React JS Developer

Duration: 3 Months

Type: Hybrid(Gurgaon); Paid

Joining: Immediate

Who's a fit:

- Experience with React Native and ReactJS

- Excellent problem-solving and logical thinking

- Completed a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

- Projects to showcase your skills

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

Our frontend (React) team is passionate about React Technology and we are working on a few world-class products which have their roots and frontend in React Technology along with Redux, web-hooks, and Reducers. Keeping performance, scalability, usability, and user acceptance in mind, we are looking for a smart frontend engineer that has experience developing a variety of Web Applications using React Technology. (Along with strong frontend expertise, needs a good understanding of how frontend applications work in different browsers and have a mobile responsive design)

Basic roles and responsibilities are mentioned for the engineer at our team:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain.
• You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Good understanding of async functions and their concepts.
• Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known ReactJS workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• A Commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

• Developing new user-facing features using ReactJS
• Familiarity with modern front-end builds pipelines and tools.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Thorough understanding of ReactJS and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows. (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and Oauth.
• Good knowledge of CSS and other latest frameworks like a tailwind CSS / Bootstrap.

• Experience developing highly scalable Web applications.
• Knowledge of Media Queries and CSS via useful frameworks.
• Strong experience with React frameworks with components like Redux, Flux, Webhooks.
• Good knowledge of code versioning (git / Github)
• Good experience with code deployment on servers like Ubuntu, Linux systems.
• In-depth knowledge of designing and developing software in distributed architectures for multi-tier applications
• Basic understanding of docker to work with different major versions of Node js and database release(Postgres, MySQL, etc)
• Good knowledge to write and train the team to write unit test cases for the application code.

• You would be knowing how to do a basic code review of team and junior NodeJS engineers.

• Experience with deployment and CI/CD is a plus!
• Have worked with Testing libraries
• Good Verbal and Written communication Skills.

• We use cutting edge technologies to build our products which means you get to be updated on the latest tech stack.
• You don’t need to have experience in any of our specific technologies;we are good at teaching our Engineers. Our diverse group of Engineers are a great team to work with and to learn.

• We deploy changes to production multiple times a day.
• Blameless culture and a continuous learning mindset

• Making a global platform with the scale of millions of users.
• Working directly with designers and PMs to make a world class test taking experience.
• Building a platform for companies and writing an ML based algorithm to match candidates and companies.
• Building an Ed-Tech product for the upskilling of candidates.

• Strong understanding of JS fundamentals and going deep into it coupled with experience in modern frameworks like ReactJs, Vuejs etc.
• The ideal person has worked with product teams in startups and taken features (or entire product modules) to production deployment which was then consumed by real users.
• Proficiency in building a highly scalable frontend.
• Ownership mindset- Taking end to end ownership of frontend initiatives and being part of the core team in driving the overall growth of the organisation in achieving its vision.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and debugging responsive web and mobile applications for the company. Using JavaScript (React), HTML, and CSS, this candidate will be able to translate user and business needs into functional frontend design. Someone with prior experience with Gatsby, Hasura, Redux, etc and live projects to showcase will get prioritised.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and testing UI for mobile and web applications
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Accurately translate user and business needs into functional frontend code

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science
• 2+ years' experience in frontend development
• Familiarity using Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building object oriented web applications in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

ob Purpose :

- To lead Design, Development and Maintenance of Frontend Technology for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT, plan & innovate to deliver best-in class product features, ensuring market leadership and future readiness.

- Head the technology team for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT by enhancing and future proofing the technological infrastructure and capabilities to build a world class product.

Key Responsibilities :

Technological Readiness :

- Strengthen VOOT's technological capability

- Evaluate Frontend technology stacks and choose best in class relevant solutions for business

- Build internal capability for technological functions for future readiness

- Drive technical and technological efficiencies to save cost

Technological Innovation :

- Identify avenues for product enhancement

- Convert relevant ideas to POC (Proof of Concept)

- Act as the technical product owner and work with product management team to deliver features and manage releases and enhancement

- Deliver best-in-class product functionality by minimizing crash rate, reducing improving playback time performance and ensuring maximum device coverage

Collaboration and Partner Management :

- Evaluate and finalize new partners for product enhancement from technical perspective

- Developing technological road maps in collaboration with Product team & external technology partners

- Timely and quality delivery of product/features, including outsourced functionalities and services with no downtime

Resource management of external partners to deliver results

Team management

- Work with the HR partner to create a workforce plan

- Review performance on regular basis

- Ensure optimum levels of engagement through appropriate recognition channels

- Provide inputs on hiring and succession planning

- Identify training needs by using TNA method

Key Performance Indicators :

- Develop best in class product functionality

- Ensure technological readiness for product

- Increase in the number of active daily video viewers

- Application Store rating

- Maintaining a crash rate & Maintain playability above 90%

- No. of new & high quality features rolled out on the platform

Skills : Front End, Android, iOS