React.js Developer

Job Title

Technology Lead – Frontend

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaboratively work with UX team, product managers, back-end engineers and other technical teams to create new, delightful and scalable UI
• Mentor junior members through training and individual support
• Responsible for all front end development on a project
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images
• Optimize existing user interface designs
• Proactively learn and accordingly apply new technologies, best design practices and usability patterns

The ideal candidate must - 

• 5+ years of experience working with React or React-based frameworks
• Proficiency with browser-based debugging and performance testing
• Proficiency in Git and version control
• Considerable experience with a testing framework (Jest/Mocha)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JWT Tokens
• Good understanding of common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, Yarn etc
• Hands-on experience with CSS-in-JS libraries
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Keen to learn, mentor and willingness to take ownership of work items
• Possess strong communication and self-accountability

REACT.JS

• Delivering a complete front end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services

 Skills and Competencies:

• Proficiency with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS
• Fundamental Knowledge of an SPA (Single page application)
• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Ability to provide SEO solutions for single page apps
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
• Writing non-blocking, optimized, reusable and scalable code
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular
• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as git is required
• Excellent presentation, problem-solving and team working skills

Qualification and Experience:

• B.E. / B. Tech. / MCA / PGDCA / M.Sc. (CS) /M.E. / M. Tech
• At least 2 years of experience in Web Application Development with Angular/React
• Proven expertise in testing of application software to assure accuracy, integrity, completeness to achieve desired results
• Experience with AngularJS (v1.x.x) would be a value-add

Responsibilities :

1. Develop user-facing stack from scratch
2. Build reusable code and libraries for future use
3. Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
4. Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
5. Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Technology Skills :

1. Proven 4 years work experience as a ReactJS Frontend developer
2. In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
3. Good experience with Typescript and ReactJS (17.x). NodeJS knowledge is a plus.
4. Familiarity with Unit Testing Frameworks, UI Testing, Monorepos and Graphql principles
5. Knowledge of Alerting and Monitoring tools
6. Knowledge of SPA principles
7. UI Performance: should have hands on experience of optimising page load, rendering, caching
8. Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective.

Soft Skills :

1. Obsessed with best practices, structuring, documentation and have an eye for detail.
2. Self starter with a high level of drive and commitment.
3. High energy and drive to work in a startup environment.
4. Conceptual thinking, flexibility and ability to juggle with multiple responsibilities.
5. Ability to work under pressure and confidence to deal with complex issues.
6. Good communication skills.
7. Hands-on and detail oriented.

•  Excellent Communication Skills.
• Working knowledge of React libraries such as Redux, Redux Thunk, Redux Saga, Redux Forms, Immutable etc.
• Highly proficient in JavaScript and ReactJs
• Good understanding of design libraries such as Material, Ant and Semantics etc.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3.
• Sound knowledge of Testing frameworks such as Jest, Enzyme, Mocha, Protector etc.
• Experience of writing unit, integration and E2E tests.
• Experience of integrating third party APIs.
• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.