Senior React Engineer

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with Project Manager or Project Consultant to develop front end of mobile and web application
• Delivering a complete front-end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Collaborate with the stakeholders, the users, the build team and other development partners to implement state-of-the-art user experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and ship new features
• Participate actively in discussions, presentations and decisions about front end development, web application, mobile app etc.
• Act as the impulse by providing clear guidance to the team’s questions during implementation phases
• Implement new technologies to maximize application performance
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

KEY COMPETENCIES & SKILLS:

• Strong object-oriented JavaScript
• Flat box, material design concepts
• AngularJS, MVC frameworks – Angular
• CSS precompilers like Sass and LESS
• Skills in one or more chosen frameworks/libraries like jQuery or Bootstrap
• AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
• HTML 5, CSS Modules, Web pack, Babel, npm
• jQuery, jQueryUI, RequireJS, doT.js (Templating Engine)
• Able to integrate existing API (REST)
• Understanding of java web application technology stack (core Java, spring core, Spring MVC, Hibernate, REST)
• Git/GitHub, Continuous integration using maven & Jenkins
• Integrate applications with network systems, servers and databases.
• Troubleshoot problems with application development and use
• Excellent conceptual, and critical thinking capabilities
• Self-directed and self-motivated with the ability to take charge or play a supporting role
• Strong understanding of product development
• Clear written and verbal communications skills (English), including presentation skill
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) is required.

Job Role :

o Experience in Front-end web development using JavaScript jQuery,Angular, HTML5, CSS

o Responsible for handling end to end design & execution of all product web interfaces

o Develop new user-facing features & build reusable code and libraries for future use Work closely on UI/UX designs and back end engineers to implement versatile front-end solutions to web development problems

o Design, development, integration, delivery of different UI side modules of the product

o Develop and enhance modular, multilingual, cross-browser front-end applications using Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, etc.

o Experience in making responsive layouts

o Experience developing in Agile development processes

o Work closely with product management, customer support and SQA to continuously evolve and innovate the product.

o Involvement in the full development life cycle of projects. Working as a part of a team as well as on your own initiative

o Facilitate in the decision-making processes with team members both in terms of new system development and enhancement to current systems

o Experience of full software development life cycle and Agile Strong verbal & written skills required to interact with global teams. Highly motivated, analytical thinking individual

o Since this role involves working closely with users, the ideal candidate would have Knowledge of Relational database/SQL

o Ability to multi-task and work against deadlines/priorities

o Sense of ownership and desire to take on an expanded role over time. Eager to work with new technologies and apply them towards enterprise-level data solutions

o Capable of working with a global team and thriving in a team development environment. Advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to deal with real world business issues

● 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 as well as HTML and CSS

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Working knowledge and integration knowledge with RESTful APIs

● Knowlegde of websockets implementation is a must.

● 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}

● Added advantages if you have working knowledge of AWS

Designation: React.js Developer (Frontend)

Department: Software Engineering Team

Location: Bangalore

Qualification: Any Computer (Graduate or Post Graduate)

Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience in developing and implementing user interface components using React.js concepts and workflows (Redux, Flux, and Webpack).

Responsibilities:

1. Developing and implementing highly-responsive user interface components using React concepts.
2. Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
3. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
4. Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
5. Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
6. Prepare technical documentation
7. Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design into the code
8. Coach junior team members
9. Implement software enhancements and suggest improvements

Skills Required:

1. Strong proficiency in 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. Preferred to have experience in Javascript, CSS, HTML, and Photoshop (any wireframing tool)
5. Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
6. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
7. Familiarity with React Native, NodeJS is a plus
8. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
9. Good communication skills. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
10. Good understanding of computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms, memory management, performance.
11. Enjoys coding and problem solving
12. Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

Salary: Upto 18LPA (Negotiable)

IMMEDIATE JOINING PREFERRED!

About Xpresslane:
Xpresslane is a universal one-click checkout platform for eCommerce. We want to transform the way online shoppers buy, Democratize optimized checkout and post checkout experience. We have achieved 150+ signups from D2C merchants in the last year alone and are aggressively adding new features to help solve problems in their checkout process.

Engineering @Xpresslane:
We are a small group of Tech Enthusiasts, Product Managers. We give incredible value to design and UX is our topmost priority. We've implemented products using Go, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, Temporal, GraphDB, Svelte & React, Cypress, Gitlab CI/CD.

Why Engineering @Xpresslane:

• Opportunity to Design & Implement new features which are internet-facing.
• Opportunity to Design Scalable Distributed System spanning many regions.
• Freedom to learn & work across Frontend/Backend/Devops/Design Expertise.
• 2-4 years of experience in Frontend Engineering.
• Expertise in one or more frontend frameworks like React/Angular/Vue/Svelte
• Style the frontend applications with an incredible focus on design & UX.
• Self-driven in identifying opportunities to make things better and efficient.
• Ensure code quality and reliability through automated test implementations.
• View frontend as Engineering i.e, plan & implement components for reusability, testability
  and scalability.
• Nice to have, experience in using Figma/Sketch for quick mockups & prototypes
• Nice to have knowledge of cache busting, CSRF, XSS attacks.