Software Engineer Trainee

Key Skills/ Knowledge:

• Experience with React or any JS frontend frameworks
• Experience with, HTML5, CSS3 and CSS pre-processor like SASS or LESS.
• Proficient in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation
• Understanding of React and its core principles
• Experience with React workflows (such as Redux)
• Familiarity with the newer specification of JavaScript (ES6 or newer)
• Experience working with JSON
• Experience building accessibility compliant web applications
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (git)
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• Familiarity with unit testing
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

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.    

Responsibilities :    

* 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    

Skills :    

* Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

* Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles with Type Script

* Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

* Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

* Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus

* Familiarity with RESTful APIs

* Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

* Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

* Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

* Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements   

* A knack for benchmarking and optimization.  

As the technical lead, you will oversee the company's technical team and all projects they undertake, analyze briefs, write progress reports, identify risks, and develop work schedules. You should be able to work with your team and inspire them to reach their goals.

To be successful as a technical lead, you should always be expanding your industry knowledge and be able to quickly identify problems. Outstanding technical leads are accountable, trustworthy, and able to build lasting relationships with their teams.

Responsibilities:

• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• A 3-4 years of experience in a similar role would be advantageous.
• In-depth experience in working with Reactjs and Go.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with blockchain technology preferable.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities.

• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to brainstorm and resolve complex problems.
• Ensure the quality of code is up to the highest standard of readability, conciseness, efficiency, modularity, and extensibility.
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Must-haves

• At least 3 years of experience working in frontend for desktop and mobile web.
• Familiar with design tools and convert them to actual code (HTML+CSS+JavaScript)
• Mastery in DOM Manipulation (including Jquery) and understand components, CTAs.
• Well-versed in other non-vanilla languages (ex. TypeScript)
• Well-versed in standard frontend framework (ex. ReactJS)
• Understanding of GraphQL APIs.
• Deep understanding of web technologies in various mobile systems
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services.

🔎 We are looking for a software engineer who,

• 👨🏻‍💻 has good hands-on experience with JavaScript. Our current stack is Nuxt / Fastify / Objection.js.
• 🤤 has a good product and design taste.
• 🙋🏻‍♀️ is curious and asks a lot of questions!
• ⚡️ is passionate about writing clean code.
• 🕵🏻‍♂️ has strong problem-solving skills.
• 🖥 can turn 1-pager specs into detailed features.
• ❣️ loves/appreciates automated testing!
• 😇 is humble, kind and has a good taste of sarcasm. 🤪

☀️ Non-mandatory, but nice to have

• 👶🏻 worked in an early-stage startup.
• 🤟🏻 built and led a small engineering team.
• 3️⃣ + years of experience.
• 👩🏻‍💻 open source enthusiast.
• 👩🏼‍🏫 You are passionate about teaching, learning and the creator economy.

⁉️ What's the interview process like?

• Get in touch with Dhaval or Navneet and understand the mission of the company in detail.
• Take us through what excites you the most about this role/challenge.
• A flexible project round in the programming language of your preference.
• Provide us with at least 2 references who would help us learn more about you.

🍫 Perks

• You will be a part of the founding team and will get to lead a lean team in the future.
• Working with a hands-on tech co-founder has a different vibe of its own! 😃
• Remote-friendly culture.