Principal Application Developer

About this Role:

As part of the frontend development team, you will be responsible to build and maintain client side applications for our users collaborating with cross-functional teams comprising Product, Design, BI, and other engineers.

You will define best practices for client side architecture and build for the long term over iterations that bring measurable business value.

You will be involved in recruiting engineers for the team and mentoring them

As a company, we are very data driven and customer focused. As an engineering team, we are driven by metrics and care deeply about agility without compromising on the quality of our output. We are working towards creating an environment where individuals feel empowered to take ownership and initiative.

About You​:

● You have a minimum of 7 years of experience building high-performance consumer-facing mobile applications at product companies of a decent scale
● You have a keen eye for mobile architecture and able to assist your team in making the right choices for every project

● You have previous experience building react native applications from scratch
● You have prior experience with recruiting and building a high-performance team
● You have a passion for mentoring and helping people on your team grow and achieve their goals
● You practice test-driven development
● You are familiar with both Android and iOS design patterns, and GraphQL
● You have some exposure to native app development in Swift, Kotlin, or Java

● You have strong knowledge of software development fundamentals, including a relevant background in computer science fundamentals and agile development methodologies.

● You are an excellent collaborator & communicator. You know that startups are a team sport. You listen to others, aren’t afraid to speak your mind and always try to ask the right questions.
● You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company.

Location: ​We are primarily looking for candidates in Bangalore but are open to other locations in India for the right candidate. At the moment, however, like most teams, we are fully remote.

About the role of Software Developer – Frontend (UI)

The software developer position is uniquely tailored for experienced candidates in Front-end (UI) development and have their undergraduate degree from tier 1 T-Schools in India. In this role, you will work across several challenging intelligent automation projects from any of our practices – FSI, Consumer, Enterprise, or Supply Chain Operations. Most of our projects from our Intelligent Automation practice are embedded analytics implementations. You will get the opportunity to embed complex machine learning, and /or Artificial Intelligence models into applications that will be used by end users. You will be working on active development of these embedded analytics from scratch, and will be exposed to the end-to-end application lifecycle management.

What are we looking for?
We expect that our UI developers are world-class problem solvers, experts in their area of work, and also excellent communicators. We look for skills around several areas including:
Functional skills:
• Should be able to convert the UI Screens from Figma /Sketch into reusable React components and screens.
• Should use best use of class naming conventions for stylesheets which are descriptive.
• Preferably usage of meta CSS languages like SaSS / Less. Designing responsive layouts should be your forte.
• Should be able to differentiate between UI states and local cache storage for API interaction.
• Should be able to appreciate the difference between Plain JavaScript and typed system like TypeScript.
Non-functional skills:
• Understand the network latency and Re-Render latency for any React based Apps.

Soft Skills:
• Communicate any dependencies with the manager on a proactive basis.
• Should be able to participate in design discussions and estimates
Strong Preference:
• Preferable from early stage startups.
• Showcase of your work through a GitHub link or Stack-overflow profile
Strict disqualifiers:
• Applicants who have worked solely as a small part of a very large project, or exclusively as part of maintenance projects may pass.
• We expect that our applicants to possess deep understanding of UI design concepts. As part of the interview process, you will be testing on these concepts. Applicants who just know lifecycle methods in React like Component DidUpdate etc. without any deeper understanding of it may also pass.

What will you do?
You will be an integral part of BRIDGEi2i cross-functional teams which help some of the largest and most agile organizations in the world solve their most challenging business problems. Therefore, you will get to work with many experts, our AI Labs data scientists, functional experts in Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Risk, Data Engineers, and App designers.
You will typically work in teams, playing an active role in all aspects of customer intimacy, and development. This includes understanding a business problem, working with our functional experts, data scientists, and User Experience engineers to formulate application designs that will enable our end users in their decision-making process. You will have opportunities to present your work back to clients, seek feedback and improve product quality. You will also help identify ways to contribute to the growth of the organization (develop points of view on software development, design trainings, contribute to talent acquisition, etc. – as needed).

How will you grow?
You will also have the opportunity to grow vertically (as an expert / architect in UI development), or horizontally to get a taste of other aspects of technology, project management, or even data science.
When you join BRIDGEi2i as a software developer, you are joining an organization that will challenge you and will invest in your development & career advancement through our SCALA (Skills, capabilities, leadership, and ascension) program. You will receive personalized training as part of
our SCALA program, as well as coaching and mentoring from colleagues, and managers. You have the freedom to discuss with your manager on your career aspirations, set goals to achieve them, and participate in one of the several trainings that are in place to enable you reach your goals. Additionally, you will also receive training on BRIDGEi2i owned assets and intellectual property. Most software engineers we hire start with specialized focus on their areas of expertise, but over time develop into well-rounded individuals who understand multiple facets of technology, as well as business.

More About BRIDGEi2i:
As one of the fastest growing companies in the data analytics space, we are solving some of the toughest challenges for enterprises around growth, customer experience, operations effectiveness and developing new business models. We do this through our unique and integrated Information – Insight – Impact approach, which has won accolades from Analysts and Customers. Our proprietary, pre developed AI Assets accelerate the path to value realization for our clients. We were the youngest firm to be recognized by Gartner and Forrester for how we deliver value to customers.
Headquartered in Bangalore, presence in US, Australia and The Netherlands, our teams bring deep expertise in Algorithms, Data Engineering, Application Development and Business Understanding that allow us to design, build and implement solutions that transform client businesses.
We are looking at individuals, with a passion for data, algorithms, technology and business - keen to shape their careers as experts in this industry.
You will be a part of an exciting, fast paced journey to build a global institution!