React.js Developer

**TL;DR:** Seeking an experienced Front-end Developer proficient in React and Next.js to build user-friendly interfaces for Proof of Skill, a blockchain-based protocol for skill verification and credentialing.

Proof of Skill protocol is a decentralized system where industry experts (Validators) evaluate candidates' skills and issue verifiable Skill Credentials. Organizations can then shortlist candidates based on these credentials.

**Qualifications and Skills:**

5+ years of experience in front-end development, with a strong focus on React and Next.js

Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and related front-end technologies

Solid understanding of React ecosystem, including Redux, React Router, and React Hooks

Experience with Next.js and its server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG) capabilities

Familiarity with modern front-end build tools and workflows (e.g., Webpack, Babel, ESLint)

Knowledge of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility

Experience with RESTful APIs and integration with back-end services

Familiarity with web accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices

Understanding of blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps) is a plus

**Responsibilities:**

Design and develop user-friendly interfaces for the Proof of Skill platform using React and Next.js

Implement reusable and modular front-end components following best practices

Integrate with blockchain-based back-end services and decentralized data sources

Optimize performance, scalability, and security of the front-end applications

Collaborate with the design team to ensure pixel-perfect implementation of UI/UX designs

Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code

Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards

Stay up-to-date with the latest front-end technologies, frameworks, and industry trends

**Ideal Candidate Traits:**

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Attention to detail and commitment to writing clean, efficient code

Passion for creating intuitive and engaging user experiences

Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to take ownership

Curiosity and eagerness to learn and grow in a dynamic environment

Experience building for crypto is a huge plus

As a Frontend Engineer with a focus on Next.js and React, you will play a crucial role in crafting and delivering exceptional user experiences for our users.

Position: Frontend Engineer (Next.js/React)

Location: Hyderabad

Type: Full-time

Job Overview:

We are seeking a skilled Frontend Engineer with a strong foundation in Next.js and React to join our talented development team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating visually appealing and highly functional web applications. As a Frontend Engineer, you will collaborate closely with designers and backend developers to bring our products to life while ensuring the best possible performance and user experience.

Responsibilities:

Develop user-facing features and components using Next.js and React

Collaborate with UI/UX designers to translate design mockups into responsive web applications

Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability

Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality, performance, and adherence to coding standards

Collaborate with backend engineers to design and integrate RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints

Identify and address performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot UI issues

Stay up-to-date with the latest frontend development trends and best practices

Contribute to architectural decisions and technical discussions

Mentor junior developers and provide guidance on best practices and coding techniques

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)

2 to 3 years of professional experience in frontend development

Proficiency in Next.js and React.js is a must

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

Experience working with RESTful APIs and GraphQL

Familiarity with version control systems such as Git

Solid understanding of responsive and mobile-first design principles

Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX) is a plus

Knowledge of build tools like Webpack and Babel

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team in an agile environment

Portfolio of past projects demonstrating frontend expertise is a plus

Benefits:

Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Collaborative and inclusive company culture

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects with a talented team

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Frontend Engineer, you will

• Own our frontend engineering applications for two products each of which run as independent applications which query our backend systems via REST APIs

• Act as a leader and coach within the front-end engineering team, collaborating with and mentoring senior engineers.

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Write and review modular, reusable components and features (React.js / Vue.js) and integrate backend APIs to create a seamless front-end user experience
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience. These include 3rd party plugins which provide customer support and analytics plugins that help improve the user experience we provide to customers.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with frontend frameworks as React.js or Vue.js would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You have an eye for pixel-perfect UI and micro-interactions.
• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our frontend tech stack includes React.js, Vue.js, Netlify for CI / CD, TestCafe for UX testing, d3.js, and Regraph for visualizations.

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.

Our frontend (React) team is passionate about React Technology and we are working on a few world-class products which have their roots and frontend in React Technology along with Redux, web-hooks, and Reducers. Keeping performance, scalability, usability, and user acceptance in mind, we are looking for a smart frontend engineer that has experience developing a variety of Web Applications using React Technology. (Along with strong frontend expertise, needs a good understanding of how frontend applications work in different browsers and have a mobile responsive design)

Basic roles and responsibilities are mentioned for the engineer at our team:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain.
• You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Good understanding of async functions and their concepts.
• Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known ReactJS workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• A Commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

• Developing new user-facing features using ReactJS
• Familiarity with modern front-end builds pipelines and tools.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Thorough understanding of ReactJS and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows. (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and Oauth.
• Good knowledge of CSS and other latest frameworks like a tailwind CSS / Bootstrap.

• Experience developing highly scalable Web applications.
• Knowledge of Media Queries and CSS via useful frameworks.
• Strong experience with React frameworks with components like Redux, Flux, Webhooks.
• Good knowledge of code versioning (git / Github)
• Good experience with code deployment on servers like Ubuntu, Linux systems.
• In-depth knowledge of designing and developing software in distributed architectures for multi-tier applications
• Basic understanding of docker to work with different major versions of Node js and database release(Postgres, MySQL, etc)
• Good knowledge to write and train the team to write unit test cases for the application code.

• You would be knowing how to do a basic code review of team and junior NodeJS engineers.

• Experience with deployment and CI/CD is a plus!
• Have worked with Testing libraries
• Good Verbal and Written communication Skills.

This person MUST have: 

- BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent 

- Extreme CSS skills 

- Experience with ReactJS or NextJS is a MUST 

- Strong communication skills 

- A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code. 

- Sound knowledge of clean code, no unused code, optimized code and more. - Always starting with a document and then implementing in a systematic and organized manner 

- Past experience as a frontend developer building modern JavaScript-based web applications - Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing 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. 

Requirements : 

a) CSS / Bootstrap : Flex Layout/ability to demonstrate the cascading nature of CSS clearly with example/Positioning.

b) Pure JavaScript: Prototype chain and inner workings of inheritance in JS. Understood DOM, Events, Event Bubbling, and Capturing/ ability to demonstrate it with example/ Promises and their use cases.

c) TypeScript: Basic understanding of using TS. Union Types, Index Signatures,

d) REST: Backend experience. REST principles, URL structures for APIs. integration using native JS (fetch and Promises) and in Angular. use cases of getting vs POST vs PUT vs PATCH.

e) Angular :  Abstractions of Angular Component, Service, Pipe, Directive, Module, Lifecycles. Knew advanced patterns as well Dynamic Components, Content Projection, Reactive Forms, ViewChild, ContentChild. Understood Observables and various operators demonstration of Design Skills ability to create the component and module hierarchy for a moderately complex application, along with their interactions

Responsibilities

• Delivering a complete front end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services

Skills and Qualifications

• Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system
• Ability to provide SEO solutions for single page apps
• Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS
• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource
• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts
• Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks
• Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well reasoned alternative)
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments