re not afraid to make mistakes because without challenge, you’re not learning.
• Speaking of learning, you have a constant desire to grow and develop.
• You care about great design, not only in the product and visual sense, but also in your code and technical architecture.
• You are passionate about product craftsmanship, and can balance that with deploying something relevant.
• You move fast with a sense of urgency. You want to work on things that make an impact on the world.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• Candidate Expectations: Design, code, deploy and maintain scalable software infrastructure to meet Blowhorn's demands.
• 3+ years’ experience in a start-up environment or any reputed product based company
• Build APIs for business clients to integrate blowhorn into their systems.
• Setup processes and methodology for sustainable software development.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Good understanding of JS frameworks (AngularJS, ReactJS, VueJS), Angular 5+ and Bootstrap.
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Some exposure to Analytics/Dashboard and related client frameworks (D3.js, Apache superset)
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Has worked extensively on Google maps and features like live tracking, geo fencing
• Good API integration skills (with backend frameworks)
• Mobile frameworks like Flutter is a plus
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as (Git / Mercurial / SVN)
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.