SDE 2 Frontend Developer

·  4 – 5 years of experience in Front end development

·  2 years of experience using React and Redux

·  3 years of experience in using HTML, CSS

·  1 year of experience in any of the Headless CMS such as Ghost or Strapi or Cockpit.

·  2+ years using JavaScript consuming, displaying and updating data using Web APIs (JSON).

·  2+ years of experience using Material UI and JSS.

● Design and develop responsive and visually appealing web applications and user interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, React frameworks.

● Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and software engineers to understand project requirements and translate them into interactive, user-friendly interfaces.

● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability.

● Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

● Stay updated with the latest industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in UI development, and recommend their integration to enhance our products.

● Identify and address performance and compatibility issues across different browsers and platforms.

● Champion UI development best practices, standards, and guidelines within the development team.

● Collaborate with backend developers to integrate front-end interfaces with server-side logic and APIs.

● Troubleshoot and debug UI-related issues and provide timely resolutions.

● Mentor junior developers, assisting them in enhancing their skills and knowledge in UI development.

● Write and encourage other engineers to write automated tests.

Skills/ Experience

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

● Proven experience as a UI Developer or Front-End Developer, with at least 3+ years of hands-on experience in building user interfaces for web applications.

● Proficiency in front-end technologies such as TypeScript, Tailwind, React, Redux.

● Strong understanding of responsive design principles.

● Solid knowledge of web performance optimization techniques and best practices.

● Familiarity with Figma and other UI/UX design tools, to collaborate effectively with designers.

● Demonstrated experience in writing UI components to corresponding backend APIs and Databases.

● Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex UI-related issues.

● Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.

• Responsible for requirements understanding, propose architecture, detailed design,
• development and timely deliverables with the highest quality standards.
• We are looking for Product creators who can work with minimum inputs from business and are able to deliver products quickly and with quality.
• This person should have worked in Enterprise class product from scratch.
• Start-up experience would be highly desirable.
• Tech Stack: React.js, HTML, CSS, AWS, MySQL, Razor Pay, Google Analytics, SEO, Dev Ops, CI/CD Pipeline

Responsibilities

· Developing user-facing applications using Vue.js

· Building modular and reusable components and libraries

· Optimizing your application for performance

· Implementing automated testing integrated into development and maintenance workflows

· Staying up to date with all recent developments in the JavaScript and Vue.js space

· Keeping an eye on security updates and issues found with Vue.js and all project dependencies

· Proposing any upgrades and updates necessary for keeping up with modern security and development best practices

What we need in you?

· Highly proficient with the JavaScript language and its modern ES6+ syntax and features

· Highly proficient with Vue.js framework and its core principles such as components, reactivity, and the virtual DOM

· Familiarity with the Vue.js ecosystem, including Vue CLI, Vuex, Vue Router, and Nuxt.js

· Good understanding of HTML5 and CSS3, including

· Understanding of server-side rendering and its benefits and use cases

· Knowledge of functional programming and object-oriented programming paradigms

· Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean JavaScript code

· Familiarity with automated JavaScript testing, specifically testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha

· Proficiency with modern development tools, like Babel, Webpack, and Git

· Experience with both consuming and designing RESTful APIs

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.

What your role would be?

We are seeking a Front End Developer to join our core engineering team. Teams are explicitly small and built on mutual respect and high trust. It's not a fit for everyone, but when there's a fit, it’s one of the most rewarding places to work.

Job Responsibilities and Duties

We believe the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business. To join us on this journey, you'll be required to:

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize applications for performance and scalability.

Job Requirements:

You’ll thrive as a Front End Developer at StoryXpress if you:

• Have a good understanding of the core fundamentals of JavaScript
• Have 2+ years designing and implementing rich front-end experiences in React
• Are an expert in web technologies ( HTML5 | CSS3 | ES6 )
• Possess a thorough understanding of the MVC principle and JS design patterns
• Have experience with building user interfaces consuming data from REST APIs

Brownie points!

Your application would be seriously prioritized if you:

• Are a self-starter: you have started something on your own before - a startup, an open-source project, something else.
• Experienced in building and/or maintaining chrome extensions
• Indulged in projects around Data Visualization
• UX design principles and frameworks
• Are acquainted with testing frameworks and performance measurement tools

If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements. We’re building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another.

Why work with us?

You'll love working and growing with StoryXpress if you are comfortable:

• With and curious about working outside of a traditional narrow engineering role.
• Engaging in collaborative problem-solving with your teammates.
• Moving fast: we build, solve problems quickly, and ship often!

Ready to apply?

Are you excited at the possibility of developing an already stellar team to meet the growing needs of our platform and business? Does this opportunity to be a part of one of our young and supportive teams and solve hard problems sound amazing to you? If you share our values and enthusiasm for empowering the world, we’d love to review your application!

This company is a network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

You will be working on AI/IOT react native mobile apps and responsible for hands-on coding. 
We need someone who can write well designed, testable, efficient code by using the best software.

We are looking for a can do it attitude, and the ability to deliver with high velocity and high-quality at the same time.  You must have experience developing and designing amazing UI screens.

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Mobile app development experience.
• Good understanding of the full mobile development life cycle,strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Strong React Native experience
• Understanding of APIs, pagination,searching,sorting
• Creating high performance UI etc.
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Android Studio, Gradle.
• Leverage native APIsfor deep integrations with both platforms.
• Strong communication skills.

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

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