React developer

At Shipthis, we work to build a better future and make meaningful changes in the freight forwarding industry. Our team members aren't just employees. We are comprised of bright, skilled professionals with a single straightforward goal—to Evolve Freight forwarders towards Digitalized operations, enhance efficiency, and drive lasting change.

As a company, we're just the right size for every person to take initiative and make things happen. Join us in reshaping the future of logistics and be part of a journey where your contributions make a tangible difference.

Learn more at www.shipthis.co

JOB DESCRIPTION

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the frontend of Shipthis's suite of SaaS products
• Drive the implementation of new technologies and architect frontend solutions to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Work closely with backend developers to ensure seamless integration of APIs and data between the front and back end.
• Define and enforce coding standards, guidelines, and best practices for the team, ensuring high code quality and performance.
• Actively participate in planning and strategy discussions, contributing to technical decisions that influence the product roadmap.
• Troubleshoot and resolve high-priority technical issues, ensuring the stability and performance of the system in production environments.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers and product managers to shape the user experience, ensuring that complex data workflows are intuitive and accessible.
• Mentor and guide junior developers within the team, providing code reviews and feedback to ensure quality and best practices are followed.
• Stay current with industry trends and developments, recommending tools, libraries, and processes to improve the frontend development workflow.

Desired qualifications include:

• 2+ years of experience in frontend development with a solid track record of delivering successful web applications.
• Experience leading frontend teams or working as a senior developer in a collaborative environment.
• Proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks (preferably Angular 12+), along with a strong understanding of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Proven ability to architect scalable frontend solutions for large, complex web applications.
• Experience with performance optimization techniques, code-splitting, lazy loading, and browser rendering behavior.
• Familiarity with frontend testing frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Jest, Jasmine, or Cypress).
• Strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to work effectively across teams and with stakeholders at all levels.
• Solid understanding of web development principles, including responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards.
• Knowledge of backend / ionic apps for android/iOS
• A strong portfolio of previous frontend work that demonstrates technical depth and design skills.

We welcome candidates

• Who is Immediate Joining
• Female candidates returning to work after a career break are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

JOB SYNOPSIS:

• Job Role: Frontend Engineer
• Location: Bangalore
• Job type: Full-time, permanent
• Experience (2-3) years
• Industry Type: Software Product
• Functional Area: Software Development

Skills:

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

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

● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

● Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript as well as HTML and CSS

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Working knowledge and integration knowledge with RESTful APIs

● Knowlegde of websockets implementation is a must.

● 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.

● 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}

● Added advantages if you have working knowledge of AWS

• Engineering experience with a proven track record of building high performance consumer web applications or services
  
• Good exposure in front end ui frameworks like reactjs and angularJS
  
• Very good analytical and problem solving skills
  
• Building desktop and mobile web applications

Responsibilities:

• Planning, estimation, requirement analysis, database designing, wireframing, layout design of the assigned project and other ongoing projects in a team with Project Manager / Developer / Designer.
• Handling coding works or major/complex parts of assigned projects and providing coding help and supervision to team members.
• Maintaining and auditing code/design quality as per set guidelines and standards in assigned projects.
• Testing of completed tasks in ongoing projects in the team before sending updates to reporting authority/client.
• Remove the technical impediments
• Focusing the team to ensure the on-time delivery of the agreed task.
• Reporting progress to the Project Manager.
• Facilitating code/design reuse.
• Training and mentoring of team members.
• Maintaining the skill set matrix of the team.
• Building and maintaining PWA.
• Work closely with the product team to accelerate A/B testing and maximize engagement.

Requirements:

• Excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS3.
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript, Jquery.
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript MVC architecture and OOP programming style.
• Good understanding and experience of working on Vue.js/React.js.