Senior Associate - React.js

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Role

We are looking for an experienced Frontend engineer with ReactJS development experience to join our team.
Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Implement responsive and performant UIs with user centered approach with frontend technologies including ReactJS, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc
• Write meaningful test cases for frontend &amp
• Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc

Ideal Background / Experience

• At least 12 months of diverse experience in web development for product or services oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments
• Expertise in programming using Python/ReactJS or similar scripting languages
• In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Nice to have exposure to any of

• AWS
• Azure
• ELK
• Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)
• Google APIs
• Microservices Architecture Pattern
• NodeJS / ExpressJS

Job Description:

We are looking for an expert JavaScript developer who is highly skilled with Vue.js. Your primary focus will be developing user-facing web applications and components.

Good experience in VueJS. Background of React/Angular.Strong knowledge of OOJS and ES6

Ability to write reusable, effective, and scalable JavaScript code. Building modular and reusable components and libraries. Translating client’s technical specifications into code.

You’ll implement them with the Vue.js framework, following generally accepted practices and workflows. You will ensure that you produce robust, secure, modular, and maintainable code. You will coordinate with other team members, including back-end developers and UX/UI designers. Your commitment to team collaboration, perfect communication, and a quality product is crucial.

Work Experience: 3 to 4 years

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.

Skills:

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 Skills.

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

Good understanding of HTML5 and CSS3, including ( Sass or Less depending on your technology stack )

Knowledge of functional programming and object-oriented programming paradigms

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

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

Good understanding of HTML5 and CSS3, including ( Sass or Less depending on your technology stack )

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.

Experience with both consuming and designing RESTful APIs.

Position Summary


Clarista.io turns current enterprise data silos into a ‘Live Data Network’, easy to use, always available, with flexibility to create any analytics. Clarista is designed for both business and technical users, hence the user interface plays a pivotal role in ensuring performance with large datasets and a superior user experience.

What You'll Do


You will be part of Clarista’s UI engineering team. You will work in our cloud native environment and perform following activities to support core product development and client specific projects:

• You will build & support responsive web user interfaces by using ReactJS
• You will ensure usability of the interfaces and workflows for end users
• You will integrate user interfaces with data and other interfaces through APIs
• You will collaborate with cloud and data engineering teams to enable end-to-end functionality
• You will partner with other team members in understanding the functional / non-functional business requirements, and translate them into software development tasks
• You will follow the software development best practices in ensuring that the code architecture and quality of code written by you is of high standard, as expected from an enterprise software
• You will be a proactive contributor to team and project discussions

 Who you are


• Strong education track record 
• Bachelors or an advanced degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline from Indian Institute of Technology or equivalent premium institute.
• 2-3 years of experience in UI Development using ReactJS
• An ideal candidate will be responsible to produce high-quality solutions; bringing a deep understanding of modern HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and the software development life cycle and a strong ability to execute and implement standard software architecture patterns.
• Expert knowledge of JavaScript to design optimized and modular components that will be used across platforms.
• Proficient with ReactJS, Redux, Service Workers, Optimized coding practices, Progressive Web Apps (PWA), Context API, System design, Web concepts, Server-Side Rendering (SSR), lazy loading.
• Should have experience working with any of the chart’s library like charts.js, Highcharts.js, etc.
• Should know how to write modular and optimized code.
• Should have good knowledge around error handling.
• Fair understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility issues.
• Experience versioning control systems such as GIT
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Self-starter, continuous learner.

Good to have some exposure to

• Start-up experience is highly preferred
• Exposure to micro front ends.
• Agile software development methodologies.
• Working in multi-functional, multi-location teams

What You'll Love About Us – Do ask us about these!

• Be an integral part of the founding team. You will work directly with the founder
• Work Life Balance. You can't do a good job if your job is all you do!
• Prepare for the Future. Academy – we are all learners; we are all teachers!
• Diversity & Inclusion. HeForShe!
• Internal Mobility. Grow with us!
• Business knowledge of multiple sectors

• Deep knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5
• Extensive knowledge of CSS3 and JS methods for providing performance visual effects and keeping the frame rate above 30fps at all times
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A team player, fast learner with good verbal and written communication skills