React - Software Engineer

Headless Development: Lead the frontend development of our Shopify app, including

building new features, revamping existing functionalities, and optimising performance.

User Interface Design: Collaborate with the design team to implement responsive,

pixel-perfect UI components that align with our brand’s aesthetic and provide an intuitive

user experience.

Custom Theme Development: Create and customise Shopify themes to enhance the

visual appeal and functionality of our online store, ensuring compatibility with various

devices and browsers.

Integration and API Management: Work with third-party APIs and Shopify's API to integrate

necessary functionalities, such as payment gateways, shipping solutions, and marketing

tools.

Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and improve the app’s performance,

ensuring fast load times, seamless navigation, and a smooth user experience.

Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including backend developers,

designers, marketers, and product managers, to deliver high-quality solutions on time.

Code Review and Best Practices: Maintain clean, modular, and reusable code. Participate

in code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices in frontend development.

Troubleshooting and Debugging: Identify and resolve issues, bugs, and performance

bottlenecks in a timely manner to ensure a seamless user experience.

Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for code, processes,

and development workflows.

● Design and develop responsive and visually appealing web applications and user interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, React frameworks.

● Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and software engineers to understand project requirements and translate them into interactive, user-friendly interfaces.

● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability.

● Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

● Stay updated with the latest industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in UI development, and recommend their integration to enhance our products.

● Identify and address performance and compatibility issues across different browsers and platforms.

● Champion UI development best practices, standards, and guidelines within the development team.

● Collaborate with backend developers to integrate front-end interfaces with server-side logic and APIs.

● Troubleshoot and debug UI-related issues and provide timely resolutions.

● Mentor junior developers, assisting them in enhancing their skills and knowledge in UI development.

● Write and encourage other engineers to write automated tests.

Skills/ Experience

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

● Proven experience as a UI Developer or Front-End Developer, with at least 3+ years of hands-on experience in building user interfaces for web applications.

● Proficiency in front-end technologies such as TypeScript, Tailwind, React, Redux.

● Strong understanding of responsive design principles.

● Solid knowledge of web performance optimization techniques and best practices.

● Familiarity with Figma and other UI/UX design tools, to collaborate effectively with designers.

● Demonstrated experience in writing UI components to corresponding backend APIs and Databases.

● Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex UI-related issues.

● Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.

As a member of the founding engineering team at Kombai, you'd work directly with the CTO and CEO to build a global product for the frontend dev teams from scratch. Together, we'd have a crack at several hard, high-impact problems - often involving challenges across product, engineering, and research areas.

Desired Qualifications & Skillset

For all positions of our early engineering team we are looking for people who:

• Are fully hands-on with latest JS development
• Are good frontend and web application architects
• Are quick and agile
• Have a good learning, problem solving and logical aptitude
• Have a mindset to commit for 3-4 years

In addition to the above, the candidates for Senior Product Engineer should also have:

• Thorough understanding of good Frontend engineering & architecture practices. In our experience, this usually comes from working in an excellent frontend team with an excellent architect, on a complex applications
• Experience: 3-6 years

• Overall 4 years development experience with 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.
• Experience with popular React Native workflows such as Redux and ESLint, Jest, Enzyme.
• Experience with Agile development, scrum.

• Design, develop and manage multiple secure and reliable web applications that process and manage transactions.
• Collaborate with UI/UX and Research teams to further improve current systems.
• Adapt technical trends in web applications to support product quality.
• Manage product compatibility across devices.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new team mates
• 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.

Skills & Requirements

• At least 1 year of experience working in frontend for desktop and mobile web.
• Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript plus experience with a modern framework (ReactJS is preferred).
• Well-versed in other non-vanilla languages (ex. TypeScript)
• Understanding of GraphQL APIs.
• Possess a deep understanding of basic security aspects on the frontend and how to mitigate them
• 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 working with cybersecurity and compliance

• Thorough understanding of React.js, React DOM and its core principles
• Experience in State Management Frameworks like Redux.
• Experience in developing cross-browser/platform compatible solutions for web.
• Experience of backend integrating with RESTful services.
• DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• In-depth knowledge of newer specifications of TypeScript, ES6,HTML 5,CSS 3.
• Must be familiar libraries like Material UI, Formik.
• Experience in Micro Front End architecture with Webpack Module Module Federation to combine multiple domain driven web apps on the same page without refreshing the page.
• Experience in different approaches on orchestration of Micro-apps of Client Side composition.
• Experience with package manager like npm,yearn.
• Experience with tools/packages like Visual Studio Code,ES Lint,SonarQube,Keycloak.
• Good understanding on Unit testing framework - Jest/ enzyme.

Location: Remote Working

** Preference will be given to immediate joinee