UI/UX Engineer

**Job Title**: UX Designer

**Location**: Remote

**Job Type**: Freelancing

**Introduction**:

We are seeking a creative and detail-oriented UX Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong portfolio of successful UX and other technical projects and will be responsible for designing the overall functionality of the product and ensuring a great user experience.

**Responsibilities**:

– Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.

– Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.

– Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

– Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.

– Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.

– Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.

– Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

– Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas.

**Qualifications**:

– Three or more years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.

– Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.

– Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.

– Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.

– A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.

– Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.

– Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.

– A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.

– Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.

**Benefits**:

– Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

– Opportunities for professional development and career growth.

– Flexible working hours, including provisions for remote work.

– A creative and inclusive work environment.

Key Responsibility:

You'll be responsible for developing new features and enhancing existing features for our flagship wind farm design application, a unique tool dedicated to optimizing and analysing wind farms.

Description of Role:

Our vision as a company is to be world-leading at finding and designing new wind farm sites. We are building a set of tools, approaches, and engineering processes that combine to form a capability to undertake the technical management of wind farm development at a significantly improved level of sophistication over existing standard industry approaches.

To achieve its aim, Wind Pioneers constantly strives to build new tools that are one-of-a-kind and game changers in the industry. As a frontend developer, you will play a key role in building new features for our flagship application, contributing to our mission of driving innovation in the industry.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Participate in Application Development, focusing on frontend (React), to deliver high-quality web applications with exceptional User Experience. This includes creating admin tools and dashboards for seamless internal management.
• Collaborate in our Kanban-based development process to develop new components and user interaction workflows for our flagship application.
• Work closely with UX/UI designers to implement new components/views for major features, with support from the lead engineer and other developers.
• Maintain and update the frontend stack and dependencies.
• ou would be able to see how we build and streamline our CI/CD pipeline.
• Work closely and learn from our Product Architect and Senior Engineer

Candidate Requirements:

We're seeking someone with a strong background in frontend development, a good understanding of the stack, and a genuine passion for creating beautiful and functional user experiences through elegant and efficient code.

You are a person with:

• 3-5 years of experience building front-end web applications; please also tell us about related degrees or training.
• You should be able to demonstrate fluency in React.
• You should have contributed to open source, proving your proficiency with Git and Git Flow. These contributions can include your personal projects, app ideas, or tools, with links provided in your application.
• Any UI/UX design experience will also greatly benefit the role.
• Great deal of attention to detail
• Can-do, flexible and pro-active attitude to work
• Particular about getting things right - both at the code/data level and further up, encompassing design, layout and user experience. 

Please showcase your experience through the projects you've worked on and the problems you've solved. We are particularly interested in hearing about the subtle decisions you made that significantly impacted turning a good UI into a great one.

Stack

We've curated our frontend stack to empower us in creating one of the most elegant and functional UIs in the wind industry, enabling engineers to design wind farms with just a click. While you don't need to be an expert in all of the below technologies, having a good grasp of at least a few would be beneficial:

• React and modern ecosystem libraries like react-query and react-hook-form – this is a must!
• Material-UI for a theme and component design
• Storybook and chromatic visual testing tools
• Lerna and Yarn for library and application dependency management
• Figma and/or Sketch for wireframing and prototyping

Wind Pioneers’ Offering:

• Be part of a focused team with a clear vision, dedicated to making an outsized impact in how wind farm projects are found and evaluated.
• We build people up to be the best in the world.
• Have the opportunity to be involved in developing Wind Pioneers’ tools.
• Enjoy a friendly and relaxed office environment with a great team culture.
• Benefit from flexible working conditions.
• Over the years grow towards becoming a principal developer - capable of architecting feature-rich, high-quality webapps, UIs and libraries.
• Receive a market-based salary along with the addition of a six-monthly bonus from Wind Pioneers’ revenue share scheme

nurture.farm is looking for an web developer who is eager to have an impact on the future of sustainable agriculture

around the globe.

Our Company

At nurture.farm, we are putting the farmer at the center of everything we do. We are building a more resilient and sustainable farming ecosystem by reducing risks and improving the quality of life for the farmers and their families through digitization of the farming life cycle, financial inclusion of the farming community, and affordable timely access to products, technologies, advisory and services. We are a technology-led organization, focused on bringing scalable and sustainable solutions to the farming ecosystem. We are a young entrepreneurial startup that wants to learn, create and adapt every day. We aspire to create a happy and productive workplace for our employees, that embodies respect and transparency in every part of the organization.

What you’ll do

• To build next-generation web applications that are efficient and modular.
• Work closely with designers to implement versatile front-end solutions and new features while pushing the limits of what a browser can do.
• Actively look into UI performance of the features which he/she will be developing and consider them during designing of the feature.

What we’re looking for

• B.Tech Computer Science, or similar field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep expertise in JavaScript, UI design patterns, and developer tools.
• Minimum 1yr of experience with libraries and frameworks such as React, etc.
• Extremely detail oriented to strive for pixel perfection across all browsers.
• Passionate about implementing elegant User Interfaces.
• Knowledge of patterns like Flux, Redux is a plus.
• Understanding of agritech domain and application of technology in farming (Preferable)

Key Qualifications:

5 + years of experience in Software development in multithreaded Java/Python applications

3+ years of UI/UX stack experience (Angular JS/PHP/Javascript)

Extensive experience in coding and debugging Java applications and deployment

Should have experience/exposure to Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, SOAP, REST, Maven, Spring framework, hibernate, Kafka, Zookeeper, DHCP, DNS, SNMP

Extensive experience with MySQL and various NoSQL Databases like MongoDB, Elasticsearch

Modelling languages like Netconf, Restconf, Yang,Tosca, Yaml, XML

Skilled in data center, networking, Linux and cloud technologies especially IaaS

Understanding of the ETSI NFV architecture stack

2+ experience with SDN technologies

2+ experience with OpenStack, Kubernetes or other container orchestration platform

Agile programming methodologies

DevOps - CI/ CD experience with Git, Gerritt, Jenkins

Experience contributing to and working with open source communities like ONAP, ONF