User Interface Engineer II

About the Role

We are looking for engineers who are well rounded - quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not mere coders. Engineers get to significantly amplify their impact with the scale that Flipkart operates at. The same scale also demands the engineers to produce super-efficient solutions. Engineers participate and breed the culture of self-drive which is fuelled with merit based opportunities.

About the team

We are building a new World-Class digital Infrastructure for Ads and that needs us to build very usable, lightweight, cross-platform, effective and performant UI ecosystem. Our system uses React as the view layer, Redux for state management, Webpack's magic to have the leanest UI possible with low digital cost of download. We place huge importance on code quality and have strict linting practices.

You are Responsible for

• To build responsive, scalable and performant web and mobile applications.
• Develop features across multiple subsystems within our applications, including collaboration in requirements definition, prototyping, design, coding, testing and deployment.
• Provide engineering support when building, deploying, configuring and supporting systems.
• Demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, diagrams, charts, code commentsand clear code.
• Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
• Work closely with designers to implement versatile front-end solutions while embracing emerging standards.
• Interacting with other team members to passionately collaborate our innovations with teams across Flipkart.
• Should be able to mentor other team members.

To succeed in this role – you should have the following

• A deep expertise in Javascript, Node Js, HTML and CSS
• Knowledge of React, React Native and Redux frameworks is a plus
• Should possess great problem solving skills, can understand the requirements on the field and map them effectively to sustainable solutions
• Should have sound knowledge of computer science fundamentals, object-oriented programming, and possess excellent debugging and analytical reasoning skills.
• Ready to explore newer technologies to make development process easier.
• Add to engineering team’s culture of high code quality.
• Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable, highly performant code for UI components.
• Work closely with Product Managers, UX Designers and Backend Engineers to implement front end solutions.
• Should be able to drive technical initiatives across teams.
• Able to solve problems independently, with maximum ownership of the projects you work on.