Frontend Engineer - React Js

About Unilog

Unilog is the only connected product content and eCommerce provider serving the Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing, and Specialty Retail industries. Our flagship CX1 Platform is at the center of some of the most successful digital transformations in North America. CX1 Platform’s syndicated product content, integrated eCommerce storefront, and automated PIM tool simplify our customers' path to success in the digital marketplace.

With more than 500 customers, Unilog is uniquely positioned as the leader in eCommerce and product content for Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing, and Specialty Retail.

Unilog’s Mission Statement

At Unilog, our mission is to provide purpose-built connected product content and eCommerce solutions that empower our customers to succeed in the face of intense competition. By virtue of living our mission, we are able to transform the way Wholesale Distributors, Manufacturers, and Specialty Retailers go to market. We help our customers extend a digital version of their business and accelerate their growth.

Job Details

• Designation: Principal Engineer – UI
• Location: Bangalore / Mysore / Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Department: Software R&D

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior UI Developer with strong expertise in Vue.js and Java to design and develop scalable, high-performance user interfaces for Unilog platforms. This role involves building complex, metadata-driven applications, collaborating closely with backend, product, and UX teams, and developing reusable UI components driven by metadata.

The candidate will own the development and maintenance of the Unilog custom CMS platform. The ideal candidate will ensure high standards of usability, performance, scalability, and maintainability across the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Work within the UI framework for reducing page load time
• Optimize application performance for large datasets and complex UI interactions
• Integrate frontend components with REST APIs / GraphQL
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and responsive design
• Use AI for building components within the Unilog CMS platform
• Build AI capabilities within the CMS platform
• Build capabilities within the Unilog CMS framework to convert third-party Vue.js components compatible with the Unilog CMS
• Implement role-based access control and UI-level validations
• Write clean, reusable, testable, and maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and UI design decisions
• Mentor junior UI developers and enforce frontend best practices
• Collaborate with backend, QA, DevOps, and Product teams in an agile environment

Mandatory Skills

• 10+ years of experience in frontend / UI development
• Strong expertise in Vue.js and Java
• Proficient in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript
• Strong experience with:
• HTML5, CSS3, SCSS
• Responsive and adaptive design
• Experience working with metadata-driven applications (dynamic forms, attributes, schemas)
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs
• Strong understanding of state management (Redux / Zustand / Context)
• Familiarity with UI performance optimization techniques
• Experience with GitLab, code versioning, and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of Agile / Scrum development practices

Good to Have

• Prior experience in eCommerce / MDM / CMS platforms
• Experience with complex data models
• Knowledge in building deployment pipelines
• Knowledge of GraphQL
• Experience with micro-services architecture
• Familiarity with UI testing frameworks (React.js, AngularJS, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress)
• Exposure to accessibility standards (WCAG)

About Our Benefits

Unilog offers a competitive total rewards package including competitive salary, multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all employees’ needs, career development and advancement opportunities, annual merit increases, a generous time-off policy, and a flexible work environment.

Unilog is committed to building the best team and follows fair hiring practices. We advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, sex, national origin, age, disability, familial status, marital status, military status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other protected class.

We are looking for a skilled React Native Developer to join our mobile development team. You will be responsible for building performant, maintainable, and responsive mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms using React Native.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop cross-platform mobile applications using React Native and JavaScript
• Translate designs from Figma or other specs into responsive UI using Flexbox, StyleSheet, and semantic components like View, Text, and Image
• Work with APIs using fetch, async/await, and implement robust error handling
• Use React Hooks (useState, useEffect, useRef, etc.) and manage component state and lifecycles effectively
• Optimize performance using FlatList, SectionList, useMemo, useCallback, and memo
• Handle accessibility, dark mode, safe areas, notches, and orientation changes
• Implement animations using Animated API and LayoutAnimation
• Use tools like React DevTools, Flipper, and Chrome DevTools for debugging and performance profiling
• Integrate third-party libraries, native modules, or write custom native bridges as needed
• Handle OTA updates, app size optimizations, and splash screens for both platforms
• Set up automated testing using tools like Detox or Appium
• Integrate and manage analytics (Firebase, Mixpanel), Crashlytics, and logging
• Write clean, modular, and reusable code following patterns like atomic design or MVVM

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the development of our platform’s front end.
• Work with the product and design teams along with the founders to build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, implementation, and maintenance.
• Work closely with founders and internal/external stakeholders to build products, tools, and services from scratch and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• You'll leverage your frontend knowledge to help improve performance and reliability, and polish existing features.
• Share your technical expertise to help the team make thoughtful and scalable design decisions and identify performance bottlenecks to troubleshoot quickly.
• Manage product development priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Ensure high-performant and responsive web applications and websites.

Skills & Qualities we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 2-4 years of experience as a frontend developer (rare exceptions for highly skilled developers) at a fast-paced, preferably early / growth stage start-up.
• You're familiar with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a React-like UI framework.
• Knowledge of codebases and version control systems (Git).
• You have experience debugging performance issues with UI in modern browsers across multiple platforms.
• Well-versed with SQL database design & RDBMS concepts.
• Strong arithmetic reasoning, logical and analytical thinking skills.
• Strong knowledge of code quality maintenance and performance analysis.

Mandatory Skills 

1. Very strong hands on experience of web technologies: - HTML JavaScript,  HTML5/CSS3,
2.      3 + years of UI Development Experience
3. Has implemented coding patterns and built UIframework
4. Cross browsers support/experience and knowledge of DOM manipulation on different browsers
5. Performance enhancements on web page load and execution
6. Experience with tools like   Firebug.
7. Basics knowledge on Ajax, jsp etc.
8. Experience in Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Dreamweaver to mock up UIelements.
9. Knowledge in any prototyping tools.
10. Use responsive web design to create applications that automatically conform to multiple screen sizes/devices.
11. Conduct usability testing to identify and fix UIissues
12. Familiar with popular UIlibraries like Sencha, AngularJS, ExtJS & JQuery
13. Collaborate with business analyst to discuss user interface requirements and brainstorm UIideas.

Job roles and Responsibilities: 

• Ability to develop UIframework on JavaScript and CSS which confines to requirement of Solutions.
• Ability to work on cross browser compatibility
• Develop reusable components.
• Work closely with other developers in the team

1. CSS frameworks - bootstrap, Material JS, etc
2. Javascript, Jquery,
3. HTML, HTML5
4. Wordpress
5. Elementor

• Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience in similar roles.
• JavaScript and HTML/CSS UI development experience with React and Redux.
• Solid experience with displaying charts, reports and graph data structures.
• Solid experience using REST APIs and GraphQL
• Comfortable with building UIs from mockups.
• Outstanding collaboration and communication skills. Ability to effectively collaborate with distributed team.
• Understand and practice agile development methodology.
• Prior experience working in a software product company.