Frontend Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work effectively as a member of the self-organized agile team that builds, owns, and runs the web application and a cloud service
• Own and lead the front-end development confirming the UX guidelines
• Build responsive UIs that work across multiple form factors (web, native desktop, mobiles, etc.)
• Contribute to all aspects of cloud service development, including front-end, backend, DevOps, and quality
• Assist in the operation of the service, e.g. monitoring, alerting, metrics, logging, and troubleshooting
• Work closely with senior engineers, architects, and product owners to understand requirements and translate them into elegant implementations
• Use the current system behavior to identify opportunities for continuous improvement of the scalability, reliability, usability, and security of the system

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science
• Relevant 4-7 years of software engineering experience
• Excellent analytics skills, troubleshooting skills, and ability to debug complex technical issues involving multiple system components
• Deep understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds, and experience with ES6/ES7 features
• Experience with Typescript and its benefits in building large-scale applications is highly desirable
• Strong grip on HTML, CSS & fundamentals, and experience building modern web and mobile applications
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Good experience in testing frontend apps including unit and automation testing
• CI/CD using Jenkins experience is preferred
• Understanding of Accessibility and Web Standards. Experience with web technologies catering to accessibility standards (WCAG) and ARIA specifications
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Web-pack, NPM, etc.
• Expertise in developing web applications using React, Angular, Vue.js, etc. frameworks
• Excellent understanding of basic principles of computer programming
• Good experience with one or more of the programming languages C#, Go, Java, and Python will be an added advantage
• Solid understanding of software design and architectural patterns as well as a very good understanding of cloud design paradigms
• Proven ability to write maintainable and reusable code
• Expert level experience in building services with high performance, and high availability at a high scale
• Willing to continuously learn new technologies and driven to adopt best practices
• Should be a Problem solver, smart, innovative, adaptable, inclusive, impactful, humble, courageous, accountable, pragmatic, and self-motivated individual who takes initiative and ownership of projects
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL and Oracle
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices
• Experience leveraging or contributing to open-source projects