Product Designer

Are you passionate about crafting seamless and visually appealing websites?

We’re seeking a skilled WordPress Front-end Developer to join our team and elevate our online presence.

As a WordPress Frontend Developer, you’ll play a crucial role in transforming designs into fully functional, responsive, and captivating websites using Elementor and custom themes. Your proficiency in HTML and CSS will be essential for creating stunning front-end experiences. If you’re also familiar with WordPress theme and plugin development, that’s a significant advantage that we highly value.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with our design team to convert visual concepts into interactive and user-friendly websites.
• Utilize Elementor to build and customize page layouts, ensuring consistency and responsiveness across various devices.
• Develop custom WordPress themes that align with project requirements, user experience goals, and brand aesthetics.
• Implement engaging animations, transitions, and interactive elements to enhance user engagement and visual appeal.
• Optimize website performance, ensuring fast load times and smooth user interactions.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest web design and development trends, implementing best practices for modern user experiences.
• Troubleshoot and debug frontend issues to maintain a seamless browsing experience.
• If knowledgeable in WordPress plugin development, contribute to the creation of custom plugins that extend website functionality.

What You Need To Apply (Technical Competency) :

• Minimum 2 years experience in WordPress.
• Strong proficiency in HTML and CSS to create pixel-perfect front-end designs.
• Demonstrated expertise in using Elementor to design and build WordPress pages.
• Proven experience in developing custom WordPress themes from scratch.
• A portfolio showcasing your previous website projects, highlighting your front-end development skills.
• Familiarity with responsive design principles to ensure optimal performance across various devices and screen sizes.
• Excellent attention to detail and a keen eye for design aesthetics.
• Effective problem-solving skills to address front-end issues efficiently.
• Strong communication skills, and ability to collaborate with designers, developers, and other team members.
• Knowledge of JavaScript and its libraries/frameworks is a plus.
• Understanding WordPress plugin development is a significant advantage.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

If you have it all in you, we are happy to have you with us!

We will be even happier if you have:

• Proficiency in PHP
• Being an open-source contributor;
• Ability to discover functional and non-functional requirements of an app, based on various levels of inputs from clients.
• Ability to transform customer ideas into business models and scope understandable by technical experts.
• Having excellent stakeholder management and client-facing skills.

Qualifications:

Primary Skill Set:

5+ years for experience in developing highly scalable, reliable, secure web applications
Experience with React.js, Node.js, Redux, flux, Javascript (preferably TypeScript).
Atleast 1 years of experience in product or SaaS development.
Excellent Team management, communication skills, both verbal and written
Strong CS fundamentals like data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that are faced by JavaScript developers regularily.


Preferable Skillset:

One year of experience using AWS services, such as Lambda, SES, SQS, EC2, RDS, ELB’s and have knowledge of VPC’s (AWS and/or RightScale knowledge a plus.
Proficient with the Webpack,Jest, Eslint, Jenkins, Docker, Enzyme.
Experience designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.) and client side storage
Profile and improve frontend performance

• 8+ years of experience with one of the top frontend frameworks - React (preferred) and with App development (recommended)
• Demonstrated experience in managing  successful engineering teams across both web and app development
• Solid understanding of modern CSS methodologies like SCSS, SASS
• Exposure to latest developments in UI development like PWA, Single Page Apps, Hybrid Apps, Responsive web design etc
• Deep understanding of Javascript topics including the V8 Engine, Async, Memory
• Management, Duplex Communication.
• Understanding of app development practices
• Prior startup experience is a plus

Your role and responsibilities

• Integrating REST APIs in front-end application using React JS
• Implementing business logic in front-end application using javascript, should be able to handle complex JSON architecture.
• Should be able to manage states using Redux, Redux thunk/saga, Mobx.
• Should be comfortable in using both functional and class components in React.
• Should be able to create reusable components to make efficient applications. We hate code duplication.
• Must be familiar with popular React UI libraries like Material UI, Antd.
• Implement best practices and constantly learn new ways of keeping codebases up to date.
• Having knowledge in Typescript, GraphQL, NextJS, Socket.io is like a match made in heaven.

Criteria

• 2+ years of work experience with Javascript and React JS.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Open-minded individual, open to learning new things
• A bit lazy is okay. Lazy people always find the quickest way to reach the solution. They write the most efficient code. We love that.
• You care about the design and user experience of an application. The choice of third-party libraries should be elegant.

About the company

Qrata is hiring for a Venture funded startup that is backed by marquee investors. Their product provides a collaborative new way for SaaS companies to onboard their large customers. Our unified workspace aims to help streamline customer onboarding and implementation journeys, and get every customer off to a great start.

Quick Facts

Founded in: 2020

Number of Employees: 11 - 50 employees

Industries: Computer Software / IT / Internet

Location: Chennai

Senior frontend lead

Description

Are you a front-end developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you

looked at world class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of

the early team that built these products”?

we’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS

products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser focused on delivering a world

class new product again, and looking for an ambitious front-end engineer to join our existing

team.

If it excites you to think of a fast paced start-up environment, building something big from

scratch, breaking down new problems, creating well structured UI components, executing on

pixel perfect design, paying great attention to every little interaction detail, and doing demos

of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right

opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work-on as a front-end developer would include

building real-time collaboration experiences across our product, building live document

editing and modern spreadsheet experiences from scratch, creating flexible new

Kanban-style views of work tasks, and crafting cool new UI components and interactions that

we will use across our product.

Tech Requirements

• Expertise in React
• Hands-on experience in HTML, CSS, SASS & Object Oriented Javascript
• Code audits and guidelines
• SPA Framework patterns
• Browser features (Caching / Storage / Compatibility etc )
• Test automation
• Deployment strategy

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AWS
• Experience with startups or early stage teams
• Typescript
• Knowledge of module bundlers like Webpack