Job title and location:
Sr. Web Developer, based in Bangalore, India
Who we are:
VAHN is a seed-funded fintech and mobility application which integrates tracking, load planning, billing, performance management and cost management with a payment wallet and seamless credit to deliver a powerful solution for truck-owners and truck-drivers.
We are a very small team with a big idea and lots of passion, and we’re on a mission to bring Indian trucking into the next generation of tech.
The trucking industry in India is fragmented, unorganised, and fraught with numerous challenges that haven’t yet been solved. Although the industry is ripe for disruption, not many have been able to take advantage of the opportunity because of a lack of exposure to ground realities and practical challenges. Combining years of research and first-hand experience running trucks ourselves, we believe we have an edge.
We are looking for a passionate teammate who is as excited about the mission as we are, and is keen to delve deep into this challenging but exciting space. Trucking is getting upgraded, are you in?
What we are looking for:
// Passion for good design and hunger for making a big impact
// Extensive experience in web development along with the best practices as per language
// Ability to thrive in complexity
// Leadership qualities and versatility
What you should enjoy doing:
// Building exceptional products with robust and reliable code
// Working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
// Collaborating with designers playing a critical role in design, planning, development and deployment
// Being the technical voice at the table, educating and guiding the business on the right approach, technologies, and trends
// Building a team and mentoring fresh talent
What the role is about:
As a core team member you will design and develop the next-generation of technologies for the Indian trucking industry with the potential to change how millions of drivers, truck owners, transporters, and shippers manage their businesses and transact with one another. Some specific responsibilities include,
// Translating designs and wireframes into high performance, reusable, and reliable code. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
// Diving deep into performance and network connectivity optimisation
// Continuously discovering, evaluating, and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency
// Developing robust, quick prototypes for proof-of concept features / application based on briefs
// Unit-test coding for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
// Providing development support, code review and optimisation
// Working with outside data sources and APIs
Qualifications:
// 5+ years of hands on web application development experience using JavaScript/Typescript, React/Redux, HTML5 and CSS3
// Exposure to CI/CD tools, Code Analysis, and Test automation, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EC2, EKS) is preferred
// Experience at writing unit test cases in Jasmine/Mocha/Chai is mandatory
// Understanding responsive design frameworks such as Bootstrap
// Experience with using RESTful APIs
// Good understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms
// Comfortable using modern web tools such as Npm/Yarn, Babel, Webpack/Rollup, Splunk, New Relic, Jenkins (Or Similar Ci/Cd), Maven
// Experience with multi-tier application architecture and design
// Strong written and verbal communication and ability to gain buy-in on plans from a non-technical audience
// Familiarity with container technology such as Docker and container orchestration like Kubernetes on Cloud Platforms like AWS etc.
About VAHN
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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Front-End Performance Engineer to join our dynamic and innovative development team. The ideal candidate is not only a proficient UI developer but also possesses a deep understanding of performance optimization techniques for web applications. You will be responsible for enhancing the performance, scalability, and user experience of our high-traffic and complex applications. As a Senior Front-End Performance Engineer, you will play a key role in leading a team, collaborating with cross-functional groups, and creatively solving challenging technical problems.
Responsibilities:
- Lead efforts to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in our front-end applications.
- Optimize existing codebase to enhance loading times, responsiveness, and overall user experience.
- Contribute to enhancing development processes and coding standards, with a focus on performance-oriented practices.
- Showcase strong engineering skills by designing and writing well-organized code. Independently handle medium to large features, completing numerous tasks without the need for constant guidance.
- Possess an in-depth understanding of the assigned codebase, product area, or systems. You initiate and drive necessary changes.
- Evaluate and incorporate open-source tools, libraries, and frameworks to boost development efficiency and performance.
- Demonstrate effective collaboration with other teams (Support/Success, Product, Design, Platform Engineering), understanding how our organization collaborates for tasks like releases and product launches.
- Provide technical leadership and mentor junior team members, guiding them in implementing performance optimization best practices.
- Actively participate in code reviews, offering valuable feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to performance guidelines.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of experience in front-end development with a strong focus on performance optimization.
- Proven track record of successfully optimizing large-scale and complex web applications.
- Proficiency in Vue.js, Webpack, TypeScript, Node.js, and MongoDB is a plus
- Deep understanding of browser rendering behavior, network performance, and caching strategies.
- Experience in leading or mentoring development teams.
- Creative problem-solving skills with the ability to tackle challenging technical issues.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
- Familiarity with open-source software development and contributions.
- Up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in front-end development and performance optimization.
- Note: The responsibilities and qualifications mentioned above are representative and not exhaustive, and other tasks and duties may be assigned based on business needs
About Our Client
Our client is a Currency Exchange in India. Built with user experience and security in mind, Our Client provides instant fiat to crypto conversions with zero fees, so that users can have access to a diverse suite of financial products and services that are backed by industry-leading security processes and insurance protection. Our Client aims to be the global gateway to cryptocurrencies. Its proprietary liquidity aggregation model provides its users with access to liquidity from leading global crypto exchanges. Our Client is recognized and awarded for its contribution to the Indian emerging tech space.
Why Our Client?
Cryptocurrency Traders are looking for a strong global platform that can help them trade faster, better and smarter. We are building a platform that can solve their needs. The opportunity is big, and the journey is tough. Now that’s a challenge that needs to be addressed. You do that. You are phenomenal in solving these complex challenges. You help our team do more.
As a Front End Developer - Angular, you do all of the above and more. You make a difference.
What will I do?
- Delivering a complete front end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services
• Ensure high-quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
What skills should I have?
- Must have 2+ years of experience in frontend development with 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 30fps at all times
- Thorough understanding of the responsibilities 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 into technical requirements
• Minimum 4+ years relevant experience in application development and React JS.
• Knowledge of React hooks such that use Context, use Reducer, use Effect.
• Knowledge of React props and state management (both functional and class component)
• Strong understanding of Error boundary concept of react.
• Work experience with any react based UI library or Redux is preferable
• Experience in building cross-browser layouts with CSS and HTML
Location Delhi NCR
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Search Context
Over 1.8 billion non-salaried informal sector workers globally, and roughly 700m Indians are
not eligible for pension or other social protection benefits. Without an urgent and effective
response to pension exclusion, they face the grim prospect of extreme poverty for over 20
years once they are too old to work.
pinBox is the only global pensionTech committed exclusively to mass-scale digital micropension inclusion among self-employed women and youth. We deploy our white-labelled,
API-enabled pension administration and delivery platform, our unique deployment model and
a simple and intuitive UI/UX to make access to regulated pension, savings and insurance
products easy and simple for non-salaried informal sector workers. We're working actively
with governments, regulators, multilateral aid agencies and leading financial inclusion
stakeholders in Asia and Africa. The pinBox model is already operating in Rwanda, Kenya
and India. We will expand to Bangladesh, Uganda, Chile, Indonesia and Nigeria by 2023.
Governments and pension regulators use the our pensionTech to jumpstart digital micropension and insurance inclusion among informal sector workers. Pension funds and insurers
use our pensionTech to build a mass market for their products beyond their traditional agentled customer base. Banks, MNOs, cooperatives, MFIs, fintech firms and gig-platforms use
our plug-and-play pensionTech to instantly offer an integrated social protection solution to
their clients, members and employees without any new investments in IT or capacity
enhancement.
We’ve recently completed our first equity fundraise to enhance our engineering, business
and delivery capacity and embark on the next stage of pinBox pensionTech development
and expansion. By 2025, we aim to enable and assist 100 million excluded individuals to
start saving for their old age in a secure, affordable and well-regulated environment.
pinBox is looking for a web-developer with UI-UX design expertise who is deeply passionate
and capable about using web and mobile platforms to deliver retail solutions at scale.
The Web-developer and UI-UX designer will be expected to
1. Take broad, conceptual ideas and translate them into high-quality UI-UX design solutions
through wireframes, process flow diagrams, storyboards, visual and graphic designs,
site maps, and prototypes across various devices and platforms,
2. Maintain and optimize the pinBox corporate and product websites for functionality while
maintaining a balance between functional and aesthetic design,
3. Prototype and design UI-UX for new features and work with the product manager and
backend developers to implement, test and deploy the features to production,
4. Optimize the pinBox India and global websites and applications for various screen sizes
and web browsers,
5. Implement design solutions based on an assessment of user familiarity with app design
elements such as hamburger menus, hover items, long presses, swipes, etc.
6. Use a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods to understand user
behavior and improve usability and UI/ UX of our applications based on the analysis,
7. Ensure all new features or web pages are in line with the pinBox brand identity and
position, and
8. Conduct ongoing research and use analytics tools to better understand user behavior
and how our core target demographic interacts with our web and mobile applications.
The ideal candidate processes
1. At least 4 years’ experience working as a frontend web developer / designer for retail
platforms (preferably for retail financial services) with UI-UX specialization,
2. Proficiency with web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 and Bootstrap,
3. Proficiency with client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery,
4. Working knowledge of image authoring tools such as Gimp or Photoshop,
5. Experience working on a JavaScript framework such as ReactJS or Angular,
6. Understanding of SEO principles and implementation,
7. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and
8. Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills, a keen eye for detail and the ability to
function effectively and proactively under tight deadlines.
Requirements:
- Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux.
- Experience with user interface design.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills.
- Good project management skills.
- In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
Skills Required:
- React (Must), Preferably mobx experience
- Modern CSS layouts like Flex, Grid
- Strong fundamentals in OOP design patterns
- Basic understanding of REST API's
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
● Experience Level: Min 2+ years
● JavaScript and react.
● RESTful API’s, basic HTTP knowledge, GET/POST.
● Experience using technologies like React, Redux, TypeScript, modern CSS frameworks and
web pack.
● Good Communication Skills
• Graduate in Computer Science or any other engineering degree
• Very strong in Javascript & other framework like Angular.
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS
• Candidate need to work as a contributor in an agile team.
• Work with complete ownership & contribute on design & development of new features.
• Contribute on bug fixing & writing auto tests.
• Good verbal & written communication skills.