Web Developer

Job Description

Frontend/Sr Frontend Developer

About company:-

It is a mission-oriented early-stage fin-tech startup which is building a suite of carefully tailored financial products and delivery mechanisms to fulfill the aspirations and needs of middle-income households in urban India. It was started by three cofounders, who have a pedigreed education background (IIT/IIM) and relevant professional experience in financial services. More importantly, they come from a similar background as the customer segment they are serving, and have done extensive customer research to understands the needs of the customer. It is backed by high-quality investors to realise this mission.

Responsibilities:-

- Develop all user-facing products preferably in React JS & React-Native

- Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

- Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code

- Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable

devices and browsers

- Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.

- Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.

- Enhance SEO, Analytics and overall frontend architecture for better performance

Requirements:-

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

- Good foundation in design and a knack for designing interactions and elegant interfaces

- Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

- Good to have experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

- Experience with data structure libraries

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs

- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

- A knack for benchmarking and optimization

- Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git)

- Proficient in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards,

Coding modularity, Prototypes etc.

- Experience in using debugging tools used for profiling/optimizing performance

- Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing UI components

We are looking for a React Native developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes—React Native moves fast and often breaks things.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Transition existing React web apps to React Native.

Company Overview: We are a fast-growing vertical SaaS company in Chennai. Our product - GrowSmart - is used by leading project contracting companies across India. Our team values the following: respect for every individual, excellent learning opportunities, challenging work environment, larger responsibilities earlier in your career, commitment towards results, recognition for hard work. Website: https://growsmartsmb.com 

Job Overview: You will be part of the core product engineering team. It’s a small, highly productive team building a large and complex product. Our web app is built with React and Redux. The mobile apps are built with React-Native. The backend is built with NodeJs and PostgreSQL. So, javascript is the language we speak 😉. If you are fluent in javascript, you will be a great fit! This position is primarily for the front-end, but we encourage full-stack developers.

You will be a team player working collaboratively with product leaders, UI designers, and the testing team. Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Unit Testing, and Integration Testing are the major activities you will take up. You will own a feature from UI design to go live.

Skills Expected:

1. Sound understanding of HTML/ DOM / Javascript / CSS.
2. Strong practical expertise in React and Redux.
3. Good understanding of usability, error handling, performance, and reusability concepts.
4. Ability to learn new concepts rapidly.
5. Ability to handle complexity - you will work on a large and complex app, often more than one task at a time.
6. Being self-driven - you enjoy taking ownership; you don’t need constant follow-up from a manager.

Job Highlights: Great opportunity to work on the full-stack in a large and complex product, with a small core team. Modern workplace at the heart of the city – Ashok Nagar. Young and flat team – you get full freedom to learn and grow. Excellent growth opportunity – can take up bigger responsibilities earlier in your career. Medical insurance for self. Due recognition and appreciation for hard work.

What you need to have:

Experience: 2 to 7 years

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model 
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows for state management (such as Redux/Mobx)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs 
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc. 
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization 
• Experience in Python or Java/Kotlin development