Lead Software Engineer - Frontend
- Full-time
Company Description
Company Overview:
Organizations everywhere struggle under the crushing costs and complexities of “solutions” that promise to simplify their lives. To create a better experience for their customers and employees. To help them grow. Software is a choice that can make or break a business. Create better or worse experiences. Propel or throttle growth. Business software has become a blocker instead of ways to get work done.
There’s another option. Freshworks. With a fresh vision for how the world works.
At Freshworks, we build uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional customer and employee experiences. Our enterprise-grade solutions are powerful, yet easy to use, and quick to deliver results. Our people-first approach to AI eliminates friction, making employees more effective and organizations more productive. Over 72,000 companies, including Bridgestone, New Balance, Nucor, S&P Global, and Sony Music, trust Freshworks’ customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) software to fuel customer loyalty and service efficiency. And over 4,500 Freshworks employees make this possible, all around the world.
Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.
Job Description
Front-end engineers at Freshworks are responsible for implementing many of the client-side systems/code that generate the UIs our end-users will interact with. They work closely with the backend and platform engineers, architects, designers, and product managers to develop scalable and maintainable UI systems/features/components.
Responsibilities
- Planning, estimation, requirement analysis, the layout design of the assigned project and other ongoing projects in a team with Project Manager / Developer / Designer.
- Lead a team of junior developers (Front-End / UI) as well as contributing to a hands-on front-end developer.
- Work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive, and interactive interfaces.
- Maintaining and auditing code quality as per set guidelines and standards in assigned projects.
- Testing of completed tasks in ongoing projects in a team before delivering it to QA. - Focusing on the team to ensure on-time delivery.
- Training and mentoring of team members.
- Implement and support compliance of self and team to Freshworks compliance and information security processes.
Qualifications
Requirements / Must Have:
- A minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience
- Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS, SASS.
- Excellent knowledge of Javascript, Jquery
- MVC architecture and OOP programming style.
- Ability to pick and use Javascript Frameworks
- Backbone / Angular / EmberJs / NodeJs knowledge of version control systems like GIT.
- Excellent communication skills
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Teamwork and Leadership skills
Additional Information
At Freshworks, we have fostered an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion, welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer environment that boosts the goals of our employees, communities, and business. Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.