Senior Frontend Developer

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled SDE 2 React Web Developer to join its dynamic engineering team. As an SDE 1, the developer will be responsible for building and maintaining user-facing features for the web platform using React. The developer will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and efficient applications that offer an exceptional experience to Revv's users.

Responsibilities

• Develop responsive, user-friendly, and high-performance web applications using React.js and related technologies.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver new features and improve existing ones.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, ensuring a high level of code quality.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and debug application issues, ensuring a smooth user experience.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and best practices in web development.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement within the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in React.js, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience with state management libraries like Redux or Context API.
• Familiarity with version control systems, primarily Git.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and integrating them into front-end applications.
• Strong understanding of web performance optimization techniques.
• Basic experience with testing frameworks like Jest, Mocha, or Enzyme.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and as part of a team.

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

Skills:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Experience in GraphQL
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

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!

• Develop user interfaces with the latest frontend technologies
• Research, analyze, and develop product features of increasingly complex nature
• Code tested and documented JavaScript, HTML, PUG and CSS
• Make design and technical decisions for ReactJs projects.
• Develop application code and unit testing in the ReactJs with REST APIs
• Ensure high performance of all systems developed
• Experience in ReactJS project deployments and hosting on AWS/Google Cloud/Azure servers
• Good understanding of Linux based systems.
• 3+ years’ experience with ReactJs
• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Experienced in Typescript is a plus
• Familiarity with testing frameworks
• Experience in building highly reusable and decoupled components
• Experience in State management Libraries like Redux, mobx
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills.

• Should have experience in  developing and working on consumer facing web/app
• Proficient understanding of JavaScript libraries and frameworks ReactJS
• Proficient understanding of server side rendering through Next.js
• Proven skillsets in responsive Web UI development for enterprise application using technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, React JS Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems
• Should have experience on HTML5/CSS3, Javascript ,Redux, APIs Integration
• 3-4 years of experience in building client side cross platforms javascript apps in Web & mobile.
• Good experience of developing and integrating APIs
• Develop high-quality software design and architecture
• Review and debug code
• Find and address performance issues
• Proficient understanding of Git

• Very Strong communication and consulting skills
• Strong front-end development skills, experience with JavaScript libraries/frameworks mainly Angular JS Preferably Version 7 or Version 5
• Experience working with server-side JavaScript Frameworks and build tools (node.js, bower, grunt, gulp)
• Demonstrable experience developing large-scale applications using one or more MV* patterns (MVVM, MVC, MVP)
• Expertise in developing single page web applications using front-end routing, consuming JSON-based RESTful APIs, client-side templating
• Strong competency in responsive layouts leveraging CSS and media queries and related UI frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap, Foundation)
• Experience with CSS preprocessors (e.g., Sass, LESS)
• Experience with code analysis tools (e.g., JSLint, JSPerf)
• Practical knowledge of web page optimization techniques and guidelines for fast page load times
• Strong understanding of Ajax and/or promises
• Experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team.
• Experience working with a distributed version control system (git, mercurial)
• Experience writing unit tests in one or more of the following: karma, mocha, chai, sinon, jasmine, jest
• Experience working on AWS. Basic understanding of Security Groups/ VPC etc.
• Experience on working with & integrating with microservices
• Experience on developing/ using CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins/ Git