Lead Engineer Frontend (Remote)

As a Lead front-end engineer, you will be required to work on our application, the front-end of our customer-facing web application, and the JavaScript library that is installed on our customers’ websites. We work iteratively and ship code often, and are looking for people who can work hand in hand with our back-end team. The solutions that you build will be deployed on thousands of websites, thereby impacting millions of users.

Tools that we use

All our engineers at Wingify are involved in every part of our development life cycle. As an engineer at Wingify, you will be responsible for creating, monitoring, managing, and improving our product that is used by over 5000+ customers across 90+ countries.

We love vanilla Javascript and use many libraries and tools like AngularJS, VueJs, TypeScript, jQuery, SASS, Grunt, Git, Jenkins, Jasmine, QUnit, Testswarm, BrowserStack, and Selenium to name a few.

Job Responsibilities:

• Development of our application’s front-end and our public websites.
• Participating in the design and implementation of new features.
• Evolving the architecture of our front-end.
• Talking about your work – we love open source software, we heavily use them and by talking about how we use them is the least we can do to help the community. See our engineering blog.

Skills & Experience:

• 6-8 years of experience in developing front-end applications at scale.
• Strong knowledge and experience in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Understanding of the DOM, canvas rendering, and SVG.
• Deep understanding of how the browser works.
• Understanding of browser caching
• Experience in writing modular/reusable code and using JS frameworks.
• Experience with frameworks like Vue.js, Angular.js, Backbone.js, etc., especially about their internal working.
• Knowledge of high-level programming concepts like promises, data-binding.
• Experience with seamless integration of front-end to backend functionality.
• Regard for optimizations that focus to deliver content to the user as quickly as possible.
• Good understanding of the constantly evolving world of front-end development.
• Understanding the similarities and differences across browsers (young and old).
• Understanding of different measurement and benchmarking tools.
• Experience with test-driven/behaviour-driven development using automated testing tools.
• Experience in working in agile software development environments
• Strong code review and debugging skills
• You should have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions.
• Analyze the task, come up with reasonable timelines by preparing a plan of approach to deliver features on time.
• Interact and collaborate with multiple teams and various stakeholders to meet deadlines, to bring your feature to life.
• Ideate with your peers. Being supportive of their work and providing constructive feedback on their solutions
• You have experience in identifying, debugging and resolving complex production issues.
• Being hands-on is essential for this role.

Company Overview:

About the Company: At Wingify, we’re building SaaS (software as a service) products from India that are used by thousands of brands in more than 90 countries across the world. In our industry, we’re proudly outcompeting a number of international counterparts to clock more than USD 45mn in annual revenue without any external funding.

Over the last 14 years, VWO by Wingify has helped create industry standards in A/B testing products and have helped brands grow their website conversions by our suite of products across testing, website insights, and engagement.

If you have interacted with WikiHow, UbiSoft, TMZ, or Britannica, you have already met some of the customers who trust the VWO platform for their experimentation-led growth.

This has been made possible by our relentless focus on delivering value to our customers by creating tools that are simple to use, yet pack a punch when it comes to delivering value for their growth.

Our focus on our products is reflected in what our customers have to say about us. Last year, G2Crowd recognized VWO by Wingify among the 25 best software SaaS companies in India, and in 2017, ET gave us the title of Startup of the Year in the bootstrapped champ category.