Software Engineer

Job Overview:

We are looking for a passionate and skilled React.js Developer with 1-2 years of experience in front-end development. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining web applications using React.js while ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and seamless user experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain responsive web applications using React.js.
• Collaborate with designers and backend developers to implement UI/UX designs.
• Optimize components for maximum performance across multiple devices and browsers.
• Work with RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services.
• Troubleshoot and debug application issues.
• Maintain clean, scalable, and reusable code following industry best practices.
• Participate in Agile development processes, including scrum meetings and sprint planning.

Required Skills:

• Strong proficiency in React.js, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML, and CSS.
• Knowledge of Redux, Context API, or other state management libraries.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and asynchronous programming.
• Familiarity with Git version control.
• Understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
• Basic knowledge of Node.js (preferred but not mandatory)

About the role:

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 products is important.

What you’ll do

• 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
• Version Control: Git
• SDLC: Working experience in Agile methodology
• Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills

What you’ll need

• B.Tech or M.Tech equivalent with at least 2 years of experience
• 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
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

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About Us
We are a company dedicated to helping people find the food they love, no matter what food interests or dietary preferences they may have. You’ll be joining in the very early stages of the company, and have the chance to influence the direction of the company with your ideas and contributions.

Our Tech Stack (Front End):

• JQuery
• Bootstrap
• EJS templates
• HTML/CSS All new modules
• js with a team-maintained and crowd-sourced component library Middleware/Back end.
• Express
• js
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• API layer
• Elastic Search

Desired attributes:

• Enjoys iterative/agile development – We will iterate based on internal and customer feedback until we make an awesome product! We also have a very deep and compelling product roadmap we make consistent progress against.
• Works well collaboratively with other developers, contributing to the codebase, performing code reviews, and mentoring a team of junior developers. We have a lot of junior developers learning to code that need mentorship/leadership.
• A passion for food would be great, our business is to help pair people up with amazingly good food.
• Results-oriented

Responsibilities:

• Ability to build on and maintain a fully functional responsive web application
• Experience building API-driven applications

Qualifications:

• CS Degree is great but development skills are more important than degrees
• Ability to build and maintain a fully responsive website
• Prefer proficiency in our tech stack, but willing to teach people who are highly motivated and can spend significant time on the project for equity.
• GitHub or similar source code management system experience
• Nice to have: Experience developing customer-facing web applications

• Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.
• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Identifying web-based user interactions.
• Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using react concepts.
• Writing application interface codes using JavaScript following react.js workflows.
• Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
• Documenting application changes and developing updates.