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Role Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Full Stack Software Developer with expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, React, and JavaScript. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), software engineering methodologies, and Agile practices. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, continuous deployment environment and have a passion for building scalable, high-performance applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Test-Driven Development (TDD): Write tests before implementation to ensure code quality.
• Clean & Maintainable Code: Develop self-explanatory, efficient, and well-structured code.
• Frequent Releases: Deploy small, incremental updates frequently.
• Pair Programming: Work collaboratively in pairs to improve efficiency and code quality.
• Peer Reviews: Conduct and participate in code reviews for continuous improvement.
• Full-Stack Development: Handle both frontend and backend, including infrastructure and DevOps pipelines.
• Product Development: Collaborate closely with the product team to roll out new features and fixes.
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest technologies and best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong proficiency in:
• Node.js, TypeScript, React, and JavaScript
• Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript
• Data structures, algorithms, and software engineering methodologies
• Experience in Agile & Extreme Programming (XP)

• Familiarity with:
• Web server ecosystems
• Relational DBMS
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, and Bamboo
• Web frameworks and frontend technologies
• Complexity analysis and performance optimization
• Server configuration and deployment infrastructure

• Experience using:
• Source control and bug tracking systems
• Writing user stories and technical documentation
• Bonus: Experience with Swift or iOS development is a plus.

About the Position

We are looking for a passionate and experienced software engineer to join our team at Mumbai. In this role, your primary responsibilities will be to take ownership of developing user facing applications and features in an agile manner. You will design and implement scalable and performant front-end solutions from scratch, while also taking a hard look at the existing ones.

What you will do at QI?

• Design, develop and deliver new user-facing apps and feature and improve existing ones
• Take ownership of product(s), and contribute to dev cycles and sprints planning
• Ensure technical feasibility of UI/UX design, share inputs with other teams including product, design and QA
• Optimize applications for performance, user experience and SEO
• Build reusable code and libraries. Contribute to open source projects.
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies with an eye of constantly adapting and improving our systems and methods.

Basic Job requirements

• 2 years + work experience in a similar role
• Strong experience in HTML5, CSS, DOM and front-end tooling ecosystem (Gulp,Grunt, Webpack)
• Excellent concepts and command over JavaScript
• Strong concepts and commercial experience in Vue.js
• Solid foundation in software development ( algorithm design, data structure, SDLC)
• Good concepts of unit testing and automation testing for UI components
• Good understanding of web app performance including Google Core Web Vitals metrics.

Location - Remote 

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of REST API and relational databases
• Basic understanding of browser internals
• Familiarity with web components and shadow DOM
• Exposure to progressive web app design.

About QuantInsti®

QuantInsti® was started in 2010, by the founders from iRage – a leading quant and algo trading firm in India.  From its early days focused on bridging the industry knowledge gap in the field of high-frequency trading, we have come a long way in the last decade. Today, we have a user base from 180+ countries with a growth rate much over 50% year-on-year.

At QuantInsti®, we swear by our goal of revolutionizing the way people approach the financial markets by empowering individuals and institutions with bleeding edge education and technologies. We offer high quality https://www.quantinsti.com/epat">learning experience and best-in-class https://quantra.quantinsti.com/">courses geared towards a global audience in quantitative trading and investing. Our in-house developed technology aims to bring institutional grade tools and https://quantra-blueshift.quantinsti.com/">platforms to democratize systematic and quantitative trading.

We achieve this by putting technology at the core of our business. We have a complex ecosystem of microservices and applications deployed over a fully cloud-based infrastructure. Our tech stack includes Node.js, Vue.js, Python and Docker. The team is driven by user experience, with strong focus on delivering scalable software solutions to complex and evolving business goals.

Why you should join us?

At QuantInsti, we work at the cutting edge of FinTech and EdTech offerings. We work with the newest technologies with a goal of delivering best experience to our users in a scalable manner, with high-performance and availability. If you love to be challenged intellectually, rest assured we have plenty of them for you. We follow an open and free work culture, where you are encouraged to ask questions, learn and teach. We offer a fast-paced environment where you take ownership of what you design and deliver. If you are looking for a move where you will find a reason to wake up every morning and rush to work, come join us.

What you need to have:

• Programming, developing, website coding, and producing data-driven web applications, and websites using WordPress and WooCommerce
• Collaborate with designers, developers, and project managers on client projects
• Consult with clients as needed
• Contribute to the development of the misc. company special projects
• Manage your own time & development between multiple projects & clients to meet deliverables
• Follow and contribute to our internal standards
• Keep up on the latest trends and best practices in web development
• Other duties as assigned

• Excellent knowledge of HTML5/XHTML, XML, AJAX, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS3
• Excellent knowledge of WooCommerce and WordPress
• Strong understanding and experience with SASS
• Experience with responsive design without dependence on frameworks
• The ability to translate PSDs and other assets created by design team into cohesive websites
• Strong sense of visual design
• An understanding of front-end optimization techniques
• Knowledge of usability / user experience design is a plus
• Experience maintaining version control using Git

• Strong experience with custom WordPress theme development, including accommodating full user editability, complex layouts, and plugins that require theme customization – we don’t work with prebuilt themes so it is important to have the ability to create complex setups from scratch
• Experience creating custom themes for use with WooCommerce
• Familiarity with various commonplace and proven plugins such as: Advanced Custom Fields, Gravity Forms, The Events Calendar, s2Member, BuddyPress
• Experience with creating custom WordPress plugins is a plus
• Thorough understanding of custom post types and taxonomies
• Working knowledge of basic PHP and MySQL
• An understanding of programming security best practices
• Familiarity with issues in web design & development and accessibility is a plus
• Familiarity with using command line tools on Linux servers is a plus
• Familiarity with using git for source control is a plus
• Involvement in the open source community is a plus

• Strong knowledge of PHP for backend work (3+ years’ experience)
• Experience with an MVC framework (CakePHP, Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of Javascript, HTML, CSS and related tools/packages (3+ years’ experience),
• Strong knowledge of MySQL (3+ years’ experience)
• Knowledge of React
• Though not required, experience with Python, Golang, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch.
• Strong English skills (written and verbal)

Design

·       Design a Service Platform that will serve a large scale of users 

·       Prepare design based on requirements and direction provided by product manager

·       Research and consult with SMEs to ensure the design is most suitable to meet the requirements

·       Present and explain design decisions and gain consensus within in the team

·       Propose UI/UX design decisions that align with requirements and expectations

·       Create any support documentation required for future design updates and validation

Develop

·       Document development plan to implement requirements (Senior)

·       Manage development project tasks and schedule (Senior)

·       Establish development lifecycle model to suit the needs of the project (Senior)

·       Build & configure the base platform based on Open Source solution

·       Manage sprint cycle releases and track development progress 

Quality

·       Perform Quality Assurance before releasing new features

·       Conduct Integration testing to ensure platform is stable

·       Track any issues and ensure that defects are resolved in the next release

·       Demonstrate new features at the end of the sprint

·       Report the development progress weekly including any issues identified

Standards

·       Use the following standards, methods and techniques

o   SDLC including Waterfall, Agile & DevOps

o   Project Management & Requirements Management

o   Coding standards, Code review process & Code management

o   Build, Test & Release Processes

o   CI/CD Frameworks

Technology

·       Use the following frameworks, technology & tools

o    Java, PYTHON, Jquery, React, , 

o   API, REST, DJango

o   Docker, 

o   Git, Jenkins

o   Linux

o   MySQL, 

• 2+ years of software development experience
• Experience designing, implementing and using web services in a Microservice Architecture
• Experience and a good understanding of Node.JS
• Experience in working with any JavaScript frameworks (React, Ember, Knockout, etc.)
• Familiar with relational & non-relational databases such as Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Dynamo
• Familiar with CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery)
• Nice to have - Experience with AWS  
• Nice to have - Experience working in an agile development process

• See the inherent challenges in all things; if a task is complicated, you simplify it; if it is simple, you excel at it; if it is mundane, you automate it
• Be a problem solver; be given any problem and will come back with solutions, or at least alternatives
• Be a perfectionist; you are not satisfied until your code is rock solid
• Be pragmatic; you implement the best solution for the problem, not the coolest solution, and can tell the difference
• See the big picture; we write software to solve real business problems