Senior Software Engineer-Frontend

Position Summary


Clarista.io turns current enterprise data silos into a ‘Live Data Network’, easy to use, always available, with flexibility to create any analytics. Clarista is designed for both business and technical users, hence the user interface plays a pivotal role in ensuring performance with large datasets and a superior user experience.

What You'll Do


You will be part of Clarista’s UI engineering team. You will work in our cloud native environment and perform following activities to support core product development and client specific projects:

• You will build & support responsive web user interfaces by using ReactJS
• You will ensure usability of the interfaces and workflows for end users
• You will integrate user interfaces with data and other interfaces through APIs
• You will collaborate with cloud and data engineering teams to enable end-to-end functionality
• You will partner with other team members in understanding the functional / non-functional business requirements, and translate them into software development tasks
• You will follow the software development best practices in ensuring that the code architecture and quality of code written by you is of high standard, as expected from an enterprise software
• You will be a proactive contributor to team and project discussions

 Who you are


• Strong education track record 
• Bachelors or an advanced degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline from Indian Institute of Technology or equivalent premium institute.
• 2-3 years of experience in UI Development using ReactJS
• An ideal candidate will be responsible to produce high-quality solutions; bringing a deep understanding of modern HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and the software development life cycle and a strong ability to execute and implement standard software architecture patterns.
• Expert knowledge of JavaScript to design optimized and modular components that will be used across platforms.
• Proficient with ReactJS, Redux, Service Workers, Optimized coding practices, Progressive Web Apps (PWA), Context API, System design, Web concepts, Server-Side Rendering (SSR), lazy loading.
• Should have experience working with any of the chart’s library like charts.js, Highcharts.js, etc.
• Should know how to write modular and optimized code.
• Should have good knowledge around error handling.
• Fair understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility issues.
• Experience versioning control systems such as GIT
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Self-starter, continuous learner.

Good to have some exposure to

• Start-up experience is highly preferred
• Exposure to micro front ends.
• Agile software development methodologies.
• Working in multi-functional, multi-location teams

What You'll Love About Us – Do ask us about these!

• Be an integral part of the founding team. You will work directly with the founder
• Work Life Balance. You can't do a good job if your job is all you do!
• Prepare for the Future. Academy – we are all learners; we are all teachers!
• Diversity & Inclusion. HeForShe!
• Internal Mobility. Grow with us!
• Business knowledge of multiple sectors

About the role:
We’re looking for a React.Js Developer who can adapt to new tech stacks and innovate with cutting-edge technology solutions, to build eCommerce platforms that are unique, disruptive, and powerful

What you'll do:
● Develop new user-facing features using React.js
● Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
● Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code
● Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

What you'll need:
● Bachelor's degree with minimum 3 years of work experience as a React Js
● Strong proficiency in JavaScript or Typescript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
● Knowledge of object-oriented programming
● Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

Who Should Consider Joining:
● If you like challenges and think from a first principle basis,
● If you are driven to take ownership and are adept at rolling with the punches,
● If you have the aspiration to grow fast in the dynamic environment of a start-up,
● If you are a collaborative team member, who believes in collective success,
● If you are someone who makes objective, fact-based decisions

Who should not consider joining:
● If the role description does not excite you, then you should not join us
● We are a startup and things will move fast. If you are not comfortable in a fast-paced environment, then you should not join us
● If you are not a self-starter who is willing to learn & experiment more, then you should not join us.

What We Offer:
● Limitless growth and learning opportunities
● Exposure to cutting edge technology solutions and upcoming stacks in the market
● In house technical training on GIT, Automated Testing, Code Coverage, Language Training and much more
● A collaborative and positive culture — Your team will be as smart and driven as you.
● Guidance and mentorship from industry experts and renowned IIT Alumnus
● An opportunity to make an impact — Your work will contribute directly to our strategy and growth

Required Candidate profile

• Develop user-facing features, while building reusable code & libraries for future use
• Optimize application for maximum speed & scalability
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Ensure that all user input is validated before submitting to the back-end

Experience

• 1-3 Years work experience in Frontend
• Experience working with libraries/frameworks like ReactJS, AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, DurandalJS, etc.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc
• Proficiency with HTML5, CSS3. Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
• Proficient knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues & ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool - GIT
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha), and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

We have three portals for different types of users and they are written in Angular. Your primary responsibility will be to provide impeccable user experience to the users on all forms of devices. You will be leading the effort of overhaul of one of the portals which we want to partly rewrite. Your Angular, JavaScript and design skills will matter the most here. Apart from this, you will be involved in all design discussions and code reviews and expected to give your inputs to ensure the best frontend development practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Angular. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of Angular.
• Extensive programming experience in HTML5, CSS3, SASS or LESS, and Bootstrap
• Excellent Javascript knowledge and programming experience with ES5/ES6 and TypeScript
• Experience consuming REST APIs
• Responsive design methodologies and techniques

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Experience with UI testing and automation frameworks
• Experience of Chart.js
• Experience of ReactJS

• Coding and debugging pure JavaScript, polyglot and multi-lingual applications.
• Working closely with Technical Lead/Project Manager to ensure development timelines are met.
• Contribute with ideas to improve system design or streamline product delivery.
• Working with challenging applications involving Real Time Data.
• Working on different platforms including the usage of the Native SDKs provided on JavaScript.

• Strong experience in developing applications using Javascript and Jquery.
• Minimum 6 months of experience in React.JS is a must.
• Experience in any other Javascript libraries is an added advantage.
• Create different types of Charts and Graphics with the help of HTML5 Canvas, SVG etc.
• Should possess understanding of UI design and its behavior across devices (desktops to smart phones).
• Good to have worked with APIs exposed by social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.
• Experience in working with data structures such as XML and JSON.
• Added knowledge of mobile development frameworks like jQuery Mobile is an added advantage.
• Good communication and problem-solving skills.
• Should be a self-starter and should have the ability to work under pressure.
• Should be passionate about sports.

• 4+ years of experience in Angular (6 and above) based UI development.
• Expert in modern JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks (Angular, JQuery, NodeJS)
• Proficient in developing front-end applications/ responsive applications with Angular, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX.
• Hand on experience with Angular Components, Directives, Services, Http Client, Interceptors, Routing
• In-depth knowledge of Typescript
• Design and develop UI wireframes based on the requirements.
• Plan the layout of the website.
• Good understanding of Table less Design / Table less Layout using CSS and also experience of fixing cross browser and cross platform issues.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
• Experience in designing various forms, tooltips, menus, tabs, animated effects, data and time selector and many others using jQuery toolkit and custom libraries.
• Experience developing custom reusable components
• Understanding of key design principles.
• Strong experience working with RESTful APIs.
• Good understanding in entire Software Development Life Cycle and worked on Agile software development methodologies, secure coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous integration, build processes, testing and operations.
• Analyze user requirements and convert requirements to design documents
• Compile timely, comprehensive and accurate documentation and or reports as requested
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.