Software Development Engineer 1 ( Front End)

Job Description

The Upstox Story:Upstox is one of Indias leading Fin-Tech companies with a mission to simplify trading & investing to make it easily accessible to the masses. We aim to enable everyone, from new investors to seasoned traders, to invest across multiple categories with our state-of-the-art trade & investment platform and commission-free pricing. We offer numerous asset categories to invest in, like Stocks, Digital Gold, IPOs, Mutual Funds, and more.By focusing on our customers needs and equipping them with personalized yet powerful tools, we witnessed a steep growth of 800% in our customer base from 25 Thousand in 2017 to 2 Lakh in 2019. With 1500% growth in 2020, currently, over 3 million customers trust us with their investment decisions, thus setting us on the course to become an industry-leader in the country.Our mission is simple - to break down the complexities of investing and make it more effortless, accessible, affordable, and easy for the masses to adopt. This key principle when infused with intuitive design and leading-edge technology will help us empower every Indian to take control of their investments.RKSV Securities was founded by Ravi Kumar and Shrinivas Viswanath in 2009 and was soon graced by Kavitha Subramanian as the third co-founder in 2016. Backed by Ratan Tata, Upstox had raised $4 million in Series A funding in early 2016 that was led by Kalaari Capital. The Series B funding round scaled multifold and witnessed an investment of $25 million by US-based investment firm - Tiger Global Management in September 2019.We have a team of highly skilled technology and finance professionals, and are currently looking for highly motivated field experts to be part of our high-energy team.About the Team:We are a Formula-1 team where every millisecond counts. Here, we are continuously innovating and building highly scalable backend systems and strategies that gives a seamless experience to our customers even during large volume of traffic hitting our systemsA glimpse of what we do:- Creating and improving multiple products via continuous delivery- Embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation- Data driven approach to build new products and features- Build new tech innovations to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our customers betterWhat we want:We are looking for talented engineers with strong foundations who can learn and pick up new tools on the fly. We want you to share our passion for developing products that will help change the landscape for fin-tech in India. You would be working with the latest web technologies to build new features, improve performance and reliability of existing features, and improve our development processes as we scale our company.Roles & Responsibilities:- Design and build efficient, scalable systems that are used by millions of people.- Own what you build as you create, test and refine what s under the hood of our pages and services- Implement and maintain features, improve performance and reliability in our frontend web experiences- Interact with Product, Design and Engineering teams to spec, build, test and deploy new features- Improve testing and reliability by improving existing tests and writing new ones- Perform Peer Code Reviews- Investigate production issues pertaining to the user interface to determine root cause and implement solutionsWhat you need:- You have 1+ years of experience building applications on the web platform with JavaScript, HTML and CSS- Expertise in Javascript and any Javascript frameworks/library like ReactJS, VueJS, Angular, Redux, etc.- Strong fundamentals on Web Standards, Browser Performance and Rendering Pipelines, HTTP and other relevant concepts- You have a get-things-done attitude and deep empathy for users and fellow teammates- You can write testable, maintainable code that s easy to understand- Ability to take complex problems and break them down into smaller tasksYou have a curiosity about how things workUpstox is an Equal Opportunity Employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.Psst tips on how you can beat the competition:If you can showcase your abilities to:Be self-driven / quick starterHave an ownership mindsetAggressively drive and deliver resultsIf you fit the above description, we would love to connect with you! APPLY NOWA basic requirement but one that many forget: Make sure you go through our website , download our app and give us feedback!,

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