UI Developer

Are you a software developer who possesses magical React skills? Do you enjoy crafting intuitive, responsive, and scalable user interfaces? If so, we want you to join our team at Portle!

As a software engineer at Portle, you will have the opportunity to:

• Work on challenging problems everyday
• Design and develop excellent user experiences using React
• Collaborate with other engineers to ensure that our codebase is scalable, maintainable, and easily readable
• Learn to balance the creation of tech debt with delivering business requirements
• Understand complex problems, break them down into smaller ones, and solve each modularly

We are looking for someone with the following profile:

• Expertise in data structures and algorithms (extremely important)
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with React and its latest features, such as hooks
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in an unstructured startup environment

At Portle, we value self-motivated individuals who do not need supervision to perform at their peak levels. We're looking for someone who's passionate about React and loves to wield its magic to create amazing software. If you're a React Sorcerer who's ready to take on a new challenge, we want to hear from you! Apply today and let us see your sorcery in action!

Senior developers only

Min 5 years of real experience 

Front End/Web react.js

Remote work

(We prefer individual developers over agencies or IT providers)

We are looking for a passionate hands-on engineer to join our Engineering team.

• To build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reusable front-end abstractions and systems.
• Work closely with Product Managers, UX designers, and back-end engineers to implement front-end solutions while embracing emerging standards and pushing the limits of what a browser can do.
• Explore and design dynamic and compelling consumer experiences.
• Command an impressive portfolio of the latest UI technologies
• Analyze system function and performance requirements to support design concepts.
• Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
• Interacting with other team members to passionately collaborate our innovations.
• Constantly and consistently implementing new features and optimizing existing ones from controller-level to UI. Vigilantly and rapidly fix bugs.
• Create and maintain software documentation
• Endorsing upcoming standards, launching, iterating, and making a difference.

Ideal Candidate

• Proficiency with HTML5, Javascript, Angular JS, React JS and CSS3
• Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable, highly performant code for Website and Web applications.
• Experience with scripting languages (PHP) will be preferable.
• Excellent communication skills, good visual design sense, in-depth experience in developing web-based applications.
• Architecting, configuring, and automating the build process.
• A solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, learn rapidly, and master diverse web technologies and techniques.
• Knowledge in WordPress will be a plus
• Flexibility to work under ambiguous conditions

What you will do:

• Build cross-browser compatible front-end applications using ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Develop fast and highly scalable and responsive applications.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams of product manager, backend developers, and UI/UX designers.
• Partner with product teams to ensure user interactions & features are well-designed and implemented.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

Skills And Qualifications:

• 4+ years of work experience in frontend web development.
• Strong understanding of Core Javascript, ReactJS, React Native (desired), semantic HTML5 CSS, Flexbox and responsive development.
• Thorough understanding of Javascript design patterns
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5 CSS3
• Understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as ReactJS, AngularJS
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Preferably from a SaaS and web applications platforms background, and/or B2B applications.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Experience in building APIs / application backends using Node.js (good to have)

Understanding of UI / UX best practices and ability to collaborate with the Design team to implement functional and intuitive user experiences

As a front end product engineer, you will work with product engineers & designers to improve the overall user experience, performance, reliability and scalability of our systems. From handling millions of messages/ payments a minute to extract buyer intent and priority for processing these transactions to building tools to trace and visualize payments made across a business you'll be involved in projects that span all aspects of the business. Our goals includes scaling and architecting systems to support advanced product features that may not be currently viable because of hard technical considerations. You'll collaborate with our small, but effective, framework team with a track record of highly impactful work for Finly.

WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU'LL

• Complete Finly's new-hire training week, and learn Accounts Payable Processes & the various partners we work with to make Finly happen.
• Investigate, solve and release a bug fix to production. In order to do this you will ramp up on Finly's engineering stack by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering training sessions designed and presented by the team.
• Meet with cross-functional peers around the company to learn how the product functions.
• Complete your engineering starter project and deploy your first changes to production.

WITHIN 3 MONTHs, YOU'LL

• Learn Finly's technical stack and apply development patterns through your work.
• Engage in your first on-call rotation in Support Engineering to help diagnose and resolve production problems and customer issues
• Individually contribute reliably ship full features to customers.
• Estimate technical scope and time to complete major features and initiatives.

WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Move to new product vertical & initiative and start designing scalable frontend systems.
• Have made a visible impact on the product for all the users of Finly.
• Work closely with your team to remove roadblocks, educate on best practices and improve how we work.
• Be comfortable navigating most of frontend stack and infrastructure
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new features
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture

WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Individually contribute and lead teams to reliably ship full improvements to our frontend services
• Define tools and standards for product engineering to measure performance impact of releases
• Drive service reliability by developing tooling that enables metric visibility using SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
• Developing Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability
• Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing and developing other learning opportunities
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals

Your understanding of front-end technologies, web application dev, system design, will be put to the test. You will take up a project for a team and then move to another project.

Join us & have the authority and responsibility to make things happen!

• Develop and manage apps on React Native platform
• Analyse, code, debug, test, document & deploy applications
• Provide technical leadership and upgrade architecture design and solution to accommodate future expansion
• Ensure quality control processes are successfully employed.
• Experience in React-Native based app development is a must
• Experience in Mobile app development (Cross platform apps)
• Must have published at least 1 major React-Native app
• Knowledge of service workers implementation for Progressive Web Application (PWA)
• Demonstrated ability with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery, and other JS frameworks React JS
• Development experience of UI (layouts, animations, etc.)
• Good understanding of Design and Architecture Patterns
• Understanding of iOS and Android Code signing process and deployment model
• Understanding of Unit Testing, Debugging Methodology used in React Native Apps
• Understanding on integration of native modules with React Native code
• Experience with caching and scaling techniques