Senior Frontend Engineer

Responsibilities
- Design and build highly reliable and performant applications that deliver a great user
experience.
- Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.
- Take the accountability of the overall health of the applications you build.
- Platformize components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse.
- Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly
Skills & Requirements
▪ Work Experience between 4 to 10 years in large scale applications with desire to work in fast
paced startups
● Thorough understanding of React Native and its core Principles.
● Hands-on experience on React Native Framework at least 2 years.
● Good Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3.
● Familiarity with GIT, RESTful APIs and modern front-end build pipelines and tools.

1. Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
   
2. Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
   
3. Health insurance for you and your family

Requirements:

• 4-6 years of overall development experience.
• Very good understanding of core Javascript concepts.
• 3 years of React Native experience for iOS and/or Android.
• Extensive knowledge about mobile app development.
• This includes the whole process from the first line of code to publishing in the store(s).
• Some understanding of the build process involved with iOS and Android.
• Comfortable with basic design concepts and flex ui.
• Great attention to code quality & coding standards.
• Good grasp of architectural principles and patterns.
• Proficiency in Javascript/Typescript.
• Very good communication skills in English.

Requirement: -

• Managing a team of 3-4 engineers 
• Hands on experience in Web applications and Mobile applications.
• 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Should have experience in React.js as well
• Experience working with Swift, Objective C, and Java a plus.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Familiar with Agile development methodology
• Should have strong fundamentals in React Native
• Should be good at Languages React Native, iOS, Android mobile
• Should be well versed with mobile application architecture
• Ensure and apprise stakeholders of technical feasibility, effort, and impact of implementations.
• Interact with clients to understand requirements.
• Able to convert business requirements to sizable tasks for developers to implement.

BitClass, a VC funded startup in edtech, is looking for a React Native developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes—React Native moves fast and often breaks things.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Transition existing Android app to React Native.

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle, Android Studio/IntelliJ
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
• Experience with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha

	RSPP Write Up
(Role - Skill - Persona - Process)
Company Write-up (Vision, Current News, Funding Status, Geography Presence)	Zoko makes it easy for businesses to do Sales, Marketing and Customer Support on WhatsApp. WhatsApp is the internet of the #nextbillion and Zoko’s vision is to become the Shopify for merchants, selling on WhatsApp. We are backed the best - YCombinator, Ryan Hoover (the founder of Product Hunt), Binny Bansal backed 021 Capital and other illustrious YC Alumni. We have over 300 paying merchants and were already profitable when we raised $1.4 Million in March ’21 to bring on more engineering talent to execute our vision. You will be working with a great team of fully-remote engineers, with a bias towards action. Reporting to a CTO who single handedly built an entire web app that got us 20 paying businesses and raised our Seed round. We brought-on our first engineer after that. Top 3 characteristics we look for are Execution, Execution, Execution. We’d love to see what you have built before and dig deep into those. Let’s talk about problems you have solved before and how you’ve approached them. This is a great ground floor opportunity with a great salary and equity package. To give a sense of how valuable our equity is, the first employee’s equity has already grown 15X in the last 12 months.
Role	Senior Frontend Engineer
Location	Bangalore / Kochi / Remote
Budget	30-40 LPA + 0.15% to 0.2% equity
Define the Role ( Areas of functioning)	1. Leads and executes the mobile development strategy for the company 2. Mentors a young and hungry development team 3. Participate in the overall growth of the product by developing / researching tech that can give the product an edge over the competition

Key outcomes expected from the role in next 2-4 quarters (OKRs)	1. Implementation of the mobile version(s) of the app in Android and iOS 2.Establish a support team to handle mobile related support issues 3. Track and improve product usability 4. Improve the stability of product releases
Persona ( Success Profile)	8-12 years of experience in web and mobile development Experience in leading and executing project(s) Flutter experience is a plus Great humour sense

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Skills (Mandatory & Optional)	Mandatory - Cross-Platform App Development experience - Extensive knowledge in React / React Native - Team leading experience Optional - Flutter experience
Process (Interview Rounds and what each round focuses on)	Round 1- (Google Meet) - Founders (screening) Round 2-(Google Meet) - Chief Architect Round 3-(Google Meet) - Founders / CTO

We are looking for an Android developer who has hands-on experience in coding, building technology blocks, help answer choice of certain platform/tech over others, help the team visualize the product with the available resources and assets. 

 

What you’ll do:

 

• Design, develop, and test functionality for the latest app design.
• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release, and support).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and develop new features.
• Take requirements and specs from design to development and be the first line of quality assurance.
• Understand user requirements—these apps have to meet real-world scenarios.
• Support the Supersub Mobile application in its entirety, including working on bug fixes and improving application performance, reliability and stability.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

 

What you bring:

 

• 3+ years of mobile software development experience.
• 3+ years of Kotlin Android development preferred.
• Solid Firebase & Firestore experience.
• Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance timeline vs features, while not sacrificing quality, and all within a fast-paced environment.
• Extensive knowledge in object-oriented software development, various architecture such as MVC/MVVM/MVP, multithreading, networking and memory management.
• Knowledge of standard Android libraries and frameworks.
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Android SDK, including relevant frameworks, such as testing and mocking frameworks, REST clients, dependency injection, etc.