Senior Frontend Engineer

Founded in 2013 LetsVenture is India's largest platform for early-stage investing and fundraising. LetsVenture is organizing India’s private market by making the process of fundraising easy, efficient and transparent for both start-ups and investors and bringing value-added products to the market. In the last 9 years, over 400 start-ups have raised $400mn across 527+ rounds with a total portfolio value of $3 billion and the platform has 10000+ Angel Investors from 60 countries, and 100 Micro VC Funds. LetsVenture is backed by Accel, Chiratae Ventures, Nandan Nilekani, Ratan Tata, Rishad Premji, Mohandas Pai, Sharad Sharma, Anupam Mittal. LetsVenture has partnered with MeitY Startup Hub to accelerate the growth of the start-up ecosystem in India.

We're looking for a strong frontend engineer who can contribute to our initial product, which is a web application. Our stack is Rails on the backend and React/Javascript on the front-end. This is an opportunity to have a big impact and get lots of ownership. We're looking for someone who thrives in the very early stages of a company and is self-driven.

• Deliver features in an end-to-end manner: technical design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Provide technical leadership and own specific areas of the LetsVenture platform.
• Work closely with Product Managers to translate product requirements to engineering specifications.
• Lead code review efforts and quality efforts in your area of ownership.
• Participate in product discussions, taking ownership and initiative.
• Work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.

• At least 5 years frontend development experience in a professional setting.
• At least 1 year experience working in the React ecosystem
• Should be comfortable converting mocks into high quality HTML/CSS
• Must have an excellent understanding of how the web works.
• Experience with responsive web design, media queries and delivering functionality that works with a range of client devices/browsers from desktops and laptops to mobile platforms.
• Experience with UI design patterns, security, performance and usability.
• Familiar with modern engineering practices: code reviews, continuous-deployment, automated testing.
• Must be willing to constantly learn new things.
• Passionate about joining a small team and building a company.

• A history of working on side/hobby projects and contributing to open source projects is a plus.
• You've worked at a start-up before.

Originally posted on Himalayas