Senior Front-End Engineer

Ninja Van is a late-stage logtech startup that is disrupting a massive industry with innovation and cutting edge technology. Launched 2014 in Singapore, we have grown rapidly to become one of Southeast Asia's largest and fastest-growing express logistics companies. Since our inception, we’ve delivered to 100 million different customers across the region with added predictability, flexibility and convenience. Join us in our mission to connect shippers and shoppers across Southeast Asia to a world of new possibilities. 

More about us: 

- We process 250 million API requests and 3TB of data every day.

- We deliver more than 2 million parcels every day.

- 100% network coverage with 2600+ hubs and stations in 6 SEA markets (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines), reaching 500 million consumers.

- 2 Million active shippers in all e-commerce segments, from the largest marketplaces to the individual social commerce sellers.

- Raised more than US$500 million over five rounds.

We are looking for world-class talent to join our crack team of engineers, product managers and designers. We want people who are passionate about creating software that makes a difference to the world. We like people who are brimming with ideas and who take initiative rather than wait to be told what to do. We prize team-first mentality, personal responsibility and tenacity to solve hard problems and meet deadlines. As part of a small and lean team, you will have a very direct impact on the success of the company.

You will be part of the founding team of engineers in our brand new tech lab in India! You will be tasked with building the foundations and establishing the best engineering culture of the tech lab to design, develop, test and ship software that propels the business forward.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Craft great code, empathize with our users, review pull requests, share your knowledge, learn together with other team members
• Build, deploy and monitor frontend applications written in React.js (AngularJS experience a nice-to-have)
• Share in our team's technical ownership of various micro FEs
• Work with our Product Designers to design the best UI/UX and with our Backend Engineers to design the best REST/GraphQL APIs
• Coordinate and communicate across teams to integrate FEs with services, surface usage metrics, drive adoption of new tools or standards

Requirements

• Required 6+ years of industry experience
• Working experience primarily on ReactJS, or AngularJS (knowledge of mobile development, either Android or Flutter, is a plus)
• Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/Typescript
• Understanding of the importance of user experience and user interface elements
• Visual eye for design nuances - ability to accurately interpret designs and fill in the blanks when viewports haven't been explicitly designed
• Good understanding of how the web works - e.g. how assets are loaded by browsers, how that affects performance and how to optimize against those limitations
• Identify project risks and downstream impact of new features
• Strong Computer Science and Software Engineering fundamentals
• Write clean, elegant and understandable code with high test coverage
• Great team spirit, willingness to receive, and give, constructive criticism

Tech Stack

Backend: Play (Java 8+), Golang, Node.js, Python, FastAPI

Frontend: AngularJS, ReactJS

Mobile: Android, Flutter, React Native

Cache: Hazelcast, Redis

Data storage: MySQL, TiDB, Elasticsearch, Delta Lake

Infrastructure monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana

Orchestrator: Kubernetes

Containerization: Docker, Containerd

Cloud Provider: GCP, AWS

Data pipelines: Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming, Maxwell/Debezium, PySpark, TiCDC

Workflow manager: Apache Airflow

Query engines: Apache Spark, Trino

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