NVE - Frontend Developer [T500-**]

Role:

The Front-End Developer – Engineer II level is a pivotal role responsible for developing and maintaining front-end components and interfaces using React JS and Next.js, with a foundational understanding of headless AEM and experience working with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Additionally, the role involves API integrations to ensure seamless connectivity with backend services.

• Develop and maintain a robust and scalable UI architecture using NextJS / React JS as the primary technology.
• Implement reusable components and patterns to ensure consistency and efficiency across the application.
• Knowledge on UI Design Principles to develop, structure and design of digital apps across all screen size/devices.
• Collaborate with other architects and teams to align UI architecture with overall system design.
• Create wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and documentation to communicate design ideas and concepts Work with cross-functional teams to integrate UI components with backend services and APIs.
• Test and debug UI issues across different browsers and devices Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in UI development.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES / DELIVERABLES:

• Develop modules within the eCommerce products, ensuring the development of high-quality front-end components and interfaces.
• Ability to develop and integrate RESTful web services.
• Able to write Unit and integration test cases.
• Experience in troubleshooting, debugging, and optimizing web applications.
• Optimize the performance of web applications and ensure that they are accessible and user-friendly.
• Knowledge in state management, including Redux RTK for both component and app level state management.
• Write quality code and maintain the code free from bugs and hotspots, ensure code coverage greater than 80%

EXPERIENCES / COMPETENCIES:

Education Qualification:

• Bachelor’s or Equivalent

Number of Years of Experience:

• Minimum 2+ years

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively in a remote / virtual work setting with other global team members.
• Proven facilitation skills - able to effectively drive discussion among diverse perspectives and reach a decision or recommendation.
• Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization – inside and outside of the technology and software organization

Functional / Technical Skills:

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in React or similar stack, demonstrating strong proficiency in front-end development.
• Deep understanding of Next.js, client-side rendering (CSR), and static site generation (SSG) for building efficient and scalable front-end applications.
• Strong commitment to quality practices, proficient in unit testing, integration testing, and acceptance testing using tools such as Jest and Playwright.
• Strong JavaScript skills, including DOM manipulation and object model understanding, with familiarity in popular state management libraries like Redux.
• Knowledge of data structures and modern web development tools like ES6 / Babel, React, Node.js, NPM, and Yarn.
• Proficient in performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, and SEO principles for front-end applications.
• Extensive experience in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Awareness and understanding of headless architecture and experience working with headless or classic CMS platforms.
• Prior experience in eCommerce or similar customer-facing platform development is highly desirable.
• Good understanding of security aspects of front-end components, ensuring the design of a secure system using authentication and authorization standards.
• Strong aesthetic sense, including layout, grid systems, color theory, and typography for creating visually appealing user interfaces.
• Familiarity with working within a monorepo environment, with a basic understanding of efficient code sharing and management across multiple front-end projects.
• Exposure to cloud-based front-end development and limited collaboration with technical domain experts such as cloud, security, and DevOps.

Travel:

• As needed and flexible