Founding Engineer - Frontend Development (4-7 yrs)

The core responsibilities for the job include the following :

Architecture and Best Practices :

- UI Development : Responsible for all front-end UI work, ensuring a responsive and seamless user experience.

- Reusable Components : Develop and maintain reusable components to expedite feature development.

- Performance Optimization : Drive web performance optimization to enhance user experience.

- End-to-end Responsibility : Take end-to-end responsibility for work, including planning, testing, delivery, and maintenance.

Other Responsibilities :

- Engineers who understand the underlying principles and demonstrate quick learning abilities, along with adaptability to evolving tech stacks, are highly valued. While the following tech stack experience is preferred, specific experience in any one technology is not prioritized over another.

- Architectural Decisions : Lead frontend architecture decisions, ensuring scalability and maintainability.

- Code Quality : Maintain high code quality standards through code reviews and best practices.

- CI/CD Pipelines : Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines for front-end applications.

- Pragmatic Solutions : Suggest simple or existing solutions without reinventing the wheel, considering the importance of speed and quality in a startup environment.

- Cross-functional collaboration : Collaborate with backend developers, UX/UI designers, and founders to ensure cohesive integration.

- Product Mindset : Understand user requirements and suggest product and UX/UI improvements, ensuring alignment with the company vision.

- Backend Contribution : While the focus is on frontend development, occasionally contribute to backend work as needed.

- Documentation : Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for UI components and user guides.

Requirements :

- Programming Languages : TypeScript.

- Frontend Frameworks : Next.js, React, Redux (Vue.js as a plus).

- Cloud Platform : GCP.

- Databases : NoSQL databases like Firestore.

- DevOps and CI/CD : Terraform, CDK, Docker, GitHub Actions (knowledge of Jenkins, CircleCI as a plus).

- Security : Fireauth, multi-tenant platforms such as Google Identity or Amazon Cognito, OAuth.

- Backend Integration : Websockets, Webhooks, REST, GraphQL.

- Testing : Pytest, Puppeteer.

- Observability : ELK, Prometheus/Grafana.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Other Tools : Familiarity with modern frontend build tools (e. g., Webpack, Vite), and basic proficiency in UI/UX design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD.

- Experience building systems that handle operations, such as transportation or warehouse management systems.

- Experience building documents, PDF, PNG, Excel, etc., and specific UI components.

- Experience building customizable and no-code UIs such as Retool and Appsmith.

- Experience improving web performance metrics such as loading time and Time to Interactive (TTI), and optimizing applications for low latency and high performance using tools like Google Analytics to measure user behavior.