Senior Wordpress Fullstack Developer (Frontend Focused

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.

• 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

Roles and Responsibilities

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.

What your role would be?

We are seeking a Front End Developer to join our core engineering team. Teams are explicitly small and built on mutual respect and high trust. It's not a fit for everyone, but when there's a fit, it’s one of the most rewarding places to work.

Job Responsibilities and Duties

We believe the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business. To join us on this journey, you'll be required to:

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize applications for performance and scalability.

Job Requirements:

You’ll thrive as a Front End Developer at StoryXpress if you:

• Have a good understanding of the core fundamentals of JavaScript
• Have 2+ years designing and implementing rich front-end experiences in React
• Are an expert in web technologies ( HTML5 | CSS3 | ES6 )
• Possess a thorough understanding of the MVC principle and JS design patterns
• Have experience with building user interfaces consuming data from REST APIs

Brownie points!

Your application would be seriously prioritized if you:

• Are a self-starter: you have started something on your own before - a startup, an open-source project, something else.
• Experienced in building and/or maintaining chrome extensions
• Indulged in projects around Data Visualization
• UX design principles and frameworks
• Are acquainted with testing frameworks and performance measurement tools

If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements. We’re building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another.

Why work with us?

You'll love working and growing with StoryXpress if you are comfortable:

• With and curious about working outside of a traditional narrow engineering role.
• Engaging in collaborative problem-solving with your teammates.
• Moving fast: we build, solve problems quickly, and ship often!

Ready to apply?

Are you excited at the possibility of developing an already stellar team to meet the growing needs of our platform and business? Does this opportunity to be a part of one of our young and supportive teams and solve hard problems sound amazing to you? If you share our values and enthusiasm for empowering the world, we’d love to review your application!

• Develop user interface components and implement them using well-known React workflows & best-practices. Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Take complete ownership of features, break it down to smaller tasks, identify blockers and find solutions for them; collaborate with other cross-functional teams to deliver the feature on time.
• Create responsive layouts for different mobile screens and desktops with search friendly markup
• Translating visual designs and product wireframes into high quality code

• Min 2+ years of experience in developing modern consumer facing web applications using React and Redux
• Should be aware of latest React patterns and know how to leverage react hooks, functional components and higher order components
• Strong proficiency in CSS, JavaScript, including DOM manipulation
• Must know basics of web technology
• Tech skills needed: React, Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Redux

As an Architect within a web development team, you’ll be responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of modern JavaScript-based in-browser.

On the daily basis, you’ll actively collaborate with geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams to deliver high performant complex end-to-end software solutions that support a high-traffic web application. 

More precisely you will:

• Communicate with UI/UX, business, analyze and suggest efficient solutions based on their requirements
• Define and maintain architecture roadmap, technical solutions for new and existing functionality for each part of the projects
• Take ownership over architecture qualities of front-end applications (e.g.: usability, accessibility, performance, etc.)
• Good active listener, being able to hear and include propositions from engineers in the final solution
• Deliver architectural services, including guidance and conceptual design as well as technical and process innovations
• Bring a passion to remain up to date with the latest trend of ever-changing web front-end development.
• Investigate the latest technology and build quick Proof of Concept functionalities to address future business needs
• Preparing, improving, and introducing new approaches/methodologies/tools and techniques within the department
• Work to meet delivery commitments of feature content throughout the whole Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Preparing of technical documentation

• Work with the client and internal web development team to design new products or enhancements.
• Take part in system development including analysis, coding, and testing in an agile product development team.
• To develop business requirements into cost-effective and elegant technical solutions.
• Perform peer design and code reviews with other software engineers.
• Help to evaluate requirements and solutions from a technical perspective and implement custom built solutions. 
• Perform estimates of user stories that are to be implemented to help with product engineering planning.
• Work with backend development members to co-create APIs for frontend consumption
• Mentor less experienced team members on proper standards/techniques to improve their development practices and efficiency.
• Write scripts to perform unit testing, functional testing and assist with user acceptance testing support.
• Optimize UI for efficiency and maintainability
• Perform non-production and production deployment processes as scheduled.
• Provide on-going support to the application.

About the company

Qrata is hiring for a Venture funded startup that is backed by marquee investors. Their product provides a collaborative new way for SaaS companies to onboard their large customers. Our unified workspace aims to help streamline customer onboarding and implementation journeys, and get every customer off to a great start.

Quick Facts

Founded in: 2020

Number of Employees: 11 - 50 employees

Industries: Computer Software / IT / Internet

Location: Chennai

Senior frontend lead

Description

Are you a front-end developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you

looked at world class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of

the early team that built these products”?

we’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS

products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser focused on delivering a world

class new product again, and looking for an ambitious front-end engineer to join our existing

team.

If it excites you to think of a fast paced start-up environment, building something big from

scratch, breaking down new problems, creating well structured UI components, executing on

pixel perfect design, paying great attention to every little interaction detail, and doing demos

of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right

opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work-on as a front-end developer would include

building real-time collaboration experiences across our product, building live document

editing and modern spreadsheet experiences from scratch, creating flexible new

Kanban-style views of work tasks, and crafting cool new UI components and interactions that

we will use across our product.

Tech Requirements

• Expertise in React
• Hands-on experience in HTML, CSS, SASS & Object Oriented Javascript
• Code audits and guidelines
• SPA Framework patterns
• Browser features (Caching / Storage / Compatibility etc )
• Test automation
• Deployment strategy

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AWS
• Experience with startups or early stage teams
• Typescript
• Knowledge of module bundlers like Webpack