Sr Frontend Engineer

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

About the job

The ideal candidate will have strong creative skills and a portfolio of work that demonstrates their passion for product designing with the creativity that would produce an appealing and delightful user experience.

About the role and responsibilities

The UI/UX designer’s role encompasses a couple of the following responsibilities.

To be able to communicate and tell stories with animations

To understand, conceptualise and create storyboards for micro-animations and animations before the final animation

Working alongside UI/UX designers to enhance the experience of digital products

Frequently identify opportunities where motion design would enhance the user experience in digital solutions

Create high quality, creative and innovative animations in 2D and/or 3D

To have a keen interest in learning new tools and expand their horizon of knowledge

About the requirement

The UI/UX designer should have the following abilities

Proven motion design experience and a diverse portfolio to showcase one’s work

Strong storytelling skills and a solid foundation in the fundamentals of visual and motion design

Display the ability to work in different styles

Proficient in softwares like After Effects(presets and plugins), Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, etc.

A keen eye for design aesthetics and details

Able to articulate ideas, both written and spoken, to drive impact

Good communication skills

Ability to work methodically and meet work in a fast-paced environment

The ability to create illustrations will be a plus

Prior experience with product company or digital products will be a plus

Degree / Certification in Design, Fine Arts or related field is a plus

We are looking for highly skilled candidates with experience in frontend programming and are comfortable in dealing with backend tools.

• 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 ReactJS 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.

An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.

• 6 to 9 years of strong design and development experience in building massively large-scale distributed internet systems and products.
• Previous experience working as a React.js Developer.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
• Strong experience using a client side MVC framework such as NodeJS, ReactJS, or Redux.
• Experience with user interface design.
• Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
• Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility, and website performance.
• Knowledge of frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI, and preprocessors like SASS and LESS.
• Experience with handling Services, RESTful, APIs (NodeJS preferably).

You will be working with top-quality engineers who have built one of the best employee engagement SaaS platforms. You will be reporting to the Engineering Head and working closely with the Architect and other leads.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact, and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

Xoxoday is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Backed by Giift and Apis Partners Growth Fund II, Xoxoday offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with more than 2000 clients across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Xoxoday is a 300+ strong team with four global offices in San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, New Delhi.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Responsibilities

Develop high quality, secure, stable code for use in products and solutions for

customers, making it easier for other developers to maintain, enhance, reuse,

and localize

Work with Product Owner and/or Product Manager/Team to understand and help

refine functional requirements for new products

Develop and outline architecture and relationships between subsystems and

participates in review of those designs

Investigate and, if necessary, prototype technologies and algorithms relating to

the task

Break down a large problem into smaller components and provide a clear

solution for each piece

Ensure new code, feature or software product meets performance goals/metrics

Research external best practices and emerging technologies for possible

incorporation into company products and methodologies

Write and maintain the code following Test-Driven-Design principles

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline from reputed engineering

college

5 to 7 years of strong programming skills in Web and Cloud Technologies

Should have a very strong foundation in JavaScript, and must have a clear

understanding of basic web fundamentals such as prototype based inheritance,

scopes, Event Loop, Memory Management in JS, etc

Should be good at developing modular front-end applications and is expected to

have the knowledge to create good abstractions that can be reused . Should also

have in-depth understanding of latest ES6 standards such as spread operators,

arrow functions, etc

Should have strong programming skills in Web and Cloud Technologies

Should be strong in OOAD Concepts

Should have a strong hands-on in React, Typescript

Should have Hands-on experience in any of the backend language.

Should understand latest paradigms in Front End Development such as Pub-Sub

Pattern, Redux, RxJS, Service Workers, Client Caching, Lazy Loading, Dynamic

Injection, Bundle Optimisation, etc

Should have very good hands-on knowledge of CSS3 & HTML5

Should have good knowledge of Postman API Platform

Should have experience with Amazon web services – ECS, Lambda, S3, SQS, etc

Should have Hands-on experience of developing RESTful web services and

integrating the same with heterogeneous clients

Should have Hands-on experience with Relational or NoSQL Database’s

Should have a very clear understanding of TDD is expected and should have

good exposure to writing UT's and designing UI components with testability in

mind

Should have Strong Communication and Analytical skills

Flexibility under changing conditions and the ability to multi-task between

projects

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with C++

Nice to have experience with Python

Nice to have experience with CI/CD tools like Docker, Jenkins, etc

Nice to have a hands-on & Understanding of CSS Pre-processors such as SASS,

LESS, etc

Primary purpose of the role:

Front end development of websites and applications using CSS3, HTML5, jQuery and other skills to produce clean, functional and web compliant projects to be handed over to Back End Developers to be further worked on as well as CSS bug fixes post Back End development

Major responsibilities & deliverables:

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1. Great skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and cross browser implementations.
2. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
3. Experience and knowledge about the cool stuff in HTML5 and CSS3.
4. At Least knowledge of one JavaScript framework such as VueJs, ReactJs, AngularJs
5. Proficiency and familiarity with CSS/JavaScript frameworks and utilities such as HTML5 Boilerplate, jQuery, Modernizr, Firebug, JSLint, minification, and others. 
6. Taking PSD files from designers, slicing and/or recreating elements via CSS to match the design perfectly
7. Ability to make modifications to libraries in jQuery as per requirement of a project
8. Extensive knowledge of fonts, embedding from third parties like Google, Typekit & Font Deck etc.
9. Knowledge of optimizing CSS/JavaScript performance, by coding practices and tools.
10. Passion and follow through for their work. Excited and curious about learning new technology, as well as the sharing of ideas. Exceptional collaboration, listening, written, and verbal communication. Able to own individual projects as well as the ability to work within a team.
11. Awareness of current design trends in the visual arts, working knowledge of the latest computer packages and an understanding time limits which can impact on the design.
12. Knowledge of GIT or any other version control software.

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