Software Engineer III - Front End

About Us

Overview: 

Guidepoint's Engineering team thrives on delivering innovative technology solutions that accelerate revenue growth, reduce costs, and increase efficiency and productivity. As Guidepoint achieves its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to create new products, and improve existing platforms to optimize the seamless delivery of our services. 

Team Function: 

• Insights Portal – a customer-facing research portal used for information gathering and research by industry leaders in investments, finance, and medicine. The Insights Portal platform is focused on content acquisition and distribution through various channels such as the state-of-the-art web application and multiple APIs. 

• The development team is comprised of 8 engineers, 4 back-end and 4 front-end engineers who work very closely with quality assurance (QA) specialists, and a product manager, forming a cohesive product-delivery unit, creating and delivering high-quality software products. 

• This is a 100% hands-on role involving day-to-day coding, bug fixing, writing unit tests, and integration with other teams and services as well as third-party services and solutions. 

Reports to: Lead Software Engineer 

Job Location: Pune 

Work Mode: Hybrid 

Work timings: 1 pm to 10 pm IST (As will be working closely with US Eastern time zone Engineering team) 

What You will Do:  

• Build new Portals/Applications with React, while making incremental enhancements to monolithic legacy applications (server-side rendered)  

•  Work in an agile environment completing User Stories authored by professional Product Managers. Along with high-fidelity comps and annotations by a team of in-house Designers 

• Collaborate on implementations with backend PHP & .NET team members (in addition to other Frontend Engineers) through projects in React, server-side NodeJS, Socket.io, Angular & Smarty (maintenance), and jQuery (deprecation) 

• Work with DevOps to automate the build, deployment and distribution of SPAs and static assets 

• Consume Restful APIs, JSON payloads and various payload contexts 

• Write Unit tests and documentation. 

 What You Have: 

• 7+ years of professional experience as an individual contributor Or 5+ years from a high-growth start-up that scaled to more than 10 engineering resources 

• Prior experience working with organized development teams.  

• Experience on React & ES6 or pixel-perfect HTML/CSS/JS w/UX, or both! 

• Experience with JavaScript ES6+, Typescript, SCSS 

• Understand branching, merging, pull requests, and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or GitHub) 

Preferred to have: 

• Experience with React Hooks or Context 
• Full stack experience with PHP or Dot Net Core
• Prior experience building browser extensions
• Vite or Next.js experience 

What We Offer:  

• Competitive compensation 
• Employee medical coverage 
• Central office location 
• Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions 
• Casual work environment 

About Guidepoint: 

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action. 

Backed by a network of nearly 1.5 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,300 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful. 

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience. 

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