Angular JS Front end Developer

Director - Frontend | Snapmint

Location: Gurgaon (Unitech Cyber Park, Sector 39)

Work Days: Monday – Friday

Experience: 12-16 years

About Snapmint: Founded by serial entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay, Snapmint is redefining how banking works by building the experience from the ground up. Our flagship offering provides 0% interest purchase financing to over 300 million banked Indian consumers even those without credit cards — through instant credit scoring and advanced underwriting systems.

By evaluating hundreds of data points beyond traditional credit models, we deliver real-time credit approvals, seamless digital loan servicing, and repayments — revolutionizing financial access for the modern, smartphone-first Indian consumer.

https://snapmint.com/

Job Overview:

We’re looking for a Director of Frontend Engineering with a strong focus on Web (React/Next.js) to lead the design, architecture, and execution of Snapmint’s consumer-facing platforms. This role will own web engineering at scale, while also overseeing Android frontend teams to ensure consistency, performance, and a unified user experience across platforms.

You will be responsible for building and scaling high-performance, modular frontend systems that serve millions of users, with a strong emphasis on design thinking, component reusability, and engineering excellence. This is a strategic leadership role that demands a deep understanding of web technologies, system architecture, and modern frontend design patterns, coupled with the ability to mentor teams and drive execution at speed.

🔧 Key Responsibilities:

• Own the frontend web strategy, architecture, and roadmap, focusing on React.js, Next.js, and scalable design systems.
• Lead and mentor web engineers to build modular, maintainable, and high-performing web applications.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver intuitive and performant cross-platform experiences.
• Oversee the Android frontend team (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose), ensuring consistency in UX, shared design principles, and code quality across platforms.
• Drive the development of design systems and component libraries that scale across web and mobile.
• Champion frontend modularization and micro-frontend architecture to support faster development and easier codebase management.
• Ensure adherence to code quality, performance, security, and accessibility standards.
• Implement best-in-class observability, error tracking, and performance monitoring tools (e.g., Sentry, Firebase, Lighthouse).
• Lead UI experimentation efforts (e.g., A/B testing, feature flags), continuously improving UX based on data.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and collaborative innovation within the frontend engineering teams.
• Keep the engineering org updated with the latest in frontend tech, frameworks, and tooling.

✅ Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 8+ years in frontend development and 5+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise in:

○ React.js, Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript

○ Component-driven architecture, server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG)

○ Building and scaling design systems and modular UIs

• Strong understanding of web performance optimization, SEO, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards (WCAG).
• Experience building scalable consumer-facing applications with millions of users.
• Exposure to Android frontend development (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose) with ability to guide and align mobile teams on UI/UX consistency.
• Familiarity with DevOps for frontend: CI/CD pipelines, feature flagging, analytics, and deployment strategies.
• Passion for design thinking, user-centric product development, and pixel-perfect implementation.
• Strong problem-solving, project management, and communication skills.
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Job Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality, responsive UI components.
• Optimize components for maximum performance across different browsers and devices.
• Implement ReactJS best practices using Hooks, HOCs, and Functional Components.
• Manage state efficiently using Redux/Flux.
• Collaborate with backend developers to integrate REST APIs.
• Debug and test applications using Mocha & Jest.
• Ensure code quality, maintainability, and scalability using modern front-end tools.

Required Skills & Qualifications

✔ 3+ years of experience in ReactJS development.

✔ Strong knowledge of JavaScript, DOM, JSX.

✔ Hands-on experience with React Hooks, HOCs, and Functional Components.

✔ Expertise in ES6+ concepts (Arrow functions, Destructuring, Spread/Rest operators, Classes, Import/Export).

✔ Experience in HTML, CSS, and responsive design.

✔ Familiarity with REST APIs and integrating backend services.

✔ Experience with state management (Redux/Flux).

✔ Strong debugging skills using Mocha & Jest for performance testing.

✔ Hands-on experience with Git, Webpack, Babel, NPM.

Good to Have:

➕ Experience with backend development (Java, Microservices).

➕ Knowledge of modern authentication mechanisms (JWT, OAuth).

Core responsibilities

•      Collaborate with product teams to more accurately define new features

•      Collaborate with UX in the building of a design system/component library

•      Ensure high performance of all systems developed

•      Aware of the relationship between development and business with a strong sense of ownership

•      Employ the latest techniques such as agile software development

•      Good knowledge of highly scalable server-side development

•      Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux

•      Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Javascript/Angular

•      Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills

•      Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts

Job Brief

•      JavaScript and angular expertise

•      Experience with libraries such as bootstrap, Ag-grid, formly, observables, and ngrx

•      You enjoy working with new technologies, and are curious and energetic

•      Experience working with REST APIs

•       Good understanding about authentication and security

•      Create and maintain various unit and integration tests

•      You enjoy working in a creative and agile environment that moves fast

•      Ability and interest in providing mentorship to junior members of the team

•      Write high quality code and Conduct code reviews

•      Being resourceful and detail-oriented, along with being an outside the box thinker!

•      Experience being a great team player, who work collaborative, and brings a positive attitude

About TO THE NEW:

TO THE NEW (TTN) is a technology services company that designs, builds, & runs digital products and platforms for Fortune 500 companies, enterprises, SaaS, and consumer tech companies. We are recognized by global analyst firms like Gartner, Everest, ISG, and Zinnov for our capabilities in Digital Engineering, Cloud, and Data & Analytics. We have deep expertise in Experience design, Open source technologies across Web, Mobility, CMS, diverse Cloud infrastructures, DevOps, Big data & analytics, Quality, and test automation; combined with proven experience in Agile methodologies.

Founded in 2008, TTN is one of the fastest-growing companies with a growth rate of over 60% since 2017. Our passionate team of 2000+ “Newers” is spread across our delivery centers in Delhi, Dubai, NYC, and Sydney. TO THE NEW is a consistent winner of the prestigious ‘Great Place to Work’ award since 2015 and ranked #47 in the ‘Top 100 companies in India to Work’ for in 2019. Recently TTN was also recognized as one of the ‘Top 25 India’s best IT & IT-BPM workplaces’.

We take pride in our culture driven by passion for making an impact through technology and is backed by our emphasis on learning and development. 

Responsibilities:

1. Create high performance, secure, responsive, clean and simple front-end builts in collaboration and discussion with backend developers, designers and product owners

2. Responsibility for resolving all issues assigned in a timely manner

3. Participate in and lead architectural discussions with a group of senior architects

4. Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse

5. Translate designs and style guides into interactive user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility, performance and robustness

6. Deliver high quality code that is maintainable and readable.

7. Develop and maintain features using JavaScript.

8. Our clients would value you for your comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Front-end design and architectures

Requirements:

1. Experience in developing front-end technologies using Object Oriented JavaScript, React.js, HTML, & CSS

2. Understanding of various browser engines

3. Experience to handle cross browser compatibility issues

4. Experience of full software development life cycle and good understanding of version control systems like Git.

5. Experience with an agile development methodology, preferably Scrum

6. Excellent time management, multi-tasking and communication skills

7. Understand the needs of our users and customers at the beginning of each project

8. Provide complete, actionable, and timely technical feedback to your Agile team

9. Mentor fellow and junior engineers

•  Very strong hands on experience of web and mobile technologies: - HTML JavaScript,
• HTML5/CSS3,
• 5 + years of UI Development Experience using JavaScript Frameworks
• 3+ years of Angular Development Experience
•  Has implemented coding patterns and built UI framework
•  Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive
• work experience
•  Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching
• layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
•  Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and
• modules of core AngularJS
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments
•  Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
•  Cross browsers support/experience and knowledge of DOM manipulation on different
• browsers
•  Performance enhancements on web page load and execution
• Use responsive web design to create applications that automatically conform to multiple
• screen sizes/devices.
• Reach at 91 084 76 999