frontend developer

Job Description

Job Location - Hyderabad & Ahmedabad

What you'll do:

· Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development: Angular, ionic, Node, TypeScript, JavaScript, Apache Cordova, RESTful APIs and more

· Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible

· Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible

· Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Automate feature testing and contribute UI testing framework

· Become a subject matter expert for our mobile applications

· Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off

· Mentor junior developers on the team

What we’re looking for:

· Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around.

· A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time.

· A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts.

· Confidence, not ego. You have an ability to collaborate with others and see all sides of the coin to come to the best solution for everyone.

· Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary

Preferred Qualifications:

· Proficient with Apache Cordova framework

· Built or maintained custom Cordova plugin

· Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS

· Understanding of Apple certificate and profile management

· Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers

· Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques

NEED TO HAVE :

1) Have some knowledge of front end like React.JS

2) HTML, CSS

3) Strong in Javascript concepts

4) Good communication skills

5) Loves to code

GOOD TO HAVE :

1) Experience with type script will be a plus

2) Experience with Nest.JS framework will be a plus

3) Strong hold on ES6 principles.

4) Familiar with TDD ( Test Driven Development ) will be a plus.

5) Familiar with working in CI / CD will be a plus

6) Micro-Service architecture knowledge will be an added benefit.

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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.

We are looking for a Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

• 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
• Experience of theme design on the WordPress CMS is mandatory.

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery

Note: Every front-end developer is expected to have a proficient knowledge of JavaScript, while most front-end developers should know jQuery.

• Good understanding of (Depending on the specific case, a developer should have the knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS etc.)
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.

Note: A UI/UX designer is expected to deliver finished resources for the developer to incorporate into the app. However, quite often a front-end web developer needs to make some small adjustments.

• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as (Git / Mercurial / SVN)
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.

Job Description:

• Strong in Vue.js or React.js, HTML, HTML5, DOM(Document Object Model) concepts
• Must know Nuxt.JS a Vue Framework.
• CSS3, SASS, SCSS, Bootstrap 4, Webpack, Box Modelling, Grid System
• Responsive Design, Cross browser/device development
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript
• OOJS - Object-oriented JavaScript
• NPM/YARN Representation 
• REST API knowledge
• Modular programming, Use of NPM Components

• Ability to design the overall architecture of UI components of the web application.
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Maintain code integrity and organization.
• Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection.
• Good problem-solving skills and willingness to learn new technology

Qualifications:-

• 2+ year track record of relevant work experience and a Computer Science or a related technical discipline is required
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript
• Proficient experience in ReactJS.
• OOPS, Concept, and Data Structure like Queue, Stack, Tree, Linked List, etc.
• Good knowledge in working with REST APIs
• Knowledge of converting designs to working web pages using HTML and CSS.
• Experience in Architecture and delivery of web applications.
• Knowledge of code versioning tool – Git

Good to have:

• Experience in AngularJS
• Experience in server-side programming