React Native Developer

• Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in front-end development with a strong focus on React.js.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript frameworks/libraries.
• React Expertise: Deep understanding of React.js and its core principles, including hooks, context API, and state management.
• Tools: Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), build tools (e.g., Webpack), and testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with: Knowledge of TypeScript, Redux, and modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Design: Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and responsive design.
• Blockchain: Understanding of blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency concepts is a plus.

We are currently hiring a Frontend developer for a startup in the B2C marketplace space based out of Mumbai.  This startup is an Online Marketplace, that serves as a Discovery and Booking Platform for Kids’ Activity Classes. Operations were launched in  November 2019, and have over 20KParents and 500+ educators listed on our Platform across the major Tier-I and Tier-II cities in India.

Platform details are listed below :

1. A SaaS platform for educators to simplify the management of their classes and

workshops. Educators get access to a dashboard and use our Class Management tool

to create listings, view registrations, manage bookings and payments. The dashboard

also provides analytics for teachers to track visitor traffic, see drop offs and

understand which social media channel generates maximum ROI for them.

1. Discovery & Booking Platform for parents so that they can search, view and book

classes and workshops for their children.

Top 2 role must have’s

1. You should have REACT JS experience of building a product
2. You should be willing to work in a very early stage startup( Not funded yet)

Tech skills required for this role:

• Front end design in REACT JS at least 1.5 years
• AWS server
• Mongo Database
• API's written in Nodejs

Job description

The primary role of this position is to receive final product design from Figma and then create pixel perfect UI in React Native (iOS, Android & Web App). It is of highest priority that communication is clear and transparent. The successful candidate must have the ability to self-manage each task not requiring a large amount of detailed explanation to complete.

Responsibilities

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms and Web App.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms and Web App.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

Skills

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript (and TypeScript) language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Knowledge of (functional or object-oriented) programming
• Ability to write well-documented, clean JavaScript code
• Fluent at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle (Android Studio, IntelliJ)
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
• GraphQL
• BitRise, GutHub, BitBucket

Advantageous attributes 

Understanding of AWS environment, Node.js, and Microservices

• 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.

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in Frontend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Relevant work experience as a UI Developer. Proficient in JavaScript , ReactJS and/or Reactive Native, Angular , JQuery Experience with HTML, CSS, Knowledge of web services and related technologies (REST) Experience with Web Services and API integration
• Candidate should have a stronghold on HTML & CSS
• Can understand and troubleshoot REST APIs calls
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Knowledge of SASS & LESS will be a plus as well
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Use JavaScript and cutting-edge JS frameworks to develop front end applications that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models
2. Solve and articulate complex problems through application design, product development, and user experiences. 
3. Develop software used by people who are not software developers--ensure the exceptional software you create influences them to be exceptional professionals in their respective fields
4. Collaborate with other programmers and mentor junior engineers through the development process
5. Leverage the knowledge of your peers to better understand business trends, customer communities, and technology adoption patterns
6. Evolve your language skills in JavaScript by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools.

• Write high quality code in ReactJS using TypeScript or JSX that is easy to maintain and test.
• Participate in an Agile environment using Scrum software development practices, Automated unit testing, Continuous integration, Code reviews, Version control systems, Automated build processes. Raise issues proactively that might impact delivery commitments.
• Fix production issues and maintain the code as needed .

• BS degree in CS or equivalent work experience 5+ years professional experience building single page applications in ReactJS using TypeScript or JSX with extensive experience working with HTML5 and CSS3.
• Experience working with cross-browser behaviors and quirks.

• Passion for new technologies. Product development experience building large scale web applications.
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable consumer facing web application. Care deeply about writing high-performance, reusable code for components that will be used across our product.
• GraphQL experience is preferred.