React.js Developer

• Participate heavily in the brainstorming of UI/UX architecture and feature design
• Interface with external customers and key stakeholders to understand and document design requirements
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Data Science, Product, UX, BD, and Infrastructure teams
• Drive best coding practices across the company (i.e. documentation, code reviews, coding standards, etc)
• Perform security, legal, and license reviews of committed code
• Complete projects with little or no supervision from senior leadership

• Must have at least 2+ years experience in front-end web development with the following tools: HTML5, CSS, Webpack, Responsive web design, ReactJS (Components, Router, Redux, Flux, Chart Libraries i.e. Google Charts), Node.js, REST APIs, and other essential features)
• Built and deployed customer-facing services and products at scale
• Developed unit and integration tests
• Solid instruction-level understanding of Object Oriented design, data structures, and software engineering principles

• You have a strong background in natural language processing, statistical modeling, and/or machine learning
• Experience with open source projects in a startup environment
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems that have thousands of microservices and manages millions of transactions per day
• Worked on products where experimentation and data science are core to the development
• Experience with Python and API frameworks (Flask)
• BS, MS or equivalent

About Upswing

Open banking is a reality of this decade and it needs robust, customizable and secure rails to run on. Our mission is to enable consumer companies to offer differentiated financial products and empower financial institutions with greater reach through our Secure, Scalable, and easy-to-integrate API platform.

Every company today has an opportunity to extend financial services to make banking experiences lively and delightful. Our open finance-as-a-service platform is highly customizable, simple, and modular which significantly reduces the integration effort for our partners to launch financial products in weeks, not years.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

What will you do if you join us?

• Implement responsive web design principles to ensure that our company website renders well across multiple devices
• Design a framework for creating user apps that grow with the needs of the company
• Monitor website performance, watch for traffic drops related to site usability problems, and rectify the issues
• Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team
• Assist in the development of applications and features that will be put on the website and in internal functions as well

You should have

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 3+ years of web development experience. Development experience for Mobile screens would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of Javascript. Proficiency in Typescript & React Js would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of web development tools and programming languages

1. Working on MERN stack product development for core product
2. Exploring possibilities with proof of concepts & prototyping
3. Building the product as per specifications 
4. Developing the user-facing features using React.js
5. Designing a modern highly responsive web-based user interface 
6. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
7. Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
8. Learn and understand user interactions
9. Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers 
10. Coordinating with various teams working on distinct layers
11. As a React.js Developer, you will be involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound and aesthetically impressive. 

1. Node.js & ReactJS/Next.js ( MEAN/MERN Stack)
2. Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
3. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
4. Prior experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
5. Familiarity with more current specifications of EcmaScript
6. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
7. Great CSS skills. Familiarity with React Styled Components, SCSS, LESS, etc.
8. Knowledge of modern authorisation mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
9. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
10. Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
11. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
12. A knack for benchmarking and optimisation.
13. Familiarity with code versioning tools
14. Familiarity with Test Driven Development and tools like JEST & React Testing Library is a plus.
15. Familiarity with Firebase and other backend as a services is a plus.

Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Experience with Core web fundamentals: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS like Sass or LESS
• Thorough understanding of ReactJS and its core principles.
• Experience with popular ReactJS state management such as Redux or Flux
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript (ES6+)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs consumption
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as GitLab, Bitbucket
• Must be passionate about writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code
• Self-starter with the ability to cope with sharp learning curves.
• Excellent teamwork skills,
• Good Communication skill

Good to have:

• Familiarity with NextJs framework.
• Experience with Unit Testing with Jest
• Typescript
• GetsByJS
• Modern front-end build pipelines and tools GitLab or Jenkins
• CI-CD Using GitLab or Jenkins

Position: Lead Frontend Engineer

Location: Bangalore, IN (currently remote)

Employment: Full time

Who We Are?

EmptyCup is an interior design platform. Our goal is to make good interior design accessible. Learn more about us here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_PBkSaHLep-QsZzRWdKMI3amc-KFe99z/view">intro presentation

You can also checkout our https://emptycup.in/">website to know more about our product offering.

Job Description

• Use your passion and deep understanding of front-end technology to create high-impact and performant user experiences.
• Lead the most creative collaboration in a cross-functional team, having design, product, and frontend teams.
• Brainstorm features with product and design teams to influence decisions guided by the possibilities and limitations of the codebase as well as the current state of technology.
• Proactively perform code reviews and participate in architecture and design discussions.
• Adopt and ensure best practices while developing, testing, maintaining, and deploying code.

Requirements

An engineer passionate about front-end who can work on projects independently, collaborate across teams, and provide mentorship and guidance to others.

• Has an experience of 4-5 years in the work
• Experience with ReactJS (knowledge of internals is a plus)
• Well versed in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and in a variety of design patterns
• Experience with build tools like webpack, babel, etc.
• Understanding of core UI/UX concepts
• Hands on experience Rest API, Databases, Microservices, Architecture
• Understanding of front-end security and performance testing

What you will do:

• Build cross-browser compatible front-end applications using ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Develop fast and highly scalable and responsive applications.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams of product manager, backend developers, and UI/UX designers.
• Partner with product teams to ensure user interactions & features are well-designed and implemented.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

Skills And Qualifications:

• 4+ years of work experience in frontend web development.
• Strong understanding of Core Javascript, ReactJS, React Native (desired), semantic HTML5 CSS, Flexbox and responsive development.
• Thorough understanding of Javascript design patterns
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5 CSS3
• Understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as ReactJS, AngularJS
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Preferably from a SaaS and web applications platforms background, and/or B2B applications.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Experience in building APIs / application backends using Node.js (good to have)

Understanding of UI / UX best practices and ability to collaborate with the Design team to implement functional and intuitive user experiences