Job at a glance
About the company: Locofast Online Services Private Limited operates under the brand name - Locofast- & today is one of the fastest growing B2B companies in the textiles B2B space. The company connects textile manufacturers (mills, manufacturers) to customers (brands, buying houses) both in India & internationally. It integrates technology to the core transaction flow & delivers industry best pricing & turnaround time for textile products.
The century old textile industry has been untouched by any disruption leave alone technological disruption. At Locofast, we are driven to do exactly that & today have an opportunity to create a very large impact in an extremely large industry. Founders & Investors: The company in a short span of time (little over two years) has raised two rounds of funding, most recently one large round of Series B financing (to be announced soon).
The company is backed by some of the most marquee investors that have backed landmark companies such as Myntra.com, Firstcry.com, Lenskart.com, Cult.fit, Bounce, Gomechanic & others. The company is founded by second time entrepreneurs who have demonstrated the ability to build and scale businesses in the past. The profile of the founder can be seen here - www.linkedin.com/in/wadhwadeepak. Deepak was previously the founder of WeAreHolidays, a B2C platform for travelers.
The founders come with deep expertise in building & scaling marketplaces. Current team: Locofast currently has more than 100+ employees across its four offices in India & abroad. The team scale up planned over the next 6 months is to the tune of 250+ people across these offices & few more that the company intends to set up in the near future. The company is biased towards hiring young dynamic individuals who want to change the status-quo & are hungry for exponential growth in a short span of time.
The company has already onboarded high quality talent from some of the best startups (Whitehat Jr, Cars24 etc), folks from large companies (Hero Honda, PWC etc) as well as folks from premier colleges (IIM- s, BITS, IIT's etc). At the core, the company looks at individuals who can take ownership, manage a team, execute fast & deliver superior outcomes, irrespective of age & experience. Roles & Responsibilities: ● Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using React concepts.
● Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use ● Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts. ● Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code ● Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers. Candidate Requirements: ● An engineering degree preferably, from a reputed university/college ● A sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success.
● Hands-on experience in the JavaScript ecosystem, libraries, and tooling (ES6/7), React.js and Redux ● Knowledge of React Hooks is an added advantage. ● Expert knowledge of HTML/CSS, web standards, best practices ● Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX ● An experience of writing clean, well documented, semantic code with responsiveness and cross browser compatibility in mind ● Ability to improvise, troubleshoot, and learn new skills on the job.
● Ability to give estimates on work required. ● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN ● Excellent coding and debugging skills ● A passion and the ability to make beautiful, smooth, delightful web experiences We offer: ● Competitive salary ● Great working environment, opportunity to work directly with the founders on extremely exciting real-life problems. ● Opportunity to grow really fast.