React.js Developer

Want to work for Riskcovry?
We are a passionate, dynamic, and balanced team. Our culture is open, direct, and merit-oriented. Our team has enormous depth across insurance, technology, fintech, strategy and investment. We have great investors partnering with us to help achieve our vision.

Riskcovry is one of the fastest growing startups in our space and we would love to have you onboard. Read more about us:
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We are looking for people who:
1. Have a strong bias for action and value speed over perfection.
2. Make decisions with this ethos: Customer > Company > Team > Me
3. Thrive in a flat and open organization
4. Recognize that frugality is the key to efficiency
5. Are self-starters and have a natural tendency to own company and team goals

Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for providing individual contribution for a robust and easy to use User Interface
• Responsible for performance optimization, establishing navigation patterns and rapid prototyping when necessary
• Continuously maintaining the template engine. 

Requirements, Desired Skills and Experience 

• Designing and developing user interfaces using React JS framework is a must.
•  Experience in Redux
• Good experience using TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, SCSS and HTML5. 
• Understanding MVVM concepts  
• Experience in Web UI design patterns, material components and experience in modular approach of designing in UI. 
• Ability to analyze new UI requirements and ability to provide feedback to designers.
• Able to troubleshoot common problems 
• Know how to optimize speed and performance of websites 

Why LiftOff? 

We at LiftOff specialize in product creation, for our main forte lies in helping Entrepreneurs realize their dream. We have helped businesses and entrepreneurs launch more than 70 plus products.

Many on the team are serial entrepreneurs and have had a history of successful exits.

• 5+ years of experience, working on frontend technologies
• Individual contributor - responsible for the design, coding, and unit testing
• Should have good working experience in React and React Native
• Should have a good understanding of state management in frontend/UI applications
• Proficiency in Javascript / ECMAScript 6+
• Creating custom, general-use modules, and components that extend the elements and modules of React
• Good knowledge of data structures, problem-solving / algorithms
• Knowledge of creating custom / reusable components
• Should know OOP Concepts

We are a group of passionate people driven by a set of core values. We strive to make every process transparent and have flexible work timings along with great startup culture and vibe. There are no job designations because its a flat hierarchy.

Desired Candidate profile

● Architect and build scalable front-end web solutions using JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS and other fundamental web technologies. 
● Build reusable code and libraries using iterative development practices for future use

● Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop. 
● Implement monitoring, metric dashboards, runbooks, logging, escalations, and alerts.

● Drive code and design reviews of components / systems / products in scope and drive the architectural governance for them. 
● Implement best practices and constantly learn new ways of keeping code bases up to date 
 
Roles and Responsibilities:

● A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field) from reputed institutes 
● 4+ years of development experience in modern web technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript), frameworks (React, Backbone.js, AngularJS, , etc) 
● Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion 
● Prior hands-on experience in building responsive web interfaces at scale for consumers in a product engineering setup 
● Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system 
● Excellent problem solving, debugging and optimization skills 
● Strong knowledge of browser behavior, performance, compatibility and cross-browser issues 
● Good understanding of REST API 
● Familiar with front-end build tools, such as Webpack, Grunt and Gulp.js
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git 
● Open source contribution is a plus. 

Perks and Benefits

• Get to work with a highly passionate team of engineers.
• Open and embracing the culture for the latest hot technologies.
• A high level of freedom, experimentation and responsibility.
• Insurance and Snacks
• Performance Benefits

• Develop user-facing features, while building reusable code & libraries for future use
• Optimize application for maximum speed & scalability
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Ensure that all user input is validated before submitting to the back-end

Experience

• 1-3 Years work experience in Frontend
• Experience working with libraries/frameworks like ReactJS, AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, DurandalJS, etc.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc
• Proficiency with HTML5, CSS3. Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
• Proficient knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues & ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool - GIT
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them

Requirement::

• Be an individual contributor to the team, work on sprint tasks related to Front End Development

• Develop features as per requirements and design, own the feature developments till production

• Interact with backend team on finalizing the APIs and work on integrating them

• Never miss to write unit tests and keep the coverage healthy

• Take the lead to maintain re-factor and if necessary, throw away legacy frontend code

• Review other's code and get your code reviewed as well

• Plan the code and approach first then start writing the code

• Taking pride in the work you have accomplished and showing it to the customer

• Stepping out of your comfort zone at times

• Avoiding the desire to take shortcuts at times instead maintain the consistency in how we approach solutions to ensure successful outcomes.

• Avoid the temptation to think that a difficult situation will be resolved simply by the passage of time and without the hard work of addressing root causes

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