UI Developer

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll be part of the Innovation Projects team at GradRight. This team works on third party integrations and adopting new tools/technologies to help build a cutting edge platform for the higher education space.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular frontend.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
• Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
• Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
• Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation

Requirements:

• At least 3 years experience as an SDE
• Strong experience with at least one frontend framework, preferably vue.js
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Really quick learner and able to dive deep into new ideas/experiments at breakneck speed
• Passion for trying out new technologies and focusing on iterative development
• Experience with team management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

• Worked in a full-stack capacity at high growth startups
• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR

Qualification profile

• Successfully completed studies or training in computer science, focus on software development desirable or comparable qualification
• In-depth knowledge of web technologies: JAVA, HTML5, CSS, Java/TypeScript, and Vue.js, as well as web services/SOA Hibernate and SQL
• In-depth knowledge of React and/or Angular is also an advantage
• Experience with responsive web design and web content management systems
• Fluent in English
• Knowledge of cloud-native development and operation, e.g. B. Docker and Kubernetes advantageous

What we offer you

• Varied, demanding, and interesting field of activity
• Flexible working hours to reconcile work and private life
• Collegial and highly professional team in a modern, international working environment
• Career opportunities here in India or worldwide

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to the back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.
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Responsibilities:

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
• Responsible for the product development and maintenance
• Analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks

Requirements:

• A  self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player.
• 3+ Years of experience in Web Application Development
• Should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks

• Expert in Programming using Angular 8/10/11, Web API
• Should have knowledge in Relational and Non-Relational databases (NO SQL).
• Strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies – Agile/Scrum
• Very good development skills in front end technologies/javascript libraries like angular etc.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, Design Concepts & Unit Testing
• Good understanding of Web Security Concepts

• You will be working together with fellow junior and senior Frontend developers, helping to improve the group's skill level and exchanging new ideas.
• On a daily basis, you write JavaScript/Typescript/ES6/Angular/React and HTML5, CSS3 (SASS/LESS/Stylus)
• Closely collaborate with designers and the rest of the technical team (Backend, DevOps, QA) to make sure we’re all aligned.
• You will manage projects with open-source JavaScript and TypeScript libraries and frameworks (we're big on React and Angular), and explore new technologies (GraphQL, AppSync, Apollo).
• Code reviews are, of course, a part of your responsibilities as well as providing high-quality work.
  
  

What it takes to excel in this role

• Strong core JavaScript and TypeScript
• Minimum 4 years experience in front end development
• 5+ years of JavaScript development experience
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with either, Angular 5+ or React
• Experience with Webpack/Grunt/Gulp or other automated build tools
• Experience with Jasmine/Jest or other JavaScript testing frameworks and tools
• Strong Experience with HTML, CSS, SASS/LESS/Stylus
• Experience with JSON, REST, Web Services
• Experience with working in an Agile environment
• Good communication(in English) and consultancy skills
• Affinity for working in a flexible, diverse and fast growing environment
• Proactive mindset focused on teamwork and continuous improvement - we want to grow together with you
  
  

• Experience with AWS
• Experience with React Native
• Experience with GraphQL, PWA, NodeJS