Operations, Sales, Marketing, Training & Growth - Director

Validus is looking for Proactive React and React Native Developers.

• Do you want to be part of a team that creates tomorrow?
• Chance to be part of a fast-growing start-up and next success story?
• Want to enjoy a diverse work culture with benefits on health, lifestyle, financial security, and others?
• Want to implement elegant solutions to tomorrow’s industry challenges?
• Want to find and pursue your passion and purpose?
• Want to get an accelerated career progression?
• Care for a competitive base salary and equity?
• Assured of attractive perks and incentives?

Job Description

We are looking for highly Proactive React and React Native gurus. The candidate should be well versed in building high-performance web and mobile apps.

As a React / React Native developer, you will be responsible for building apps on the web and/or both IOS & Android. You need to collaborate with other developer and non-developer teams to ensure attractive web/mobile apps with compelling features.

Responsibilities

• Write code that people love to beg, borrow or steal.
• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms. You will have ample assistance from the UX team.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Work with third-party dependencies and APIs
• Work with Redux architecture to improve the performance of the websites/mobile apps
• Work with tools, and apply methodologies that can proactively diagnose and fix bugs and performance issues.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

Skills

• A complete understanding of the full mobile app development lifecycle right from prototyping
• Knowledge of type checking, unit testing, typescript, prop types, and code debugging.
• Experience working with REST APIs, document request models, offline storage, and third-party libraries
• Strong understanding of web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Knowledge of user interface design and responsive designs
• Firm grasp of the JavaScript and variants including its nuances, ES6+ syntax, and the like
• Knowledge of both functional and object-oriented programming
• Ability to write well-documented, clean JavaScript code
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Familiarity with all popular build tools, including developer productivity tools
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
• Experience with automated testing suites like Jest or Mocha.
• Significant experience working with React web and mobile along with tools like Flux, Flow, Redux, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, functional programming, and front-end languages
• Strong knowledge of React fundamentals such as Virtual DOM, component lifecycle, and component state
• Well-versed in a variety of React Native software and technologies such as Jest, Enzyme, ESLint, and so on

Other skills

• Strong knowledge of software development approaches, principles, and flows
• Experience working on large, complex web and mobile apps
• Ability to create and maintain smooth continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline of React / React Native applications
• Understanding of React / React Native best principles and design aesthetics
• A positive mindset and continuous-learning attitude
• Stay updated with new updates, technologies, and news about React Native
• Ability to solve issues and contribute to libraries as and when needed
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to communicate strategy
• Familiarity with modern front-end tools and building pipelines
• A collaborative approach to building apps and solving complex problems
• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Client-focused approach with a goal of creating user-centric designs
• Good interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to write clean, well-documented code that follows good coding practices.

Knowledge of Python, SQL Alchemy, FAST API, and Postgress will be a definite plus.

Work benefits

1. Vibrant work culture: Flexibility, Mobility, and Team diversity
2. Learn and grow: Excellent skill and personality development opportunities
3. Healthcare and Wellness programs
4. Medical and life insurance: Comprehensive insurance coverage
5. Wealth creation: Attractive ESOPS

Experience: 4-7 years

Location: Mumbai or Bangalore

Job Responsibilities:

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code

Required Skills:

• Knowledge and experience in Java Script, ReactJS, Redux, HTML5, CSS3.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Good experience in UI design and development
• Good experience and thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Familiarity with code versioning (version control) tools, such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial
• Preference will be given to those who have worked on libraries such as Bootstrap, Material js.
• Knowledge ofGraphQL and CSS preprocessor like SASS

About the company:

The E Commerce vertical has developed online consumer platforms for Future Group’s portfolio of retail brands -Easy day, Big Bazaar, Central, Brand factory, aLL, Clarks, Coverstory. Backed by our network of offline stores we have built a new retail platform that merges our Online & Offline retail streams. We use data to power all our decisions across our products and build internal tools to help us scale our impact with a small closely knit team.

Our wide spread store network, robust logistics and technology capabilities have made it possible to launch a ‘2-Hour Delivery Promise’ on every product across fashion, food, FMCG and home products for orders placed online through Big Bazaar mobile app and portal. This makes Big Bazaar the first retailer in the country to offer instant home delivery on almost every consumer product ordered online.

Responsibilities

Understand systems enabling third party integration 

Translate business requirements to the APIs and SDKs exposed by these systems. Figure out the optimum interfaces to interact with these. 

Build generic connectors to interact with these technologies. 

Design, implement, deploy and maintain the connectors. 

Minimum Qualifications 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields. 

Experience needs to be around 8+ years 

Strong problem-solving skills. 

Ability to understand the technology and its APIs in quick time. 

Strong design pattern fundamentals. 

Good core java skills like Multi-threading, collection framework. 

Good communication and mentorship skills 

Ability to put together architecture diagrams and designs 

Proficient in Java, J2EE and related technologies.
• Experienced in using spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, messaging systems.
• Good understanding of relational database performance concepts and usage of ORM frameworks such as Hibernate
• Expert understanding of the object-oriented design and programming concepts
• Strong working experience  on Data Structures, Algorithms and Collections.
• Solid experience building applications on top of RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge/experience with Spring MVC
• Stroing knowledge in developing and executing automated unit, functional and integration tests
• Good communication and analytical skills.
• Strong trouble shooting skills

• Perform technical feasibility studies of new technologies and architectures, including evaluation of OTS cloud offering.
• Generate entire software image for the target device, including the kernel, device drivers, libraries, and application software, and the bootloader for proprietary IOT connectivity device(s).
• Software packaging with RPM building and management
• Define the process to upgrade the new Linux package to existing hardware at customer premises
• Configuration and Troubleshoot of the proprietary IOT connectivity devices for internal R&D teams during their development and verification
• Automate the creation and distribution of keys and certificates
• Understand, implement, and automate security controls for IoT connectivity devices.
• Tune server and application-level performance monitoring and alerting.
• Help define our roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs, considering architectural issues and tradeoffs
• Understand and manage integration points with other systems that interface with your applications
• Supports development of project plans, including scope, budget, schedules, and risk management.
• Works closely with the business analysts, software development and verification team, the functional manager, and the program manager.
• Collaborate and work with global teams in multiple locations.
• Interface with Global Privacy and Security team for the IoT Gateway understand security risks and recommendations and provide solutions to mitigate the security risks

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Networking / Computer Science / Software Engineering or a related field
• 12+ years of hands-on experience in Networking, shell scripting, and Linux internals, with a development background.
• Strong understanding of Networking concepts like VPC, Route tables, Host base router firewall, SSH, NAT, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, Virtual IPs, VPN
• Linux System Administration and Networking work experience
• Configuring Firewalls(IP tables/firewall) and security software
• Able to generate Linux packages, and configure based on business needs.
• Passion for cybersecurity. Ability to build secured Linux packages with antivirus and security patches.
• Shell, Python scripting experience
• Basic SQL skills
• Ability to work with cross-functional and remote teams. Must be able to communicate in English, both written and verbal.
• Interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with vendors and customers.

• Experience with Agile Scrum
• Development background in Java/C++
• DevOps knowledge
• Knowledge on javascript