A software developer's job description may vary depending on the organization and specific project, but generally, it includes:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field (sometimes, relevant experience can substitute for formal education).
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages and related technologies.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Knowledge of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).
- Familiarity with software development tools, IDEs, and frameworks.
- Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with team members and stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and in a team.
- Continuous learning to stay updated with the latest technology trends.

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Position Summary:
The individual should be self-motivated, creative and proactive to work successfully in a
fast-paced environment including multiple platforms and architectures, and diverse technologies. The
Individuals will work closely with developers, project managers and other stakeholders.
Minimum Requirements:
Experience/Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Primary Skillset: Strong Core Java experience (Java 8 concepts), JSPs, Servlets, Struts Framework
- Strong in Spring core, MVC and Spring JPA
- Working experience on UI using jQuery, JavaScript and CSS
- Experience in Angular is an added advantage.
- Strong knowledge of XML handling and JSON implementation
- Strong knowledge of Web Services (REST API)
- Experience in handling SQL and PL/SQL, preferably SQL Server
- Knowledge of Postgres is an added advantage.
- Experience in writing unit test cases with whole code coverage
- Experience in JMS implementations preferably Apache Active MQ
- Should be able to write Unit test cases with whole code coverage
What you’ll do:
● Own and build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reusable front-end abstractions
and systems.
● Explore and design lively and compelling consumer experiences.
● Ensure that all the assigned systems are performing to scale.
● Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes
● You will mentor junior engineers on design and proper coding practices
What you will need:
● A deep expertise in Angular / React, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3.
● Understanding of browser internals and a basic understanding of the network stack.
● Understanding of common design patterns followed in front-end projects.
● Basic awareness of application security practices and deployment techniques for front-end projects.
● Should have sound knowledge in computer science fundamentals like data structure, object-oriented
programming and possess excellent communication skills.
We are seeking a highly skilled React JS Developer with exceptional DOM manipulation expertise and real-time data handling experience to join our team. You'll be building and optimizing high-performance user interfaces for stock market trading applications where milliseconds matter and data flows continuously.
The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, understands the intricacies of browser performance, and has hands-on experience with WebSockets and real-time data streaming architectures.
Key Responsibilities
Core Development
- Advanced DOM Operations: Implement complex, performance-optimized DOM manipulations for real-time trading interfaces
- Real-time Data Management: Build robust WebSocket connections and handle high-frequency data streams with minimal latency
- Performance Engineering: Create lightning-fast, scalable front-end applications that process thousands of market updates per second
- Custom Component Architecture: Design and build reusable, high-performance React components optimized for trading workflows
Collaboration & Integration
- Work closely with traders, quants, and backend developers to translate complex trading requirements into intuitive interfaces
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers and product managers to create responsive, trader-focused experiences
- Integrate with real-time market data APIs and trading execution systems
Technical Excellence
- Implement sophisticated data visualizations and interactive charts using libraries like Chartjs, TradingView, or custom D3.js solutions
- Ensure cross-browser compatibility and responsiveness across multiple devices and screen sizes
- Debug and resolve complex performance issues, particularly in real-time data processing and rendering
- Maintain high-quality code through reviews, testing, and comprehensive documentation
Required Skills & Experience
React & JavaScript Mastery
- 5+ years of professional React.js development with deep understanding of React internals, hooks, and advanced patterns
- Expert-level JavaScript (ES6+) with strong proficiency in asynchronous programming, closures, and memory management
- Advanced HTML5 & CSS3 skills with focus on performance and cross-browser compatibility
Real-time & Performance Expertise
- Proven experience with WebSockets and real-time data streaming protocols
- Strong DOM manipulation skills - direct DOM access, virtual scrolling, efficient updates, and performance optimization
- RESTful API integration with experience in handling high-frequency data feeds
- Browser performance optimization - understanding of rendering pipeline, memory management, and profiling tools
Development Tools & Practices
- Proficiency with modern build tools: Webpack, Babel, Vite, or similar
- Experience with Git version control and collaborative development workflows
- Agile/Scrum development environment experience
- Understanding of testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library)
Financial Data Visualization
- Experience with financial charting libraries: Chartjs, TradingView, D3.js, or custom visualization solutions
- Understanding of market data structures, order books, and trading terminology
- Knowledge of data streaming optimization techniques for financial applications
Nice-to-Have Skills
Domain Expertise
- Prior experience in stock market, trading, or financial services - understanding of trading workflows, order management, risk systems
- Algorithmic trading knowledge or exposure to quantitative trading systems
- Financial market understanding - equities, derivatives, commodities
Technical Plus Points
- Backend development experience with GoLang, Python, or Node.js
- Database knowledge: SQL, NoSQL, time-series databases (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB)
- Cloud platform experience: AWS, Azure, GCP for deploying scalable applications
- Message queue systems: Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS for real-time data processing
- Microservices architecture understanding and API design principles
Advanced Skills
- Service Worker implementation for offline-first applications
- Progressive Web App (PWA) development
- Mobile-first responsive design expertise
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)
- 5+ years of professional React.js development with demonstrable experience in performance-critical applications
- Portfolio or examples of complex real-time applications you've built
- Financial services experience strongly preferred
Why You'll Love Working Here
We're a team that hustles—plain and simple. But we also believe life outside work matters. No cubicles, no suits—just great people doing great work in a space built for comfort and creativity.
What We Offer
💰 Competitive salary – Get paid what you're worth
🌴 Generous paid time off – Recharge and come back sharper
🌍 Work with the best – Collaborate with top-tier global talent
✈️ Adventure together – Annual offsites (mostly outside India) and regular team outings
🎯 Performance rewards – Multiple bonuses for those who go above and beyond
🏥 Health covered – Comprehensive insurance so you're always protected
⚡ Fun, not just work – On-site sports, games, and a lively workspace
🧠 Learn and lead – Regular knowledge-sharing sessions led by your peers
📚 Annual Education Stipend – Take any external course, bootcamp, or certification that makes you better at your craft
🏋️ Stay fit – Gym memberships with equal employer contribution to keep you at your best
🚚 Relocation support – Smooth move? We've got your back
🏆 Friendly competition – Work challenges and extracurricular contests to keep things exciting
We work hard, play hard, and grow together. Join us.
Mandate Skill - Angular , Unit Testing
Please note we are looking for immediate joiners
Designation Offered: Engineer CL 2 – I & II (Software Engineer / Lead Engineer)
UI/UX Developer Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and maintain highly reusable Angular, JavaScript, HTML and CSS code.
• Translate user behavior and research into actionable data.
• Design and create mockups and user journeys for a wide range of devices including mobile.
• Rapid development and testing methodology.
• Ability to clearly communicate research and design ideas to rest of the team and upper management.
• Ability to communicate with the backend to display data in the UI
• Ability to handle graph of different types, real time huge data display in the web page
Position Overview
Front-End UI/UX developer with the combined skillset of application design and web programming. Responsibilities will include converting the UI designs to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will be working on the UI/UX technical implementation of the application functionality.
To be successful in this role, you should have very good experience on programming and interaction with the backend. The team develops web application, mobile based application, which need to display graph, data and image in real time. The candidate should able to display huge data in an efficient way.
Experience:
• A minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in a similar role
Qualification:
• Bachelor of Engineering (BTECH / BE) or Masters (MTECH / MS / MCA ) in Computer Science / Electronics / Information Science from reputed institutions
UI/UX Developer Requirements
• Proficiency with Angular, JSP, HTML, and CSS, bootstrap.
• Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch or other Graphics designing tool
• Good understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks like jquery, Node.js, React.js, Durandal framework.
• Proven work experience as a UI/UX developer or similar role.
• Team spirit, strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Good time-management skills
• Good programming knowledge on design and development of drag and drop activities, graph components and data tables with different options in tables.
Tools
Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop
Front-end languages:
HTML 5, CSS3, jquery, JavaScript, Angular and bootstrap.
Additional skillset
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Good knowledge on version control tools SVN (Check-in, check-out, branching-merging policies), automated build and release management tool is a plus.
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal), and interpersonal skills to be able to communicate effectively with all levels of staff and external clients.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
About the company:
NowPurchase is transforming the 140B$ Metal Manufacturing industry. The metal industry forms the backbone of the economy and the fundamental block of the physical world - be it transportation, construction and every machinery. NowPurchase is building a rich, digital marketplace where Metal Manufacturers can procure high quality raw materials in a trusted manner. At the same time we are building the OS (Operating System) that will supercharge their productivity and processes to ultimately make procurement autonomous. Now Purchase raises USD 2.4 million in Nov 2021, led by Orios Venture Partners, InfoEdge Ventures.
About you:
We are looking to add an immensely talented Senior Front End Engineer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet our vision. Expect to build a lot of web interfaces and dashboards both for the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises. You need to lead the front end team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and are constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
- Deliver high quality modular code deployed over web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets.. This would include visual dashboards and real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
- Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
- Own your Agile projects and lead the team from software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
- Transform UI designs and mockups into pages and flows using CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks. Be ready to do the mockups yourself sometimes.
- Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.
- Have an exceptional understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and service workers and command over the internals of JavaScript, React and Redux.
- Continuously evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.
Required Skills and qualification:
- 4+ years’ experience developing rich UI/Front-end for user-facing web applications.
- Strong experience with React or similar frameworks, TypeScript, SSR (Server Side Rendering), SPA (Single Page Application), PWA (Progressive Web application), OOP (Object Oriented Programming), Reactive programming, and Unit tests.
- Demonstrated ability to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
Tech Stack skills required:
- React/Redux
- Python/Django/Celery
- Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
- PostgreSQL/Redis/S3
Location:
On- site: Kolkata, West Bengal
Compensation & Benefits:
- Cash Compensation: As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
- ESOPs: 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
- Medical Insurance: Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
- Generous leave structure and WFHs including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
- Complete Relocation Expenses: We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.
Company Link: https://nowpurchase.com">https://nowpurchase.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/
Utilize native third party SDKs in NativeScript
- Experience in JavaScript and AngularJS/Angular 4 / Angular 2 & in NativeScript
- Implement real-time cross-platform mobile and web applications. Develop User interfaces for Modern Rich Internet Applications with the latest Front End Technologies
- Perform product analysis and development tasks of increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.
- Writing tested and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Make design and technical decisions for AngularJS projects.
- Develop application code and unit test in the AngularJS, Rest Web Services and Java technologies for the Application Development Center.
- Work closely with UX/UI designer to keep continuity across mobile / web / desktop
- 4-8 years of experience in UI development.
• - Hands-on experience of HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript and Typescript
• - Hands-on experience in Angular 2+ version • - Strong knowledge of REST API • - Solid understanding of Object-Oriented programming.
• - Ability to work independently and should have an excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• - Well-versed with RxJS
• - Can lead a team.
• - Good communication skills & ability to work with multiple stakeholders onshore. Desirable Skills • - Basic knowledge of server-side technology e.g. Nodejs and MongoDB will be preferable.
• - Well-versed with Agile methodology. Soft Skills:
• - Excellent organizational and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail to consistently minimize errors.
• - Professional, reliable, and possess strong work ethics.
• - Excellent communication skills
Responsibilities:
Understand business and functional requirements to be developed.
Develop UI screens and Database interactions
Help applications teams to follow coding best practices, including our refence application scaffolding, build system and test coverage . Also the job involves writing React components for the application team if said component is not yet ready.
Framework development, Libraries Development , writing react components for the application.
Will be required to suggest improvements in the existing framework, suggest and implement best practices, be knowledgeable about the updated trends in UI development and ReactJS in particular.
Technical Skills:
Strong JavaScript experience using multiple frameworks and libraries across different project / applications.
Thorough understanding of React.js core principles along with React router , Redux workflows and data structures.
Thorough understanding of ES6, ES7, ES8 / newer specifications of ECMAScript
Strong knowledge in vanilla JavaScript, including DOM manipulation.
Knowledge of Isomorphic React.
Expertise with Web pack, gulp and other front end build tools (npm)
- Proficient in current React Versions and understanding of upcoming version(s) like 1.6.3.
Must have experience with Git.
Strong knowledge of CSS concepts and experience with pre-processors.
Understand Business requirement work with UX , business analyst teams to plan and translate mockups and wireframes to optimized , reusable , quality code.
Strong knowledge of code optimization techniques for maximum performance and cross browser compatibility along with authorization mechanism in multiple applications using different front-end frameworks.
Our current stack is Scala/Angular and Python. The core backend is in Scala with a lot of machine learning components in Python and the MVPs have spark architecture.
Ideally some one who good at Front-end and would like to develop full-stack capabilities.










