Senior Frontend Engineer (React)

Experience: 1+ Years

Roles & Responsibilities:

Design and develop cross-platform mobile applications using React Native, ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and code quality.

Collaborate with UI/UX designers and backend developers to implement intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces.

Contribute to the technical design and architecture of mobile applications, ensuring scalability, modularity, and maintainability.

Evaluate and select appropriate libraries, frameworks, and tools to enhance the development process and application performance.

Implement new features and functionality in mobile applications based on project requirements and specifications.

Write clean and efficient code, conduct thorough testing, and ensure proper documentation of the implemented features.

Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and backend developers, to ensure smooth project execution and timely delivery.

Identify and resolve bugs, performance issues, and other technical problems in mobile applications. Conduct debugging, testing, and optimization to ensure the stability and reliability of the applications.

Optimize the performance of mobile applications by identifying and addressing bottlenecks, reducing loading times, and improving memory usage.

Conduct profiling and performance testing to enhance the overall user experience.

Write unit tests and conduct thorough testing to ensure the quality, functionality, and compatibility of mobile applications across different devices and platforms.

Collaborate with quality assurance engineers to identify and resolve any defects or issues.

Stay updated with the latest trends, best practices, and advancements in mobile app development, particularly in the React Native ecosystem.

Continuously enhance your skills and knowledge to contribute to the improvement of the team's development processes and standards.

Requirements:

Proven experience as a Software Engineer, with a minimum of 1+years, specifically in mobile app development using React Native.

Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React Native framework.

Familiarity with native mobile development (iOS and Android) and related tools.

Experience with mobile app testing frameworks, such as Jest or Detox.

Understanding of RESTful APIs and integration of mobile apps with backend services.

Knowledge of mobile app performance optimization techniques and tools.

Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and practices.

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.

Preferred Qualification:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

● Design and develop responsive and visually appealing web applications and user interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, React frameworks.

● Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and software engineers to understand project requirements and translate them into interactive, user-friendly interfaces.

● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability.

● Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

● Stay updated with the latest industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in UI development, and recommend their integration to enhance our products.

● Identify and address performance and compatibility issues across different browsers and platforms.

● Champion UI development best practices, standards, and guidelines within the development team.

● Collaborate with backend developers to integrate front-end interfaces with server-side logic and APIs.

● Troubleshoot and debug UI-related issues and provide timely resolutions.

● Mentor junior developers, assisting them in enhancing their skills and knowledge in UI development.

● Write and encourage other engineers to write automated tests.

Skills/ Experience

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

● Proven experience as a UI Developer or Front-End Developer, with at least 3+ years of hands-on experience in building user interfaces for web applications.

● Proficiency in front-end technologies such as TypeScript, Tailwind, React, Redux.

● Strong understanding of responsive design principles.

● Solid knowledge of web performance optimization techniques and best practices.

● Familiarity with Figma and other UI/UX design tools, to collaborate effectively with designers.

● Demonstrated experience in writing UI components to corresponding backend APIs and Databases.

● Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex UI-related issues.

● Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.

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We are a company dedicated to helping people find the food they love, no matter what food interests or dietary preferences they may have. You’ll be joining in the very early stages of the company, and have the chance to influence the direction of the company with your ideas and contributions.

Our Tech Stack (Front End):

• JQuery
• Bootstrap
• EJS templates
• HTML/CSS All new modules
• js with a team-maintained and crowd-sourced component library Middleware/Back end.
• Express
• js
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• API layer
• Elastic Search

Desired attributes:

• Enjoys iterative/agile development – We will iterate based on internal and customer feedback until we make an awesome product! We also have a very deep and compelling product roadmap we make consistent progress against.
• Works well collaboratively with other developers, contributing to the codebase, performing code reviews, and mentoring a team of junior developers. We have a lot of junior developers learning to code that need mentorship/leadership.
• A passion for food would be great, our business is to help pair people up with amazingly good food.
• Results-oriented

Responsibilities:

• Ability to build on and maintain a fully functional responsive web application
• Experience building API-driven applications

Qualifications:

• CS Degree is great but development skills are more important than degrees
• Ability to build and maintain a fully responsive website
• Prefer proficiency in our tech stack, but willing to teach people who are highly motivated and can spend significant time on the project for equity.
• GitHub or similar source code management system experience
• Nice to have: Experience developing customer-facing web applications

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages
• Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
• Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

Requirements:

• Minimum 1 year of work experience as a front end developer.
• Positive attitude, great energy, and a desire to learn more about web development
• Skills in troubleshooting and debugging
• A desire to keep current and use the most up-to-date best practices
• An understanding of testing and quality control
• Has a strong interest in design and technology.

• Determining the structure and design of web pages.
•  Building reusable and efficient code for future use.
•  Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
•  Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages.
•  Maintain and improve the website.
•  Optimize applications for maximum speed.
•  Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the requirement and purpose of implementation.
• Implement modules with individual products and come up with impact and own ideas and solutions.
• Troubleshooting issues across environments.
• Responsible for monitoring, highlighting and troubleshooting issues across environments.
• Responsible for design and develop the components as per the requirement.
• Technical documentation, design and development using tools and technologies like HTML5, JAVA and Angular JS etc.
• Complete the build of code on time and as per application coding standards, and perform unit testing.

Requirements:

• Strong Expertise and experience in HTML5, charting libraries, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular(2+) or ReactJS

• Strong hands-on experience in Web services (REST)
• Proficient knowledge in D3.JS
• Good understanding of user interactions
• At least involved in one live project on D3.JS
• Handson on Visualisations

• Knowledge in Nodejs
• Knowledge in React JS / Angular 2+
• Good understanding of cloud computing platforms and its services
• Experience in UI, UX, data visualisations, usability, design aspects and user stories