Lead Software Developer (Frontend)

Job DescriptionWe are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Lead Frontend Developer who can understand both the design and business context in a technical ecosystem and manage the consumer facing user interface development life cycle, from designing, planning and prioritizing to testing and release.If you have hands-on experience developing robust, pixel perfect & fluid user interface in React or Vanilla JavaScript with Redux, Thunk or similar frameworks and are ready to build & lead a team of developers, we'd like to meet you.Requirements

6+ years of web UI development experience including 4+ years of deep, hands on experience in building robust, highly reusable and responsive web applications using HTML, CSS3, SVG, React, Redux, Thunk ecosystem

Great problem-solving skills with solid data structures and algorithms knowledge

Strong ability to translate the design/wireframes into reusable micro components

Experience of leading, coaching and mentoring junior developers with good delegation and time-management skills

Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles and has extensively worked with Redux, Thunk, Axios etc

Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Oauth2 etc

Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

A knack for perfection, benchmarking and optimization

Writing and maintaining batch jobs to streamline processes (Shell, Perl etc).

Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices

Worked with WebSocket, Push notifications etc

Experience working with local-storage, cookies etc

Proficient understanding of CORS issues and ways to work with such issues.

Proficient understanding of social network APIs.

Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

Inclined to take ownership of tasks and to ship highly polished products with excellent attention to detail.

Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

BE/BTech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience