UI Developer

About The Firm

The startup is a growth-stage Sequoia-backed early-stage startup ($5.7+ Mn funded) which is building a first-of-its-kind customer collaboration platform. The product enables revenue teams to effectively collaborate with B2B buyers and transparently communicate with all parties involved in the process to retain stakeholders and onboard new clients

About The Role

The firm is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to work closely with the founding team. The successful candidate wants to take ownership, has a bias for action, and loves to combine the art of design with the art of

programming. Responsibilities will include translating the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work to bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks and works

Responsibilities

1. Develop a user-facing stack from scratch
2. Build reusable code and libraries for future use
3. Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
4. Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
5. Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Technology Skills

1. Proven work experience as a ReactJS Frontend developer
2. In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
3. Good experience with Typescript and ReactJS (17.x)
4. Tech stack: Webpack 5, Tailwind CSS 3, Redux Toolkit, RTK query, Radix UI library
5. Knowledge of Alerting and Monitoring tools
6. Familiarity with Testing Frameworks, UI Testing, Monorepos, and Graphql principles
7. UI Performance: should have hands-on experience in optimizing page load, rendering, caching
8. Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective

Soft Skills

1. Should be updated with the new technologies and trends
2. Obsessed with best practices, structuring, and documentation and have an eye for detail
3. Self-starter with a high level of drive and commitment
4. High energy and drive to work in a startup environment
5. Conceptual thinking, flexibility, and ability to juggle multiple responsibilities
6. Ability to work under pressure and confidence to deal with complex issues
7. Good communication skills
8. Hands-on and detail-oriented

Job Description

We are looking for an expert JavaScript developer who is skilled with Vue.js or ( Angular or React latest). Your primary focus will be developing user-facing web applications and components. You’ll implement them with the Vue.js framework, following generally accepted practices and workflows. You will ensure that you produce robust, secure, modular, and maintainable code. You will coordinate with other team members, including back-end developers and UX/UI designers. Your commitment to team collaboration, perfect communication, and a quality product is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Developing user-facing applications using Vue.js
• Building modular and reusable components and libraries, Optimizing your application for performance
• Designing features and applications for mobile and multiple screen sizes
• Implementing automated testing integrated into development and maintenance workflows
• Staying up-to-date with all recent developments in the JavaScript and Vue.js space
• Creating prototypes for testing for functionality testing

Skills

• Highly proficient with the JavaScript language and its modern ES6+ syntax and features
• Highly proficient with Vue.js framework and its core principles such as components, reactivity, and the virtual DOM
• Familiarity with the Vue.js ecosystem or any other latest versions fronted js like Angular and react
• Good understanding of HTML5 and CSS3, including SASS, SCSS
• Understanding of server-side rendering and its benefits and use cases
• Knowledge of functional programming and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean JavaScript code
• Familiarity with automated JavaScript testing
• Proficiency with modern development tools, like Git
• Experience with both consuming and designing RESTful APIs

Experience

• 4+ Years of experience in UI development role in product based organization.
• Should possess experience in handling a team of developers.

What you need to have:

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.

• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.

• Maintain and write clean code to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

• Develop user interfaces with the latest frontend technologies
• Research, analyze, and develop product features of increasingly complex nature
• Code tested and documented JavaScript, HTML, PUG and CSS
• Make design and technical decisions for ReactJs projects.
• Develop application code and unit testing in the ReactJs with REST APIs
• Ensure high performance of all systems developed
• Experience in ReactJS project deployments and hosting on AWS/Google Cloud/Azure servers
• Good understanding of Linux based systems.
• 3+ years’ experience with ReactJs
• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Experienced in Typescript is a plus
• Familiarity with testing frameworks
• Experience in building highly reusable and decoupled components
• Experience in State management Libraries like Redux, mobx
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills.

We are looking for a React.js Developer. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them. You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.

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
• Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Requirements:

• Good knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Good understanding of React.js and its principles
• Good understanding of state management libraries like Redux
• Good understanding of newer specifications of EcmaScript like ES6 and ES7
• Good understanding of RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorisation mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Familiarity with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Good understanding of Git

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 3 years experience in web development.
• Experience with HTML5 and CSS
• Experience with ReactJS, JavaScript, ES6
• Experience with state management libraries like Redux
• Experience working with Git
• Good written and verbal English skills
• Good attention to detail
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal departments, team members and partners
• Ability to effectively plan and organise
• Ability to work independently under limited supervision

Would be a plus:

• Experience in test automation and test-driven development (Jest, Enzyme)
• Experience with NodeJS and GraphQL
• Knowledge of PWA
• Familiarity with JIRA or any other project management tool
• Experience with AWS/EC2, or other cloud services

Job Description:

• We are looking for a seasoned 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 expectation into interactive web apps. You’ll be an exceptional problem solver and take responsible actions in ensuring the application is optimized both in technology and in delivering the best user experience. You’ll be working on various projects in collaboration with different teams.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces across multiple devices.
• Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating excellent interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules and maintainability of the code.
• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.
• Review and optimize the app usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.
• Responsible for the development of a complete set of architectural views for an enterprise in accordance with numerous open-source technologies, messaging/web service protocols (REST, JSONRPC, SOAP, etc.) and one of the more common architecture frameworks.
• Understanding and presenting the immediate/tactical and strategic benefits of adopting a consistent architectural approach within the context of the client’s business to help the stakeholders justify investments. 
• Assessing the requirements and presenting architectural recommendations that are in line with the strategic vision for the enterprise and wider best practice. 

Requirements:

• 5 to 7 years of relevant work experience as a UI developer, JavaScript expert or front-end engineer
• Sound knowledge in HTML and CSS
• Familiar with UI layouts, SASS, Bootstrap, and the CSS GRID system
• Proficient with JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, Angular 2+ and Ionic framework
• Experience debugging using JavaScript-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
• Passionate to create good design and usability
• Knowledge of Pixi js (is plus)
• Strong business analysis skills and experience, including development of business vision and strategies, functional decomposition, requirements capture, process modeling. 
• Strong knowledge of design and architectural patterns. 
• Experience of software development methodologies and structured approaches to system development. 
• Write high quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines

Person Specification: 

• Should have strong communication and interpersonal skill
• Bright and enthusiastic, self starter
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Outstanding presentation skills
• Implemented CI and Automated frameworks in Enterprise environment 
• Past experience in CI/CD/DevOps practices 
• Qualified in any technical skill assessment platform (Eg: Hacker Ranker, member, stars) in respective technical capabilities