React Front-End Developer (Immediate Hire)

About Plum

 

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

 

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

 

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

 

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more here)

 

About the role

 

Having found exceptional product/market fit, we’re in the midst of transitioning from 'start-up' to ‘scale-up’, and looking for a senior frontend engineer to help us scale Plum, and spearhead the frontend of our product.

 

You will have a direct impact on the customer experience through the design and implementation of new features and functionalities in our product. You'll work as part of a small but rapidly growing high-energy team delivering incredible, creative improvements to our product. You'll be in charge of reviewing the implementation of applications following code standards and style guides. You would analyze and build UI Pattern Libraries (Design Systems, UI Kits, etc.)

• Spec, build, test, and deliver new features while improving the performance and quality of the product.
• Run test-harness to guarantee the structure, integrity, and design of the application.
• Solve complex CSS, HTML, and User Interface compatibility issues across browsers.
• Optimize JavaScript implementations to ensure that code remains performant.
• Implement front-end development workflows: build systems, dependency management, quality checkers (linting), etc.
• Ability to push things over the line, ship awesome features, and delight customers.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience building web applications with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
• Comfortable with Responsive Web Design and Development and weave out beautiful code in React.
• Strong product and design sensibilities and has an obsessive attention to detail.
• Write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.
• Understand complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks.
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.

What we are looking for:
● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferably from IIT, NIT & other
premier institutes.
● Rockstar Javascript developer, who appreciates the intricacies of JS as well as passionate
to follow new trends in JS.
● Experience with product companies.
● 3-7 yrs software development on advanced JavaScript stack (Native Javascript,
Asynchronous Request Handling, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, etc)
● In-depth knowledge in React Native.
● Proficiency in NodeJs will be a plus.
● Proficiency in any other modern web frameworks will be a plus.
● A solid knowledge of advanced data structures & algorithms.
● Proficient in Computer Science fundamentals & object-oriented design.
● Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to tackle those.
● Must possess a track record of building Single Page responsive UI.
● Knowledge of NodeJS will be a plus.
● Experience with Databases such as NoSQL and any RDBMS will be a plus.
● Experience with transport protocols such as TCP, HTTP & WebSocket.
● Expressing and appreciating design patterns is a real addition.

As a Front-end developer, you will work with motivated individuals who are passionate-beyond-measure to offer the Ultimate Shopping experience to consumers. You will leverage the latest technologies (HTML5, Javascript, ajax) and application paradigms (web apps on the desktop) to create a beautiful client that runs seamlessly on windows, mac, chrome, firefox, IE, safari.

Responsibilities:

• Implement Visual Designs in standards compliant, clean markup (HTML5/CSS3/JS)
• Develop responsive designs and thoroughly test cross browser compatibility of all product interfaces
• Identify and research new UI technologies
• Suggest and implement improvements to existing product interfaces
• Assist in building wireframes/prototypes
• Make data driven decisions based on analytics to improve user engage
• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from designers and the backend team.
• Ready to explore and perform tasks that are out of your own pool of expertise
• Fulfil several project requests simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.
• Make pages optimized for both performance as well as SEO

Requirements:

• Expert in making scalable and modular Front End code
• In depth knowledge of HTML, CSS & JavaScript
• Good experience in making Progressive Web Apps
• Knowledge of cross browsers & devices development issues and inconsistencies
• Good knowledge and experience in ReactJS and Server Side Rendering
• Experience in setting up & running task runners like Gulp & Webpack
• Experience in CSS pre and post processors like SASS/Stylus & PostCSS (we use SASS combined with PostCSS) & BEM style coding
• Experience in creating transitions/animations at 60fps especially on mobiles

Desired Candidate Profile:

• Strong Expertise in Javascript and ReactJS (ES6) 
• 0-1 years for Junior developer 
• 3-4 years for Senior developer 
• Strong knowledge of scalable and repeatable application development principles and good  grasp of systems design / systems architecture concepts and fundamentals 
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs and in integrating with APIs from frontend applications • Strong knowledge of UI layouts, CSS3 and HTML5 
• Strong knowledge of user authentication, authorization between different systems using  JWT, Cookie / Session authentication etc. 
• Excellent software design skills including debugging, performance analysis and testing • Experience in writing technical documentation of frontend components 
• Strong experience in version control using Git, Git Flow and Agile methodologies. Knowledge  of JIRA is a plus.

We are looking for a React Native developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes—React Native moves fast and often breaks things.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Transition existing React web apps to React Native.

Design, build and Maintain advanced applications for the Android/iOS platform using Angular 6+

 

Strong Exp with  Angular 6+

Demonstrated expertise with HTML5, CSS3 & Responsive Web Design, jQuery or jQueryMobile and consuming REST APIs.

Highly skilled Javascript developer using backbone, angular or similar frameworks

Exp with node js, NoSql databases.

Published atleast 2 apps in Google play store and Apple app store.

 

Functional Area:IT Software - Application Programming , Maintenance

 

Location : Andheri West, Mumbai