React.js Developer

About Us

GradRight is an Ed-fintech startup focused on global higher education. We are committed to enabling global youth aspirations by helping students find the "right education" at the "right cost". We aim to assist students in discovering their best fit universities and funding plans.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK. Since September 2020, we have received over US$500 million in loan requests and successfully secured over US$75 million in loan approvals for more than 1600 students.

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll build beautiful front-end experiences and enable flexible customer journeys while focusing on an international audience.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead design discussions and decisions around building a scalable and modular front-end architecture
2. Write clean and modular code
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as an SDE, with at least 2 years experience leading teams
2. Strong experience with vue.js
3. Able to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
4. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
5. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
6. Passion for solving complex problems
7. Experience with team management
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience with GraphQL and micro-frontend architectures
2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Roles and Responsibilities

• Working with designers, product managers to collaboratively own the front-end layer at FalconBrick and deliver stellar end user experiences
• Building responsive and elegant mobile and desktop web UIs
• Test, debug and maintain the application software throughout the product lifecycle
• Architect, develop and maintain front-end libraries

Desired Candidate Profile

• You love working with JavaScript and are very familiar with JavaScript design patterns and can build fairly complex UI
• Have at least 2 years experience in development of responsive web/mobile applications using advanced JS and web technologies
• And with at least 1 year of experience building frontend UI with a framework like ReactJS
• Youre very comfortable in writing HTML and CSS and love designing beautiful webpages
• Have good communication skills, strong work ethics And are comfortable with agile, iterative development practices and code reviews

Requirements

• 2-5 years of experience as a front-end developer
• Experienced in developing applications using JavaScript, ReactJS, Redux, Redux Saga, NodeJS, HTML5, CSS3/CSS4 and other UI technologies.
• Understanding and experience with ES6 concepts, asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation.
• Experience with REST API construction, documentation, and architecture, including API description languages like Swagger.
• Comfortable writing Unit Test Cases (Enzyme/ Jest)
• Familiar with cloud services: AWS, Dev-ops such as Git, Jira, Confluence
• Good to have experience/knowledge of
  • Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security)
  • Docker,
  • Scala,
  • Python
• Able to connect the dots between code and business value

Responsibilities

• Engage in high level conversations about business strategy and the role tech plays in it
• Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code that powers our application
• Write specs and do planning for everything we build
• Conduct application analysis, testing, and debugging
• Diligently document code to keep it clean and transparent
• Ensure cross-browser and device compatibility

You Are

• You believe it’s always on you to make sure anything you do is a success.
• You have the ability to make quick and effective decisions.
• In love with a challenge. You revel in solving problems and want a job that pushes you out of your comfort zone.
• Open to change. You’re inspired by the endless ways in which everything we do can always be improved.

Add-Ons/Interview Process

• You should be comfortable working in a Start-up for in-house product development.
• Will not be engaged with any Client, but with the internal team (in India & the US).
• Will be provided a hands-on exercise to complete and submit as a part of interview.

TECHNICAL SKILLSET

• You have strong experience with semantic HTML5, CSS3, and a CSS preprocessor of your choice SASS or LESS, understanding of writing modular CSS (Must)
• You have strong knowledge of Object Oriented JavaScript (Must)
• You have strong experience with Angular or any other frameworks like Ember, Backbone or React (Must)
• You have working experience with large scale front-end architectures
• You have good knowledge in using restful web services
• You have a strong focus on performance
• You have knowledge of CSS animations
• You have experience with automation tools like Web-pack, Grunt or Gulp
• You have knowledge of unit testing tools like Jasmine, Karma etc.

Job Role

• As a Frontend Developer you will be responsible for extending and optimizing product user interfaces. You will work in a team of developers and designers to build cutting edge, graphical appealing user interfaces that provide a great user experience
• Develop web applications using various JavaScript frameworks 
• Have attention to detail and identify potential performance weak spots
• Find and share frontend best-practices with team members and other developers
• You will be actively involved during the entire technology development lifecycle.
• Responsibilities will include all aspects from design, coding, testing, customer feedback cycle changes and support.
• Work with a team of amazing developers and designers involved in the design and development of global platforms, participate in Agile sprints
• Invent and prototype new features, build, test and ship them to customers as SaaS, cloud based or hosted product platforms
• You will be working on one of the fastest growing e-Commerce platforms in exciting application areas like core commerce, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment, merchant and offline to Online, mobile commerce, analytics, automation, DevOps and a lot more for the global markets positioned for Asia.
• Participate in a fun, open learning environment with great benefits and smart talented folks that represent among the best globally.

Qualification

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Quinbay is an upstart digital platforms and products company with a core focus on disrupting traditional markets and business models with the strength of our innovation driven digital value. We harness the power of our open innovation culture, our unique talent selection approach, the skills and expertise of our people across various industries, domains and technologies and a unique blend of analytics driven strategies for creating future digital platforms.

OPPORTUNITIES : Pursue opportunities in and learning/growth interests in Mobile, product development, product management, Analytics, Machine learning, UI/UX design, DevOps, Automation, Drones, bots and Java / open source development frameworks and methodologies – on a variety of domains like eCommerce, Logistics and fulfilment, Mcommerce and a whole lot others.

Opportunities to be part of fastest growing eCommerce platforms in exciting application areas like core commerce, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment, merchant, mobile commerce, analytics, automation and a lot more for the global markets positioned for Asia.