Software Dev Engineer II-Frontend

Way of working - Work from office (5 days a week)

Job Title: Software Development Engineer II- Frontend

Location: Remote first

Tenure: 3+years

About The Team & Role

Swiggy's StoreFront Engineering team helps customers enjoy personalized discovery and purchase experience across multiple product lines (Stores, Food, Genie and Instamart). The team is enabling this by developing thoughtfully crafted applications, smart cataloging, relevance-based search & intent-driven merchandising, checkout management solutions, and payment systems.

Position Overview

SDE II in Swiggy plays a key role in owning end to end design/Architecture of a complex system/team they are assigned to. They co-own the technology vision of the respective team and significantly contribute to the overall success of the team. They partner with the product/business teams to understand the product features and specifications, translate them into high level and low-level design thereby facilitating the team in design and development of mission critical applications.

What will you get to do here?

• To build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reusable front-end abstractions and systems.
• Work closely with designers to implement versatile front-end solutions while embracing emerging standards and pushing the limits of what a browser can do.
• Explore and design dynamic and compelling consumer experiences.
• Command an impressive portfolio of the latest UI technologies
• Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
• Constantly and consistently implementing new features and optimizing existing ones from controller-level to UI Vigilantly and rapidly fix bugs.
• Continuously solving problems to give our customers a delightful shopping experience.
• Work closely with Product managers, UX designers and back-end engineers to implement frontend solutions.
• Endorsing upcoming standards, launching, iterating and making a difference.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
  
  

What qualities are we looking for?

• Proficient understanding of Web Fundamentals - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
• Basic understanding of CSS pre-processing platforms in JS
• Proficient understanding of at least one of the UI frameworks viz React, Angular 4+, Vue, Polymer etc
• Good understanding of ES6 and above.
• Experience with Typescript is a plus.
• Understanding of web bundling tools like Webpack, ParcelJS, Rollup.
• Sound knowledge of design patterns and practices for writing clean, linted, maintainable and reusable code.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. Understanding of Version Control Systems like Git Experience in using supplementary libraries like Redux, Redux Saga, Emotion, Lerna etc is a plus.
• Experience in TDD (Test Driven Development) for Unit Testing with libraries like Jasmine, Mocha, Simon, Karma etc.
  
  

Visit our tech blogs to learn more about some of the challenges we deal with:

https://bytes.swiggy.com/the-swiggy-delivery-challenge-part-one-6a2abb4f82f6

https://bytes.swiggy.com/swiggy-distance-service-9868dcf613f4

https://bytes.swiggy.com/the-tech-that-brings-you-your-food-1a7926229886

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.