Senior frontend lead

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and maintain highly interactive and responsive web applications using AngularJS 14.

-  Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that adheres to best practices.

- Leverage Tailwind CSS for rapid UI development and ensure consistent design across the application.

- Implement user interface components and features according to design specifications.

- Integrate with backend APIs and services to retrieve and manipulate data.

- Optimize application performance for a smooth user experience across all devices and browsers.

- Conduct unit testing and participate in integration testing to ensure code quality.

- Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.

- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in frontend technologies and frameworks.

-Contribute to the improvement of existing frontend development processes and documentation.

Qualifications:

-  Strong understanding of AngularJS 14 architecture, components, directives, and services.

-  Proficiency with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (ES6+).

-  In-depth knowledge of Tailwind CSS and its utility classes for rapid UI development.

- Experience with responsive web design (RWD) principles and best practices.

- Understanding of web accessibility guidelines (WCAG).

- Familiarity with unit testing frameworks (e.g., Jasmine, Karma) is a plus.

-  Experience with build tools (e.g., Webpack) is a plus.

-  Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

-   Strong attention to detail and a passion for creating pixel-perfect user interfaces.

-   Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

A proactive and results-oriented individual with a strong work ethic.

Profile Overview:

We are looking for passionate and keen-eyed front-end developers with 5+ years of experience in React JS for a major project to join our creative front-end development team who can add optimization and efficiency to the user experience and maintain brand consistency across all web page of the web products.

The front-end developer will closely coordinate with our back-end developers, graphic designers and UI designers to ensure all elements of the web creation are consistent.

Responsibilities:

• Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating excellent interactive forms of designs, writing reusable modules and maintainability of the code.

• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.

• Review and optimize the application usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.

• Determining the structure and design of web pages.

• Ensuring user experience by analyzing the design choices.

• Developing features to enhance the user experience.

• Striking balance between functional and aesthetic design.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, computer applications or related fields.
• Proven working experience as a React Developer for 5+ years and above.
• Hands-on experience with HTML5, CSS3, and  CSS frameworks.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Web services, Web API, REST services & GraphQL.
• Expertise in UI design and development of responsive web applications using React, Redux, Flask and Hooks.
• Applicable knowledge of Social API integration, Core location APIs, Web Views, Payments integration
• Proficiency in understanding layout aesthetics.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and multitasking skills.
• Ability to solve novel and challenging React problems.
• Capability to understand, develop and sustain continuous integration and delivery.

• Our engineers are involved in all parts of the product lifecycle: brainstorming, design,prototyping, planning, execution, and deploying.
• We brainstorm to understand and explore the difficult problem and come up with the best solution for the hardest problems that impact the world.
• You will develop broad-ranging skills working on a wide variety of initiatives. You will take responsibility for your projects, but you'll also have teammates who look out for you.
• We operate in a “get s**t done” environment where the goal is always to execute and implement. While doing all of this...You will not forget to have fun!

WHAT WE VALUE

• You're cool with working with others. Our jobs aren’t done in a vacuum and everyone contributes to get the job done.
• You’re not afraid to make mistakes because without challenge, you’re not learning.
• Speaking of learning, you have a constant desire to grow and develop.
• You care about great design, not only in the product and visual sense, but also in your code and technical architecture.
• You are passionate about product craftsmanship, and can balance that with deploying something relevant.
• You move fast with a sense of urgency. You want to work on things that make an impact on the world.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• Candidate Expectations: Design, code, deploy and maintain scalable software infrastructure to meet Blowhorn's demands.
• 3+ years’ experience in a start-up environment or any reputed product based company
• Build APIs for business clients to integrate blowhorn into their systems.
• Setup processes and methodology for sustainable software development.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Good understanding of JS frameworks (AngularJS, ReactJS, VueJS), Angular 5+ and Bootstrap.
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including 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
• Some exposure to Analytics/Dashboard and related client frameworks (D3.js, Apache superset)
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Has worked extensively on Google maps and features like live tracking, geo fencing
• Good API integration skills (with backend frameworks)
• Mobile frameworks like Flutter is a plus
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• 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 understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as (Git / Mercurial / SVN)
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in Frontend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Relevant work experience as a UI Developer. Proficient in JavaScript , ReactJS and/or Reactive Native, Angular , JQuery Experience with HTML, CSS, Knowledge of web services and related technologies (REST) Experience with Web Services and API integration
• Candidate should have a stronghold on HTML & CSS
• Can understand and troubleshoot REST APIs calls
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Knowledge of SASS & LESS will be a plus as well
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Use JavaScript and cutting-edge JS frameworks to develop front end applications that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models
2. Solve and articulate complex problems through application design, product development, and user experiences. 
3. Develop software used by people who are not software developers--ensure the exceptional software you create influences them to be exceptional professionals in their respective fields
4. Collaborate with other programmers and mentor junior engineers through the development process
5. Leverage the knowledge of your peers to better understand business trends, customer communities, and technology adoption patterns
6. Evolve your language skills in JavaScript by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools.

• MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 9+ years (or more) experience shipping quality code
• 4+ years’ experience with leading frontend frameworks like Angular 1 to 8 or ReactJS, etc.
• Experience on Ionic Framework, Cardova
• Experience contributing front-end code to a publicly available, consumer-focused web application.
• Solid experience and understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript (vanilla JS and popular libraries like Underscore.js and jQuery)
• Experience with REST-based API