Lead Frontend / Fullstack developer

About the US 

UniAthena is a rapidly growing EdTech platform offering upskilling courses and self-paced academic programs in collaboration with European universities and awarding bodies. Over 2.5 million learners from more than 150 countries are pursuing their upskilling journey on our 100% online and automated learning platform. Our vision is to make higher education accessible to all. We also offer online Master’s, Postgraduate Certificates, Diplomas, and Doctoral programs developed with European universities. As part of the Westford Education Group, UniAthena is on a high-growth trajectory in the dynamic EdTech space.

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled Angular Developer to contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of our short course platform. This role requires creating efficient, scalable, and user-friendly applications while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including UX designers, front-end developers, and backend engineers. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Angular's ecosystem and a passion for crafting seamless user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code for the platform.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Ensure seamless integration of data storage and retrieval mechanisms.
• Maintain project versions using appropriate version control tools (e.g., Git).
• Document work comprehensively, including inline and explicit documentation.
• Report daily activities and progress to the reporting team.
• Work closely with the UX/Development team to ensure smooth integration of designs and functionality.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency in Angular and its ecosystem.
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern front-end development practices.
• Experience with RxJS for reactive programming in Angular.
• Familiarity with Angular Material or similar UI component libraries.
• Knowledge of version control tools such as Git or similar.
• Experience with API integration and RESTful services.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Familiarity with state management libraries like NgRx.
• Experience with PrimeNG or other third-party Angular component libraries.
• Knowledge of server-side integration, especially with frameworks like Laravel or PHP.
• Understanding of Agile development methodologies.
• Prior experience working on e-learning or similar platforms.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development experience in java.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e. g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript/Typescript, XML, jQuery)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Micro Services based architecture
• Experience with Angular 5 Angular 8 and/or experience with React JS
• Strong debugging/troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer.
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e. g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e. g. Angular, React, Node.js )Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with databases (e. g. MySQL, PostgreSQL), web servers (e. g. Tomcat, Apache).
• Excellent communication and ability to lead a 5-10 member team

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the entire development process for the Internal IP (e.g. Quality Fusion)
• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Analyzing user requirements, envisioning system features and functionality.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable codes by setting expectations and features priorities throughout the development life cycle.
• Working with Senior leadership and stakeholders to present ideas and solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIsTest software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency in troubleshooting, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Minimum 3-5 years of Experience in Java Backend development. 
• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science. 
• Good knowledge/experience in Data structure, Algorithms. 
• Proficiency with Programming Language: Java 1.8 and above (1.8 V must), J2EE. 
• Proficiency with Framework: Spring Stack (Security, Web MVC, REST), Hibernate, JMS. 

• Strong knowledge in any one Relational Databases (Mysql / Oracle / SQL Server). 
• Strong experience in Web services (SOAP and RESTFUL). 
• Tools & Utilities: STS / Eclipse / IntelliJ / NetBeans.Web/Application Server: Jboss. 
• Should have expertise in Design Patterns, Transactions, Multithreading concepts 
• Proficiency in Build Cycle management (Maven, Jenkins, Scripting). 

• Familiarity with Deployment technologies like Docker, Rancher and Virtual machines. 
• Familiarity with Agile Development processes. 
• Exposure to Spring Integration batch knowledge, OAuth2 authentication 
• Excellent verbal communication skills. 
• Good problem-solving skills with attention to detail. 

• Able to create functional, attractive applications that perfectly meet the needs of the user. 

• 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

We are hiring Frontend Developer for Yugabyte.

We are sharing the details about the role and the company for your reference. Kindly review the details and reply with your updated resume asap, if you find the opportunity interesting.

About YugabyteDB:

The high-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale apps.

Yugabyte is the company behind the open source YugabyteDB, a high-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications.

Yugabyte is a Transactional, distributed SQL database designed for resilience and scale. Its 100% open source, PostgreSQL compatible, enterprise-grade RDBMS built to run across all your cloud environments

We are a series B funded company and are catering to customers in all spheres. Our investors include Lightspeed, Dell, 8VC and Wipro. Our founders and engineers include creators of Cassandra & HBase and have an experience of running Facebook's public-cloud scale DBaaS handling 1+ Trillion Ops per day and 100+ Petabytes of data. They have scaled the data platform at Facebook from 30M to 1.4B users.

You can find more information about us at the below links

• Yugabyte Youtube Channel - Refer https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL9BhSLRowqQ1TyBndhiCEw">here.
• Product Documentation - Refer https://docs.yugabyte.com/">here

Built using a unique combination of high-performance document store, auto sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication and multi-shard ACID transactions (inspired by Google Spanner), YugabyteDB serves both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures and global data distribution.

As a cloud native database, it can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as in Kubernetes environments with ease.

Investors: We are backed by top-tier investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, 8VC and Wipro Ventures.

Follow the links to know more about us:

• GitHub (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db">https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db
• Docs: https://docs.yugabyte.com">https://docs.yugabyte.com
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/yugabyte/about/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/yugabyte/about/
• https://www.yugabyte.com/">https://www.yugabyte.com/
• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yugabyte/company_financials">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yugabyte/company_financials

Funding:

Yugabyte has raised a total of $103M in funding over 4 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Mar 3, 2021 from a Series B round. Yugabyte is funded by 6 investors. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Dell Technologies Capital are the most recent investors. Yugabyte has a post-money valuation in the range of $100M to $500M as of Jun 9, 2020, according to PrivCo.

Job Description:

About this role with short note :

Years of Experience: 2-5 years

what we are looking for:

• You must know the in and out of JavaScript to design optimized and modular components that need to be used across our platform.
• You must be well versed with the React/Redux framework.
• Strong understanding of semantic HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3
• Experience in setting up the full UI workflow layer right from Development, Testing, Building, and Deployment.
• Good understanding of MVC architecture.

Good to have:

• Experience in frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, and CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS.
• Exposure to page speed improvement techniques.
• Exposure to building responsive websites at scale.
• Prior work experience in Angular, Backbone, React 

What You Will Be Doing:

• Create highly responsive B2C web-app using a wide range of open source frontend and backend technology.
• Create single page applications using wide range of javascript & cutting edge libraries/frameworks.
• Responsible for the full lifecycle of a project, including development, unit testing, system testing and change management.
• Research technical issues and provides recommendations to enhance JavaScript products.
• Working with multiple projects.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferably from IIT,NIT & other premier institutes.
• Rockstar JavaScript developer, who appreciates the intricacies of JS as well as passionate to follow new trends in JS.
• Experience with product companies.
• 4-9 yrs of software development on advanced JavaScript stack (Native JavaScript, Asynchronous Request Handling, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, etc).
• In-depth knowledge in ReactJS & NodeJS
• Proficiency in any other modern web frameworks will be a plus.
• A solid knowledge of advanced data structures & algorithms.
• Proficient in Computer Science fundamentals & object-oriented design.
• Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to tackle those.
• Must possess a track record of building Single Page responsive UI.
• Experience with Databases such as NoSQL and any RDBMS will be a plus.
• Experience with transport protocols such as TCP, HTTP & WebSocket.
• Expressing and appreciating design patterns is a real addition.
• Critical of coding practices and development methodologies

In this role you will

• Be a part of a small UI team and will work closely with the UXdesigner and product manager to shape the product design.
• Build web UI components for a cloud-native SaaS product.
• Drive clear requirements for the backend APIs working closely withthe backend engineers.
• Focus on quality and velocity by developing appropriate tests.

Requirements

• Highly motivated self-starter with a builder’s mindset.
• 5+ years of web UI development experience.
• Highly skilled in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Deep knowledge and experience of REST APIs.

Preferred: experience with frameworks such as React

Preferred: full stack development experience