Job Description:

Flipkart Engineering is making e-commerce happen in India. We are building a reliable and scalable infrastructure to handle all of Flipkart’s e-commerce business.
Flipkart Engineers bring in cutting-edge approaches to solve business problems, create architecture & design to realize the solution through coding and testing. This involves working with designers, business analysts and product managers, as it is not alone job cracking the code. What we respect the most is our engineer’s ability to find the best way to approach and tackle a problem, and the way they demolish and build as they please.

Engineering at Flipkart is an opportunity to solve never been solved problems in e-commerce domain and by working with the domain leader, you will get a shot not only in innovation but also in defining the industry.

The high focus on Impact and Ownership gives freedom to experiment and innovate. The ability to see what your code does to the business is a rare experience, add to the fact the impact of it is felt by your friends and family in India – the experience is extremely gratifyin

Skills Required:

Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, React, AngularRole:

What UI Engineers @ Flipkart do?
● Build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reusable front-end
abstractions and systems.
● The scale at which Flipkart operates and grow every year is a challenge for our systems.
UI is not different and we make sure our applications could handle that traffic.
● We are a fast moving company and we try new things and fail fast. We build frameworks
which could help us go to market fast. It’s not just new features that we build but we
make sure we build reusable components and libraries which help us deliver faster.
● Quality and availability are the utmost importance to us. We make sure all our releases
are bug-free and performant. The responsibility of quality is with developers and to make
things easy and predictable we automate these processes.
● Explore and design dynamic and compelling consumer experiences.
● Work closely with designers to implement versatile front-end solutions while embracing
emerging standards and pushing the limits of what a browser can do.
● Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and
prototypes.
● Interact with other team members to passionately collaborate with teams across Flipkart.
● Analyze system function and performance requirements to support design concepts.

Expectations

1. You are expected to know the fundamentals of frameworks and platforms you’ve worked
on (mobile, desktop, etc) and the tools you have used.
2. Knowledge of Javascript (and at least one more language), browser internals and a
basic understanding of the network stack.
3. Fundamentals of handling asynchronous code (XHR, Promises, etc)
4. Understanding of common design patterns followed in front-end projects.
5. Basic awareness of application security practices.
6. Understanding of basic deployment techniques for front-end projects.
7. Understanding of HTML and CSS concepts.

8. Ability to use dev tools.

Good to have
We would love to hear you talk about:
1. Latest trends in front-end technologies.
2. Engineering practices – Deployments, Release management, etc
3. Challenges faced or peculiar bugs that you have run into.

Location: Bangalore,Karnataka