UI Developer/ Frontend Developer

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the development of our platform’s front end.
• Work with the product and design teams along with the founders to build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, implementation, and maintenance.
• Work closely with founders and internal/external stakeholders to build products, tools, and services from scratch and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• You'll leverage your frontend knowledge to help improve performance and reliability, and polish existing features.
• Share your technical expertise to help the team make thoughtful and scalable design decisions and identify performance bottlenecks to troubleshoot quickly.
• Manage product development priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Ensure high-performant and responsive web applications and websites.

Skills & Qualities we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 2-4 years of experience as a frontend developer (rare exceptions for highly skilled developers) at a fast-paced, preferably early / growth stage start-up.
• You're familiar with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a React-like UI framework.
• Knowledge of codebases and version control systems (Git).
• You have experience debugging performance issues with UI in modern browsers across multiple platforms.
• Well-versed with SQL database design & RDBMS concepts.
• Strong arithmetic reasoning, logical and analytical thinking skills.
• Strong knowledge of code quality maintenance and performance analysis.

It is an app platform (Android & iOS) that offers discovery, trials and purchase of lifestyle brands across multiple categories like beauty and grooming, food and beverages, health and wellness, fragrances, smart technology, accessories, services and experiences targeted towards the upper middle class.

What shall be expected of you:

● Be responsible for the core UI framework, and implement and maintain it.

● Responsible for the development of the front-end applications and

components.

● Coordinate with the backend engineers & designers for requirement

gathering of the product.

● Responsible for quality assurance including web usability, accessibility,

testing and debugging.

● Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

You must have:

● 2-5 years of prior hands-on experience in building responsive web

interfaces for consumers.

● Strong development experience in the following technologies (HTML,

CSS, Javascript, AJAX, working with REST APIs)

● Front end frameworks/libraries such as ReactJS, and Redux.

● Ability to translate product requirements into functional code.

● Ability to estimate the scope of work for sprint planning.

● Self-motivation and ability to work in a small team with minimal

supervision.

Would be awesome if you are also good at:

● SEO and page speed optimization.

● Web standards, Responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility,

Accessibility.

● Additional web technologies like Angular, Vue JS, Next JS etc.

● Must be fluent in writing code in ES6+ along with linters. ● CSS

preprocessor - SCSS/ LESS

• Experience with the Next.js framework .
• Proficiency in front-end web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks like React is a plus.
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a team environment.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field (preferred).

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and debugging responsive web applications for the company. Using Angular / React / JavaScript this candidate will be able to translate user and business needs into functional frontend design.

Responsibilities

• We use React for web application.
• Designing, developing, and testing UI for mobile and web applications
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Accurately translate user and business needs into functional frontend code

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in frontend development
• Experience building mobile/web applications using Angular or React or JavaScript.

• Develop Proof-of-Concept and prototype applications using new technologies and frameworks. In addition to collaborating with internal teams and clients to create innovative solutions.
• Help establish GUI best practices and JavaScript frameworks for web development.
• Provide context and guidance for integration and implementation of Front-End Interfaces
• Translate wireframes, comps, and functional requirements into functional HTML/ CSS / Javascript.
• Develop standards-compliant mark-up and code for web sites and applications
• Develop JavaScript using standard Frameworks (jQuery, etc.)
• Develop small to medium size custom JavaScript libraries for reuse across the application
• Provide technology and implementation expertise to the domain, projects, or client
• Maintain leading-edge knowledge in emerging technologies and frameworks
• Participate in knowledge sharing and lessons learned sessions from project experiences

Long Term Contract Job

Senior Frontend Developer 

About us

We are founded in 2007. Our mission is to develop a diverse portfolio of technologies, products, and services,that gives all people equal access to unbiased data and information. We believe that through this access people can empower and protect themselves in today’s
ever-changing world, filled with fake news, deception, and a lack of transparency.

About the Job

We are looking for a Sr. Front End Developer to join our growing team. Your
experience here will give you the opportunity to improve the fundamentals and learn about the
top notch technologies in front end development. If you are someone who is passionate about
building stellar user experiences and great products through elegant code this would be the job for you. You will play a key role in translating our customers and company needs into appealing and functional web pages while proving your ideas with testing.

What You Will Get to Do

1. Work with your team to improve our conversion rates by coding out variations for A/B testing
2. Build better user experiences
3. Rigorously educate yourself with the latest development techniques and best practices
4. Proactively anticipate issues and develop solutions
5. Clearly communicate solutions to team members both verbally and in written documentation
6. Implement new digital technologies or development techniques that help to meetbusiness objectives
7. Look at existing practices and use your experience to help build better practices when necessary
8. Work with our tech leads to decide what long term initiatives we should take on and then motivate others to embrace these initiative

1. 4+ years of front-end development experience
2. Experience with responsive web design and the ability to deliver outstanding functionality to the range of client devices from desktops and laptops to mobile platforms
3.  Familiarity with at least one JavaScript framework (MVW) and know when to do without one when necessary
4. Understanding of HTTP and how clients interact with a web server
5. Solid understanding of best practices. You read the YDKJS books.
6. Capable of coding in ES5 and ES6 and understand the difference between them
7. Up-to-date on HTML5 and CSS3 features
8. Passionate about supporting all browsers, including IE11+
9. Practical experience in design techniques for web UI applications
10. Demonstrated ability to roll up sleeves to develop and implement new features and functionality
11.  Possess an excellent understanding of creative tools in order to develop leading-edge web pages with interesting and innovative client-side capabilities
12.  Be independently driven and resourceful to deliver results with minimal direction
13. Have an entrepreneurial spirit with a drive to contribute new ideas for future development
14. Have the ability to deliver what is required but at the same time, look at code objectively to see areas of improvement
15. Have the ability to work with UX and technical teams to get things done
16. Have the ability to handle multiple, competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
17. Have excellent verbal and written communication skills

1. Experience working in an agile development environment
2. Experience with running experiments
3. Experience in trying out modern frameworks and executing on migration plan

1. You know how to polyfill features that aren't cross browser friendly.
2. You understand same-origin policy and cross-origin resource sharing.
3. You understand prototypal inheritance vs classical inheritance.

• 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 back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders