UI Developer

About CK-12 Foundation:

CK-12 is on the lookout for talented, creative, and dedicated people to join our mission to provide great education to students around the world. We are looking for candidates to join our Bangalore office.

We have a strong education platform that has served 265+ million users, answered 2.33+ billion questions, and created 290,000+ customized FlexBooks. We are on an exciting journey to build an AI-powered Student Tutor and Teacher Assistant, shaping the next generation of learning platforms.

CK-12’s mission is to provide free access to open-source content and technology tools that empower students and teachers to experiment with different learning styles, resources, and levels of competence.

To achieve this ambitious vision, we are challenging the traditional education model and transforming it through technology. CK-12 is a non-profit organization, enabling us to experiment with bold ideas and truly focus on doing what’s right. We are backed by Vinod Khosla, a renowned technology venture capitalist.

At CK-12, you’ll work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative, and non-bureaucratic environment, alongside a small group of passionate individuals determined to disrupt education as we know it.

Technology is key to scaling education, and we deeply believe in it. Join us to build impactful solutions on our cloud-based (AWS), AI-first platform, delivering rich and interactive learning experiences.

If our mission, people, and technologies excite you—and you’re someone who challenges the status quo (no order-takers!)—we’d love to hear from you.

Products:

Flexi 2.0 – AI-powered Student Tutor

https://www.flexi.org/

AI-powered Teacher Assistant

https://www.ck12.org/pages/teacher-assistant/

Location

Bangalore (Office-based)

Basic Qualifications:

• Passion for creating simple, intuitive, and delightful web / mobile user experiences
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to research and evaluate web and mobile frameworks and UI patterns
• Experience designing for multiple screen sizes, performance constraints, and varying network conditions
• Comfortable working in Agile environments with rapid iterations
• Ability to create and review high-level and detailed designs
• Strong focus on code quality, best practices, and maintainable code with solid unit test coverage

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 6+ years of overall experience
• Strong hands-on experience with either React.js (or a similar frontend framework) or mobile app frameworks such as Flutter or React Native.
• Strong inclination toward product ownership, with a focus on nurturing features based on how users actually use the product.
• Experience building and maintaining production-grade web or mobile applications
• Expert knowledge of object-oriented programming, design, and development
• Solid understanding of mobile application architecture, performance, and memory management
• Proficiency in Dart / JavaScript / TypeScript
• Experience consuming REST APIs and handling JSON
• Experience with responsive layouts and adaptive UI design
• Familiarity with UI patterns related to security, performance, and usability
• Experience using Git and mobile build/release pipelines

Good to Have:

• Experience with native mobile development (Android / iOS)
• Familiarity with CI/CD for mobile apps and app store deployments
• Experience working in distributed and Agile teams
• Performance optimization for scalable mobile applications
• Familiarity with LLMs (Large Language Models)
• Experience creating or maintaining mobile UI documentation or component libraries

Responsibilities:

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code.
• Write and maintain modular and high performance code.
• Collaborate with BE devs and UX designers to improve usability.
• Participate in technical discussions and communicate across teams.
• Lead frontend technical development efforts.
• Take ownership and drive projects end-to-end.
• Mentor junior developers

• Design front-end architecture (secure, high-performing, scalable, extensible, flexible, simple).

Requirements:

• Should have strong JavaScript fundamentals.
• HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross browser compatibility, and accessibility.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, the JavaScript object model and ES6
• Understanding of React.js / Angular/ Vue.js and its core principles.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with React.js /Vue.js/ Angular.
• Good communication skills.
• Good understanding of FE build systems and tools like Babel(ES6), Webpack, Grunt, npm,. is a plus.
• Experience with browser APIs and optimising front end performance is a plus.

Responsibilities

Develop high quality, secure, stable code for use in products and solutions for

customers, making it easier for other developers to maintain, enhance, reuse,

and localize

Work with Product Owner and/or Product Manager/Team to understand and help

refine functional requirements for new products

Develop and outline architecture and relationships between subsystems and

participates in review of those designs

Investigate and, if necessary, prototype technologies and algorithms relating to

the task

Break down a large problem into smaller components and provide a clear

solution for each piece

Ensure new code, feature or software product meets performance goals/metrics

Research external best practices and emerging technologies for possible

incorporation into company products and methodologies

Write and maintain the code following Test-Driven-Design principles

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline from reputed engineering

college

5 to 7 years of strong programming skills in Web and Cloud Technologies

Should have a very strong foundation in JavaScript, and must have a clear

understanding of basic web fundamentals such as prototype based inheritance,

scopes, Event Loop, Memory Management in JS, etc

Should be good at developing modular front-end applications and is expected to

have the knowledge to create good abstractions that can be reused . Should also

have in-depth understanding of latest ES6 standards such as spread operators,

arrow functions, etc

Should have strong programming skills in Web and Cloud Technologies

Should be strong in OOAD Concepts

Should have a strong hands-on in React, Typescript

Should have Hands-on experience in any of the backend language.

Should understand latest paradigms in Front End Development such as Pub-Sub

Pattern, Redux, RxJS, Service Workers, Client Caching, Lazy Loading, Dynamic

Injection, Bundle Optimisation, etc

Should have very good hands-on knowledge of CSS3 & HTML5

Should have good knowledge of Postman API Platform

Should have experience with Amazon web services – ECS, Lambda, S3, SQS, etc

Should have Hands-on experience of developing RESTful web services and

integrating the same with heterogeneous clients

Should have Hands-on experience with Relational or NoSQL Database’s

Should have a very clear understanding of TDD is expected and should have

good exposure to writing UT's and designing UI components with testability in

mind

Should have Strong Communication and Analytical skills

Flexibility under changing conditions and the ability to multi-task between

projects

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with C++

Nice to have experience with Python

Nice to have experience with CI/CD tools like Docker, Jenkins, etc

Nice to have a hands-on & Understanding of CSS Pre-processors such as SASS,

LESS, etc

Requirements:

 You have designed, refactored, re-architected, deprecated and/or implemented a webapp from start to finish.

 CSS and its pre-processors like SASS/LESS.

 Excellent command over web fundamentals

 Good understanding and experience in building a React app.

 Exceptional coding skills in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript/ES6

 Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

 Familiarity with benchmarking and optimization techniques

 Eye for animation and understanding of motion principles.

 Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM methodologies

 Experience in DevOps - AWS, S3, API Gateway, CI/CD

 Native development experience in React Native (Android and iOS)

 Experience in NodeJs

Additional Full-stack Skills Would Be a Huge Bonus:

 Experience with Mongo DB, Redis, Firebase, NodeJs and its framework/ libraries like Express.

 Experience with PostgreSQL.

 Experience in NoSQL (CouchDB, Cloudant, MongoDB) datastores.

 Experience in building (secure) RESTful services and MVC patterns.

 Experience in coding & hosting on GitHub.

Desired Skills and Experience

CSS,JavaScript,React.js

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer with 4+ years of experience who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). 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. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality products are very important.

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

Skills

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

● Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux, Redux, or Redux Saga)

● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript ● Knowledge of Node.js is considered a big plus

● Knowledge of D3.js is considered a plus

● You are always mindful of quality attributes like maintainability, performance, security, scalability, usability, and testability. As a result, you have successfully contributed to the architecture and UI/UX proposals and decisions.

● Strong experience creating pixel perfect and responsive designs

● Strong CSS skills (SCSS / Styled-components)

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Knowledge of Reactjs functional components and react hooks.

● 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)

Looking for someone to join our startup and work with us on several different projects. Strong communication skills are a must. 
Skills:

• Candidate with 2+ yrs of experience in UI development or theme implementation.
• Mandatory proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, Photoshop.
• Front-end (CSS) frameworks like Foundation or Bootstrap, Semantic UI.
• Design wireframe/layout for website, web application, mobile apps.
• Up-to-date, in-depth knowledge of modern HTML, CSS and JS.
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• An eye for design to pixel perfect website conversion.
• Hands on experience on creating responsive websites using media queries (not just Bootstrap).
• Working knowledge of cross-browser-compatibility and different sizes of different screens.
• Self-motivated, good communication and ready to learn attitude.
• Experience with various JS libraries like jQuery, BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS etc.
• Experience in layout designing & theme conversion on open source CMS’s like WordPress, Drupal.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.
• Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. - Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Responsibilities:

• Develop new user-facing features.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Develop functional and appealing web and mobile-based applications based on usability
• Provide website maintenance and enhancements.
• Translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Maintain graphic standards and branding throughout the product’s interface
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies promotes usability best practices.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability. 
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Create quality mockups and prototypes on tight timelines.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility, devices, responsive issues and ways to work around them.