UI Developer with Angular JS

About the Role  

We are seeking an experienced Next.js Developer with minimum 6 years of hands-on experience to join our development team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in architecting scalable applications, deploying projects, and writing robust test cases. You will play a key role in the full software development lifecycle, from initial concept and architecture through deployment and maintenance.  

Key Responsibilities  

·       Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable web applications using Next.js  

·       Architect project structure for maintainability, scalability, and performance, following best practices for folder and component organization  

·       Lea d and participate in project deployments using modern CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms. AWS is must  

·       Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end test cases using frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress  

·       Collaborate with cross-functional teams (designers, backend developers, product managers) to deliver seamless user experiences and integrate APIs (REST/GraphQL)  

·       Optimize applications for SEO, server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), and performance  

·       Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and mentor junior developers  

·       Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues across the stack to ensure reliability and security  

·       Maintain technical documentation, including architecture decisions, deployment guides, and test plans  

  Required Skills and Qualifications  

·       Development experience of 6+ years in Reactjs and Nextjs (preferred)  

·       Proven expertise in Leading, architecting and organizing large-scale Nextjs projects.  

·       Hands-on experience with project deployment and cloud platform as AWS (preferred)  

·       Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, MaterialUI and CSS Frameworks  

·       Experience writing and maintaining test cases using Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, or similar tools  

·       Familiarity with state management libraries (Redux, Context API) and API integration (REST, GraphQL)  

·       Working knowledge of version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines (preferred)  

·       Solid understanding of SSR, SSG, and SEO best practices  

·       Excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills  

·       Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (preferred)  

Nice to Have  

·       Experience with CSS frameworks (Tailwind, Bootstrap, Sass)  

·       Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and monitoring tools.  

·       Contributions to open-source Next.js projects or technical blogs.  

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.

Responsibilities:

• Works as part of a team to continually refresh and enhance our users’ web experiences using an Agile Development Methodology. 

• Build and ship features with an understanding of Javascript, CSS and HTML best practices.

• Coordinate with back-end engineers to provide a cohesive experience.

Must-Have:

• 2+ years of extensive exposure in developing web applications using the latest front-end technologies

• Expertise in the following area:

• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and JS frameworks, such as jQuery,

• Responsive & Adaptive web design

• CSS frameworks like SASS/LESS

• Able to work both independently and in a team environment.

• Adequate knowledge of Version Control Systems like Git

Mandatory Skills to have:

• Drupal Must-Have:

• Prior hands-on experience with Drupal Projects.

• The UI developer will produce robust front end for advanced financial banking and trading applications connecting with server side using micro services
• 3+ years of relevant experience in front end development using React.JS.
• Strong knowledge of Web development technologies, including HTML5, CSS3 etc
• Should have a knowledge of java script libraries like ag-grid, datagrid, chart js, D3 js etc
• Strong experience in developing UI applications showing large amount of data in grid format.
• Must have good experience of testing frameworks like mocha/chai, jasmine etc. for React JS.
• Excellent knowledge of Java and spring, with experience of use in a professional environment

• If you are interested in creating a user-friendly environment by writing code and moving forward in your career, then this job is for you.
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improvenusability.
• Writing tested and idiomatic JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Present key milestone deliverables to peers and execute level stakeholders.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual design.

1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
2. 1-5 years of professional software development experience
3. Experience with ES2015+, React, Webpack/Rollup, CSS, Node.js, Object oriented JS, FP in JS, TDD/BDD, Git, CSS
4. Ability to write clean, effective code
5. Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
6. Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with frequent production releases
7. Understanding of performance and efficiency with a strong customer focus
8. Work cross functionally to collaborate with designers o iterate on the design and implementation of our product
9. Be empathetic towards customers and appreciate the user's experience