Senior Frontend Developer

Job Title - Senior Frontend Engineer

About Tazapay 

Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. They offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates. 

They are licensed and backed by leading investors.   www.tazapay.com 

What’s exciting waiting for You? 

This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc. 

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together. 

Are you ready for the ride? 

Find what interesting things you could do with us.

About the Frontend Engineer role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• Lead core development efforts for our front-end applications, ensuring high-quality code that is performant, scalable, secure and maintainable.
• Collaborate closely with the product team to understand user needs and translate them into exceptional user interfaces (UI).
• Partner with the design team to achieve pixel-perfect implementation while maintaining and evolving our design systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable JavaScript with a focus on performance optimization and scalability.
• Champion the use of modern build tools like Vite to streamline development workflows.
• Implement effective unit tests to ensure code quality and stability.
• Take complete ownership of features, from initial discussions with the product manager to incorporating customer feedback.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of modern front-end architecture and best practices.

The Ideal Candidate

Experience

• Proven experience as a senior frontend engineer with a strong track record of building and shipping complex web applications.
• In-depth knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6+), Tailwind CSS, Git, npm, and Sentry.
• Familiarity with integration of front-end with backend web services.
• Strong experience with a popular front-end framework like React, Angular, or Vue.js (Vue.js experience a plus).
• Prior experience developing and maintaining a UI component library.
• Familiarity with modern build tools like Vite and a passion for exploring new technologies.
• Understanding of Git version control and experience with GitHub workflows.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Advanced knowledge in web security best practices to write secure and robust front-end code
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Passion for building high-quality user experiences.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers.
• Active contributions to open-source projects in the front-end development space.

Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.
• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions
• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues
• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach
• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills
• Excellent planning, organisational, and prioritisation skills

If you're a talented and experienced frontend engineer who is passionate about building beautiful, performant, and scalable web applications, we want to hear from you!

Location - Chennai - India

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!

Your Buddy

Tazapay

We are looking for a Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery

• Good understanding of React JS, Redux, Styled Components.
  
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.

Job Description: 

Why are we here?

We are looking for a Fullstack Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include implementing visual elements and their behaviors with user interactions. You will work with both front-end and back-end web developers to build all client-side logic. You will also be bridging the gap between the visual elements and the server-side infrastructure, taking an active role on both sides, and defining how the application looks and functions. You will be boarded into the team that manages higher secondary school projects on the Salesforce stack. You will be given an opportunity to learn the entire ecosystem of salesforce.

Mandatory skills to have/ Responsibilities:

● Overall 4+ years of experience and a strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds. 

● Good understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3. 

● Strong hands-on experience with advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS or Angular 2+ etc.

● Understanding of Software Design Patterns. 

● Good understanding of AJAX, REST APIs, Remote functions, and prior development experience in building the same. 

● Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues. 

● Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Grunt and GulpJs. 

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Good to have:

● Hands-on experience in Python

Our client is India's first one-stop-shop for corporate benefits. They create mutually rewarding relationships between employers and businesses by managing corporate discounts. They enable organizations to incentivize their employees beyond just salary by providing benefits related to Travel, Entertainment, Dining, Education, Shopping and many more spheres of life.

Founded in 2014, this Gurugram based employee rewards platform is led by young founders who are UCLA alumni with experience in companies like Microsoft US, Oracle, Symantec, Amazon, and Reliance. They've partnered with over 10000+ brands across dining, shopping, entertainment, wellness and many more providing exclusive employee discounts, brands like CCD, Samsung, Lifestyle, Flipkart, PVR Cinemas, Zoomcar, OYO, Lifestyle, Mother's Pride, Max Healthcare and more. Our client is leading the $2 billion rewards market in India with 250+ corporate clients including giants like Concentrix, EY, DXC and Mphasis, and they've raised $2 million to date from prominent VCs like GrowX Ventures, Sprout Ventures, and Axilor Ventures.

As a Software Engineer - VP Front End, you will be building world-class websites using JS frameworks.

What you will do:

• Creating modern flat UI.
• Development of the front-end of our application and our public websites.
• Testing the website to ensure it is working.
• Taking ownership of the code your write & features you build.
• Pioneering product ideas, participating in the design and implementing them.
• Strengthening and improving the architecture of our front-end.
• Strengthening and improving development and releasing processes within the team.
• Collaborating with the team and communicate effectively.

What you need to have:

Experience: 2 to 7 years

Build large scale web applications with Single Page Applications (SPA) architecture.

Experience to develop MV(C) based front end frameworks.

Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS.

Experience with JavaScript frameworks like Angular, preferably React.JS.

Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, AJAX and Redux.

Proficient with Chrome Developer Tools.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Restful API services.

Experience in using performance, analytics and UX tools.

Experience with pull request process and contributing to OSS on github.com.

Experience with unit testing frameworks Mocha and Chai.

Experience with Jenkins.

• 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