Frontend 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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Role and Responsibilities 

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). 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. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.  

• • Developing new user-facing features using React.js 
• • 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. 
• • Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model 
• • Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles 
• • Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). 
• • Experience in Bootstrap framework.  

• • Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript 
• • Familiarity with RESTful APIs 
• • 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 NPM, YARN etc. 

• • Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
• • A knack for benchmarking and optimization 
• • Familiarity with code versioning tools Azure Devops. 
• • Experience in IDE such as VS code \ VS. 

• Experience – 10 - 14 years 

• Qualification – Any graduate  

About One Impression

One Impression is one of the world’s largest influencer marketing platforms, working with 300+ global brands like Unilever, Nestle, and Amazon to connect with a diverse creator network. Our platform empowers brands and creators to collaborate seamlessly and scale their reach. To capture a significant share of global media ad spend, One Impression is quickly becoming the industry’s go-to influencer marketing platform.

About the Role

We are looking for a Frontend Engineer (SDE II) who is experienced in both React.js for Web and React Native for Mobile Apps. You will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and optimizing web and mobile applications while collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Backend teams.

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys working across platforms, building scalable systems, and enhancing the developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and develop frontend solutions for both Web (React.js) and Mobile Apps (React Native).
• Build and optimize config-driven systems, reusable components, and common libraries.
• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Backend Engineers to create seamless user experiences across platforms.
• Own and drive React Native-based mobile applications, ensuring modular, scalable, and performant code.
• Optimize web and mobile performance for speed, responsiveness, and efficiency.
• Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines for both web (Docker, Vercel) and mobile apps (Fastlane, App Store/Play Store).
• Implement and maintain state management using Redux, Redux Saga, Recoil, or MobX.
• Work with mobile-specific integrations, such as Firebase Push Notifications, Deep Linking, and Native Modules.
• Ensure cross-platform consistency by handling browser compatibility (web) and device compatibility (mobile).
• Write clean, maintainable, and reusable code, following best practices and design patterns.
• Debug and fix issues rapidly, ensuring a seamless Web & Mobile experience.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and contribute to open-source projects, tech talks, and internal knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in frontend development, working with both React.js (Web) and React Native (Mobile).
• Strong expertise in JavaScript (ES6+), React.js, and React Native.
• Experience with bundlers like Webpack, Rollup, and Metro for React Native.
• Deep understanding of mobile CI/CD (Fastlane, App Store, Play Store) and web CI/CD (Docker, Vercel, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong grasp of Web & Mobile performance optimization techniques.
• Experience with Redux, Redux Saga, MobX, or Recoil for state management.
• Good understanding of mobile UI/UX principles, animations (Reanimated, Gesture Handler), and responsive design.
• Basic familiarity with native iOS/Android development (Swift/Kotlin is a plus).
• Experience with Unit Testing (Jest, React Native Testing Library, Detox, Cypress, Appium, or Espresso).
• Strong debugging skills using Chrome DevTools (Web) and Flipper, Xcode, Android Studio (Mobile).
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of projects, and mentor junior engineers.
• Open to feedback and collaborative in working towards the best user experience.

Why Join One Impression?

- Be a part of one of the largest influencer marketing platforms globally, working with top brands and influencers.

- Opportunity to lead and shape a fast-growing marketplace product.

- Competitive salary and benefits package.

- A collaborative and innovative work culture in a rapidly scaling company.

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

Skills:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (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 build pipelines and tools
• 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, SVN, and Mercurial)

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js

• 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

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

• Thorough understanding of React.js 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 GraphQL is a plus.

• 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


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