React JS Developer

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions.
• May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm.
• The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages.
• Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability, and scalability.
• Review code of development team to ensure quality and adherence to best practices and standards.
• Mentor junior developers to develop their skills and build strong talent.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure partners to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments.
• Define scalability and performance criteria for assigned applications.
• Ensure application meets the performance, privacy, and security requirements.
• Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements.
• Support business and technical presentations in relation to technology platforms and business solutions.
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls.
• Help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements.
• implement technology-specific best practices that are consistent with corporate standards.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project deliverables.
• Manage the software development process.
• Drive new technical and business process improvements.
• Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense.
• Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and contributes to the solution design.
• Construct application Architecture encompassing end-to-end designs.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree required with Masters, or equivalent experience preferred
• Minimum of 7 years of related experience.
• 7+ Years of Active Development Experience/ Expertise in Java/J2EE Based Applications proven ability with Hibernate, JPA, Spring, Spring MVC
• Exposure to XML/XSD, JSON and similar data presentation components
• Familiarity with Microservices based architecture and distributed systems.
• Ability to develop and work with REST APIs using Spring Boot framework.
• Knowledge of IBM MQ and messaging protocols such as JMS
• Understanding of Unix/Linux OS including shell scripting
• Strong database and PL/SQL skills
• Experience with CI/CD technologies like GIT, Jenkins, JoCoCo and Maven
• Experience with UI frameworks - Angular, NodeJS and NPM is a plus
• Experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and similar UI frameworks (jQuery, React Angular) is a plus
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development of new highly-responsive, web-based user interface
• Work and collaborate in a scrum structure
• Develop components and libraries that are reusable and future-proof
• Develop a flexible and well-structured APIs to support the system

Required Skills:

• Excellent understanding of Javascript including the OOP concept and how DOM work
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Prior experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Prior experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with HTML / CSS
• GIT experience
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Should be comfortable working in our Bangalore office from Day 1.
• Should possess good communication skills.

About Eastvantage:

At Eastvantage, our mission is to create meaningful jobs and provide careers that are knowledge-based, inspiring, and always with the potential for development and growth.

We are an independently-owned Global business solutions company enabling offshore operations from our locations in the Philippines, India, Bulgaria, Vietnam and Belgium. With European roots, we provide our services to global companies that have offices in every populated continent in the world. We have been in the industry for over a decade, growing from a handful to over 1200 happy employees over the years.

We invite you to navigate through our website to get to know who we are, to see what sets us apart in culture and thinking. Join us and be part of our success story!

Desired Candidate profile

● Architect and build scalable front-end web solutions using JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS and other fundamental web technologies. 
● Build reusable code and libraries using iterative development practices for future use

● Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop. 
● Implement monitoring, metric dashboards, runbooks, logging, escalations, and alerts.

● Drive code and design reviews of components / systems / products in scope and drive the architectural governance for them. 
● Implement best practices and constantly learn new ways of keeping code bases up to date 
 
Roles and Responsibilities:

● A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field) from reputed institutes 
● 4+ years of development experience in modern web technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript), frameworks (React, Backbone.js, AngularJS, , etc) 
● Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion 
● Prior hands-on experience in building responsive web interfaces at scale for consumers in a product engineering setup 
● Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system 
● Excellent problem solving, debugging and optimization skills 
● Strong knowledge of browser behavior, performance, compatibility and cross-browser issues 
● Good understanding of REST API 
● Familiar with front-end build tools, such as Webpack, Grunt and Gulp.js
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git 
● Open source contribution is a plus. 

We are looking for a smart, passionate hands-on engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible to drive innovation in full-stack development of complex web applications, while improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

You should:

1. Have thorough knowledge of JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap.
2. Be familiar with different PHP CMS (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla) and frameworks.
3. Be able to unit test the code components; Document the code and the functionality.
4. Be a good and quick learner, and open to learn new technologies in JavaScript Frameworks.
5. Good to have experience in MySQL/ MariaDB databases.
6. Good to have experience working with outside data sources and API’s.
7. Have Good Communication skills.

1. Deliver stable and scalable solutions in HTML, and JavaScript
2. Update existing components to support changing needs.
3. Improve the internal team culture of high-quality software development.
4. Cooperate with team members on maintaining existing solutions beyond means of code development.
5. Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

What we offer:

• Various challenges ranging from scratch design/architecture to end-user experienced performance.
• Flexible working process, openness to suggestions and a fresh point of view.
• Room for self-improvement and knowledge exchange within the team.
• Close cooperation with Customer Experience Team providing actual feedback on end-user experience.
• Transparent cooperation with business stakeholders.

We are looking for programmers with a keen eye for design for the position of Front End Developer. Front end Developers are responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency and maintaining brand consistency across all web pages, among other duties.

Front End Developers are required to work in teams alongside Back end Developers, Graphic Designers, and User Experience Designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. This requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Determining the structure and design of web pages.
• Ensuring user experience determines design choices.
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Striking a balance between functional and aesthetic design.
• Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
• Building reusable code for future use.
• Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
• Utilizing a variety of markup languages to write web pages.
• Maintaining brand consistency throughout the design.

• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Understanding of key design principles.
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
• Understanding of server-side CSS.
• Experience with graphic design applications such as Adobe Illustrator.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• Understanding of SEO principles.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.