React-Next JS Developer

Frontend Developer

We are inspiring the next generation of young innovators and entrepreneurs in India. We're an education startup co-founded by a Computer Science grad from MIT/Harvard and the former CEO of Apple India. We started out as code school, offering creative tech boot-camps on topics like Drone Programming, Android App Development, Game Programming, Full-Stack Web Development to k-12 students across the nation, and now we're building web and mobile products to deliver powerful learning experiences to students online, at scale.

Job Description

We are looking for a Front End developer who is excellent with JavaScript (React.js + Redux). Some proficiency with Node.js preferred as you’ll be hooking up your front-ends to APIs and occasionally writing your own.

Your primary focus will be to develop the UI/UX for highly interactive / social / multiplayer learning platform, across the Student Product, Parent Product, Teacher Product, Virtual Classroom, and more.

Responsibilities

• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality React code
• Styling re-usable components with pixel perfection and mobile responsiveness
• Structuring state and information flow across your front-end app using Redux
• Optimizing your code for SEO and maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Skills / Required Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with React.js
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Redux
• Bonus: past experience with Socket.io and WebRTC
• Writing and consuming REST APIs with Node.js 
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Skills:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Good Experience in Next.js
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Develop and maintain web applications using Angular
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Work with external data sources and APIs.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Collaborate with other developers and stakeholders to ensure successful project completion.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in web application development using Angular.
• Strong knowledge of Angular 2+ and TypeScript.
• Experience with Angular Material and Bootstrap.
• Knowledge of relational database design and development using SQL Server.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Entity Framework Core.
• Experience with Azure Cloud Services.
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks such as NUnit and xUnit.
• Experience with source control management tools such as Git.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or similar tools.

• Develop User interfaces for Modern Rich Internet Applications with the latest Front End Technologies
• Perform product analysis and development tasks of an increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.
• Writing tested and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Make design and technical decisions for AngularJS projects.
• Develop application code and unit test in the AngularJS, Rest Web Services and Java technologies for the Application Development Center. 
• Ensuring high performance

• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writicross-browser-compatibleble code.
• Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques
• Experience with RESTful services
• Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp
• Expert in any one of the modern JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks (AngularJS, JQuery, NodeJS, GruntJS)
• Familiar with testing frameworks (Ex. Jasmine)
• Test runner framework (Ex. Karma)
• Hand on and implements complex AngularJS applications, directives, controllers, services
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

• Write clean, testable code with unit tests
• Build and improve code across the entire stack
• Ensure project scalability by having good project architecture
• Participate in the entire application life cycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Responsible for technical guidance and leading a team of react developers ensuring timely delivery

• Strong React.js, Node.js, and typescript experience
• Working knowledge of React Native and Redux-Saga
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs, HTML/CSS
• Knowledge of GIT
• Proficiency in SQL
• 3-4 years of minimum experience

• We make sure you are growing professionally with quarterly goals and appraisals.
• Health is wealth, so we provide health insurance
• Stand on Top - Employee professional development program
• Welcoming a new member in the family is a great please so we provide maternity and paternity leave

And much more...

This company is a network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

You will be working on AI/IOT react native mobile apps and responsible for hands-on coding. 
We need someone who can write well designed, testable, efficient code by using the best software.

We are looking for a can do it attitude, and the ability to deliver with high velocity and high-quality at the same time.  You must have experience developing and designing amazing UI screens.

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Mobile app development experience.
• Good understanding of the full mobile development life cycle,strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Strong React Native experience
• Understanding of APIs, pagination,searching,sorting
• Creating high performance UI etc.
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Android Studio, Gradle.
• Leverage native APIsfor deep integrations with both platforms.
• Strong communication skills.

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• Determining the structure and design of web pages.
•  Building reusable and efficient code for future use.
•  Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
•  Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages.
•  Maintain and improve the website.
•  Optimize applications for maximum speed.
•  Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies.