React.js developer

As a Frontend Engineer with a focus on Next.js and React, you will play a crucial role in crafting and delivering exceptional user experiences for our users.

Position: Frontend Engineer (Next.js/React)

Location: Hyderabad

Type: Full-time

Job Overview:

We are seeking a skilled Frontend Engineer with a strong foundation in Next.js and React to join our talented development team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating visually appealing and highly functional web applications. As a Frontend Engineer, you will collaborate closely with designers and backend developers to bring our products to life while ensuring the best possible performance and user experience.

Responsibilities:

Develop user-facing features and components using Next.js and React

Collaborate with UI/UX designers to translate design mockups into responsive web applications

Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability

Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality, performance, and adherence to coding standards

Collaborate with backend engineers to design and integrate RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints

Identify and address performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot UI issues

Stay up-to-date with the latest frontend development trends and best practices

Contribute to architectural decisions and technical discussions

Mentor junior developers and provide guidance on best practices and coding techniques

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)

2 to 3 years of professional experience in frontend development

Proficiency in Next.js and React.js is a must

Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (ES6+)

Experience working with RESTful APIs and GraphQL

Familiarity with version control systems such as Git

Solid understanding of responsive and mobile-first design principles

Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX) is a plus

Knowledge of build tools like Webpack and Babel

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team in an agile environment

Portfolio of past projects demonstrating frontend expertise is a plus

Benefits:

Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Collaborative and inclusive company culture

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects with a talented team

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

What you can expect as a Senior Frontend Engineer at HappyFox:

• You will consistently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. 
• You’ll work alongside the Product, Design, and, Backend Engineering teams to iterate on new features within HappyFox products.
• You will advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• You will solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• You will craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. 
• You will maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• You will recognize inefficiencies in our team, and propose solutions.

You should apply if:

• You have 5+ years of relevant professional experience in building web applications with javascript frameworks like Ember.js or React.js.
• You have a sound knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• You can clearly and concisely communicate complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough, iterative solutions.
• You are comfortable working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• You have demonstrated the ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• You have a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• You have experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• You are self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.

• Conceptualizing creative ideas with clients.
• Testing and improving the design of the website.
• Establishing design guidelines, standards, and best practices.
• Maintaining the appearance of websites by enforcing content standards.
• Designing visual imagery for websites and ensuring that they are in line with branding for clients.
• Working with different content management systems.
• Communicating design ideas using user flows, process flows, site maps, and wireframes.
• Incorporating functionalities and features into websites.
• Designing sample pages including colors and fonts.
• Preparing design plans and presenting the website structure.

• A relevant diploma in a related field.
• Proficiency in graphic design software including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and other visual design tools.
• Proficiency in front-end development web programming languages such as HTML and CSS, JQuery, and JavaScript.
• Good understanding of content management systems.
• Good understanding of search engine optimization principles.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues.
• Excellent visual design skills.
• Up-to-date experience with international web protocols, standards, and technologies.
• Creative and open to new ideas.
• Adaptable and willing to learn new techniques.
• Excellent communication skills.

• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to brainstorm and resolve complex problems.
• Ensure the quality of code is up to the highest standard of readability, conciseness, efficiency, modularity, and extensibility.
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Must-haves

• At least 3 years of experience working in frontend for desktop and mobile web.
• Familiar with design tools and convert them to actual code (HTML+CSS+JavaScript)
• Mastery in DOM Manipulation (including Jquery) and understand components, CTAs.
• Well-versed in other non-vanilla languages (ex. TypeScript)
• Well-versed in standard frontend framework (ex. ReactJS)
• Understanding of GraphQL APIs.
• Deep understanding of web technologies in various mobile systems
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services.

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in Frontend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Relevant work experience as a UI Developer. Proficient in JavaScript , ReactJS and/or Reactive Native, Angular , JQuery Experience with HTML, CSS, Knowledge of web services and related technologies (REST) Experience with Web Services and API integration
• Candidate should have a stronghold on HTML & CSS
• Can understand and troubleshoot REST APIs calls
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Knowledge of SASS & LESS will be a plus as well
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Use JavaScript and cutting-edge JS frameworks to develop front end applications that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models
2. Solve and articulate complex problems through application design, product development, and user experiences. 
3. Develop software used by people who are not software developers--ensure the exceptional software you create influences them to be exceptional professionals in their respective fields
4. Collaborate with other programmers and mentor junior engineers through the development process
5. Leverage the knowledge of your peers to better understand business trends, customer communities, and technology adoption patterns
6. Evolve your language skills in JavaScript by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools.

We are looking for a smart, passionate hands-on engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible to drive innovation in full-stack development of complex web applications, while improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

You should:

1. Have thorough knowledge of JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap.
2. Be familiar with different PHP CMS (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla) and frameworks.
3. Be able to unit test the code components; Document the code and the functionality.
4. Be a good and quick learner, and open to learn new technologies in JavaScript Frameworks.
5. Good to have experience in MySQL/ MariaDB databases.
6. Good to have experience working with outside data sources and API’s.
7. Have Good Communication skills.

1. Deliver stable and scalable solutions in HTML, and JavaScript
2. Update existing components to support changing needs.
3. Improve the internal team culture of high-quality software development.
4. Cooperate with team members on maintaining existing solutions beyond means of code development.
5. Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

What we offer:

• Various challenges ranging from scratch design/architecture to end-user experienced performance.
• Flexible working process, openness to suggestions and a fresh point of view.
• Room for self-improvement and knowledge exchange within the team.
• Close cooperation with Customer Experience Team providing actual feedback on end-user experience.
• Transparent cooperation with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities 
- Develop new user-facing features 
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs 
- Optimize application for maximum speed

Skills And Qualifications 
- 2+ years of experience in ReactJS and Redux 
- 1+ completed project of reasonable size using server-side rendering 
- Knowledge of Preact is a plus 
- Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 
- Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS 
- Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX 
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. 
- Proficient understanding of Git