Front End Engineer

Job Description

Are you interested in cracking the untapped market of grocery in India Our 3 year vision is to be the largest online ultrafast grocery store in India. Amit Agarwal, SVP India recently made the statement in all the leading dailies If you ask me the next five years of vision - from your avocados to your potatoes, and your meat to your ice cream - well deliver everything to you in two hours. Probably in the next five years groceries and consumables would be more than half of our business .We are building net new, India first technology to solve for the grocery supply chain in India. This is a rare opportunity to work on greenfield projects with high impact and an opportunity to disrupt the grocery market in India. If working on extremely high impact products excites you, then you should talk to us.Our engineers are top-notch software developers who love listening to the customers, working as a team, and proactively taking the lead whenever necessary. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and delivering software solutions for the consumable program. In this role, you will have an opportunity to own design and development of key parts of services. You will have influence on subsystem design and help contribute to a team culture around practices that are critical to a quality product.In this role, you will participate in all parts of the software development process, from collaborating with customers and other stakeholders like product manager, operation, fulfillment, category manager, and finance teams on design to executing that design in a scalable and extensible way. You will collaborate with worldwide external teams, senior software development engineer and principal engineers while working on hard business and design problems. Successful candidates are passionate about translating high-level, ambiguous business goals to software platforms that enable multiple businesses. You are passionate about taking initiative, delivering extensible, on-time solutions, and being a part of high-performing teams.We care about your career growth, too. Once you join the team, you and your manager will jointly craft a career plan and you ll review it regularly to ensure you re on track to meet your goals. Whether your goals are to explore new technologies, take on bigger problems, or get to the next level, we ll help you get there. Our business is growing fast, and our people will grow with it., A Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience; Experience with modern web technologies and techniques such as HTML5, CSS3, CSS frameworks and CSS pre-processors. Experience with jQuery, Node.js, JavaScript build tools, and modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS. Experience with responsive and mobile design, as well as cross-browser development and testing. Experience building rich data-driven web applications by consuming RESTful services and APIs. Track record delivering front-end software that is correct, stable, performant, secure and accessibility compliant. Able to solve difficult software and UX problems with some ambiguity. Proficient in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns. Knows when (and when not) to use front-end software design patterns (e.g., asynchronicity, data binding, modules, objects, promises). Can articulate the risks and benefits of depending on front-end libraries, frameworks, and toolsets. Able to dive into the source code of front end libraries to debug, patch, and extend them when necessary. Proficient in view layout and rendering technologies (e.g., responsiveness, progressive enhancement, browser/device support). Understands how to optimize the delivery of code and assets (e.g., images, fonts) to a browser or device (e.g., lazy loading assets, using CDNs, caching, compression, etc.). Understands how to be efficient with resource usage (e.g., application impact on memory and CPU, caches appropriately, respectful of customer s devices, etc.). Knows how to instrument software with real user metrics to reflect the customer experience. Knowledge of engineering and operational excellence best practices. Experience in Agile development methodology and best practices. Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Keyskills :
mobile designcomputer science build toolssupply chain design patternscss web technologiesfront end