Manager /Technical Lead - React JS

About Deqode

At Deqode, we work on cutting-edge solutions that are redefining the digital frontier. Our team thrives on innovation, collaboration, and creating next-gen products that solve real-world problems. We are now looking for a skilled and passionate React.js Developer to join our growing frontend team.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Take complete ownership and delivery of front-end applications.
• Ensure optimized performance across mobile and desktop platforms.
• Write clean, tested, and well-documented code using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, HTML coders, and backend developers to bring designs to life.
• Integrate RESTful APIs and work seamlessly with backend teams.
• Communicate and integrate with third-party web services.
• Build and manage infrastructure for serving frontend apps and assets.
• Maintain frontend application deployment and ensure build pipeline automation.
• Use JSDoc or similar tools for inline documentation of code.
• Write extensive unit tests following Test-Driven Development (TDD) best practices.
• Design and automate the frontend build process using tools like Webpack/Gulp/Grunt.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience developing production-level web applications.
• Strong command over React.js or Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3.
• Deep understanding of DOM APIs, native JavaScript, and popular libraries.
• Proficiency in CSS preprocessors (SASS/LESS) and modular CSS (CSS Modules).
• Familiarity with build tools like Webpack, Gulp, or Grunt.
• Experience creating modular, self-contained, and reusable components.
• Strong understanding of cross-browser compatibility and performance optimizations.
• Clean, organized, and maintainable code practices.
• Bonus: Working knowledge of Node.js and backend concepts like APIs, databases, caching layers, and proxies.
• Comfort in implementing pixel-perfect designs, animations, and smooth transitions.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A proactive mindset with the ability to work both independently and in a team.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Frontend Engineer, you will

• Own our frontend engineering applications for two products each of which run as independent applications which query our backend systems via REST APIs

• Act as a leader and coach within the front-end engineering team, collaborating with and mentoring senior engineers.

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Write and review modular, reusable components and features (React.js / Vue.js) and integrate backend APIs to create a seamless front-end user experience
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience. These include 3rd party plugins which provide customer support and analytics plugins that help improve the user experience we provide to customers.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with frontend frameworks as React.js or Vue.js would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You have an eye for pixel-perfect UI and micro-interactions.
• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our frontend tech stack includes React.js, Vue.js, Netlify for CI / CD, TestCafe for UX testing, d3.js, and Regraph for visualizations.

Type, Location : Mumbai

Desired Experience: 3+ years

Roles and Responsibilities :

What You’ll Do:

• Designing and implementing web applications using JavaScript and its frameworks (i.a. React, Vue, Angular), HTML5 and CSS3
• Working closely with the dispersed development team, client, and project manager in the SCRUM methodology
• Ensuring that programming practices and code quality are respected
• Supporting other engineers with your expertise when needed (knowledge sharing)
• Leading your colleagues’ growth and development

What you bring to the table:

• 3+ years of experience with JavaScript (good knowledge of ES2016; newer versions and TS 3+ are a plus)
• Experience in developing web applications using Angular, React, javascript, node js, MySQL/Postgres SQL/MongoDB
• Being comfortable HTML5 and CSS3
• Experience with version control systems, preferably Git
• Demonstrated tech leadership in a medium-sized team, and the ability to design a complex system
• Eagerness to learn and constantly improve yourself
• Being a team player focused on getting things done

• Collaborate with engineering, design and product teams to build and ship new features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product using Agile methodologies.
• Maintain and improve web applications. Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Self-contribution & able to manage and execute work through team members.
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Create proof of concepts to demonstrate feasibility of proposed solution
• Continuously discover, evaluate and learn new technologies to stay at the forefront of technology innovation
• Write good quality, modular, reusable, well documented, unit-tested code.

Responsibilities:

• Participating in design and development activities as required for specific projects allocated
• Understand the project requirement and able to implement and complete the allocated modules independently.
• Follows established development and testing procedures to ensure quality software development which meets the requirements
• Creates and maintains documentation regarding systems being developed in order to ensure long-term maintainability

Requirements:

• BTech or equivalent degree from a reputed institute
• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Design & Develop HTML5 games with the help of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX, SVG, Pixijs library across multiple platforms(Web/ MobileTablet/ TV)
• Building reliable and efficient code for game projects
• Should understand build milestone process and meet project timeline.
• Helps drive the delivery of successful, cutting edge products by working on a team with other Developers, and Designers
• Work towards optimization and best practices, increase performance of our application
• 1 to 3+ years of development experience. (Preferably Gaming)
• Good knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX, SVG, JSON
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, and Design Patterns for Games and Web Applications
• Familiarity with any of the current generation JavaScript frameworks like PixieJS, CreateJs, Starling etc
• Strong attention to detail and knowledge of robust quality assurance practices
• Strong testing, debugging, and analytical skills

• Have 3 - 6 years of experience working in a high speed Product B2B start up doing Full-stack or ReactJS software development
• Have demonstrated experience in Front-end developer tooling, React js and its core principles
• Have experience with popular React js workflows (such as Hooks and Redux), React Material UI,Data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable js)and with RESTful APIs
• Have experience in debugging, problem-solving, and improving application performance. 
• Are willing to learning new technologies on your own.
• Have knowledge in best practices for the whole software development cycle (TDD/CI/CD) and agile methodologies.
• Have good knowledge of version control.
• Have the ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools. 
• Have good communication ability and can articulate business needs and translate them into technology solutions. 

We're looking for developers who are interested in solving problems. We like people who are willing to work across the technology spectrum. 

An example of a typical problem would be a product feature that requires UI/UX (Typescript/React/HTML/SCSS), server changes (Java/Scala/R), and database changes (MySQL).

You will own some or all of a product/feature. You will also mentor others, read and review code, maintain code, deploy code, tune the performance of systems, as required.

Requirements :

- We're looking for 4 years or more of relevant work experience. That being said, if you think you have the necessary skills to make the number irrelevant then do talk to us

- Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, and sufficient knowledge of database concepts to write efficient queries

- Working experience in one or more of React, Redux, Typescript, and associated tools such as Webpack, Grunt, Gulp etc.

- Working experience in HTML, (S)CSS

- Working experience writing unit/functional/integration tests

- Knowledge of Java 8 features such as streams and lambdas is a plus

- Knowledge of REST concepts and design is a plus

- Knowledge of ES6 features/syntax is a plus

- Knowledge of functional programming concepts is a plus

- Knowledge of build/deploy tools such as Ant, Maven, Gradle, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc. is a plus

- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages such as Awk, Bash, Perl, Python, Rubyetc. is a plus

- Ability to use modern IDEs such as VSCode, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse etc. is a plus

- Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc. is a plus

Bonus Points :

- For product experience. We're a product company. Talk to us if you have worked on software products

- For startup experience. Have you worked in a any startups? We're always looking for people who have startup experience

- If you've developed and deployed any software for your own, or others- use

- If you've contributed to open source projects

- If you've spoken at developer conferences, published articles in tech websites, published podcasts

- If you communicate well. Do you blog? Can you explain ideas clearly and succinctly? Can you answer questions in short, clear sentences?

- If you have technical certifications such as AWS, Docker, Redhat etc.

- If you're self taught. Have you learned other programming languages, technologies etc. on your own? Share the details of the courses you took online, for instance.

- For deep knowledge in one or more areas. We like people who dig down, understand concepts in detail

- If your code/work is out there in public. We'd love to see what you've developed and deployed to the external world