Sr UI Developer/Architect - funded Startup+equity

Zolvit is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Frontend Software Engineer to join our

growing engineering team. As a key member of the team, you will play a crucial role in

designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, user-centric frontend experiences

across web and mobile platforms. You will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems

at scale and contribute to a product that will potentially power millions of businesses in India.

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, and deploy high-quality, user-friendly frontend applications using

modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Next.js, React, Angular, Vue.js).

● Develop and maintain native mobile applications for both iOS and Android platforms.

● Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate frontend applications with backend APIs

using microservices architecture.

● Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, adhering to best practices and coding

standards.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, and QA, to deliver

exceptional user experiences.

● Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing sessions.

● Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, promoting automation and continuous delivery.

● Monitor and optimize the performance of frontend applications, ensuring a smooth and

responsive user experience.

● Champion a quality-driven development approach, including unit testing, integration

testing, and end-to-end testing.

● Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in frontend development and

mobile app development.

Qualifications:

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical

experience.

● Proven experience in frontend software engineering, with a strong focus on building and

scaling web and mobile applications.

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript and at least one modern JavaScript framework (e.g.,

Next.js, React, Angular, Vue.js).

● Experience developing and deploying native mobile applications for iOS and Android

platforms using languages like Swift, Kotlin, or React Native.

● Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns.

● Experience integrating frontend applications with backend APIs, preferably within a

microservices architecture.

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs and other common API protocols.

● Experience with state management libraries and techniques (e.g., Redux)

● Experience with modern CSS frameworks (e.g., Tailwind CSS, Material UI).

● Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI).

● A strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and excellent

problem-solving and analytical skills.

● A proactive and collaborative approach to work.

● A passion for building high-quality user experiences and a commitment to continuous

improvement.

● Experience working in an Agile environment.

Bonus Points:

● Experience with GraphQL, performance optimization techniques.

● Contributions to open-source projects.

● Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment..

Looking for candidates only with tier 1 colleges OR have experience in a product-based company.

You will be designing front-end architecture with architectural guidelines in mind (secure,high-performing, scalable, extensible, flexible, simple).
● Architect, Design and develop front-end applications.

Desired Skills
● Minimum 6+ years of coding experience.
● Strong hands-on experience on React.js, MVC & related JS Frameworks.
● Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, single page applications.
● Build a highly scalable product right from scratch.
● Expertise in caching, minification, bundling techniques to improve front-end performance.
● Experience in working with AB Testing.
● Experience in using front-end monitoring tools to troubleshoot errors and recognise performance bottlenecks.
● Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and coding.
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools(GIT, SVN), working experience with Agile methodology and fast iterative development cycles

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

About Company: Spica Systems (https://spicasys.com )

Spica Systems is a Silicon Valley based start-up, established in 2019 and are recognized as experts in building products and providing R& DandSoftware Development services in wide range of leading-edge technologies such as LTE, 5G, Cloud Services (Public -AWS, AZURE, GCP, Private -Openstack) and Kubernetes. Ithasa highly scalable and secured 5G Packet Core Network, orchestrated by ML powered Kubernetes platform, which can be deployed in various multi cloud modealong with a test tool. Headquartered in San Jose, California, we have our R& D centre in Sector V, Salt Lake Kolkata.

• Looking for a Software developer who will work on the product's Web UI side
• Hands on and working experience with React JS
• Experience in WebUI using Javascript technology.
• Experience: 2-4 years of React development in a team environment
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
• Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux.
• Experience with user interface design. Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.

Education: Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, IT or Mathematics or Engineering

Traits: Quick learner, open minded, willing to learn

Job Description:-

• React.js with Redux and Typescript 
• Experience working with Git, JIRA
• End to end responsibility from development to production.
• Work with product and design teams to translate designs and wireframes into high-quality products.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Eager to learn new things in technology  

We are looking to hire a Full-time, Remote (India) Frontend engineer to help create a SAAS product from the ground up in a niche industry.
This will be the v2.0 of an existing legacy platform with paying customers. This position is within the first few hires in the founding team of the revamped company.
We are on a mission to build a truly world-class product and deliver at high speeds with high quality.

Read on and apply for the job if you are a doer, likes no BS, think you're competent enough to get things done, want some quiet time every day, want to make a difference, values work-life balance, and enjoy life outside work.

Experience - At least 5 years building scalable SAAS applications in the cloud. It would be great to showcase anything progressive. Education from premier institutions, git contributions, tech blogs, volunteering, pet projects, etc.

Responsibilities -
- Architect, write, deploy and own the (SAAS) product from a technical frontend standpoint working closely with backend engineers and designers
- Create and deliver the product end-to-end all the way to the user
- Write highly performant code and continuously measure performance and make the application better based on benchmarks
- Debug production issues and keep the application quality high always
- Assist with hiring more people when the team grows
- Pick up any appropriate work as in any early-stage company

General Skills Needed -

- Create state-of-the-art user experiences including complex dashboards, pdf reports, complex graphs delivering the end-to-end implementation all the way to the user
- Should be able to build and deploy multi-tenant SAAS applications end to end
- Need to have a technology-agnostic mindset. Should be able to easily pick up any new technology based on the use case
- Should be an expert software craftsman/craftswoman. Must own the code and be proud of what you build
- Write well thought out, well-tested code with extensive unit tests and integration tests so that the addition of future features is easy.
- Must know cloud deployment concepts and be comfortable working on CI/CD pipelines, cost-effective cloud deployment strategies. AWS experience highly preferred
- Must be able to design and architect simple, market-tested yet highly scalable solutions
- Must be able to quickly iterate and produce working software at a high speed. Must not be shy to scrap and rebuild when there is a need
- Must be appreciative of documentation and write well-documented code and technical documentation alongside

Technical Skills Needed -
- Expert level knowledge in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern web development standards and frameworks (React preferred/Angular/Vue/etc)
- Expert level knowledge in the appropriate frameworks

1. React (preferred), Angular, Vue, or other modern frontend frameworks
2. Integrating with Rest APIs
3. PostgreSQL, MySQL, any NoSQL or other database technology

- Expertise in data presentation and reporting - creating beautiful reports and graphs in the UI based on the data collected by the backend
- Must have a great level understanding of various frameworks on authentication and authorization, billing and metrics
- Must have some knowledge in creating cost-efficient and scalable cloud deployments (AWS preferred) and be ready to learn
- Expert level knowledge in industry-standard design patterns and tools

Your Responsibilities

• You will be a rockstar front end engineer bringing to life designs and solutions created in collaboration with designers and product managers. You will be responsible for converting the requirements to fast, optimised, usable interfaces, loved by our users.
• You will be the main source of knowledge on everything “front end” related and guide the team to make correct technical decisions to ensure the speed and scale of the solutions deployed.
• Collaborate daily with back-end developers and web designers to improve the usability
• You will be a key person in ensuring that agile processes created by the team are adhered to and you actively contribute to the improvement of these processes. You will be responsible for estimating your tasks and ensuring that promised timelines are met.
• You will be responsible for the performance, security, scalability, reusability and quality of the applications under you. You will collaborate with senior engineering managers/architects to refine & improve your solutions. You will cascade the same culture across the team by supporting and mentoring team members, helping build truly scalable applications
• You will need to collaborate closely with product managers, designers and business stakeholders to achieve predictable results at a rapid pace. 
• You will be able to handle competing priorities and chart the best course of action for yourself and your team members ensuring blockers are removed
• You will help in attracting and evaluating tech talent to help build the engineering brand of the organization.

Desired background & skills

• 3-9 years of experience as an engineer at top tier digital product companies across consumer or SMB. 
• 3+ years of experience in working on front end JS frameworks like React/Angular/Vue
• Excellent knowledge of working with responsive and adaptive designs. Expert in HTML5, JAVAScript, JQuery & CSS. Basic knowledge of SEO.
• Experience of design collaboration tools such as Zeplin, Figma, XD, Invision. 
• Bonus if either you’re a full stack developer with knowledge of the back end or have experience with cross-platform mobile technologies such as React Native or Flutter.
• You have strong problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms. 
• Passion to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment. conscientious, curious, hard-working individual who craves accountability and loves to solve complex problems.
• You get a kick out of people using and loving your produced outcome.

Responsibilities:

• Build customer facing technology product for global customers.
• Own the Product's frontend and backend development, building reusable, testable, and scalable code
• Research, evaluate, analyse and implement technical requirements
• Collaborate with product management teams to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
• Mentor Junior members of the team

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building scalable products, distributed applications product/services in JavaScript and one of Angular/React
• Should have sound knowledge and experience in HTML and CSS
• Familiarity with UI layout, and CSS grid system or experience working with Bootstrap or any other CSS frameworks is a must
• Should have worked on the complete UI lifecycle of converting UI/UX designs into prototypes, write reusable modules
• Implement UI development principles to ensure client side scaling and clean and maintainable code that performs well on various performance metrics
• Understanding of multiple delivery platforms, such as Mobile & Web and developing Responsive UI
• Designing Unit Test cases, integrated test cases using Selenium and Protractor
• Strong coding and problem solving skills
• Ability to own end-to-end deliveries, right from requirements till release
• Excellent coding skills and ability to produce high quality, bug free and testable production grade code
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Ability to review code and continuously push for higher standards of development
• Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL database services and related tools with the expertise to create efficient schemas, preferably MongoDB would be nice to have

Key Qualifications:

5 + years of experience in Software development in multithreaded Java/Python applications

3+ years of UI/UX stack experience (Angular JS/PHP/Javascript)

Extensive experience in coding and debugging Java applications and deployment

Should have experience/exposure to Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, SOAP, REST, Maven, Spring framework, hibernate, Kafka, Zookeeper, DHCP, DNS, SNMP

Extensive experience with MySQL and various NoSQL Databases like MongoDB, Elasticsearch

Modelling languages like Netconf, Restconf, Yang,Tosca, Yaml, XML

Skilled in data center, networking, Linux and cloud technologies especially IaaS

Understanding of the ETSI NFV architecture stack

2+ experience with SDN technologies

2+ experience with OpenStack, Kubernetes or other container orchestration platform

Agile programming methodologies

DevOps - CI/ CD experience with Git, Gerritt, Jenkins

Experience contributing to and working with open source communities like ONAP, ONF