Lead Interface Developer

Company Description

Digitas is the Global Marketing & Technology Services brand and part of Publicis Groupe.Digitas' Connected Marketing Agency proposition is based on the principle that there are better ways for brands to connect with people and people with each other. Leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities and a proprietary planning process called North, Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes for our clients. Recognised by Gartner, Forrester, IDC and WARC, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 4,000 employees across over 30 countries and 50 offices.Digitas India’s 300+ member technology teams works with some marquee brands in India, North America, UK, Nordics and Australia. Our teams comprise of people with some of the most advanced technology skillsets and platform expertise – Front end, Mobile, Content Management (Sitecore, Adobe, Episerver, Drupal], Commerce [Hybris, Demandware, Magento, Sitecore], Marketing Automation [Adobe, Salesforce], DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure and more. We are Strategic & implementation partners with best OEM’s like Sitecore (Gold), Adobe (Premium), Salesforce, Acquia.Our offices are in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Mumbai, with flexible options for our talent to operate from any part of the country.To connect with Digitas or learn more, visit: www.digitas.com/en-in/

Job Description

Delivery

• Day to day leadership, and delivery responsibility for, a technical project workstream, potentially managing other colleagues
• Demonstrates leadership by organising the workloads of others and communicating effectively between the development team and the colleagues managing the client project
• Adopts a flexible approach to completing workload to ensure delivery within agreed timeframes
• Completes, and maintains, up-to-date, accurate and thorough technical documentation covering areas of project responsibility
• Ensures that the technical solution is implemented according to technical design and standards/best practices
• Anticipates and reports delivery issues associated with workstream deliverables, clearly and at the earliest possible opportunity, to Project Manager and senior engineering project member
• Develops and applies knowledge of Web technologies on client projects
• Unit tests code and delivers high quality work to agreed deadlines
• Conducts self, and communicates, professionally with clients and colleagues
• Provides feedback for team members where appropriate as agreed with Project Manager

Company

• Communicates technical ideas and industry trends to colleagues through informal communication and formal presentations and training sessions
• Mentors junior colleagues on an informal basis offering opinions and input in a supportive manner
• Attends weekly technical meeting
• Makes use of appropriate research materials (Internet, publications etc) to ensure skills and knowledge remain current
• Maintains an up to date resume detailing client project experience
• Maximises billable hours through making oneself available for client work. Makes the best use of non-billable hours by working on internal initiatives, business development and self-development.

Qualifications and Experience

• Must have knowledge of NextJS and ReactJS (preferred Next 13 and Latest ReactJS)
• Must be familiar with concept of micro-frontends
• Should be able to convert wireframes and designs into high-quality shippable code
• Strong Knowledge of basic frontend tech like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
• Experience with CSS pre-processing using tools like SASS, LESS etc
• Familiarity with Tailwind CSS will be added advantage
• Good understanding of Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript
• Knowledge of any other popular JS framework like Backbone, Angular, Vue is a plus
• Experience with frontend development tools such as Babel, Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, NPM etc. 
• Should be comfortable with Concertful APIs, data modelling and content creation
• Should be able to understand and utilize data formats like JSON, XML etc.
• Working experience with Integrating / Consuming RESTful APIs
• Working experience with version control tools like Git, Bitbucket, SVN etc
• Experience in writing unit tests
• Knowledge of SEO, accessibility, performance optimization and responsive web
• Knowledge of cross-browser, cross-platform, & design constraints on the web.
• Experience in implementing monitoring, analytics and tracking tools Google Analytics
• Develop reusable, maintainable cross-platform frontend web application components while adhering to web and team standards.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

In addition, the following would be beneficial:

• Exposure to one or more of the following enterprise eCommerce or CMS solutions such as EPiServer, Sitecore, AEM
• Setting up build and deployment pipeline using CI tools like bamboo, AWS etc

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Additional Information

Publicis Groupe Commitment to Diversity & Equity Policy:

Publicis Groupe is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion in spirit and in action at every level of the organization. It reflects our core values and embodies our purpose of building a great company enabling human potential. We have a deep-rooted appreciation for how diversity of thought drives innovation, and we ground that value in a culture of collaboration and connected thinking.

• Diversity & inclusion are business imperatives on which Publicis Groupe will not negotiate. While fostering a work environment that is inclusive of all talent is a collective responsibility, it is leadership’s job to nurture the career aspirations and goals of all our talent. Promoting gender equality starts at the top and the Groupe will not tolerate anyone speaking for our organization who does not value the importance of inclusion. Publicis Groupe works very hard to champion diversity and will continue to insist that each agency’s leadership be champions of both diversity and inclusion.
• Our Core values “ VIVA LA DIFFERENC’E is based on the very aspect of celebrating differences 
• Our strategy focuses on bringing together teams with diverse perspectives, disciplines, and experiences, because diversity of thought best serves our clients and their customers who they aspire to impact

Equal Employment Commitment:

1. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, caste, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.
2. When recruiting, developing and promoting our employees, our decisions will be based solely on performance, merit, competence and potential.
3. We shall have fair, transparent and clear employee policies which promote diversity and equality, in accordance with applicable law and other provisions of this Code. These policies shall provide for clear terms of employment, training, development and performance management.