Senior Developer - Javascript/TypeScript

Job Description

• We are looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.
• Responsibilities
• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Core Responsibilities

Front-end Development:

o Develop web applications using React, flask. o Implement responsive design to ensure user-friendly interfaces.

o Utilize mapping libraries (e.g., Leaflet, Mapbox) to display geospatial data.

Back-end Integration:

o Work with APIs and manage data flow for project analytics and management.

o Enhance features for robust data handling and real-time project analysis.

Cloud Deployment:

o Deploy and manage web applications on AWS and similar platforms. o Optimize for performance, scalability, and storage efficiency.

GIS and Mapping Tools:

o Develop tools using GIS data like KML and Shapefiles. 

Job Brief

The job requires Sr Frontend Developer. This Developer is expected to have strong technical skills, work closely with the other team members in development and ability to work stand alone. Ability to work on a small team with minimal supervision, Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

Skills Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field plus 3-5 Years of frontend relevant experience
• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC)
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS and Bootstrap
• Understanding of server-side CSS
• Strong knowledge of frontend scripting languages like JavaScript, jQuery, React js or Angular etc.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design
• Experience with GitHub, Tortoise SVN Version Control
• Understanding of key design principles
• Strong attention to detail
• Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
• Sound analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Collaborating with coworkers to facilitate the creation of large, complex developments, as required.
• Reformulating existing code to ensure adherence to stipulated guidelines.
• Checking your code to detect and remedy errors and omissions.
• Testing your outputs to ensure that they are in excellent working order.
• Deploying developments and monitoring uptake by the target audience.
• Using clients' feedback to inform the creation of subsequent versions of each development.
• Remaining abreast of coding and technological changes that will impact your work.

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha), and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

We have three portals for different types of users and they are written in Angular. Your primary responsibility will be to provide impeccable user experience to the users on all forms of devices. You will be leading the effort of overhaul of one of the portals which we want to partly rewrite. Your Angular, JavaScript and design skills will matter the most here. Apart from this, you will be involved in all design discussions and code reviews and expected to give your inputs to ensure the best frontend development practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Angular. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of Angular.
• Extensive programming experience in HTML5, CSS3, SASS or LESS, and Bootstrap
• Excellent Javascript knowledge and programming experience with ES5/ES6 and TypeScript
• Experience consuming REST APIs
• Responsive design methodologies and techniques

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Experience with UI testing and automation frameworks
• Experience of Chart.js
• Experience of ReactJS

Job Type: Full-time

Salary Offer: 3L PA - 5.4L PA

Job Location: Remote for 6-12 months due to the pandemic, then Mumbai, Maharashtra

Required experience:

1-2 years and above experience in developing frontend UIs using HTML5, CSS, Javascript with ReactJS. Candidate must have experience with data binding and state management (Redux/MobX)

Key Skills required :

1. Proficiency in HTML5 development

2. Proficiency in CSS Frameworks like Bootstrap ⅘

3. Strong understanding of Javascript

4. Hands on experience in building and implementing UIs in ReactJs including experience in building components, observables, state management and data binding

5. Strong expertise in building Responsive Websites

6. Experience fixing performance issues using tools like GTMetrix and Pagespeed Insights

7. Working experience in maintaining code versioning by committing to Git repositories

KRAs includes :

1. Understanding the scope of work and arriving at timelines

2. Frontend UI development using Reactjs, HTML5, Javascript and CSS

3. Implementing media queries and following Responsive Web Design principles for responsive websites

4. Implementing state management, databinding and mocking APIs

5. Unit testing prepared web applications and HTML pages

6. Coordinating with the testers to resolve any bugs

7. Reporting on daily and weekly progress

8. Optimization and performance tuning of code

Role

• Work as part of a small team to build React Native iOS / Android applications.
• Design, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Developing new user-facing features using React Native.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wire-frames into high-quality code
• Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of android and ios devices.
• Release applications to IOS and Google Play stores.
• Work with native modules when required.

Skills

• Strong proficiency in React Js, React Native, JavaScript, TypeScript, Object Oriented Programming - 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native
• Deep knowledge of component state management experience (specifically in React Native)
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle
• Good understanding of Redux
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for bench-marking and optimisation

ob Purpose :

- To lead Design, Development and Maintenance of Frontend Technology for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT, plan & innovate to deliver best-in class product features, ensuring market leadership and future readiness.

- Head the technology team for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT by enhancing and future proofing the technological infrastructure and capabilities to build a world class product.

Key Responsibilities :

Technological Readiness :

- Strengthen VOOT's technological capability

- Evaluate Frontend technology stacks and choose best in class relevant solutions for business

- Build internal capability for technological functions for future readiness

- Drive technical and technological efficiencies to save cost

Technological Innovation :

- Identify avenues for product enhancement

- Convert relevant ideas to POC (Proof of Concept)

- Act as the technical product owner and work with product management team to deliver features and manage releases and enhancement

- Deliver best-in-class product functionality by minimizing crash rate, reducing improving playback time performance and ensuring maximum device coverage

Collaboration and Partner Management :

- Evaluate and finalize new partners for product enhancement from technical perspective

- Developing technological road maps in collaboration with Product team & external technology partners

- Timely and quality delivery of product/features, including outsourced functionalities and services with no downtime

Resource management of external partners to deliver results

Team management

- Work with the HR partner to create a workforce plan

- Review performance on regular basis

- Ensure optimum levels of engagement through appropriate recognition channels

- Provide inputs on hiring and succession planning

- Identify training needs by using TNA method

Key Performance Indicators :

- Develop best in class product functionality

- Ensure technological readiness for product

- Increase in the number of active daily video viewers

- Application Store rating

- Maintaining a crash rate & Maintain playability above 90%

- No. of new & high quality features rolled out on the platform

Skills : Front End, Android, iOS