Frontend Lead- React

Front-End Developer (React.js) – Mumbai | Immediate Joiners

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 2+ Years

Job Type: Full-Time

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Only

About the Role

We are hiring a Front-End Developer to join our product engineering team. The ideal candidate has experience working in product-based companies and has contributed to at least one end-to-end e-commerce platform project.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain responsive UIs using React.js
• Convert UI/UX designs into reusable front-end components
• Optimize components for performance and cross-browser compatibility
• Integrate front-end with backend RESTful APIs
• Collaborate with product, design, QA, and backend teams
• Participate in code reviews, agile ceremonies, and testing

Required Skills

• Strong in JavaScript (ES6+), React.js, HTML5, CSS3
• Experience with Redux/Zustand for state management
• Knowledge of REST APIs, responsive design, and Git
• Familiarity with debugging and front-end performance optimization

What we want to accomplish and why we need you?

Haptik is one of the world's largest Conversational AI companies, having reached over 500 + million devices, and processed over 5 billion+ conversations till date. Haptik has been at the forefront of the paradigm shift of interaction from clicks to conversations. We have built a robust set of technology and tools that can enable any kind of conversational application. With a 400+ member strong team that is set to double in the coming year, Haptik is truly poised to lead the Conversational AI revolution with some of the best minds in the industry.

We are a full-stack conversational AI company from building products to delivering bots for our clients. We are looking for a front-end engineer who can help us build the next generation of enterprise-grade conversational AI platform.

What will you do every day?

As a front-end tech lead you will be responsible for building the Haptik platform which is used by people across the globe. You will be working closely with the product, design and platform team on a day to day basis and be responsible for the look and feel of the product. While you know how to work hard, you also know how to have fun at work and make friends with your colleagues.

Ok, you're sold, but what are we looking for in the perfect candidate?

- Have a keen eye for detail and passionate about UI and UX

- Has worked with a team of FE engineers to set tech processes and standards.

- Has experience in mentoring junior engineers.

- Have a solid understanding of front-end technologies especially React

- Build, maintain and gate-keep the platform tools

- Work closely with the PM and designers to deliver high-quality features

- Work closely with the backend engineers to understand the Interkat Platform and build for scale

- High-level estimating and scoping/breaking down of tasks

- Document features to make them easily understandable to clients

- Participate in code reviews, automated and functional testing, and other aspects of our quality assurance process

- Use and promote standard good coding practices

- Fully participate in a scrum-based, agile development team

- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices

- Work experience around optimizing build artifacts and performance monitoring

- Following security standards when using cookies/others to store user information etc.

Requirements :

- 5+ years of experience working on React.js

- Prior experience of leading/mentoring a team is a plus

- Knowledge of flux and redux

- Must have extensive experience working on Javascript, HTML, CSS, animations and UI/UX principles.

- Knowledge of backend technologies is a plus

- Good attention to detail, pixel perfect designs

- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent

- Good Communication skills

- Hustler with the passion for writing good code

- Team player

- Must have experience in working in an agile environment, exposure to tools like Jira would be an added benefit.

Requirements is such a strong word. We don't necessarily expect to find a candidate that has done everything listed, but you should be able to make a credible case that you've done most of it and are ready for the challenge of adding some new things to your resume.

Qualifications:

Primary Skill Set:

5+ years for experience in developing highly scalable, reliable, secure web applications
Experience with React.js, Node.js, Redux, flux, Javascript (preferably TypeScript).
Atleast 1 years of experience in product or SaaS development.
Excellent Team management, communication skills, both verbal and written
Strong CS fundamentals like data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that are faced by JavaScript developers regularily.


Preferable Skillset:

One year of experience using AWS services, such as Lambda, SES, SQS, EC2, RDS, ELB’s and have knowledge of VPC’s (AWS and/or RightScale knowledge a plus.
Proficient with the Webpack,Jest, Eslint, Jenkins, Docker, Enzyme.
Experience designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.) and client side storage
Profile and improve frontend performance

Work Responsibilities

• What You’ll Do:
• Engineers will develop and improve features for products such as WebView pages called from within Mercari’s web version and native app, along with tools used by the Customer Support Team for answering user inquiries and providing transaction support.
• Senior engineers in the Frontend Team are expected to use their technical skills to lead the team and product development, train members through design and code reviews, and make contributions and improvements to the hiring process, including technical tests.
• Development Environment:
• Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Gatsby, Next.js, GraphQL, Apollo Client, Redux, Cypress, Rendertron, Lit, Playwright
• Infrastructures: Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, App Engine)
• Configuration management tool: Terraform
• Other: Circle CI, GitHub, Slack, JIRA, Crowi, Spinnaker, Datadog

Minimum Requirements

• Shared understanding and belief in Mercari Group's mission and values
• At least 3 years of experience in development related to frontend fields such as web browsers, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, or Redux
• Experience with developing and operating large-scale products
• Ability to design and develop with performance and scalability in mind
• Ability to use HTML and CSS to implement solid user interfaces
• Knowledge of JavaScript and experience developing with UI libraries or frameworks such as React, Vue.js, and Angular
• Able to understand and explain web operation principles and browsers
• Understanding of version management and ability to participate in development via Git
• Effective communication skills, needed for product development with team members and with other teams

Preferred Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of standard web technologies and specialized knowledge in some areas, like TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Redux
• Understanding of the characteristics of different libraries/frameworks and the ability to introduce them to projects where necessary
• Ability to design architecture based on the characteristics of the app
• Ability to consistently take initiative in implementing improvements to the app
• Project management and/or team leadership
• Cloud development experience (preferably GCP or AWS)
• Experience contributing to an open-source project
• Familiarity with CI systems and the release process

Working Conditions

Employment Status

Full-time

Office

Bangalore

• Hybrid Workstyle

6-9 years of relevant experience in building webapps at scale

You must have strong understanding of semantic HTML / HTML5, CSS / CSS3.

You must have a good understanding of MVC architecture.

Prior work experience in ReactJS is Must

You must have experience in setting up the full UI workflow layer right from Development, Testing, Building and Deployment.

Never give up attitude

Experience in frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation and CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS is desirable.

You should have exposure to page speed improvement techniques.

Exposure of building responsive websites at scale will be a plus.

Prior exposure to building React Native components for Hybrid mobile apps will be a plus

Prior work experience in Angular, Backbone along with ReactJs is desirable.

Good understanding of webpack and redux

• Responsible for development of new highly-responsive, web-based user interface
• Construct visualizations that are able to depict vast amounts of data
• Work and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team
• Work with product team and graphic designers
• Learn and understand user interactions
• Develop a flexible and well-structured front-end architecture, along with the APIs to support it