Technical Lead-Web

Position Overview:

As a Frontend Developer, you will be responsible for creating and implementing innovative user interfaces and ensuring the seamless integration of design and functionality. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 1.5 years of experience in front-end development, with a strong proficiency in React, JavaScript, SCSS, HTML, frontend architecture design, and design concepts

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with the design and development teams to translate UI/UX designs into interactive web pages or applications.

Develop responsive web interfaces and ensure cross-browser compatibility.

Write clean, modular, and maintainable code using best practices and coding standards.

Optimize application performance and ensure scalability.

Conduct thorough testing and debugging to identify and fix issues.

Collaborate with backend developers to integrate frontend interfaces with server-side logic.

Stay up-to-date with the latest front-end technologies, trends, and frameworks.

Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality.

Work closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and propose effective technical solutions

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Minimum 1.5 years of experience as a Frontend Developer.

Strong proficiency in React, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.

Solid understanding of frontend architecture design patterns and concepts.

Experience with frontend frameworks like Redux, Vue.js, or Angular is a plus.

Familiarity with RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling.

Knowledge of version control systems (e. g., Git) and project management tools (e. g., Jira).

Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Write, test, and release world-class, production-ready code
• Ensure that the data needs of the UI are fulfilled with efficient database queries
• Ensure compliance with software engineering standards and processes defined at Simform.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web enabled devices and browsers

• Solid hands-on experience with ReactJS frontend development with modern practices. 
• HTML5, JavaScript, ES6, and TypeScript expertise
• Experience with   React .js / D3.js / GraphQL is a plus
• Proficiency with CSS3, Sass, and Mixins - knowledge of GSAP would be a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs integration 
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, Bower, Gulp etc. 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, Github, Bitbucket

About Upswing

Open banking is a reality of this decade and it needs robust, customizable and secure rails to run on. Our mission is to enable consumer companies to offer differentiated financial products and empower financial institutions with greater reach through our Secure, Scalable, and easy-to-integrate API platform.

Every company today has an opportunity to extend financial services to make banking experiences lively and delightful. Our open finance-as-a-service platform is highly customizable, simple, and modular which significantly reduces the integration effort for our partners to launch financial products in weeks, not years.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

What will you do if you join us?

• Implement responsive web design principles to ensure that our company website renders well across multiple devices
• Design a framework for creating user apps that grow with the needs of the company
• Monitor website performance, watch for traffic drops related to site usability problems, and rectify the issues
• Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team
• Assist in the development of applications and features that will be put on the website and in internal functions as well

You should have

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 3+ years of web development experience. Development experience for Mobile screens would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of Javascript. Proficiency in Typescript & React Js would be a plus
• Strong knowledge of web development tools and programming languages

• Implement responsible web design principles to ensure that our company website renders well across multiple devices
• Design a framework for creating user apps that grows with the needs of the company
• Monitor website performance, watch for traffic drops related to site usability problems and rectify the issues
• Review app and feature coding and plan future website upgrades with the development team
• Assist in the development of applications and features that will be put on the website and in internal functions as well.
• Ensuring user experience determines design choices.
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Striking a balance between functional and aesthetic design.
• Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
• Building reusable code for future use.
• Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
• Utilizing a variety of markup languages to write web pages.
• Maintaining brand consistency throughout the design

Role: Senior UI Developer 

We are looking for talented front-end developers who can help us in enabling our users and to deliver excellent experiences to end users. The role of a front-end developer in our teams is crucial in realizing our design ideas. We are looking for developers who can contribute in building the best-in-class digital experiences through the right use of frameworks, technologies and code.

Design and Develop web applications using front-end technologies like Angular 8+, Typescript, CSS, JS, HTML and many more.

Implement applications that have high standards of quality and the best of the performance. The candidate primary focus will be to implement a complete user interface desktop web app, with a focus on performance. Translate UX / UI designs from our design teams into high quality code without any loss in translation Design and implement optimized components, modules and applications using best practices of front- end development and clean coding standards. Work closely with backend 

development teams on API design and integration.

Experience and Qualification:

• 3 years of experience in front-end development of web applications. 
• Frameworks: Angular 8+, Typescript, CSS, JS, HTML 
• Experience in react js, jQuery and backend stacks will be an advantage
• B. Tech

Responsibilities:

• Delivering a complete front-end application
• 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

Key Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Angular 8+, Typescript, JavaScript.
• Strong skills in HTML, CSS and any other CSS Frameworks.
• Thorough understanding of any front-end frameworks like React, Angular or any other along with its core principles
• Experience with data structure libraries, state managements, functional / reactive programming.
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ES6.
• Experience with RESTful APIs integration
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

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.

• Responsible for development of new highly-responsive, web-based user interface
• Construct visualizations that are able to depict vast amounts of data
• Work and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team
• Work with product team and graphic designers
• Learn and understand user interactions
• Develop a flexible and well-structured front-end architecture, along with the APIs to support it