React Developer

● Work experience as a front end developer
● Good Understanding of Angular/React and Javascript
● Experience working with SQL & NoSQL Databases
● Hands on experience with front-end languages and technologies, such as JavaScript,
HTML5, CSS3, etc.
● Solid understanding of object-oriented development and design patterns.
● Experience in Version Control Systems like GIT, Bitbucket.

Ideal Candidates will:
● Possess Strong sense of ownership
● Have an ability to work in high energy teams and drive results
● Have Good communication and documentation skills
● Enjoy sharing knowledge and eager to keep developing themselves

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Frontend Developer to join our team, responsible for building fast, scalable, and maintainable web applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript,Flutter and relevant frameworks, with a passion for creating intuitive and engaging user interfaces.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design and develop responsive, mobile-first UI components and features

- Write clean, modular, and reusable code

- Collaborate with backend developers and designers to integrate APIs and design assets

- Implement accessibility and web performance optimization techniques

- Troubleshoot and debug frontend issues

- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of the codebase

Requirements:

- 3+ years of experience in frontend development

- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and relevant frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Flutter)

- Experience with build tools like Webpack, Gulp, or Grunt

- Knowledge of version control systems like Git

- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

- Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice to Have:

- Experience with modern frontend build tools and workflows

- Familiarity with backend technologies and APIs

- Knowledge of web performance optimization techniques

- Experience with accessibility guidelines and best practices

Software Engineering

• 4+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining React-based applications
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing medium to large-scale applications using Javascript frameworks
• Experience with projects that involve, improving the reliability and performance of your web-apps, by leveraging different observability tools like Lighthouse, Sentry, and Datadog.
• Good understanding of functional programming paradigms and UI architecture patterns
• A decent understanding of cloud infrastructure like AWS to orchestrate and manage our applications.
• Experience with testing frameworks like JEST, modern auth mechanisms, and server-side rendering through frameworks like NextJS
• Experience with backend technologies like JAVA, and Kotlin would be good to have.

Product Development

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to resolve dependency risks.
• Well-versed in working in an agile environment and being involved in different stages of SDLC - Design, Development, Code Review, Testing, and Release Management
• Ability to work with different CI/CD frameworks, with hands-on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Continuously refactor applications so that they are easy to maintain, easy to extend, and contribute to

Your Tech Stack

Web Application Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails

Programming Languages: ReasonML/Rescript, Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, HTML, CSS

Tools and Libraries: Webpack, Sentry, NextJS, NodeJS, Jest, Figma

Communication: HTTP, GraphQL, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS

Observability: Google Analytics, Lighthouse, Sentry, Kibana, Datadog

What you will build with us?

The front-end platform at Porter is geared toward developing a variety of products for customers, partners, and our internal teams. You will be a part of Porter’s Web Engineering Platform team.

What will be your primary focus?

1. enabling our engineering teams to create highly reliable and scalable software systems, reduce client and server outages and increase system hygiene.
2. building the right set of tooling and flows for our web and mobile teams, for improving developer productivity. This will enable our application teams to churn out user features rapidly and will help them build the best-in-class product solutions for our business teams.
3. work on security initiatives, to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

What will you closely influence?

1. Providing the right user experience to our customers, partners, and cc agents when they reach out to us
2. Building tools to help boost user growth on our platform including our driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models. A step towards sustainable user growth and providing personalized experiences, on our platform
3. Unlocking new growth levels for Porter, in form of our new vibrant customer base through business initiatives like Packers and Movers, Part-Load, and help Porter on its journey to becoming a super Logistic App.
4. Enabling us to engage our partner ecosystem better with our fast-moving initiatives in the Insurance and Lending segments. Your work here will directly impact the livelihood of our partners
5. Solving problems related to optimal pricepoint for partners and customers, matchmaking with supply and demand, and building confidence around payment experience and location tracking.

• Drive UI/UX & design aspects of the platform Innovate on UX to provide the best possible experience to the customer
• Convert UI design wireframes to functional UI (HTML/CSS/JS)
• Build high performant UI features
• Optimise existing features for better performance
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Complete the assigned features with validations
• Should take end-to-end ownership and pride in building assigned features
• Collaborate across the teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Budget work and stick to the deadlines
• Requirements
  
  • 3+ years of experience as a front-end developer
  • At least one product built and published
  • Proven experience in building/or been a lead contributor in a tech set-up
  • Strong analytical and structural thinking skills
  • Passion to build beautiful, responsive and performant user experiences
  • Strong understanding and fundamentals in Javascript & JQuery
  • Proficient in React.js, material design concepts, UI/UX best practices and design standards
  • Willing to work on pure Javascript based projects as well as React.js based projects
  • Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and their solutions.
  • Proficient in HTML5 CSS3
  • Proficient with CSS preprocessors LESS and SASS

Job Brief

The job requires Sr Frontend Developer. This Developer is expected to have strong technical skills, work closely with the other team members in development and ability to work stand alone. Ability to work on a small team with minimal supervision, Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

Skills Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field plus 3-5 Years of frontend relevant experience
• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC)
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS and Bootstrap
• Understanding of server-side CSS
• Strong knowledge of frontend scripting languages like JavaScript, jQuery, React js or Angular etc.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design
• Experience with GitHub, Tortoise SVN Version Control
• Understanding of key design principles
• Strong attention to detail
• Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
• Sound analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Collaborating with coworkers to facilitate the creation of large, complex developments, as required.
• Reformulating existing code to ensure adherence to stipulated guidelines.
• Checking your code to detect and remedy errors and omissions.
• Testing your outputs to ensure that they are in excellent working order.
• Deploying developments and monitoring uptake by the target audience.
• Using clients' feedback to inform the creation of subsequent versions of each development.
• Remaining abreast of coding and technological changes that will impact your work.