web developer

Want to work for Riskcovry?
We are a passionate, dynamic, and balanced team. Our culture is open, direct, and merit-oriented. Our team has enormous depth across insurance, technology, fintech, strategy and investment. We have great investors partnering with us to help achieve our vision.

Riskcovry is one of the fastest growing startups in our space and we would love to have you onboard. Read more about us:
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We are looking for people who:
1. Have a strong bias for action and value speed over perfection.
2. Make decisions with this ethos: Customer > Company > Team > Me
3. Thrive in a flat and open organization
4. Recognize that frugality is the key to efficiency
5. Are self-starters and have a natural tendency to own company and team goals

Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for providing individual contribution for a robust and easy to use User Interface
• Responsible for performance optimization, establishing navigation patterns and rapid prototyping when necessary
• Continuously maintaining the template engine. 

Requirements, Desired Skills and Experience 

• Designing and developing user interfaces using React JS framework is a must.
•  Experience in Redux
• Good experience using TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, SCSS and HTML5. 
• Understanding MVVM concepts  
• Experience in Web UI design patterns, material components and experience in modular approach of designing in UI. 
• Ability to analyze new UI requirements and ability to provide feedback to designers.
• Able to troubleshoot common problems 
• Know how to optimize speed and performance of websites 

• Work closely with Project Managers and other members of the Development Team to both develop detailed specification documents with clear project deliverables and timelines, and to ensure timely completion of deliverables.
• Attend client meetings during the sales process and during development.
• Work with clients and Project Managers to build and refine graphic designs for websites.
• Convert raw images and layouts from a graphic designer into CSS/XHTML themes.
• Determine appropriate architecture, and other technical solutions, and make relevant recommendations to clients.
• Communicate to the Project Manager with efficiency and accuracy any progress and/or delays.
• Engage in outside-the-box thinking to provide high value-of-service to clients. Alert colleagues to emerging technologies or applications and the opportunities to integrate them into operations and activities.
• Be actively involved in and contribute regularly to the development community of the CMS of your choice. Develop innovative, reusable Web-based tools for activism and community building.

Primary purpose of the role:

Front end development of websites and applications using CSS3, HTML5, jQuery and other skills to produce clean, functional and web compliant projects to be handed over to Back End Developers to be further worked on as well as CSS bug fixes post Back End development

Major responsibilities & deliverables:

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1. Great skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and cross browser implementations.
2. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
3. Experience and knowledge about the cool stuff in HTML5 and CSS3.
4. At Least knowledge of one JavaScript framework such as VueJs, ReactJs, AngularJs
5. Proficiency and familiarity with CSS/JavaScript frameworks and utilities such as HTML5 Boilerplate, jQuery, Modernizr, Firebug, JSLint, minification, and others. 
6. Taking PSD files from designers, slicing and/or recreating elements via CSS to match the design perfectly
7. Ability to make modifications to libraries in jQuery as per requirement of a project
8. Extensive knowledge of fonts, embedding from third parties like Google, Typekit & Font Deck etc.
9. Knowledge of optimizing CSS/JavaScript performance, by coding practices and tools.
10. Passion and follow through for their work. Excited and curious about learning new technology, as well as the sharing of ideas. Exceptional collaboration, listening, written, and verbal communication. Able to own individual projects as well as the ability to work within a team.
11. Awareness of current design trends in the visual arts, working knowledge of the latest computer packages and an understanding time limits which can impact on the design.
12. Knowledge of GIT or any other version control software.

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FRONTEND ENGINEER

Nimbly is looking for an experienced frontend engineer with a passion for building quality user-facing applications. Join our growing engineering team and help build software that companies love!

What you will do here

• Develop user-facing features for our Mobile and Web applications
• Write reusable code and cover it with comprehensive unit tests and integration tests
• Optimize application design and code for performance and scalability
• Maintain build, test, and deployment automation pipelines
• Review technical feasibility of product features and UX designs and provide feedback
• Analyze product feature requirements with the team and decompose them into small, shippable units of work
• Collaborate cross-team with designers and back-end developers
• Transform design mockups and wireframes into code
• Share your knowledge and build best practices with team members

Frontend Engineer Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
• At least 3-6 years experience developing with ReactJS, ReactNative, preferably with TypeScript
• Excellent analytical skills and a keen eye for detail
• A deep knowledge of various software testing techniques and experience with test automation
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• Good organizational skills and a detail-oriented mindset

Our tech stack

We built our web application with ReactJS and our mobile apps with ReactNative, using Redux for front-end state management. Everything is written in TypeScript to take advantage of static typing and the preferred language semantics. We’re using Git (BitBucket) for source control and automated pipelines. Our designers use Figma for wireframing and mockups. We deploy to Google Cloud and use a combination of Google Cloud Functions, App Engine, Firebase, and MongoDB for our back-end.

What we’re looking for

As an ideal candidate, you have substantial previous experience with most of our tech stack and are a highly productive individual with excellent communication skills. You enjoy participating in all aspects of software development from requirements analysis to production deployments. You’re a stickler for good software design, set a high bar for quality, and lead by example in these areas.

Benefits at Nimbly

• Competitive net salary and private insurance
• Remote work with flexible working hours
• Dynamic and fun working environment

6-9 years of relevant experience in building webapps at scale

You must have strong understanding of semantic HTML / HTML5, CSS / CSS3.

You must have a good understanding of MVC architecture.

Prior work experience in ReactJS is Must

You must have experience in setting up the full UI workflow layer right from Development, Testing, Building and Deployment.

Never give up attitude

Experience in frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation and CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS is desirable.

You should have exposure to page speed improvement techniques.

Exposure of building responsive websites at scale will be a plus.

Prior exposure to building React Native components for Hybrid mobile apps will be a plus

Prior work experience in Angular, Backbone along with ReactJs is desirable.

Good understanding of webpack and redux

• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to brainstorm and resolve complex problems.
• Ensure the quality of code is up to the highest standard of readability, conciseness, efficiency, modularity, and extensibility.
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Must-haves

• At least 3 years of experience working in frontend for desktop and mobile web.
• Familiar with design tools and convert them to actual code (HTML+CSS+JavaScript)
• Mastery in DOM Manipulation (including Jquery) and understand components, CTAs.
• Well-versed in other non-vanilla languages (ex. TypeScript)
• Well-versed in standard frontend framework (ex. ReactJS)
• Understanding of GraphQL APIs.
• Deep understanding of web technologies in various mobile systems
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services.