Lead Frontend Engineer

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will drive the responsibility of developing features for our existing products and bring new innovations to the table. You will work with the latest tools and frameworks, crafting seamless user experiences that drive productivity and innovation. The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic go-getter, problem solver, and works with “there is always a “solution' attitude, combined with empathy and strong communication.

What You Will Do in This Role

• Building and developing new software features for our JustCall product.
• Working through the design, implementation, integration, testing, and deployment phases of project delivery.
• Provide software design and programming expertise to support research projects.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams - Experimenting and reiterating on software basis feedback from customers/product & business stakeholders.
• Designing and developing new fast and robust algorithms to ensure that the platform supports millions of communications exchanges every month.
• Working with our engineering team to deploy and maintain research models in the production.
• Collaborating with the product and design teams on crafting great user experiences.

What you need to be successful

• 3-7 years of experience in ReactJS (not native), JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience in designing and building systems for maximum performance, reliability, and scalability
• Experience in working with object-oriented programming with least one object-oriented programming language and understanding of browser caching.
• Experience with seamless integration of front-end to backend functionality.
• Knowledge of high-level programming concepts like promises, and data-binding.
• Ability to design relational database schema at scale with Tailwind experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Experience with test-driven/behavior-driven development using automated testing tools.

Benefits and Perks

• Enjoy a 5-day work week with the flexibility to work from home 2 days a week.
• Take advantage of flexible holidays, allowing you to plan your vacations according to your needs.
• Celebrate collective success with frequent recognition of our team's efforts.
• Collaborate with a truly global team, spanning six countries.

SaaS Labs is a diverse international team of passionate problem solvers. With innovation, experimentation, and customer obsession at the heart of their ethos, the company has been honored with 30+ innovation awards including the coveted Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and FT High Growth Companies (Asia Pacific). We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We would love to work with you. Apply now!

We are looking for a front-end developer who will be responsible for developing and designing front-end web architecture, ensuring the responsiveness of applications, and working alongside graphic designers for web design features, among other duties.

Roles & Responsibilities:

● Develop and implement responsive and intuitive user interfaces for web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js, Node.js)."

● Designing user interactions on web pages.

● Developing SDKs.

● Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.

● Collaborate with UI/UX designers, back-end developers, and other stakeholders to transform design concepts into functional, feature-rich web interfaces

● Designing and developing APIs.

● Meeting both technical and consumer needs.

● Collaborate in an Agile development environment, participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and other team meetings.

Qualifications & Skills:

● 5-9 years of experience in the relevant field.

● Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and

JavaScript/Typescript

● Proficiency with JavaScript frameworks such as React-JS.

● Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL or Postgres.

● Knowledge of GitHUb, Docker,Project Versioning,SCSS/SASS style framework will be an added advantage

● Excellent verbal communication skills.

● Good problem-solving skills..

● Attention to details.

Why should you join:

● You prefer working in small groups. We're a start-up, and we think smaller teams have a lot of power. There is less management overhead and more discussion about the important work

● You care about the end-user and developer experience, as well as how the backend affects them. Rather than taking the path of least resistance, work backwards from what the user experience requires

● We offer competitive pay (above market average). We've received adequate funding from a number of well-known fintech investors, and we're planning to stay in the game for the long haul. It will be an exciting and interesting adventure ahead, and we are looking forward to working with some fantastic teammates!

What's on offer:

● Best in class compensation package

● Stock options for long term wealth creation

● Group health insurance that covers your family

● A vibrant, open and fun work culture

• 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

• 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)
• Hands on experience with Typescript
• Expertise with RESTful APIs integration and best practices
• 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.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git

• Building of user-facing elements and Integration
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and real time applications
• Architecting applications and strategizing them to be scalable for traffic.
• Identifying and working on new innovations which can relate to any kind of technology

• 2-3 years of experience with JavaScript, JQuery, Node.js
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3, SASS
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Purpose of the Role

To design and implement the Peak AI System - a new system of intelligence that allows companies to quickly harness the power of AI.

The Opportunity 

Peak are a Decision Intelligence company - where we are democratising AI for every business and building a great company that everyone loves being part of. We are on a mission to help organisations use AI to make great commercial decisions, all the time. Just as importantly, we are also focused on building an amazing company: one where we truly value our people & culture, and strive to make an amazing and diverse place to work. Our recent Best Companies award & World class accreditation for being one of the top companies to work for is a testament to this.

We have ambitious plans over the coming years - to create and lead a new category of enterprise software; the decision intelligence system (Decision Intelligence), expand our operations and create the best working culture possible. This is a great time to join Peak and the Engineering team, as we start the next stage of our global growth.

The Role

Based in Jaipur or Pune, you will be working in a collaborative team on cutting edge technologies in a supportive and dynamic environment. Ultimately you are responsible for building the CODI and on-boarding new clients - this involves:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Peak delivers, and how these link to Peak’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Peak processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or support them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Required Skills and Experience

We are building a team of world class engineers in Jaipur, essentially we are looking for bright, talented engineers looking to work at the cutting edge of practical AI.

• Acquired strong proven professional Front End Development experience.
• Proven track record and experience working on Javascript and front end frameworks like React (preferred) and Angular
• Knowledge and experience working with Node.js, Go or any other back end programming language is a plus .
• Experience of turning UI/UX designs to applications and keen interest in the UI/UX side of an application. 
• Able to build prototypes quickly and work with the product teams to test a concept. 
• Demonstrable experience in building front end or UI/UX development practices in previous jobs. 
• Building and implementing a product on cloud based infrastructure.
• Good understanding of Microservice Architecture, Cloud Technologies, CI/CD and Serverless.
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using Agile Methodologies such as Kanban or Scrum to build quality software.
• Good communication skills.

As well as doing great work we have created an award-winning, fun and exciting workplace that people love to be, we are looking for people to join us who share our values and are:

• Open - Always up for new ideas and able to take and give feedback in a positive way.
• Driven - sets high goals, doesn’t give up, and make sacrifices to ensure that their job gets done on time and meets/exceeds expectations.
• Curious - Aware of new technologies and uses them to make new improvements in the Engineering ecosystem.
• Smart - Innovative and thinks out of the box, in difficult situations finds a way to succeed no matter what 
• Responsible - takes ownership of tasks given and has a strong work ethic.

About Peak

In an age when becoming AI and data-driven is one of the most important things businesses must do, it can also be one of the most challenging. That’s where Peak comes in; our CODI system sits at the heart of our client’s businesses, enabling the rapid unification, modelling and - most importantly - use of data - helping decision makers make great commercial decisions, powered by AI. All supported by our world-class data science team.

Founded in 2014, Peak has grown rapidly, in line with the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies, winning numerous awards and attracted significant funding to support the company’s ongoing investment in machine learning and AI technologies. All to further our mission to become the world’s leading AI System business.

Headquartered in Manchester, Peak also has offices in London, Edinburgh, Jaipur and Brisbane. Our clients include some of the world's leading retailers, manufacturers and well-known brands alongside highly innovative and tech-savvy businesses. Peak is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, and holds Machine Learning Competency and Retail Competency status.

This is a temporary full time role.

Responsibilities

• Developing the latest user-facing features using React.js
• Designing a modern highly responsive web-based user interface
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Learn and understand user interactions
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• As a React.js Developer, you will be involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound and aesthetically impressive.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Prior experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with more current specifications of EcmaScript
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with HTML / CSS
• GIT experience is a plus
• 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.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with code versioning tools

• 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 for state management (such as Redux/Mobx)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs 
• 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. 
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization 
• Experience in Python or Java/Kotlin development