FRONTEND ENGINEER

Role: Frontend Engineer

Employment Type: Full Time

Educational Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Work Experience: 2-4 years of industry experience in building and managing frontend for web applications.

Role Description

As part of the Platform team, you will be contributing to advancing and managing Pixxel’s in-house analytics platform. You will be collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. Beyond technical expertise, your role will involve shaping products, continuous learning, and upholding best practices. Your experience and contributions will be instrumental in driving process improvements and fostering collaboration across the organization.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Designing, developing, and testing UI for web application considering design patterns, best practices inclusive of the necessary unit and integration tests.
• Accurately translate user and business needs into functional frontend code.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Work closely with the Design Engineer, Engineering Team and Product Team.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Be a full owner: shape the foundation of the product and business that you work on.
• Actively learn new languages, techniques, and methodologies.
• Develop innovative and more straightforward UI for complex problems and issues and translate the design thinking into product.
• Developing highly responsive user interface components using react concepts.
• Developing and maintaining front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
• Documenting application changes and development updates.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experimenting with, and learning new technologies.
  
  

Desirable Skills & Certifications

• Proven experience in frontend development with a strong focus on React.
• Have developed multiple pages and deeply nested components using ReactJS.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and related web technologies.
• Experience with popular React libraries and tools, such as Redux, React Router, and Axios.
• Familiarity with build tools like Webpack, Babel, and npm/yarn.
• Have used multiple ReactJs libraries such as Leaflet, Turf etc.
• Understanding of responsive design principles and CSS frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team in an agile development environment.
  
  

Candidate Acumen

A Frontend Engineer should possess strong expertise in authentication protocols, identity management systems, security best practices, and scalable frontend development to ensure secure, efficient, and compliant user authentication and access control.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Unlimited leaves & flexible working hours
• Role-based remote work and work-from-home benefit
• Relocation assistance
• Professional Mental Wellness services
• Creche facility for primary caregivers (limited to India)
• Employee Stock Options for all hires
  
  

About Pixxel

Pixxel is a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Pixxel’s constellation is designed to provide global coverage every 24 hours and help detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena across agriculture, mining, environment and energy use cases.

Pixxel is on a mission to build a health monitor for the planet through a constellation of cutting-edge hyperspectral small satellites. This unique hyperspectral capability will be the key to unearth underlying, unseen problems that are invisible to satellites in orbit today.

Pixxel has collaborated with prominent organizations such as the Indian Space Research Organization, NASA JPL, and SpaceX among other leaders in the space industry. The organization is backed by Lightspeed, Radical Ventures, Relativity's Jordan Noone, Seraphim Capital, Ryan Johnson, Blume Ventures, Sparta LLC and Accenture among others.

Recently, Pixxel successfully raised $36 Million in its Series B funding round, with participation from new investors like Google, alongside existing investors, bringing the company's total venture funding to $71 Million.

To know more about us, visit https://www.pixxel.space.

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