Sr. Javascript Developer / React.js

Company Overview

VC-backed Fintech startup with an innovative online trading application seeking an experienced Frontend Engineer to join our growing team.

We're based out of UK and have our engineering team in India.

Job Description

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

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js
2. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
3. Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
4. Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
5. Maintain existing React systems, including fixing bugs
6. Handling backend infra written in Next/Node/Express

Skills

1. Strong proficiency in debugging, JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
2. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
3. Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
4. Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
5. Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
6. Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
7. Knowledge of isomorphic Next js and Node js is a plus
8. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
9. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
10. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
11. Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
12. Familiarity with basic authentication mechanism and security
13. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
14. A knack for benchmarking and optimization
15. Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git

[Please note: Our HQ is in Wales and we're in the process of creating an Indian Entity. This means that the candidate will be responsible for all Tax related compliances until the entity is setup.]

 About Freespace* (a.k.a. Workplace Fabric)  

Workplace Fabric develops solutions that makes workplaces intelligent. Our solutions help increase productivity of office workers while helping to lower the cost of real estate. Our Flagship 

product Freespace is installed in over 40 cities around the world and serves over 30,000 people every day. Starting with the first deployment in March 2016 we have rapidly grown with our solution being rolled out globally while continuing to stay cash positive. With successes at several blue-chip clients Workplace Fabric has carved a unique leadership position in workplace management and employee engagement SaaS solutions. 

*To find out more, follow us on social media – LinkedIn & Facebook @ workplace-fabric 

What is on our offer?  

• An absolutely action packed, fun, and demanding workplace lets our employees to thrive in a team-based environment with passion, fun, pride and teamwork as our core values. 
• We can offer you career opportunities to challenge, develop and exceed your aspirations with training and development throughout your career. 
• Life is never dull at Freespace as there is always something to learn, constantly pushing you to develop your skills and take on the next exciting challenge. 

 Profile Brief:  

You will be a creative Frontend Engineer with specialist React and visualization skills in our fast growing Analytics Team, creating dynamic dashboards to drive our client’s business insights.  

Working closely as an active team member, having ownership & accountability to develop the analytics stories, in delivering timely projects through Scrum. Working with product owners and team leads to clarifying requirements, challenge assumptions in order to ensure successful executions and push the client analytics to its best.  

Key Skills and Experience  

Required Skills: JavaScript (ES6+), React, amCharts, D3.js (or industry equivalent) 

Good to have: SQL, TypeScript, AWS, Scrum, IoT 

Experience: 4-6 years  

• A front-end and data visualization expert with 4+ years of experience  

• Ability to design widget or component based, scalable analytics dashboards 
• Expert in creating excellent user experience through quick loading dashboards and pixel-perfect design 
• Implement dashboard solutions with interactive and dynamic visualization to tell the story. 
• Hands-on and well-versed with at least one of React (preferred), Angular or Vue  
• Data processing and manipulation expert 

• Master in JavaScript with excellent understanding of asynchronous patterns  
• Comfortable with of ES6+, TypeScript & emerging web technologies  
• Able to easily comprehend and write SQL queries  
• Hands-on programmer  

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Key Behaviours  

• Have an open mind to turn business requirements into attractive yet practical visualisations. 

• Be passionate about understanding the business problem and using data to tell the stories in delivering solutions which drive client decisions. 
• Contribute to the success of the team through active participation, team work and owning project deliverables. 
• Contribute to high standards through personal delivery of data quality checks, code reviews and documentation in work and team practices. 
• Clear thinker with a systematic problem-solving approach, seeing a project through from conception to finished product. 
• Unafraid to own mistakes and be willing to challenge and feedback to enhance the team processes and solutions. 

Our client is a premier web design and software solutions company based out of Delhi, Florida and California. They are a creative, young and dynamic organisation that provides superior quality solutions like web design and development, mobile app development on various platforms, cloud apps and Ecommerce web solutions. They have clients across US, Canada, UK, and Australia, who receive market ready and saleable apps.

What you need to have:

• Web-based portal development for end to end process management
• Work with the real-time feedback from users to make the product better
• Discover, design, develop, deploy, debug. Repeat! In highly agile environment.

• Build fluid, scalable, responsive, and consumer-centric web platforms that target users across a wide array of devices
• Collaborate closely with designers & backend developers and contribute to the full product development life-cycle from design and development to roll out
  Take ownership of work and deliver quality results consistently
• Own the delivery of multiple features in a fast-paced work environment
• Build optimized and modular components to provide performance-oriented solutions
• Work in a dynamic and collaborative culture ensuring good teamwork and communication with remote team members when needed

• 4+ Years of experience in frontend web development (1+ in ReactJS)
• Strong past experience of building, scaling and maintaining feature-rich customer-facing single-page applications
• Ability to translate designs into UI elements with accuracy and an eye for fluidity and responsiveness; strong grasp of any of CSS / sass / less
• Proven ability to implement key concepts of state management, security, and caching practices in enterprise-level web applications used at scale
• Proficient understanding of compatibility issues across different browsers and web and mobile devices and available ways to work around them
• Familiarity with the react ecosystem and popular libraries in that ecosystem
• Strong grasp over core web development concepts like HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, general Web 2.0 techniques, and working without modern component libraries
• Experience with designing secure web applications with a strong understanding of common security vulnerabilities and best practices
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming
• Strong grasp over concepts of performance, optimization, lighthouse, etc
• Strong handle over Git, following best practices to facilitate collaboration

• Hands-on experience with supporting payments and integrating payment gateways
• Experience with progressive web apps, service workers
• Strong grasp over frontend unit and end-to-end testing frameworks

• 4.5+ years Experience with AngularJS
• Available for immediate joining 
• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques
• Experience with RESTful services
• Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp
• Expert in any one of the modern JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks (AngularJS, JQuery, NodeJS, GruntJS)
• Hand on and implements complex AngularJS applications, directives, controllers, services
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player

Role and Responsibilities

• Making technology work for small holder farmers is the primary function of this team, the individual joining this team should be self-driven towards creating impact.
• A keen listener and has a pro-active approach to problem solving.
• Should understand the role of digital transformation in a company’s journey.
• An individual who follows technological advancements closely and thinks of new and innovative use cases that such technology can solve.
• Having previous experience in product management and/or platform development projects is a plus.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle and software configuration management tools preferred.
• The candidate should demonstrate high bias-for-action and should drive results that matter to the function and to the entire organisation.
• Build from ground up, a scalable server infrastructure and client applications.
• Design, develop and deploy features and consume APIs with high quality standards.
• Manage the infrastructure hosted in the cloud.
• Contribute significantly in reviewing code, design & test-cases authored by peers.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• 2-6 years experience of design and development experience building scalable & distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from reputed institutes.

SKILLS

• Agile Project Management
• Software Development Life Cycle and Software Configuration Management
• Excellent coding, debugging skills.
• Hands-on experience on the following tech stacks:
  ReactJs, NodeJs, TypeScript, PostgresSQL/MongoDB, Nginx, Pm2, Redis, Bootstrap, CSS
• Knowledge of Microservices and REST APIs.
• Must have: Experience with managing server infra in hybrid cloud AWS & GCP.
• Must Have: Very good understanding of OOPS and design patterns.
• Nice to have: Hands-on-experience with analytics using ELK stack/ Mixpanel.

GeoSpoc is looking for passionate Senior Frontend Engineers to join the software engineering team and help build elegant, intuitive interfaces to analyse geospatial data.

• A passionate developer with solid understanding of software basics.
• Always willing to learn and explore upcoming technologies.
• Pro-active, reliable and result oriented.
• Someone who can continuously perform in a fast-paced environment.

• Extensive experience building and maintaining responsive web interfaces using modern JavaScript, HTML & CSS tools and client-side frameworks like React or Vue
• JavaScript -
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript. ES6, polyfills, etc.
• Writing good code with proper use of Linters.
• Good to have -TypeScript and/or JSDoc
• Minimum 1 years of experience in state management libs such as Vuex or Redux.
• Proficient in agile software development practices: version control, Kanban, ticketing, peer-reviews
• Test driven development, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Experience with docker and container orchestration
• Good understanding of micro-services architecture
• Experience building solutions for the cloud; using AWS, Azure, GCP etc.
• Has had hands-on experiences in developing performance driven Progressive Web Apps

• js / React - 1.5 to 3 years
• State Management - 1 to 3 years
• Vanilla JS - 3 to 5 years
• Karma / Jest - 1 to 3 years
• Map libs - 1.5 to 3 years
• Docker - 1.5 to 3 years
• HTML5 / CSS3 - 2 to 5 years