Senior Frontend Developer - React.js

About Us

GradRight is an Ed-fintech startup focused on global higher education. We are committed to enabling global youth aspirations by helping students find the "right education" at the "right cost". We aim to assist students in discovering their best fit universities and funding plans.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK. Since September 2020, we have received over US$500 million in loan requests and successfully secured over US$75 million in loan approvals for more than 1600 students.

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll build beautiful front-end experiences and enable flexible customer journeys while focusing on an international audience.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead design discussions and decisions around building a scalable and modular front-end architecture
2. Write clean and modular code
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as an SDE, with at least 2 years experience leading teams
2. Strong experience with vue.js
3. Able to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
4. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
5. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
6. Passion for solving complex problems
7. Experience with team management
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience with GraphQL and micro-frontend architectures
2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Job ID: DP0601

Job Description:- 

Job Location- Bangalore, Hyderabad(Type- WFH/Hybrid)

Experience Level- 4-8 Yrs.

Angular JD keywords:

• Experience in Angular 2+ (Latest Version Preferred)
• Strong understanding of the OOPS concept
• Strong understanding of Typescript
• Knowledge of Observables
• Advance knowledge of JavaScript

Job for Front end Developer

WFH

Lead Front end engineers

Skill sets are:

• Typescript
• Javascript
• React
• Redux - global state management experience.

Good to have Back End Javascript experience as well as there might be times when the front end team has to do some back end work (which is the bulk of engineering work).

• Front End Lead (who is a PM / Scrum Master)
• Sr. Front End person who can do Client Interaction i.e. good Communication Skills.
• UI Engineer / Architect who has evolved as a Manager who can take care of Delivery of Front End team only.
• This role will interact with the Product Team to understand the product requirements so that he can be the point of contact for Product Requirements.

As someone who will be a part of our team, your understanding of the product and our customers will be incredibly valuable.

Skills Required

• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.
• Experience with popular state management tool -Redux
• Experience with HTTP based packages like Axios.
• GIT experience is a plus

About You

• You take initiative and ownership to see things through to completion. If it needs doing, you do it.
• You’re eager to take on challenges. When you don’t know something, you embrace the chance to grow and get better.
• We work together as a team, and that means we encourage each other to improve as a team. You are self-sufficient and love the challenge of solving problems and learning new things

As a React.js Developer, you will be involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound and aesthetically impressive.

Benefits:

• Food allowance
• Leave encashment
• Paid sick time

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

• Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.
• Sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.
• Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems. 
• Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.
• Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact. 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field. 
• Minimum 3+ years of UI/Frontend development and a strong understanding of building complex layouts using JavaScript, CSS and HTML.

KEY SKILLS

• Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns including vanilla JavaScript, some experience with ReactJS, Redux, React Native, Webpack, and Typescript or similar library/tools.
• Obsessed with WPO (Web Performance Optimization) and web/mobile performance analysis.
• Experienced with web standards and protocols such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and socket APIs in general.
• Familiar with web security, SEO, accessibility and internationalization.