React JS developer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Shopify Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Shopify development, with a focus on creating custom solutions and apps to enhance e-commerce experiences. As a Senior Shopify Developer, you will be responsible for leading projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving innovation in our e-commerce platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Shopify-based websites, ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and scalability.
• Lead the development of custom Shopify themes, apps, and integrations to meet business requirements.
• Collaborate with designers and stakeholders to translate business goals into technical solutions.
• Optimize website performance and user experience through continuous testing and refinement.
• Stay updated on the latest Shopify trends, tools, and best practices to incorporate into projects.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering their growth and development.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Shopify configuration, functionality, and third-party integrations.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Shopify development, with a strong portfolio showcasing custom Shopify themes and apps.
• Expertise in Shopify Liquid programming language and Shopify APIs.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React.js.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Strong understanding of e-commerce best practices and principles.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

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!

1.     Significant experience of working in front-end web development
2.     Extensive programming experience in HTML5, CSS3, SASS or LESS, and Bootstrap, Foundation or Materialize
3.     Angular Material, Chart Libraries(D3, Leaflet, Amchart etc).
4.     Solid understanding and development experience in Angular
5.     Experience with Typescript
6.     Experience with tools like Redux, Webpack, Angular CLI and/or Gulp
7.     Experience consuming REST APIs

Job Description

Frontend/Sr Frontend Developer

About company:-

It is a mission-oriented early-stage fin-tech startup which is building a suite of carefully tailored financial products and delivery mechanisms to fulfill the aspirations and needs of middle-income households in urban India. It was started by three cofounders, who have a pedigreed education background (IIT/IIM) and relevant professional experience in financial services. More importantly, they come from a similar background as the customer segment they are serving, and have done extensive customer research to understands the needs of the customer. It is backed by high-quality investors to realise this mission.

Responsibilities:-

- Develop all user-facing products preferably in React JS & React-Native

- Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

- Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code

- Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable

devices and browsers

- Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.

- Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.

- Enhance SEO, Analytics and overall frontend architecture for better performance

Requirements:-

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

- Good foundation in design and a knack for designing interactions and elegant interfaces

- Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

- Good to have experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

- Experience with data structure libraries

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs

- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

- A knack for benchmarking and optimization

- Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git)

- Proficient in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards,

Coding modularity, Prototypes etc.

- Experience in using debugging tools used for profiling/optimizing performance

- Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing UI components

• Great skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and cross browser implementations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience and knowledge about React.js and Next.js
• Strong understanding of how SSR (Server Side Rendering) works.
• Taking figma/zepline files from designers, slicing and/or recreating elements via CSS to match the design perfectly
• Ability to make modifications to libraries as per requirement of a project
• Extensive knowledge of fonts, embedding from third parties like Google, Typekit & Font Deck etc. Knowledge of optimizing CSS/JavaScript performance, coding practices and tools.
• Passion and follow through for their work. Excited and curious about learning new technology, as well as the sharing of ideas. Exceptional collaboration, listening, written, and verbal communication. Able to own individual projects as well as the ability to work within a team.
• Awareness of current design trends in the visual arts, working knowledge of the latest computer packages and an understanding time limits which can impact on the design.
• Knowledge of GIT or any other version control software.

• Good experience on Next.js, with great css skills.
• Should also know the latest strategies available on Next.js v12.

• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to brainstorm and resolve complex problems.
• Ensure the quality of code is up to the highest standard of readability, conciseness, efficiency, modularity, and extensibility.
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Must-haves

• At least 3 years of experience working in frontend for desktop and mobile web.
• Familiar with design tools and convert them to actual code (HTML+CSS+JavaScript)
• Mastery in DOM Manipulation (including Jquery) and understand components, CTAs.
• Well-versed in other non-vanilla languages (ex. TypeScript)
• Well-versed in standard frontend framework (ex. ReactJS)
• Understanding of GraphQL APIs.
• Deep understanding of web technologies in various mobile systems
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services.

In this role you will

• Be a part of a small UI team and will work closely with the UXdesigner and product manager to shape the product design.
• Build web UI components for a cloud-native SaaS product.
• Drive clear requirements for the backend APIs working closely withthe backend engineers.
• Focus on quality and velocity by developing appropriate tests.

Requirements

• Highly motivated self-starter with a builder’s mindset.
• 5+ years of web UI development experience.
• Highly skilled in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Deep knowledge and experience of REST APIs.

Preferred: experience with frameworks such as React

Preferred: full stack development experience