Senior Frontend Engineer

• Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in front-end development with a strong focus on React.js.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript frameworks/libraries.
• React Expertise: Deep understanding of React.js and its core principles, including hooks, context API, and state management.
• Tools: Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), build tools (e.g., Webpack), and testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with: Knowledge of TypeScript, Redux, and modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Design: Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and responsive design.
• Blockchain: Understanding of blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency concepts is a plus.

We are a B2B SaaS company that is re-imagining how companies use sales incentives to motivate their employees. We believe great results are only achieved when people are motivated - and our product is nothing but an extension of that philosophy.

On a more day-to-day level, our product takes away the ambiguity and grunt-work behind manual sales incentive calculation, and allows companies to experiment with incentive plans that actually work for every employee - and not just top performers. We are a team of experienced founders who between them have built and sold software products pretty much all across the globe. We are backed by some of the best angels and institutional investors in India - and are growing at breakneck speed.

We are seeking a skilled React JS Developer for a three-month contract to join our dynamic team. You will be responsible for developing and implementing user interface components using React.js concepts and workflows such as Redux, Flux, and Webpack. The ideal candidate should have proficient knowledge of React tools, excellent troubleshooting skills, and the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new user-facing features using React.js.
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Past Intership with React.js and its core principles.
• Usage experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

Qapita is a SaaS-Net startup with offices in India & Singapore. Qapita’s vision is to transform how equity is managed and traded in the private capital markets in this region. Qapita’s software solution seeks to automate the equity management process for startups including workflows around CapTables, ESOPs, Due-diligence, and transactions. Qapita’s market place solution seeks to facilitate liquidity to ESOP holders and shareholders via structured liquidity programs and secondary transactions. Qapita seeks to automate all processes for equity matters in private markets via its digital platform.

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Developer who is curious, craves for new challenges and loves to solve problems using latest technology. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing user interface components using React.js concepts and workflows such as Redux, Flux, and Webpack.

You will also be responsible for profiling and improving front-end performance and documenting our front-end codebase.

Our Tech stack:

Frontend: React, Typescript, Html, SCSS

Backend: Linux (Ubuntu), ASP.NET Core, C#, Nginx, MongoDB, EventStoreDB

Responsibilities: As a Senior Frontend Developer, you will be

• Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.

• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.

• Identifying web-based user interactions.

• Developing and implementing highly-responsive user interface components using React concepts.

• Writing application interface code using TypeScript following React.js workflows.

• Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application code.

• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.

• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.

• Documenting application changes and developing updates.

Desired Skills and Experience :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a similar field.

• Previous experience working as a React.js Developer (4+ years).

• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML and front-end languages.

• Knowledge of TypeScript a plus.

• Knowledge of React tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux.

• Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.

• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.

• Excellent troubleshooting skills.

• - Contribute to a full development life cycle, including: requirements analysis, functional design, technical design, programming, testing, documentation, implementation, and on-going technical support.
• - Work closely with the existing team to learn the current application architecture, design and understand its functionalities and complexities.
• - Bridge the gap between graphic design and backend technical implementation
• - Build modular, responsive templates using modern CSS techniques
• - Translate UI/UX design wireframes to actual code
• - Testing cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility for inconsistencies.

• - 4+ years of industry experience as a Front End Developer Engineer in ReactJS
• - Degree in Computer Science or related field
• - Experience with developing web and mobile applications
• - Extensive knowledge HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript / jQuery / Bootstrap / ReactJS
• - Strong experience in JSON/XML and REST/SOAP based Web Service based integration.
• - Experience (mandatory) with working Web Framework versions with exposure to creating components and handling AJAX calls.
• - Good to have knowledge in JIRA, GIT.
• - Strong knowledge of Client-Server Architecture.
• - Basic Proficiency with Python or relevant back-end scripting language
• - Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
• - A positive attitude, and a growth mindset
• - Great attention to details

• - Experience with API testing software (e.g. Postman)
• - Good Humor

• 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

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or 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 GraphQL is a plus.

• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

• 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


Timeline:

Job Description:

The UI Engineer(4-7)  will design; develop front-end for AgroStar product solutions.

 Key areas of responsibility:

1. Responsible for core UI framework, implements and maintains it.
2. Operates effectively as an individual for quick turnaround of enhancements and fixes.
3. Responsible for the development of the front-end applications and components.
4. Responsible for architecture & design of the product.
5. Co-ordinate with the backend engineers & designers for requirement gathering of the product.
6. Responsible for creating POCs to design a scalable system.
7. Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
8. Responsible for quality assurance including web usability, accessibility, testing and debugging.

 As an ideal ‘Agstar UI Engineer’, you will need:

 3-7 years of prior hands-on experience in building responsive web interfaces for consumers

Significant experience with Git and GitHub including managing branches, merges, and administration

Ability to translate product requirements into functional code.

Ability to estimate the scope of work for sprint planning.

Top-notch programming skills.

Self-motivated and able to work in a small team with minimal supervision

Strong development experience on the following technologies -

HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX,  working with REST APIs.

Must be fluent in writing code in  ES6+ along with linters.

CSS preprocessor - SCSS/ LESS.

Front end frameworks/library such as ReactJS, Redux.

Web standards, Responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility, SEO, Accessibility.

We are looking for enthusiastic intrapreneurs who want to work at the ‘grass root’ level and want to make a difference to India’s biggest sector. We hope this excites you as much as us and looking forward to the next few conversations.