Senior R&D Engineer- UI / UX

Responsibilities

• Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages
• Maintain and improve website
• 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

Requirements and skills

• Proven work experience of 4-5 years as a Front-end developer
• Hands on experience with markup languages
• Experience with JavaScript, CSS and jQuery
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging

Front end developer | Angular, CSS + .NET

Are you...

• Interested in working at a successful, well-funded scale-up where every team member can make a huge contribution?
• Keen to make software that people will use every single day to make their lives easier?
• Excited to work on greenfield projects with responsibility and independence?
• Ready to develop and use your skills across our frontend, backend and mobile offerings?
• Meticulous about quality, and gifted with a strong desire to write beautiful code?

About the company

KeyNest solves the key exchange problem for Airbnb users. Our worldwide network of over 4,000 shops store keys so that Airbnb guests / cleaners / contractors can pick them up whenever is convenient for them. As a global partner of Airbnb we’ve checked-in over 2 million guests.

Why we need you

As the entire Airbnb ecosystem increasingly relies on KeyNest, our customers expect us to integrate additional features without reducing the ease of use that our customers love. This is why we continue to invest in beautiful, intuitive user interfaces that integrate with every tool and are used by our customers, their guests and staff, as well as our own staff.

A product manager, a team lead, two full-stack developers, one mobile developer, and a UX designer make up our product team. Who will serve as your mentor. We are looking for a developer who cares about how their code affects users so that we can work together.

With a genuine passion for high quality work, attention to detail and readiness to own your own projects, you will be looking for a new and exciting challenge which allows you to use your experience to drive change and maintain the high standards of our organisation.

Our Tech Stack

• C# MVC modern tech stack
• .Net Core
• Front end web in TypeScript & Angular
• Test Driven Development (TDD) and follow SOLID design principles.
• EF 6.0
• SQL Server 2017
• Agile experience (Scrum, Kanban)
• TFS
• Cloud hosted in Azure with micro-services architecture

Your qualities

• Proficiency with Javascript & Angular.
• Proficiency with HTML/CSS. Being able to create Figma designs from scratch.
• You have experience with back end technologies such as .NET Core.
• Track record of building great products
• You’ll love the idea of being a big part of a small team. Current team size is 5.
• Motivation and ambition to succeed in a fast-paced environment
• Not afraid to take on responsibilities

What we offer

• Crucial role in a funded, dynamic & fast-growing scale-up shaking up the sharing economy
• Competitive salary based on relevant experience
• Flexible working for our most committed staff
• Unparalleled opportunities to develop your career as the company develops rapidly

If you want to join the KeyNest team, please get in touch – we look forward to meeting you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

As a member of the founding engineering team at Kombai, you'd work directly with the CTO and CEO to build a global product for the frontend dev teams from scratch. Together, we'd have a crack at several hard, high-impact problems - often involving challenges across product, engineering, and research areas.

Desired Qualifications & Skillset

For all positions of our early engineering team we are looking for people who:

• Are fully hands-on with latest JS development
• Are good frontend and web application architects
• Are quick and agile
• Have a good learning, problem solving and logical aptitude
• Have a mindset to commit for 3-4 years

In addition to the above, the candidates for Senior Product Engineer should also have:

• Thorough understanding of good Frontend engineering & architecture practices. In our experience, this usually comes from working in an excellent frontend team with an excellent architect, on a complex applications
• Experience: 3-6 years

DYT - Do Your Thing, is an app, where all social media users can share brands they love with their followers and earn money while doing so! We believe everyone is an influencer. Our aim is to democratise social media and allow people to be rewarded for the content they post. How does DYT help you? It accelerates your career through collaboration opportunities with top brands and gives you access to a community full of experts in the influencer space. 

React JS Developer 

• 2-4 years of experience as a React JS developer. 
• Must have Working Experience in a product based organization at least 18 months.
• Good Communication skills must. 
• 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 HTML,CSS, Bootstrap and UI Design 
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs 
• 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 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools {such as Git} 

• 3 to 5 years of experience in UI Development and hands on experience on Angular2 or Angular 2+, Node etc.
• Exposure to cross browser compatibility issues, SCSS as the CSS macro-processor, sprites etc.
• Experience with Jira, SVN, Git will be added advantage
• Passionate and eager to learn new technologies
• Intimately knowledgeable about all things web and mobile
• Demo able portfolio on website or GitHub will be given preference
• Must have knowledge on Java script, jQuery, ECMAScript
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6) or TypeScript
• Familiarities with modern JavaScript tools, like npm and webpack
• Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills.
• Experience building JavaScript/CSS Frameworks or shared component libraries used in large scale production websites.
• Understands frontend software design patterns (e.g. asynchronicity, data binding, modules, objects, promises).
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns

Requirements

• Convert design to Angular 5 components
• Use SCSS as the CSS macroprocessor
• Integrate the Angular services with APIs from the backend team
• Implement UI development best practices to write optimized and non-buggy code
• Work in Agile environment with sprint releases ranging from 2 to 4 weeks
• Feasibility study of requirement and suggest multiple approaches for a problem after sufficient RnD
• Keep abreast with trending recent UI tools, technologies, plugins and software in the industry
• “Roll-up your sleeves” attitude to get things done
• Test your screens using a tool for all browsers and resolution compatibility
• Handle and track tasks assigned using Agile methodology
• Strong commitment towards quality and schedule.
• Cross team coordination

Job Summary
. Developing the latest user-facing features using React.js
· Designing a modern highly responsive web-based user interface
· Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
· Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
· Learn and understand user interactions
· Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
· Coordinating with various teams working on distinct layers
· As a React.js Developer, you will be involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound and aesthetically impressive.

Technical skills:
· Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
· Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
· Ability to create a reusable stateful component using React hooks
· Prior experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
· Familiarity with more current specifications of EcmaScript
· Prior experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
· Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
· Familiarity with RESTful APIs
· Familiarity with HTML / CSS
· GIT experience 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.
· Familiarity with working with the siren-JSON schema for generating forms.
· Familiarity with react-hook-form
· Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
· A knack for benchmarking and optimization
· Familiarity with code versioning tools
· jest and enzyme for red-green tdd
· understanding of feature flag
· lint and husky hooks