React.js Developer

We are seeking a talented Front-End Developer based in India to work with us on an ongoing freelance or contract basis. As a key member of our team, you’ll handle a variety of tasks, including resolving technical issues, implementing site updates, customising Shopify themes, optimising user experiences, and ensuring seamless site performance.

The ideal candidate has expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript (React.js, Vue.js, or similar), and Shopify theme development, with a strong understanding of responsive design, debugging, and cross-browser compatibility.

Also has experience with SEO, Shopify Plus, or basic back-end development.

• Can architect UI systems and has a well-honed understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different frameworks.
• Cherishes the craft of an experience getting to perfect pixels, creating animations with just the right springs, investing in loading performance.
• Is familiar with React, Node. JS, NoSQL databases like Firebase, and AWS.
• Collaborates actively with designers, product managers, product scientists, and other engineers.

• Participate in the design of the solution based on business requirements gathered
• and analyzed by analysts
• Develop new features for mobile/web applications
• Build reusable code and libraries across platforms
• Optimize applications in terms of scalability and stability
• Use the best coding standards and practices, to assure the quality of the code
• Perform development testing
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• 4+ years of experience in Frontend Development
• Angular 6 and Above
• REST API
• Typescript , HTML, CSS ,JavaScript
• React Native
• Having experience in both Mobile/Web development

• Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science or in similar areas
• Minimum of 4+ years work experience in creating front-end (mobile/web)
• applications, using Angular 6+, Typescript, JavaScript and React Native
• Experience with HTML, CSS and Bootstrap.
• Experience with Agile (SCRUM) methodologies
• Experience with Unit Testing and TDD
• Experience with REST based APIs
• Knowledge of iOS or Android development is a plus
• Excellent capacity to work autonomously or integrated in a team
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proactivity and ability to adapt in a context in which priorities often change
• Developed sense of responsibility, oriented to customer solutions and associated
• improvements
• Fluent in English - written and spoken (mandatory)

1.       Strong knowledge in Front end scripting like EJS, JavaScript, Jquery

2.       Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS.

3.       Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.

4.       Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python / Ruby / Java / PHP/ .Net

5.       Good Understand with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.

- We are looking for techies with a passion to develop high-performance web applications. 

- If you are interested and looking to build scalable and high-performance apps, then join us. We are building web app based on React with server-side rendering. For mobile, we are building PWA.

Roles & Responsibilities :

1. Build scalable web applications using ReactJS, Redux and other related libraries.

2. Integrating back-end API's with front-end.

3. Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

4. Optimize application performance and reduce page loading speed.

5. Solid experience in architecting and implementing highly scalable front-ends in modern technologies such as React or Vue.

6. Gathering requirements from design and technical staff and client on web development needs/Defining effective solutions for business and process problems.

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in Frontend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Relevant work experience as a UI Developer. Proficient in JavaScript , ReactJS and/or React Native, Angular , JQuery Experience with HTML, CSS, Knowledge of web services and related technologies (REST) Experience with Web Services and API integration
• Candidate should have a stronghold on HTML & CSS
• Can understand and troubleshoot REST APIs calls
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Knowledge of SASS & LESS will be a plus as well
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Use JavaScript and cutting-edge JS frameworks to develop front end applications that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models
2. Solve and articulate complex problems through application design, product development, and user experiences. 
3. Develop software used by people who are not software developers--ensure the exceptional software you create influences them to be exceptional professionals in their respective fields
4. Collaborate with other programmers and mentor junior engineers through the development process
5. Leverage the knowledge of your peers to better understand business trends, customer communities, and technology adoption patterns
6. Evolve your language skills in JavaScript by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Create highly responsive B2C web-app using a wide range of open source frontend and backend technology.
• Create single page applications using wide range of javascript & cutting edge libraries/frameworks.
• Responsible for the full lifecycle of a project, including development, unit testing, system testing and change management.
• Research technical issues and provides recommendations to enhance JavaScript products.
• Working with multiple projects.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferably from IIT,NIT & other premier institutes.
• Rockstar JavaScript developer, who appreciates the intricacies of JS as well as passionate to follow new trends in JS.
• Experience with product companies.
• 4-9 yrs of software development on advanced JavaScript stack (Native JavaScript, Asynchronous Request Handling, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, etc).
• In-depth knowledge in ReactJS & NodeJS
• Proficiency in any other modern web frameworks will be a plus.
• A solid knowledge of advanced data structures & algorithms.
• Proficient in Computer Science fundamentals & object-oriented design.
• Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to tackle those.
• Must possess a track record of building Single Page responsive UI.
• Experience with Databases such as NoSQL and any RDBMS will be a plus.
• Experience with transport protocols such as TCP, HTTP & WebSocket.
• Expressing and appreciating design patterns is a real addition.
• Critical of coding practices and development methodologies