React Lead

·      12+ years of professional experience in front-end development.

·      7+ years of hands-on experience with React.js and its ecosystem (Redux, Context API, Hooks, etc.)

·      Strong understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3.

·      Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and WebSocket integration.

·      Proficiency in modern build tools (Webpack, Vite, Babel, etc.).

·      Expertise in state management libraries (Redux, MobX) and React Query.

·      Solid understanding of UI/UX principles and responsive design.

·      Experience with testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, etc.).

·      Familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines and version control tools (Git).

What does the role look like?

Software Development Engineers FE will be responsible to participate in all stages of the software product development life cycle. This will include analyzing system and user requirements, designing software flowcharts, creating user interfacing applications (Web Or Mobile) , troubleshooting bugs, and running tests to improve system functionality.
An ideal candidate would be someone who has proficiency in Flutter and JavaScript frameworks, good analytical skills, the ability to anticipate issues and frame remedial actions, and excellent teamwork skills.

What will you be doing?
● Write simple, efficient, and maintainable code.
● Design, develop, scale and maintain User Application written in JS or Dart.
● Manage individual priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
● Validating the functionality and security of the application.
● Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
● Ensuring best coding standards and practices to improve and maintain quality.
● Meeting with the engineering and product team to discuss project definitions and goals.

What will you need ?
● Bachelor/Master degree in CS or related field from a reputed college
● Sound knowledge of JavaScript or Flutter technologies.
● Solid grip on the programming basics like DS and algorithms, OOPS.
● Understanding & experience with restful APIs and microservice architecture
● Prior experience in start-ups or health-tech will be a plus

Software Engineering

• 4+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining React-based applications
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing medium to large-scale applications using Javascript frameworks
• Experience with projects that involve, improving the reliability and performance of your web-apps, by leveraging different observability tools like Lighthouse, Sentry, and Datadog.
• Good understanding of functional programming paradigms and UI architecture patterns
• A decent understanding of cloud infrastructure like AWS to orchestrate and manage our applications.
• Experience with testing frameworks like JEST, modern auth mechanisms, and server-side rendering through frameworks like NextJS
• Experience with backend technologies like JAVA, and Kotlin would be good to have.

Product Development

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to resolve dependency risks.
• Well-versed in working in an agile environment and being involved in different stages of SDLC - Design, Development, Code Review, Testing, and Release Management
• Ability to work with different CI/CD frameworks, with hands-on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Continuously refactor applications so that they are easy to maintain, easy to extend, and contribute to

Your Tech Stack

Web Application Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails

Programming Languages: ReasonML/Rescript, Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, HTML, CSS

Tools and Libraries: Webpack, Sentry, NextJS, NodeJS, Jest, Figma

Communication: HTTP, GraphQL, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS

Observability: Google Analytics, Lighthouse, Sentry, Kibana, Datadog

What you will build with us?

The front-end platform at Porter is geared toward developing a variety of products for customers, partners, and our internal teams. You will be a part of Porter’s Web Engineering Platform team.

What will be your primary focus?

1. enabling our engineering teams to create highly reliable and scalable software systems, reduce client and server outages and increase system hygiene.
2. building the right set of tooling and flows for our web and mobile teams, for improving developer productivity. This will enable our application teams to churn out user features rapidly and will help them build the best-in-class product solutions for our business teams.
3. work on security initiatives, to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

What will you closely influence?

1. Providing the right user experience to our customers, partners, and cc agents when they reach out to us
2. Building tools to help boost user growth on our platform including our driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models. A step towards sustainable user growth and providing personalized experiences, on our platform
3. Unlocking new growth levels for Porter, in form of our new vibrant customer base through business initiatives like Packers and Movers, Part-Load, and help Porter on its journey to becoming a super Logistic App.
4. Enabling us to engage our partner ecosystem better with our fast-moving initiatives in the Insurance and Lending segments. Your work here will directly impact the livelihood of our partners
5. Solving problems related to optimal pricepoint for partners and customers, matchmaking with supply and demand, and building confidence around payment experience and location tracking.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of experience as a front-end developer
• Experienced in developing applications using JavaScript, ReactJS, Redux, Redux Saga, NodeJS, HTML5, CSS3/CSS4 and other UI technologies.
• Understanding and experience with ES6 concepts, asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation.
• Experience with REST API construction, documentation, and architecture, including API description languages like Swagger.
• Comfortable writing Unit Test Cases (Enzyme/ Jest)
• Familiar with cloud services: AWS, Dev-ops such as Git, Jira, Confluence
• Good to have experience/knowledge of
  • Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security)
  • Docker,
  • Scala,
  • Python
• Able to connect the dots between code and business value

Responsibilities

• Engage in high level conversations about business strategy and the role tech plays in it
• Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code that powers our application
• Write specs and do planning for everything we build
• Conduct application analysis, testing, and debugging
• Diligently document code to keep it clean and transparent
• Ensure cross-browser and device compatibility

You Are

• You believe it’s always on you to make sure anything you do is a success.
• You have the ability to make quick and effective decisions.
• In love with a challenge. You revel in solving problems and want a job that pushes you out of your comfort zone.
• Open to change. You’re inspired by the endless ways in which everything we do can always be improved.

Add-Ons/Interview Process

• You should be comfortable working in a Start-up for in-house product development.
• Will not be engaged with any Client, but with the internal team (in India & the US).
• Will be provided a hands-on exercise to complete and submit as a part of interview.