Tech Lead - Frontend

About Plum

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)

Having found exceptional product/market fit, we’re in the midst of transitioning from 'start-up' to ‘scale-up’, and looking for frontend engineers in React to help us scale Plum.

You will have a direct impact on the customer experience through the design and implementation of new features and functionalities in our product. You'll work as part of a small but rapidly growing high-energy team delivering incredible, creative improvements to our product. You'll be in charge of reviewing the implementation of applications following code standards and style guides.

• Push things over the line, ship awesome features, and delight customers
• Spec, build, test, and deliver new features while improving the performance and quality of the product.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code Solve complex CSS, HTML, and User Interface compatibility issues across browsers.
• Implement front-end development workflows: build systems, dependency management, quality checkers (linting), etc.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building web applications with React or similar framework.
• Understanding of chakra is a plus, not mandatory. 
• Comfortable with Responsive Web Development and with a strong product design sensibilities and has an obsessive attention to detail.
• Write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.
• Having experience with building and maintaining an open source project or design library is a plus.

Job Description: 

We are looking for an exceptionally skilled Front-End Web Developer, who can work in a fast-paced environment primarily using the latest front-end development practices (WordPress, HTML / CSS, Svelte.js, Bootstrap / jQuery / JavaScript / PHP).

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building the website front-end.

• Creating the website architecture.

• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.

• Generating WordPress themes and plugins.

• Conducting website performance tests.

• Troubleshooting content issues.

• Conducting WordPress training with the client.

• Monitoring the performance of the live website.

We are looking for a skilled and experienced front-end developer to join our product team. This role requires you to be a tech-savvy contributor in translating the customer needs and user expectations into interactive web apps. You’ll be an exceptional problem solver and take responsible actions in ensuring the application is optimised both in technology and in delivering the best user experience. If you share our passion to create and define interactive web pages, we are happy to hear from you!

What You'll do-

• Work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces across multiple devices.
• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.
• Review and optimize usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs-Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating awesome interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules, and ensuring the maintainability of the code.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.

Technical Requirements-

• At least 1 to 3 years of relevant work experience as a web developer, UI developer, JavaScript expert, or a frontend engineer
• Be familiar with Responsive Web Design, common Web UX patterns and anti-patterns
• Be able to tell good design from bad design
• Be able to write clean, maintainable code which others can work on
• Familiar with UI layouts, SASS, bootstrap, and Material UI
• Experience debugging using popular JavaScript-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
• You have mastery in DOM manipulation (including jQuery) and understand components, CTAs
• Know browser behaviour, performance, compatibility and cross-browser issues
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git,
• You take pride in working on advanced CSS, animations and responsiveness
• You seem to have good architectural & design skills
• Ability to own, end to end responsibility - right from the requirement to release
• Ability to produce bug-free and production-grade code
• Be great at debugging, including identifying page speed and performance bottlenecks, using tools like Chrome Dev Tools, React Dev Tools, etc.
• The skills that we consider - CSS, JavaScript, React, Redux, Node.js

Required Skills

• Javascript, ReactJS, Redux, NodeJS, HTML, CSS

Good to have-

• Knowledge of TDD frameworks mocha, chai, jest etc.
• Understanding of Typescript
• Understanding of ReactJS based frameworks like NextJS, Gatsby, etc.
• Understanding of REST API
• Passionate to create good design and usability

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the design and backend team to build and develop web applications for our forward-thinking products.
• Design large-scale systems with high complexity to support our high throughput applications.
• Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving such large-scale problems.
• Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible.
• Adopt problem-solving as a way of life - always go to the root cause.
• Develop scalable front-end engineering, for the largest FinTech companies in India who use our product.
• Actively think about improving UX and UI.
• Collaborate with the team to discuss and implement ideas.
• Build responsive, robust, and optimized applications.

• Professional development experience with Angular 10
• At least 1-2 years of JavaScript development experience for web applications.
• Strong eye for design, UI, and UX.
• Passion for front-end development.
• Willingness to learn and experiment with new technologies.

Looking for a dynamic go-getter attitude UI developer with at least 3+ years of product development experience in building great UI with neat code.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Product design and development
Work on different areas of the platform
Build, optimise and enhance the UI performance

• 3+ years of experience in product development
• Experience with Angular 2+, Ionic 3+ is must
• Working with RESTful web services within web applications
• Should be comfortable working with git
• Should enjoy hacking things together to create a proof of concept, but always good at quality production code
• Capable of executing tasks with minimal guidance

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Planning a new feature or planning to enhance an existing one
• Developing new features
• Fixing existing/new bugs
• Adding tests to the current test kit

Desired Candidate Profile:

• Deep understanding of JavaScript and Angular Framework
• Understanding of Git and pull requests
• Clear written and spoken communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• 2+ years in web development using Angular