Senior Frontend Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain mobile applications using React Native.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code.

• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge with the team.

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and familiarity with ES6+ syntax.

• Experience with Redux or other state management libraries.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect mobile applications to back-end services.

• Knowledge of mobile app architecture and design patterns.

• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.

• Understanding of mobile development best practices.

• Ability to write well-documented, clean code.

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Frontend Engineer, you will

• Own our frontend engineering applications for two products each of which run as independent applications which query our backend systems via REST APIs

• Act as a leader and coach within the front-end engineering team, collaborating with and mentoring senior engineers.

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Write and review modular, reusable components and features (React.js / Vue.js) and integrate backend APIs to create a seamless front-end user experience
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience. These include 3rd party plugins which provide customer support and analytics plugins that help improve the user experience we provide to customers.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with frontend frameworks as React.js or Vue.js would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You have an eye for pixel-perfect UI and micro-interactions.
• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our frontend tech stack includes React.js, Vue.js, Netlify for CI / CD, TestCafe for UX testing, d3.js, and Regraph for visualizations.

 You have designed, refactored, re-architected, deprecated and/or implemented a webapp from start to finish.

 CSS and its pre-processors like SASS/LESS.

 Excellent command over web fundamentals

 Good understanding and experience in building a React app.

 Exceptional coding skills in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript/ES6

 Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

 Familiarity with benchmarking and optimization techniques

 Eye for animation and understanding of motion principles.

 Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM methodologies

 Experience in DevOps - AWS, S3, API Gateway, CI/CD

 Native development experience in React Native (Android and iOS)

 Experience in NodeJs

Additional Full-stack Skills Would Be a Huge Bonus:

 Experience with Mongo DB, Redis, Firebase, NodeJs and its framework/ libraries like Express.

 Experience with PostgreSQL.

 Experience in NoSQL (CouchDB, Cloudant, MongoDB) datastores.

 Experience in building (secure) RESTful services and MVC patterns.

 Experience in coding & hosting on GitHub.

Desired Skills and Experience

CSS,JavaScript,React.js

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Job description

The primary role of this position is to receive final product design from Figma and then create pixel perfect UI in React Native (iOS, Android & Web App). It is of highest priority that communication is clear and transparent. The successful candidate must have the ability to self-manage each task not requiring a large amount of detailed explanation to complete.

Responsibilities

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms and Web App.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms and Web App.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

Skills

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript (and TypeScript) language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Knowledge of (functional or object-oriented) programming
• Ability to write well-documented, clean JavaScript code
• Fluent at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• 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
• GraphQL
• BitRise, GutHub, BitBucket

Advantageous attributes 

Understanding of AWS environment, Node.js, and Microservices

• Should have hands-on experience in advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, Bootstrap, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS, etc. (ReactJS is Mandatory) 
• Proficient in web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS and experience in building/using REST APIs    
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling and partial page updates.

• Build, extend, and maintain reusable UI components that will be used across many applications.
• Develop best practices and guidelines for contributing UI and reusable components to a central component library.
• Perform installation of code releases and patches and write scripts or programs for IT applications.
• Work closely with our UX design team to ensure usable designs with a consistent look and feel.
• Maintain high-quality code and ensure best practices for UI development.
• Ensure designs follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Work in a fast-paced agile environment partnering with software engineering teams.

• 2+ years of experience participating in the delivery of technology services.
• A proven ability to learn new applications & innovate in technology
• Strong Experience in technologies like Redux, React
• Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX etc
• Exposure to Node, Angular desirable
• Experience in common third-party APIs (Google Maps, Google Charts, etc)
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
• Experience in integrating, designing and developing solutions is desirable
• Experience with CI/CD and TDD is desirable