Sr. Software Developer - Frontend

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll be part of the Innovation Projects team at GradRight. This team works on third party integrations and adopting new tools/technologies to help build a cutting edge platform for the higher education space.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular frontend.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
• Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
• Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
• Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation

Requirements:

• At least 3 years experience as an SDE
• Strong experience with at least one frontend framework, preferably vue.js
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Really quick learner and able to dive deep into new ideas/experiments at breakneck speed
• Passion for trying out new technologies and focusing on iterative development
• Experience with team management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

• Worked in a full-stack capacity at high growth startups
• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR

Requirements

Must have (1.5 - 10) years of experience in front end development in an internet startup

Deep knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience

Proficiency with javascript and html5

Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performance visual effects and keeping the frame rate above 30 fps at all times

Thorough understanding of the responsibility of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies and other web services used in the system

Creating custom general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular

Ability to understand business requirements and translate them in to technical requirements

Roles and responsibilities

Delivering a complete front end application

Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop

Writing tested, idiomatic and documented Javascript, HTML, CSS

Co-ordinating the workflow between graphic designer, HTML coder and yourself

Cooperating with the back end developer in the process of building restful API

Communicating with external webservices

Ensure high quality graphic standards and high consistency

Stay up to date on emerging technologies

Write functional requirement documents and guides

Must have skills (Angular 6, CSS, HTML, Javascript (ES5 and ES6), rest ful API, Product company / startup 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)
• 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
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end services
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
• Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
• Good understanding and the knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS etc.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Familiarity with JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js and AMD
• Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Grunt and Gulp.js
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance

Job description

Responsibilities and Duties:

· Use a variety of languages in order to create user-friendly web pages

· Define visual interfaces that adhere to and extend wireframes and specifications

· Build, maintain and improve company and client websites

· Work in a creative environment with a team of other professionals

· Optimize web applications for maximum speed, usability, and accessibility

· Actively seek to understand business requirements to develop solutions

· Keep up to date on the latest and emerging technologies as it relates to the position

· Use strong problem-solving skills with the drive to find solutions prior to escalation

Desired Candidate Profile

· At least 4-7 years of experience as a Web Developer

· Proficiency with HTML5, CSS3, Sass or LESS, Bootstrap 4, jQuery, JavaScript.

· Translate UI/UX design to actual code

· Person have basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop.

· Person should be in good practices to develop clean, short and optimized html/css code.

· Basic Knowledge of Backend framework (Laravel, Codeigniter, etc) to work on view part

· Understanding of version control (GitHub, bitbucket, SVN)

· Proficient in Optimize Website for maximum speed and scalability

· Person should have expert in Responsive website designing.

· Must have expertise to make SEO compatible html codes.

· Strong critical thinking, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

· Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on success

· A positive and friendly attitude

· Good time-management skills

· Great interpersonal and communication skills

Qualifications:

• Minimum one year of experience in React, Redux 
• Experience with Build systems e.g. Webpack/Grunt/Gulp 
• In-depth knowledge of HTML/XHTML/HTML5 
• Experience with Testing frameworks e.g. Karma/Jasmine/Protractor/Cucumber/Mocha/Jest 
• Experience with interface development toolkits: e.g. Less/SASS 
• Experience with web service integration protocols such as REST & GraphQL 
• In-depth knowledge of Javascript e.g. ES5/ES6/Typescript 
• Strong Knowledge of CSS 3 
• Must be a strong team player 
• Have a good understanding of design and user experience principles. 
• Experience in dealing with cross-browser compatibility requirements 
• Understanding of mobile development best practices (e.g. responsive design, graceful degradation, etc.) 
• Ability to work independently as well as on a team and learn from colleagues 
• Open-minded, flexible and willing to adapt to changing situations 
• Good designing & color combination skills 
• Experience with Git or other version control systems.