React.js Developer

• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

• Experience with standard front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and backend services

• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial

• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus

• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

Headless Development: Lead the frontend development of our Shopify app, including

building new features, revamping existing functionalities, and optimising performance.

User Interface Design: Collaborate with the design team to implement responsive,

pixel-perfect UI components that align with our brand’s aesthetic and provide an intuitive

user experience.

Custom Theme Development: Create and customise Shopify themes to enhance the

visual appeal and functionality of our online store, ensuring compatibility with various

devices and browsers.

Integration and API Management: Work with third-party APIs and Shopify's API to integrate

necessary functionalities, such as payment gateways, shipping solutions, and marketing

tools.

Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and improve the app’s performance,

ensuring fast load times, seamless navigation, and a smooth user experience.

Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including backend developers,

designers, marketers, and product managers, to deliver high-quality solutions on time.

Code Review and Best Practices: Maintain clean, modular, and reusable code. Participate

in code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices in frontend development.

Troubleshooting and Debugging: Identify and resolve issues, bugs, and performance

bottlenecks in a timely manner to ensure a seamless user experience.

Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for code, processes,

and development workflows.

If a misaligned shadow bothers you, we already like you 😆

• Master's / Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Self taught developer.
• 3+ years of experience in fundamentals of web, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Vue or React.
• Understanding of product design, user experience and skills to recreate and match high quality pixel perfect designs and can go above and beyond in detailing.
• Has ability to build a ground up resoluble components and in-house UI system that can scale across the product.

A collaborative role with Individual ownership ✅

• Ownership of developing UI related features. Work with with the rest of the engineering team to develop, launch or maintain features.
• Take ownership of design <> dev collaboration and participate in the education of both sides.
• Work closely with design team and become a bridge between engineering and design.
• Maintain code integrity.

• Expertise in React tools including React.js, Webpack, Babel, Redux/Flux, React router.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
• Practised in any one CSS frameworks like material UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap, ANT design.
• Experient working on web API like RESTful Web services, • Proficiency in using Graphql, WebSocket, webhooks.
• Should be able to design and build modern user interfaces to enhance application performance.
• Hands-on experience in browser-based debugging, performance testing software and deployment, with an attention to detail that supports the software development cycle.
• Experience with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha
• Experience in an Agile environment

About the company

Qrata is hiring for a Venture funded startup that is backed by marquee investors. Their product provides a collaborative new way for SaaS companies to onboard their large customers. Our unified workspace aims to help streamline customer onboarding and implementation journeys, and get every customer off to a great start.

Quick Facts

Founded in: 2020

Number of Employees: 11 - 50 employees

Industries: Computer Software / IT / Internet

Location: Chennai

Senior frontend lead

Description

Are you a front-end developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you

looked at world class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of

the early team that built these products”?

we’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS

products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser focused on delivering a world

class new product again, and looking for an ambitious front-end engineer to join our existing

team.

If it excites you to think of a fast paced start-up environment, building something big from

scratch, breaking down new problems, creating well structured UI components, executing on

pixel perfect design, paying great attention to every little interaction detail, and doing demos

of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right

opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work-on as a front-end developer would include

building real-time collaboration experiences across our product, building live document

editing and modern spreadsheet experiences from scratch, creating flexible new

Kanban-style views of work tasks, and crafting cool new UI components and interactions that

we will use across our product.

Tech Requirements

• Expertise in React
• Hands-on experience in HTML, CSS, SASS & Object Oriented Javascript
• Code audits and guidelines
• SPA Framework patterns
• Browser features (Caching / Storage / Compatibility etc )
• Test automation
• Deployment strategy

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AWS
• Experience with startups or early stage teams
• Typescript
• Knowledge of module bundlers like Webpack