Senior Front End Developer
Bengaluru, IN
About SKF
SKF started its operations in India in 1923. Today, SKF provides industry leading automotive and industrial engineered solutions through its five technology-centric platforms: bearings and units, seals, mechatronics, lubrication solutions and services. Over the years the company has evolved from being a pioneer ball bearing manufacturing company to a knowledge-driven engineering company helping customers achieve sustainable and competitive business excellence.
SKF's solutions provide sustainable ways for companies across the automotive and industrial sectors to achieve breakthroughs in friction reduction, energy efficiency, and equipment longevity and reliability. With a strong commitment to research-based innovation, SKF India offers customized value-added solutions that integrate all its five technology platforms.
To know more, please visit: www.skf.com/in
About Technology Development
The TD team for ISEA is focused on Customer Product development & Engineering, Innovation for the region, rollout of new technologies for the region, testing, Failure Investigation, scaleup from POC to series production, Portfolio Management etc.
TD Competencies
- Engineering & Research Centre
- Product Development & Engineering – This division brings out conceptual/detailed designs to support BOH/ETO activities based on customer specifications. Technology trends like digitization of workflows, e- Aviation, Sensorization, Product localization, Design automation, Agile, DFX and Model based designs, (MBDs) have increased the operational efficiency and application productivity. What our customer gain from this is efficient digital data exchange, traceability and flexibility in design changes, reduced carbon footprint and higher performance products.
- Testing: Group Testing Services is a trusted partner in design, process and supplier validation. The testing team ensures greater focus on customer requirements, quality and operational efficiency. This entails greater support for SKF’s processes in a faster manner by applying global test standards, adapted to local customer specific requirements.
- Global Metallurgy & Chemistry Laboratory (GMC)
- Future Factory (Manufacturing 4.0) – Working on World class manufacturing – Lean, Green, Digital.
- Manufacturing Process & Development - We support factories in the areas of process development (Heat treatment), machine building, Advanced Manufacturing – HT simulations, Additive Manufacturing, Vision Inspection etc. We are working on building innovative solutions on machines (measurement/ assembly/ clean manufacturing) and focusing on Scaling technologies like 3D printing and Camera based Inspection system with automation.
- Connected Technologies- develop new products for connectivity and sustain it. We work on sensor technology and data integration. This help customer for predictive maintenance of their assets.
SKF Purpose Statement
Together, we re-imagine rotation for a better tomorrow.
By creating intelligent and clean solutions for people and the planet
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Senior Front End Developer
Reports To: Global Design Manager – Digital Product Design
Role Type: Individual Contributor
Location: Bangalore
Role Purpose:
We are looking for someone with advanced knowledge of front-end development and how it can be applied at scale across multiple digital products using native Web Components (LIT). You know your way around advanced JavaScript, TypeScript and are proficient with React. You’re someone that has been working with advanced application logic and knows best practices. You're curious by nature and eager to adopt new technologies that enable scalable and the most maintainable solutions. You are as much vested in the impact our product and team intents to achieve as you are focused on the deliverables.
You’ll support us with the adoption of the component library. This will involve providing advice to other developers, sharing best-practices and at times jumping into other people’s code to provide feedback. We want to make the components work now and into the future, so you’ll be adding and updating the library to meet our user’s needs
Key responsibilities and day to day tasks
- You will be a key resource in the development of the component library
- You will be applying your skillset within the team and support you other teammates in knowledge sharing
- You will collaborate close with the other team members and work in pair-programming
- You will be part of making decisions about how we structure our code and how we work smartest
- You will have knowledge and a desire to learn about emerging trends
- You will have a lot of collaboration with other designers, developers and product teams to ensure the design system is evolving organically and remaining useful and relevant
You will enjoy working here if
- You are product driven, you want the design system (and the value it creates) to be experienced by all of SKF
- You are comfortable in driving alignment with stakeholders
- You enjoy working in a product team
We offer you
- A job in an international environment
- To be part of a team that is fostering and growing industry leading digital experiences
- To be part of driving digital transformation and accelerating change
- To be part of a team where the focus is on impact and outcomes to deliver true value
- To be a part of an open and engaged team where we together shape the roadmap
Candidate Profile:
- Overall 12+ years of experience with Eight+ years (or equivalent) relevant experience with front-end development
- Solid experience in JavaScript (browser+node), TypeScript and ideally some previous knowledge about LIT Web Components as well as React.
- Good understanding of what it means to work with a distributed product (npm/vite/rollup/node) and Github actions/CI.
- Be comfortable talking to and helping developers from different teams as well as giving demos/presentations (in Swedish and English)
- Be communicative and have a clear interest in building a product community of front end developers.
- Experience in making architectural decisions within front end / "Fullstack"
- Experience working within an international companies / European companies