React.js Developer

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and experienced Principal Engineer to take up front-end development efforts. You will design and develop elegant interfaces that exceed client expectations in terms of value and benefit. You will collaborate on scalability issues involving visualizing massive amounts of data and information. You will identify, define and communicate best practices for front end.

You are passionate about building secure, high-performing and scalable front-end applications. Your design intuition inclines towards usability, elegance and simplicity. You are biased towards open-source tools and existing frameworks. You have demonstrated strong inter-personal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct UI/UX team, define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of advanced visualization products
• Define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of advanced visualization products
• Translate wireframes into functional requirements, write well-abstracted, reusable, high-performance code for UI components
• Work closely with design, product management and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces
• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies
• Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale. Support diverse clients from high-powered desktop computers to low-end mobile devices
• Understand and coach/teach others, show a high level of ethics and team-work

Requirements

• Bachelor/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
• 8 to 10 years of experience in developing responsive, elegant, efficient and cross-browser front-end applications
• Hands on experience on various MVC frameworks, UI libraries and tools such as Angular, ReactJS, HTML5, CSS3, D3.js
• Hands on experience on Map API’s like Google Maps, Openstreetmap and other powerful information-rich maps
• Familiar with UX processes and design
• Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision making skills

We are looking for individuals with a love for frontend, and building products with a great user experience. The ideal candidate is someone who has a collaborative process and is comfortable with ambiguity. You will be the earliest members of the product engineering team, and will have an opportunity to define the culture. If you enjoy the zero-to-one process, this is for you.

What you’ll do

• Be part of a team building a web and mobile web app from grounds up
• Drive frontend development for our product.
• Work fast, carefully evaluate the technical tradeoffs of every decision
• Collaborate with design and product on user experience and interface
• Build responsive & re-usable UI components using ReactJS
• Maintain code and write unit tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong proficiency in developing with Javascript/ReactJS/AngualrJS
• Strong command of HTML5 and CSS
• Comfortable collaborating with designers and translating designs into high-quality code
• Familiarity with REST APIs
• Familiarity with Git for version control
• Strong communication skills - verbal and written

Minimum Qualifications

A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields or relevant experience to demonstrate your abilities and aptitude

2+ years of experience in developing consumer or SaaS web apps or websites

Good to Have

Experience in building real-time frontend and backend data sync applications

Demonstrated an interest for UX and UI

Experience with: AWS, Shopify

• Responsible for the implementation of end-to-end modules starting from user interface, business logic layer and database layer.
• Proficient in HTML, javascript.
• React JS experience is an added advantage.
• Assists in research, design, documentation, and modification of software specifications throughout the software development life cycle.
• Analyzes, troubleshoots, and optimizes code.
• Participates in requirements gathering meetings and produces technical documentation as needed.