React.js Developer

Location: Fully remote 

Company: StrategyConnect - Dubai based startup backed by Techstars 

As a Front-end Developer, you will be responsible for building user-friendly, responsive, and visually appealing web applications. You will work closely with our design team and senior developers to create high-quality web applications using modern front-end technologies such as React. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Build user-friendly, responsive, and visually appealing web applications using React, NodeJs and Tailwind. 
• Collaborate with the design team to turn mockups into pixel-perfect web applications. 
• Implement designs and create reusable UI components using React and Tailwind. 
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. 
• Debug and troubleshoot issues as they arise. 
• Ensure the application is optimized for performance, scalability, and usability. 
• Continuously learn and keep up-to-date with the latest front-end development trends and technologies. 

Requirements: 

• Strong proficiency in React, NextJS, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 
• Experience with modern front-end development tools such as Webpack, Babel, and Git. 
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies. 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 
• Ability to work collaboratively in a remote team environment. 
• Excellent communication skills in English. 

If you are passionate about front-end development, have a strong focus on React, and want to work with a dynamic team of talented individuals, please apply to this exciting Front-end Developer position today! 

About the role:

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). 

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. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and quality products is important.

What you’ll do

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Version Control: Git
• SDLC: Working experience in Agile methodology
• Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills

What you’ll need

• B.Tech or M.Tech equivalent with at least 2 years of experience
• 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
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

- To analysis business requirements, prepare design and implementation recommendations and estimate development effort

-  Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Lead or participate in design reviews, code reviews and architecture evolution discussions
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Skills Required :

- Experienced with front end programming language with React JS.
- 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).
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
- Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, ).
- Candidates with Good communication Skills.

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• Follow software development practices with continuous testing, development and integration (CD/CI)
• Write and maintain technical design documents and new-feature documents
• Collaborate closely with developers, engineers, testers, and product managers
• Participate in peer-based code reviews and design reviews
• Follow agile methodology and encourage collaboration with tools such as GIT, Confluence and Slack applications
• Undergraduate degree or above in computer science preferred

Required Qualifications

• Knows SPA and frontend technologies well
• Has used atleast 1 web framework: Angular / React / Vue / etc. and comfortable with Javascript/Typescript.
• Experience with styling (CSS / SCSS / others) frameworks like bootstrap, material, foundation, tailwind, etc. is a plus
• Knowledge on visualization frameworks like D3, plotly, highcharts, chart.js, etc. to make customizable dashboards.
• Has used testing libraries like karma, jest, jasmine, cypress, selenium, etc.
• Familiar with with frontend processes like State management (Redux), Reactive programming (rxjs), Authentication methods (JWT, SAML) etc. 
• Basic knowledge about APIs (flask, django, nodejs) and worked on deploying web applications (nginx or apache or cloud technologies like AWS, GCP, docker, etc.) will be beneficial.