Associate Staff Engineer

Job Description

Experience

• Minimum 2-3 years of coding experience in ReactJS (TypeScript), HTML, CSS-Pre-processors, or CSS-in-JS in creating Enterprise Applications with high performance for Responsive Web Applications.
• Minimum 5 years of coding experience in NodeJS, JavaScript & TypeScript and NoSQL Databases.
• Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using React concepts. (self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components)
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts
• Knowledge of Data Structures for TypeScript.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
• Banking or Retail domains knowledge is good to have.
• Hands on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring.

Technical Skills

• Excellent knowledge developing scalable and highly available Restful APIs using NodeJS technologies
• Well-versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem
• Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.
• Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.
• Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, OAuth)
• Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues include but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka.
• Practical experience with GraphQL is good to have.
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience in developing responsive web-based UI
• Have experience on Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, Material UI and other CSS-in-JS techniques
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools - Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux or ContextAPI or Data Structures)
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proficient with the latest versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript or TypeScript)
• Knowledge of React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as npm, yarn etc
• Familiarity with common programming tools such as RESTful APIs, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools, CI/CD tools
• An understanding of common programming paradigms and fundamental React principles, such as React components, hooks, and the React lifecycle - Unit testing using Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine or equivalent framework
• Understanding of linter libraries (TSLINT, Prettier etc)

Functional Skills

• Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.
• Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.

Soft Skills

• Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience.
• Self-motivator and self-starter, Ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization.