React Developer

.Frontend Developer for a Construction Tech startup.Kolkata-based or with roots in Kolkata.

Requirements:React.js,Javascript

Frontend Developer

We are inspiring the next generation of young innovators and entrepreneurs in India. We're an education startup co-founded by a Computer Science grad from MIT/Harvard and the former CEO of Apple India. We started out as code school, offering creative tech boot-camps on topics like Drone Programming, Android App Development, Game Programming, Full-Stack Web Development to k-12 students across the nation, and now we're building web and mobile products to deliver powerful learning experiences to students online, at scale.

Job Description

We are looking for a Front End developer who is excellent with JavaScript (React.js + Redux). Some proficiency with Node.js preferred as you’ll be hooking up your front-ends to APIs and occasionally writing your own.

Your primary focus will be to develop the UI/UX for highly interactive / social / multiplayer learning platform, across the Student Product, Parent Product, Teacher Product, Virtual Classroom, and more.

Responsibilities

• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality React code
• Styling re-usable components with pixel perfection and mobile responsiveness
• Structuring state and information flow across your front-end app using Redux
• Optimizing your code for SEO and maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Skills / Required Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with React.js
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Redux
• Bonus: past experience with Socket.io and WebRTC
• Writing and consuming REST APIs with Node.js 
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

Key Responsibilities:

• Development of a Single Page Application (SPA) and it's components in Typescript: deployed and optimized for progressive mobile and browsers using Angular 2 and Ionic 2 frameworks.
• Creating custom, general use modules and smart components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular framework.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components in Typescript and using responsive HTML and CSS.
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts.
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

Skills and Qualifications:

• Should have experience with CSS 3, SCSS, Java script and HTML5.
• Full-time knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience. Or 2 Year or more experience with other industry-leading frameworks like React.
• Minimum 1-year experience in working and extending one of the CSS or UI frameworks like Ng-lightening, Angular-material

We are looking for a skilled and experienced front-end developer to join our product team. This role requires you to be a tech-savvy contributor in translating the customer needs and user expectations into interactive web apps. You’ll be an exceptional problem solver and take responsible actions in ensuring the application is optimised both in technology and in delivering the best user experience. If you share our passion to create and define interactive web pages, we are happy to hear from you!

What You'll do-

• Work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces across multiple devices.
• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.
• Review and optimize usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs-Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating awesome interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules, and ensuring the maintainability of the code.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.

Technical Requirements-

• At least 1 to 3 years of relevant work experience as a web developer, UI developer, JavaScript expert, or a frontend engineer
• Be familiar with Responsive Web Design, common Web UX patterns and anti-patterns
• Be able to tell good design from bad design
• Be able to write clean, maintainable code which others can work on
• Familiar with UI layouts, SASS, bootstrap, and Material UI
• Experience debugging using popular JavaScript-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
• You have mastery in DOM manipulation (including jQuery) and understand components, CTAs
• Know browser behaviour, performance, compatibility and cross-browser issues
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git,
• You take pride in working on advanced CSS, animations and responsiveness
• You seem to have good architectural & design skills
• Ability to own, end to end responsibility - right from the requirement to release
• Ability to produce bug-free and production-grade code
• Be great at debugging, including identifying page speed and performance bottlenecks, using tools like Chrome Dev Tools, React Dev Tools, etc.
• The skills that we consider - CSS, JavaScript, React, Redux, Node.js

Required Skills

• Javascript, ReactJS, Redux, NodeJS, HTML, CSS

Good to have-

• Knowledge of TDD frameworks mocha, chai, jest etc.
• Understanding of Typescript
• Understanding of ReactJS based frameworks like NextJS, Gatsby, etc.
• Understanding of REST API
• Passionate to create good design and usability

• Possesses a high degree of technical competency to design and develop digital applications using cutting-edge tools and technologies
• Collaborative working with the client's technology and business staff day to day
• Proactive and willing to go above and beyond to satisfy the client and deliver on project goals
• Codes, tests, debugs, implements, and documents complex applications
• Prepares for, and actively facilitates hand-off at project completion to ensure a smooth transition to the larger organization
• Extensive experience in Angular (i.e., designs new templates, tests styles or sheets, fixes bugs; collaborates heavily with core team members (especially UX and Design))
• Integration knowledge and experience with exposed services (e.g. REST, SOAP, etc.)
• Familiar with common security and performance pattern (e.g.: OATH)
• Additional Requirements for Application Platform: Angular
• Level of expertise with Angular SSR applications
• Knowledge of Micro Frontends or Micro UI
• Interaction paradigm with UI elements
• Exposure to CSS and Javascript

• Programming Languages: Java, Objective-C, C++, JAVASCRIPT, NodeJS
• Web Technologies: Angular 9/10, ReactJS, ES6, NgRx, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, BOOTSTRAP, JQuery, PHP, AJAX, PolymerJS
• Web Services: REST, SOAP
• Web Service Protocols: HTTP, XML, WSDL, UDDI, SOA
• Databases: MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB

• Solid knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3 web standards
• Solid knowledge of JavaScript as well as Browser APIs
• Angular 2+
• RxJS, Typescript, JQuery.
• Experience writing unit tests
• Webpack, Babel
• Familiar with SASS and Responsive Design
• Experience using any CSS naming convention
• Experience debugging using JavaScript-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
• Solid understanding of Git
• Good understanding of SEO principles
• You are self-organized and can work autonomously
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written and verbal communication skills