Senior UI Engineer

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

• Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.
• Sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.
• Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems. 
• Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.
• Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact. 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field. 
• Minimum 3+ years of UI/Frontend development and a strong understanding of building complex layouts using JavaScript, CSS and HTML.

KEY SKILLS

• Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns including vanilla JavaScript, some experience with ReactJS, Redux, React Native, Webpack, and Typescript or similar library/tools.
• Obsessed with WPO (Web Performance Optimization) and web/mobile performance analysis.
• Experienced with web standards and protocols such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and socket APIs in general.
• Familiar with web security, SEO, accessibility and internationalization.

Duration: 3 Months

Type: Hybrid(Gurgaon); Paid

Joining: Immediate

Who's a fit:

- Experience with React Native and ReactJS

- Excellent problem-solving and logical thinking

- Completed a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

- Projects to showcase your skills

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced developer to be a part of our growing team. You will be working here to create, design and develop software for both web and mobile applications using Node js.

Skills to be required:

1. To design, develop and maintain Scalable web applications using node js.
2. Collaborate with front-end developers on the integrations of elements.
3. To write Reusable, testable and efficient code.
4. working closely with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side
5. Implement security and data protection measures.
6. Perform code reviews, debug and improve applications for performance.

 Responsibilities:

1. Proven experience for 2-4 years of experience as a Node.js Developer
2. Proficiency with front-end technologies like HTML,CSS, Javascript and React js
3. Experience with RESTful API Development
4. Knowledge of database systems like MongoDB and Mysql
5. Understanding of code versioning tools like Git
6. Strong problem solving, communication skills and team work abilities.

Software Engineering

• 4+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining React-based applications
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing medium to large-scale applications using Javascript frameworks
• Experience with projects that involve, improving the reliability and performance of your web-apps, by leveraging different observability tools like Lighthouse, Sentry, and Datadog.
• Good understanding of functional programming paradigms and UI architecture patterns
• A decent understanding of cloud infrastructure like AWS to orchestrate and manage our applications.
• Experience with testing frameworks like JEST, modern auth mechanisms, and server-side rendering through frameworks like NextJS
• Experience with backend technologies like JAVA, and Kotlin would be good to have.

Product Development

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to resolve dependency risks.
• Well-versed in working in an agile environment and being involved in different stages of SDLC - Design, Development, Code Review, Testing, and Release Management
• Ability to work with different CI/CD frameworks, with hands-on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Continuously refactor applications so that they are easy to maintain, easy to extend, and contribute to

Your Tech Stack

Web Application Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails

Programming Languages: ReasonML/Rescript, Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, HTML, CSS

Tools and Libraries: Webpack, Sentry, NextJS, NodeJS, Jest, Figma

Communication: HTTP, GraphQL, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS

Observability: Google Analytics, Lighthouse, Sentry, Kibana, Datadog

What you will build with us?

The front-end platform at Porter is geared toward developing a variety of products for customers, partners, and our internal teams. You will be a part of Porter’s Web Engineering Platform team.

What will be your primary focus?

1. enabling our engineering teams to create highly reliable and scalable software systems, reduce client and server outages and increase system hygiene.
2. building the right set of tooling and flows for our web and mobile teams, for improving developer productivity. This will enable our application teams to churn out user features rapidly and will help them build the best-in-class product solutions for our business teams.
3. work on security initiatives, to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

What will you closely influence?

1. Providing the right user experience to our customers, partners, and cc agents when they reach out to us
2. Building tools to help boost user growth on our platform including our driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models. A step towards sustainable user growth and providing personalized experiences, on our platform
3. Unlocking new growth levels for Porter, in form of our new vibrant customer base through business initiatives like Packers and Movers, Part-Load, and help Porter on its journey to becoming a super Logistic App.
4. Enabling us to engage our partner ecosystem better with our fast-moving initiatives in the Insurance and Lending segments. Your work here will directly impact the livelihood of our partners
5. Solving problems related to optimal pricepoint for partners and customers, matchmaking with supply and demand, and building confidence around payment experience and location tracking.

About Navi 

Navi is one of the fastest growing financial services companies in India providing Personal  & Home Loans, Insurance and Mutual Funds with a digital first approach. At Navi, our  mission is to build financial services that are simple, accessible and affordable. 

Founders: Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal 

Know what makes you a “Navi_ite” :

1.Perseverance, Passion and Commitment

• Passionate about Navi’s mission and vision 

• Demonstrates dedication, perseverance and high ownership 

• Goes above and beyond by taking on additional responsibilities 

2.Obsession with high quality results

• Consistently creates value for the customers and stakeholders through high quality outcomes 

• Ensuring excellence in all aspects of work

• Efficiently manages time, prioritizes tasks, and achieves higher standards 

3.Resilience and Adaptability

• Adapts quickly to new roles, responsibilities, and changing circumstances,  showing resilience and agility 

Key responsibilities:

• Develop the front-end for our products and collaborate with designers, other engineers, and product managers to build new features, iterate on current features, and build a world-class user experience;
• Build responsive & reusable UI components using any one Javascript framework: React, Angular, VueJS, as per the specifications and guidelines;
• Be familiar with Responsive Web Design, common Web UX patterns and anti-patterns;
• Should have hands-on experience of improving web performance including optimising page load, rendering, caching etc;
• Be great at debugging, including identifying page speed and performance bottlenecks, using tools like Chrome Dev Tools, React Dev Tools etc.

Required Skills:

• You should be well versed with RESTful APIs and it's best practices;
• You should be proficient with all core features of React or similar frameworks including Redux or Fluxn pattern;
• You should have experience in JavaScript (React JS/Redux), HTML, CSS, JQuery, HTTP for the Web platform;
• Strong proficiency in writing clean, robust javascript code is a must;
• You should be comfortable working with version controlled code environments ( eg. GIT);
• You should possess strong Object Oriented design and programming skills;
• You should have an understanding of XML, JSON, DOM, and w3c standards.

• Collaborate with team members to develop high quality software.
• Develop intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of the company.
• Professionally maintain all software and create updates regularly to address customer and company concerns.
• Analyze and test programs and products before formal launch. Troubleshoot coding problems quickly and efficiently.
• Designing, developing, and testing UI for mobile and web applications. Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Accurately translate user and business needs into functional frontend code

Our frontend (React) team is passionate about React Technology and we are working on a few world-class products which have their roots and frontend in React Technology along with Redux, web-hooks, and Reducers. Keeping performance, scalability, usability, and user acceptance in mind, we are looking for a smart frontend engineer that has experience developing a variety of Web Applications using React Technology. (Along with strong frontend expertise, needs a good understanding of how frontend applications work in different browsers and have a mobile responsive design)

Basic roles and responsibilities are mentioned for the engineer at our team:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• 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.
• Good understanding of async functions and their concepts.
• Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known ReactJS workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• A Commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

• Developing new user-facing features using ReactJS
• Familiarity with modern front-end builds pipelines and tools.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Thorough understanding of ReactJS and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows. (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and Oauth.
• Good knowledge of CSS and other latest frameworks like a tailwind CSS / Bootstrap.

• Experience developing highly scalable Web applications.
• Knowledge of Media Queries and CSS via useful frameworks.
• Strong experience with React frameworks with components like Redux, Flux, Webhooks.
• Good knowledge of code versioning (git / Github)
• Good experience with code deployment on servers like Ubuntu, Linux systems.
• In-depth knowledge of designing and developing software in distributed architectures for multi-tier applications
• Basic understanding of docker to work with different major versions of Node js and database release(Postgres, MySQL, etc)
• Good knowledge to write and train the team to write unit test cases for the application code.

• You would be knowing how to do a basic code review of team and junior NodeJS engineers.

• Experience with deployment and CI/CD is a plus!
• Have worked with Testing libraries
• Good Verbal and Written communication Skills.