UI Developer

Software Engineer - Frontend

 

Experiencing the world we live in is fundamental to our collective happiness and progress as a society. Headout’s mission is, and will always be, to unlock this happier world by connecting amazing in-person experiences with people all over the globe, giving them the opportunity to be entertained, educated and inspired. We are evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences at the push of a button. By combining delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations, our single minded focus is on solving a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time? On this mission, we've already served 7M+ guests from 190 countries who have headed out to an experience with us. While building scale that drives $200M+ in annualised sales, we hit profitability that is such a rarity on the back of our superior model.

As travel and in-person experiences recover, Headout is playing a critical role in our return to our way-of-life. With pent-up demand, generation and digitisation of experiences having been pushed forward by a decade, there is no better time to build than NOW.

We at Headout, like to solve real-world problems in the simplest & most elegant manner possible. We're seeking Frontend Engineers with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. We also love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun. ;-)

👩‍💻 The Role

• Craft the front-end architecture, develop our core features, and collaborate with our Product & Design teams to build something useful and beautiful.
• Build slick UI interfaces to provide the best user experience.
• Get your hands dirty with cross-platform architectural challenges, new frameworks, design patterns, and technologies.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• 2+ years of experience developing front-end platforms preferably in a high-growth startup.
• Solid hands-on experience with Javascript ES5 and ES6.
• Experience with NodeJS, Typescript, browser dev-tools etc.
• An opinion and preferably hands-on experience of CSS in JS vs old school style of writing CSS.
• Experience developing responsive designs using open source frameworks or even better, an attempt at your own framework.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and it's underlying communication protocols.
• People who give up anything to optimize that animation that they just created.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in UX, travel, local experiences & hospitality.

Role Responsibilities
• Participate in requirement, design, coding, implementation, testing, which include features enhancements, new functionalities, and web service integration.
• Contribute to code reviews for quality assurance and conformance to standards / guidelines.
• Develop front-end application features using HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript
• Build reusable code and libraries for various projects.
• Prepare develop/test environment for functional test and system test.
• Work collaboratively with product owner, scrum master, technical leader during the development, and launch and continuing refinement of products.
• Optimizing the web application for increased performance
• Code review to ensure code quality of the team;
• Maintaining brand consistency throughout the design; Education and Experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant studies
• Minimum 3 years of experience in developing front-end development experience
• Experience in developing web applications using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and JavaScript
• Experienced in JavaScript (ES6, Any one of the front-end JavaScript frameworks such as Vue.js, React.js )
• Familiar in Node.js like npm and webpack
• Experienced with code versioning tools such as Git.

Skyber is a fintech based in Mumbai, India and is building a connected commerce platform and disruptive Enterprise SaaS with the fundamental of digitalising, unifying and streamlining businesses processes and transactions.

At Skyber, we are obsessed with our vision to create an ecosystem for Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Business Owners & freelancers of Bharat where we provide them with a procurements to payments & enquiry to invoicing platform. Skyber was born out of the need to bring back the focus on these business owners, to empower them so that they can ride along with the technology wave and adopt the phigital way.

To build such a community we require people with the same vision who are working towards making this dream possible for us and for all these business owners.

Being a part of Skyber is like being a part of a Sports team. Where we back each other.  We know each other's strengths and weaknesses and work towards becoming better individuals and humans while working towards achieving this Dream together.

At Skyber, we believe that responsibility backed by right culture and ambitions backed by ability can move mountains. Thus, people don't get hired by us, but invited to join the cult. ⚡

Our flagship platform - Baazaar(https://baazaar.io">https://baazaar.io) is live on Play Store and iOS App Store 🚀

• Developing new user-facing features using React.j & Next.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

• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, SCSS & JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with React.JS
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• 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.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

1. Working with a young & dynamic team that constantly tests your thinking and beliefs.
2. No specific work timings. We believe that your work should speak for you and not the time.
3. Constant amusement by Dot (Warning: Apply only if you like dogs) 🐶
4. Occasional doses of Yummy Home Cooked food😋
5. Homelike Work Environment (We also have a bed if you need to sleep - even though we think you wont get any)

If you like what we are doing, and possess the right skillsets and are willing to learn then what are you waiting for? Apply

 

This company is a network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

You will be working on AI/IOT react native mobile apps and responsible for hands-on coding. 
We need someone who can write well designed, testable, efficient code by using the best software.

We are looking for a can do it attitude, and the ability to deliver with high velocity and high-quality at the same time.  You must have experience developing and designing amazing UI screens.

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Mobile app development experience.
• Good understanding of the full mobile development life cycle,strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Strong React Native experience
• Understanding of APIs, pagination,searching,sorting
• Creating high performance UI etc.
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Android Studio, Gradle.
• Leverage native APIsfor deep integrations with both platforms.
• Strong communication skills.

 

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Responsibilities:

• Meeting with the design team to discuss application features and design ideas.
• Researching similar application designs and user interface modules.
• Creating a website and application design mockups with enhanced UI features.
• Presenting updated front-end designs for final sign-off.
• Writing the front-end code and building the user interface.
• Debugging code errors and troubleshooting software issues.
• Conducting live application tests and tweaks.
• Updating web applications in line with user trends.

 

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.
• Good understanding of version control system (GIT).
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.
• Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.

• 3+ years prior experience as a UI engineer.
• Familiarity with automated testing tools including Selenium, Jasmine, and Karma.
• In-depth knowledge of user interface models, application design, and website functionality.
• Proficient with front-end languages including HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
• Familiarity with prototyping tools including InVision Studio, Balsamiq, and Sketch.
• Advanced problem-solving skills.

 

Good To Have:

• Competent in developing web apps using React.
• Prior experience of working in a product-based company.

• Prior experience of working in a startup.

Job Description

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Lead Frontend Developer who can understand both the design and business context in a technical ecosystem and manage the consumer facing user interface development life cycle, from designing, planning and prioritizing to testing and release.
If you have hands-on experience developing robust, pixel perfect & fluid user interface in React or Vanilla JavaScript with Redux, Thunk or similar frameworks and are ready to build & lead a team of developers, we'd like to meet you.

Requirements

•  6+ years of web UI development experience including 4+ years of deep, hands on experience in building robust, highly reusable and responsive web applications using HTML, CSS3, SVG, React, Redux, Thunk ecosystem
• Great problem-solving skills with solid data structures and algorithms knowledge
• Strong ability to translate the design/wireframes into reusable micro components
• Experience of leading, coaching and mentoring junior developers with good delegation and time-management skills
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles and has extensively worked with Redux, Thunk, Axios etc
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Oauth2 etc
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• A knack for perfection, benchmarking and optimization
• Writing and maintaining batch jobs to streamline processes (Shell, Perl etc).
• Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
• Worked with WebSocket, Push notifications etc
• Experience working with local-storage, cookies etc
• Proficient understanding of CORS issues and ways to work with such issues.
• Proficient understanding of social network APIs.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Inclined to take ownership of tasks and to ship highly polished products with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• BE/BTech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience

Job Responsibilities:
● Interact with development teams to develop a strong understanding of the product and testing objectives.
● Design and develop modules/components
● Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.

Essential Skill sets
● Should have hands-on expertise and thorough understanding of Object-Oriented JavaScript.
● Experience with popular ReactJS workflows (such as Flux or Redux). 
● Knowledge of integrating JavaScript apps with HTML5/CSS3 frameworks like Bootstrap,
Foundation to achieve responsive behaviour of a website.
● Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, Github
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired Skill Sets:
● Full stack experience with any backend server side programming language like PHP/Java/RoR etc.
● Experience on Docker, MongoDB
● AngularJS/NodeJS, Knowledge in any JS framework, Redis will be an added advantage.
● Working experience in building pages for Responsive and Adaptive design.

• 4+ years Experience in HTML / CSS (Sass/Less) / JS / Jquery and recently worked on the related projects. • 2 years’ experience in using modern frontend technologies like ES6, Sass, Less, npm, etc. • Experience with modern frontend frameworks React, Angular, Vue, Backbone, etc. • Expert level knowledge of HTML and CSS 3 • Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery • Experience and knowledge of Cross-browser compatibility and debugging • Know the advantages of using SVG's over images • Experience in mobile design and designing responsive websites • Experience scaling frontend engineering through component driven development – delivering re-usable modules, and efficient web applications. • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git