Senior PHP Developer

Company Overview

VC-backed Fintech startup with an innovative online trading application seeking an experienced Frontend Engineer to join our growing team.

We're based out of UK and have our engineering team in India.

Job Description

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Responsibilities

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js
2. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
3. Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
4. Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
5. Maintain existing React systems, including fixing bugs
6. Handling backend infra written in Next/Node/Express

Skills

1. Strong proficiency in debugging, JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
2. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
3. Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
4. Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
5. Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
6. Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
7. Knowledge of isomorphic Next js and Node js is a plus
8. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
9. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
10. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
11. Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
12. Familiarity with basic authentication mechanism and security
13. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
14. A knack for benchmarking and optimization
15. Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git

[Please note: Our HQ is in Wales and we're in the process of creating an Indian Entity. This means that the candidate will be responsible for all Tax related compliances until the entity is setup.]

Responsibilities:

● Develop and maintain front-end dependencies/codebase.

● Building responsive and elegant mobile & desktop web applications

● Good to have experience of one or more relevant languages (Python, Ruby, Node.js etc.)

● Work closely with the product manager, designer & development team to collaborate to develop the best in class web applications.

● Optimisation of the website as per industry trends.

● Evaluate competitive and innovative products and design approaches to identify best practices and encourage innovation.

Skills:

● Hands on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript

● Experience in modern web development technologies and techniques, including HTML5, CSS3.

● Experience in any of the frameworks: ReactJs/ Angular / VueJs.

● Experience in translating design mockups and prototypes into frontend applications.

● Experience in effective componentization/abstraction during design translation.

● Experience in effective state management strategies like redux and hooks to scale application better.

● Understands how to optimize the delivery of code and assets (e.g., images, fonts) to a browser or device (e.g.,lazy loading assets, using CDNs caching, compression, etc)

● Understands how to be efficient with resource usage (e.g., application impact on memory and CPU, caches as needed, respectful of customer's device limits etc).

● Good understanding and hands on with PWA (AMP is good to have).

● Good knowledge of version control systems.

● Good understanding of any of the following frontend frameworks, bootstrap, material-UI, semantic-UI.

● Ability to provide deliverables within specified deadlines with a quality bar.

● Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

● Highly motivated, self-driven, self-learner

● Experience in flutter is good to have.

Company Background:

Founded in 2016, they are one of the leading online scheduling software companies in the world, with over 200,000 customers globally. They are a profitable, high-growth bootstrapped platform-as-a-product company with 50+ team members looking to grow to $50M in revenue in the next 3 years. 

Loction: Remote (Expenses paid quarterly travel to Head Office)

About this job 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience in Angular and frontend application development. You will work with a team of problem solvers working collaboratively to build custom solutions. If you are excited to learn new things and thrive in a team-based culture, and if you are looking for hyper-growth in your career then this could be a place for you! 

What will you do 

- Work with the team to break user stories into tasks and delegate them to the team members. 

- Write code that meets standard and delivery guidelines. 

- Mentor other engineers on the team to develop high-quality software (including the use of static analysis tools, Testing frameworks, and code reviews) 

- Analyze solutions and help implement engineering best practices. 

- Work with Project Managers for timely delivery and forecast. 

- Lead and mentor junior engineers on technical issues. Perform blameless RCAs when issues occur and take ownership to resolve issues. 

- Work closely with backend engineers, DevOps, and QA teams for seamless delivery.

What you should have 

- Strong experience with front-end technologies including Angular, Javascript and gRPC, RESTful APIs, etc 

- Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean code 

- Proven ability to work with multiple teams, multitask and prioritize. 

- Experience with Git, JIRA, and Agile working methodology 

Benefits 

- Competitive compensation 

- A chance to work and contribute to company's low-code platform which is soon to be open-source. 

- Endless career opportunities and multiple paths for career development - Paid parental and maternity leave 

- Hospitalization, health, and life insurance, and accident coverage 

- Flexible hours 

- Remote working flexibility 

- Transparency and visibility throughout a fast-paced, successful growth organization 

So what happens next? 

Once we receive your application our recruitment team will go through it personally and will set up a chat to know more about your experience and interests. If we think you could be a good addition to our company, we will connect you to our team including managers so you can learn more about the life at the company and your responsibilities. We always try to give candidates a smooth onboarding experience.

Work Responsibilities

• What You’ll Do:
• Engineers will develop and improve features for products such as WebView pages called from within Mercari’s web version and native app, along with tools used by the Customer Support Team for answering user inquiries and providing transaction support.
• Senior engineers in the Frontend Team are expected to use their technical skills to lead the team and product development, train members through design and code reviews, and make contributions and improvements to the hiring process, including technical tests.
• Development Environment:
• Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Gatsby, Next.js, GraphQL, Apollo Client, Redux, Cypress, Rendertron, Lit, Playwright
• Infrastructures: Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, App Engine)
• Configuration management tool: Terraform
• Other: Circle CI, GitHub, Slack, JIRA, Crowi, Spinnaker, Datadog

Minimum Requirements

• Shared understanding and belief in Mercari Group's mission and values
• At least 3 years of experience in development related to frontend fields such as web browsers, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, or Redux
• Experience with developing and operating large-scale products
• Ability to design and develop with performance and scalability in mind
• Ability to use HTML and CSS to implement solid user interfaces
• Knowledge of JavaScript and experience developing with UI libraries or frameworks such as React, Vue.js, and Angular
• Able to understand and explain web operation principles and browsers
• Understanding of version management and ability to participate in development via Git
• Effective communication skills, needed for product development with team members and with other teams

Preferred Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of standard web technologies and specialized knowledge in some areas, like TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Redux
• Understanding of the characteristics of different libraries/frameworks and the ability to introduce them to projects where necessary
• Ability to design architecture based on the characteristics of the app
• Ability to consistently take initiative in implementing improvements to the app
• Project management and/or team leadership
• Cloud development experience (preferably GCP or AWS)
• Experience contributing to an open-source project
• Familiarity with CI systems and the release process

Working Conditions

Employment Status

Full-time

Office

Bangalore

• Hybrid Workstyle

Work Profile:

• Delivering a complete front end application in Agular
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and browser with reusable and modular components spanning cross multiple projects
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Integrate with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services for 3rd Party tools and services integration
• Requirement  
• 2+ years of experience and proficiency with Angular, JavaScript and HTML5
• Deep knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ability to provide SEO solutions and optimization
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular

Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Experience with Core web fundamentals: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS like Sass or LESS
• Thorough understanding of ReactJS and its core principles.
• Experience with popular ReactJS state management such as Redux or Flux
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript (ES6+)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs consumption
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as GitLab, Bitbucket
• Must be passionate about writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code
• Self-starter with the ability to cope with sharp learning curves.
• Excellent teamwork skills,
• Good Communication skill

Good to have:

• Familiarity with NextJs framework.
• Experience with Unit Testing with Jest
• Typescript
• GetsByJS
• Modern front-end build pipelines and tools GitLab or Jenkins
• CI-CD Using GitLab or Jenkins

•  Lead the design and implementation of our new web-based user interface for our partner management service
  •    Work effectively with product management, UX designers and backend engineers
  •    Commit to deliver high quality, robust, and accessible user interface
  •    Follow software development best practices including writing unit tests and perform code reviews
  •    Build reusable components and libraries and optimize for maximum performance
  •    Provide production deployment support and troubleshooting

What you need to be ready: 

•  Minimum 3+ years of experience in UI Development
•  Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles with minimum 2 years of experience
•  Prior experience in building customer facing web Application
  •    In-depth knowledge of HTML, Typescript/JavaScript, CSS/Sass, and related frameworks and libraries
  •    Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles with minimum 2 years of experience
  •    Experience in Single Page Application architecture
  •    Proficient in writing tests using Jest, Mocha or any similar framework
  •    Strong computer science fundamentals in design, data structures, and problem solving
  •    Excellent troubleshooting skills

Parikshram is a Bangalore based tech startup company, building the world's first career success platform for QA-Testing professionals around the world. Currently running through the social media channels with the name of “Software Testing Studio" (soon to be renamed as Parikshram), it has an active user base of ~0.2 million testing professionals and focuses on recruitment, upskilling and community building. The company is growing at a rapid pace and is hiring aggressively.

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• Should possess strong knowledge of SEO, Secure sites, Wordpress, Web Design Good knowledge of WordPress development and life cycle (theme hierarchy, plugins, etc
• Strong understanding of PHP back-end development. Experience in front-end technologies like HTML5,CSS3,Bootstrap4,JavaScript,PHP.
• Basic Knowledge of Core PHP, MySQL Database.
• Experience in designing and developing responsive design websites.
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers.
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages. Payment Gateway integration for WooCommerce (eg: Paypal, Razorpay, etc).