Frontend Developer

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on UI Developer with strong expertise in React.js and JavaScript to join our front-end engineering team. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in developing scalable, high-performance, and user-centric web applications. You will be expected to contribute immediately, owning development tasks end-to-end — from design and coding to performance tuning and deployment.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop responsive, high-quality user interfaces using React.js, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Collaborate closely with UX designers, backend developers, and product managers to translate business requirements into technical implementations.
• Write clean, efficient, and reusable code following best practices and modern front-end standards.
• Optimize components for maximum performance and scalability across various browsers and devices.
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve UI-related performance or compatibility issues.
• Stay up to date with emerging front-end technologies and continuously enhance the development process.

 Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in front-end/UI development.
• Deep hands-on experience with React.js and core JavaScript (ES6+).
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and modern UI frameworks/libraries.
• Experience with React hooks, state management (Redux or Context API), and component-based architecture.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration of front-end applications with backend services.
• Experience with Webpack, Babel, NPM/Yarn, and modern build tools.
• Solid understanding of version control systems (Git).
• Strong debugging and performance optimization skills.
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, agile environment.

 Good to Have Skills:

• Experience with TypeScript, Next.js, or React Native.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, or React Testing Library.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools.
• Understanding of UI/UX design principles and ability to collaborate effectively with designers.
• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience in performance profiling and accessibility (a11y) best practices

Software Engineer - Frontend

Experiencing the world we live in is fundamental to our collective happiness and progress as a society. Headout’s mission is, and will always be, to unlock this happier world by connecting amazing in-person experiences with people all over the globe, giving them the opportunity to be entertained, educated and inspired. We are evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences at the push of a button. By combining delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations, our single minded focus is on solving a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time? On this mission, we've already served 7M+ guests from 190 countries who have headed out to an experience with us. While building scale that drives $200M+ in annualised sales, we hit profitability that is such a rarity on the back of our superior model.

As travel and in-person experiences recover, Headout is playing a critical role in our return to our way-of-life. With pent-up demand, generation and digitisation of experiences having been pushed forward by a decade, there is no better time to build than NOW.

We at Headout, like to solve real-world problems in the simplest & most elegant manner possible. We're seeking Frontend Engineers with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. We also love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun. ;-)

👩‍💻 The Role

• Craft the front-end architecture, develop our core features, and collaborate with our Product & Design teams to build something useful and beautiful.
• Build slick UI interfaces to provide the best user experience.
• Get your hands dirty with cross-platform architectural challenges, new frameworks, design patterns, and technologies.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• 2+ years of experience developing front-end platforms preferably in a high-growth startup.
• Solid hands-on experience with Javascript ES5 and ES6.
• Experience with NodeJS, Typescript, browser dev-tools etc.
• An opinion and preferably hands-on experience of CSS in JS vs old school style of writing CSS.
• Experience developing responsive designs using open source frameworks or even better, an attempt at your own framework.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and it's underlying communication protocols.
• People who give up anything to optimize that animation that they just created.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in UX, travel, local experiences & hospitality.

Responsibilities:

• Developing new user-facing features using JavaScript framework React JS.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code which works across platforms.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Should be able to take initiatives and ownership and build the products from scratch.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of React.js, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e. g., Immutable.js ).
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as GIT.

About the role

We are looking for experienced developers, who have the aspirations and appetite in working in a start-up environment, and with relevant industry experience to make a significant contribution to our Digilytics^TM platform and solutions. 

Responsibilities

• Implementing High quality applications using front end technologies like Angular JS or Angular latest versions.
• Wherever possible take part in backend implementation.
• Suggest better and suitable alternative technologies and frameworks.
• Interacting with clients and gathering and documenting business requirements and solution designs to a high degree
• Recruiting and managing other personnel as relevant and achieving a high performance for self and the team
• Ensuring that clients are satisfied and do not have any negative feedback about the Company and the Executives provision of services
• Understand the Digilytics^TM vision and help in creating and maintaining a development roadmap
• Contribute to product development team and deliver product releases in a timely manner
• Ensure the quality of the product delivered
• Develop client-specific solutions using the product
• Liaise with multiple stakeholders and coordinate with our onshore and offshore entities

Expected and Desired Skills

• Strong programming skills and deep understanding of technical delivery
• Excellent understanding of analytical techniques and technology landscape
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate ideas clearly at all levels
• Ability to work in unfamiliar business areas and to use your skills to create solutions
• Flexible approach to working environment and hours to meet the needs of the business and clients

Experience

• A start up mind set with proven experience working in both smaller and larger organisations having multicultural exposure
• Between 3-4 years of experience working closely with the relevant technologies, and developing world-class software and solutions

Education Background

• A Bachelors degree, or equivalent, preferably in Software Engineering and Computer Science

Job Description:

- We are looking for a great Frontend developer who is proficient with Javascript and/or React.js to join us at the earliest.

- You will be entrusted with developing user interface components and implementing them using popular React.js workflows (Flux, Redux, etc.).

- You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.
- Apply now if you love collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and ensure the quality is maintained.

Know your work:
- Responsible for the development of a new highly-responsive, web-based user interface.
- Construct visualizations that are able to depict vast amounts of data.
- Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
- Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
- Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
- Develop a flexible and well-structured front-end architecture, along with the APIs to support it.

What you need to apply:
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
- Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.
- Hands-on experience with React Native is an added advantage.
- Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
- Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript.
- Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
- Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
- Familiarity with modern front-end builds pipelines and tools.
- Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
- A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
- Familiarity with code versioning tools (Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

What you get:
- Amazing workplace and colleagues in the IT corridor of Bangalore
- Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
- Immense exposure to new technologies

Notice Period & Location:
Notice Period: Immediately or within 2 Weeks
Location: Bangalore/Bengaluru or Pune

No of Positions: 10

Job Type: Full-time

• Write high quality code in ReactJS using TypeScript or JSX that is easy to maintain and test.
• Participate in an Agile environment using Scrum software development practices, Automated unit testing, Continuous integration, Code reviews, Version control systems, Automated build processes. Raise issues proactively that might impact delivery commitments.
• Fix production issues and maintain the code as needed .

• BS degree in CS or equivalent work experience 5+ years professional experience building single page applications in ReactJS using TypeScript or JSX with extensive experience working with HTML5 and CSS3.
• Experience working with cross-browser behaviors and quirks.

• Passion for new technologies. Product development experience building large scale web applications.
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable consumer facing web application. Care deeply about writing high-performance, reusable code for components that will be used across our product.
• GraphQL experience is preferred.