UI Lead - React.js

React js Developer,5-7 yrs of experience, location will be Bengaluru, Core front-end developer, must have hands-on strong experience in redux, angular, javascript and typescript

About Plum

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)

About the role

Having found exceptional product/market fit, we’re in the midst of transitioning from 'start-up' to ‘scale-up’, and looking for a senior frontend engineer to help us scale Plum, and spearhead the frontend of our product.

You will have a direct impact on the customer experience through the design and implementation of new features and functionalities in our product. You'll work as part of a small but rapidly growing high-energy team delivering incredible, creative improvements to our product. You'll be in charge of reviewing the implementation of applications following code standards and style guides. You would analyze and build UI Pattern Libraries (Design Systems, UI Kits, etc.)

• Spec, build, test, and deliver new features while improving the performance and quality of the product.
• Run test-harness to guarantee the structure, integrity, and design of the application.
• Solve complex CSS, HTML, and User Interface compatibility issues across browsers.
• Optimize JavaScript implementations to ensure that code remains performant.
• Implement front-end development workflows: build systems, dependency management, quality checkers (linting), etc.
• Ability to push things over the line, ship awesome features, and delight customers.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience building web applications with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
• Comfortable with Responsive Web Design and Development and weave out beautiful code in React.
• Strong product and design sensibilities and has an obsessive attention to detail.
• Write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.
• Understand complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks.
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.

Job Description:

You will be responsible for maintaining and scaling a high quality React Native social media Application.

Technical

Candidate should have:

• Built end-to-end React Native application with at least 5K users or more
• 1-4 years work experience in developing Android & iOS apps using React Native, React.js
• Thorough understanding of React Native and its core principles
• Knowledge of how to integrate SDKs like Firebase, Mixpanel, OneSignal, Branch
• End to end feature development for the stories provided
• Has implemented local data storage, caching, app optimization techniques
• Knows how to write unit test cases.
• Aware of app store build forming and release process
• Knowledge or experience with User Interface and Visual Design principles and techniques
• Understanding of software development lifecycle and version control (preferably Git)
• Must have experience in delivering software via complete Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline

Non-Technical

The ideal candidate joining us will be:

• a keen observer and a good problem solver with good communication skills
• ambitious, self-driven & equally a fun-loving team-player
• The ability to own end to end responsibility - right from requirement to release

Experience

• React Native: 2 years (Required)
• React Hooks/Redux: 1 year (Required)
• React.js: 2 years (Required)
• HTML/CSS/Bootstrap/jQuery: 1 year (Preferred)
• Jest/Enzyme or any other tool for unit/functional: 1 year (preferred)
• Git/Gitlab: 1 year (Required)
• Firebase, Branch: 1 year (Preferred)

About Clan:

Clan is a QnA social media platform with invite-only access to 1% intellectuals in India. We aim to make social media much more civil and meaningful.

Compensation: 40k-50k

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

Responsibilities 

• Convert wireframes into rich interactive prototypes. 
• Work with backend development team to integrate front end code. 
• Understand business requirements and convert into functional specifications. 
• Participate in architecture and technical level discussions and takes initiative. 
• Passion for web design and eager to learn and implement the latest trends.
• A focus on delivering high-quality code through strong testing practices
• Working on Information architecture and Designing wireframes and prototypes.

Skills Required:

• 4+ years of commercial-grade web/front-end development experience.
• Strong experience in JavaScript, ideally ES6 or ES7, Node.js, building Single Page Web Applications with modern frameworks (Angular or AngularJS, React, Vue).
• 2+ years hands on experience with frameworks like react/relay/Redux/node.
• 2+ years with JS build tools like grunt,webpack,gulp etc.
• Knowledge in ES6, Webpack is a plus.
• Experience in creating web applications with delightful user experience.
• Experience working with REST APIs.
• Experience in TDD, Writing Clean & Readable code.
• Experience in Version control - Git.
• Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations 
• Experience in creating responsive pages and cross-browser support.
• Ability to clearly communicate thoughts and ideas by rapid prototyping.
• Debugging skills, familiar with debugging tools of all major browsers.

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience in Fintech Startups
• Knowledge of Node.js, Express js, AWS (EC2, S3, Elasticsearch)
• Knowledge and working experience with MongoDB, NOSQL