
About KAFQA
At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.
Founder & Team
The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.
Role
We are looking for an experienced Frontend engineer with ReactJS development experience to join our team.
Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Implement responsive and performant UIs with user centered approach with frontend technologies including ReactJS, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc
- Write meaningful test cases for frontend &
- Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc
Ideal Background / Experience
- At least 12 months of diverse experience in web development for product or services oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments
- Expertise in programming using Python/ReactJS or similar scripting languages
- In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs
- Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
Nice to have exposure to any of
- AWS
- Azure
- ELK
- Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)
- Google APIs
- Microservices Architecture Pattern
- NodeJS / ExpressJS

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Position Title : Frontend / Chrome Extension Developer (React + TypeScript)
Experience : 3+ years
Location : Remote
Job Role Summary :
Build and ship production-ready Chrome extensions that inject UI into existing web apps. Own content scripts, DOM integration, performance, and accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA).
Mandatory Skills :
React, TypeScript, Chrome Extensions (MV3), Content Scripts, DOM Injection, MutationObserver, TailwindCSS/CSS Modules, Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA).
Key Responsibilities :
- Develop Chrome extensions using React + TypeScript.
- Inject and manage UI components within third-party web app DOMs.
- Write and maintain content scripts; handle dynamic pages via MutationObserver.
- Implement clean, responsive styling with TailwindCSS or CSS Modules.
- Ensure accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), keyboard navigation, and ARIA semantics.
- Integrate with APIs, manage extension permissions, storage, and messaging.
- Optimize performance, handle edge cases across sites, and write basic tests.
Required Skills :
- Strong React + TypeScript in production.
- Chrome Extension architecture: manifest v3, content/background scripts, messaging, permissions.
- DOM manipulation and safe UI injection strategies.
- MutationObserver, event delegation, handling SPA route changes.
- TailwindCSS or CSS Modules; solid CSS fundamentals.
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA) and cross-browser compatibility (Chromium/Firefox optional).
- Familiarity with build tooling (Vite/Webpack), linting, and Git.
Nice-to-Have :
- Experience with service workers, storage (sync/local), and i18n.
- Testing with Jest/RTL/Playwright.
- Security basics for extensions (CSP, sandboxing).
About Plum
We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.
Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.
Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.
Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)
Having found exceptional product/market fit, we’re in the midst of transitioning from 'start-up' to ‘scale-up’, and looking for frontend engineers in React to help us scale Plum.
You will have a direct impact on the customer experience through the design and implementation of new features and functionalities in our product. You'll work as part of a small but rapidly growing high-energy team delivering incredible, creative improvements to our product. You'll be in charge of reviewing the implementation of applications following code standards and style guides.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Push things over the line, ship awesome features, and delight customers
- Spec, build, test, and deliver new features while improving the performance and quality of the product.
- Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
- Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code Solve complex CSS, HTML, and User Interface compatibility issues across browsers.
- Implement front-end development workflows: build systems, dependency management, quality checkers (linting), etc.
Experience and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building web applications with React or similar framework.
- Understanding of chakra is a plus, not mandatory.
- Comfortable with Responsive Web Development and with a strong product design sensibilities and has an obsessive attention to detail.
- Write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
- Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.
- Having experience with building and maintaining an open source project or design library is a plus.
Skills: In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Redux, Mongo DB,Node.JS
Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
Work From office only
• Participate in requirement, design, coding, implementation, testing, which include features enhancements, new functionalities, and web service integration.
• Contribute to code reviews for quality assurance and conformance to standards / guidelines.
• Develop front-end application features using HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript
• Build reusable code and libraries for various projects.
• Prepare develop/test environment for functional test and system test.
• Work collaboratively with product owner, scrum master, technical leader during the development, and launch and continuing refinement of products.
• Optimizing the web application for increased performance
• Code review to ensure code quality of the team;
• Maintaining brand consistency throughout the design; Education and Experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant studies
• Minimum 3 years of experience in developing front-end development experience
• Experience in developing web applications using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and JavaScript
• Experienced in JavaScript (ES6, Any one of the front-end JavaScript frameworks such as Vue.js, React.js )
• Familiar in Node.js like npm and webpack
• Experienced with code versioning tools such as Git.
- Solid technical skills with a proven and successful history working as a Front End Developer
- Experience & Knowledge in Angular, React & Vuejs
- Good working knowledge on Bootstrap, CSS, HTML5, JavaScript and TypeScript
- Excellent interpersonal abilities, communication skills, time management and Team skills with an intention to work hard to meet project deadline
- Interface Developer-Senior Associate:
Exp: 4-10 Years
Location: Mumbai/Ahmedabad/Gurgaon/Bangalore
Role:
HTML5, CSS3, JS, ES6, ReactJS, PSD to HTML
Knowledge of build tools like Webpack, Babel
and Grunt Basic understanding of Atomic Design Principles
Basic knowledge of AEM
You would possess experience building web applications using MVC frameworks (Reactjs, Redux) in a service-oriented environment.
- In-depth experience in object oriented Javascript.
- Excellent knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full Software Development Lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
- Proficiency to code in front-end technologies such as Javascript/HTML/CSS.
We are looking for a React.js Developer. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them. 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.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
Requirements:
- Good knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Good understanding of React.js and its principles
- Good understanding of state management libraries like Redux
- Good understanding of newer specifications of EcmaScript like ES6 and ES7
- Good understanding of RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of modern authorisation mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
- Familiarity with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- Good understanding of Git
Minimum Qualifications:
- At least 3 years experience in web development.
- Experience with HTML5 and CSS
- Experience with ReactJS, JavaScript, ES6
- Experience with state management libraries like Redux
- Experience working with Git
- Good written and verbal English skills
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to effectively communicate with internal departments, team members and partners
- Ability to effectively plan and organise
- Ability to work independently under limited supervision
Would be a plus:
- Experience in test automation and test-driven development (Jest, Enzyme)
- Experience with NodeJS and GraphQL
- Knowledge of PWA
- Familiarity with JIRA or any other project management tool
- Experience with AWS/EC2, or other cloud services
Leading the UX Engineering team at AQR you will be responsible for:
Leading set of front-end engineers towards building core infrastructure required for UI development across the firm
Working closely with the business in Bangalore and Greenwich, CT, USA on defining new internal and external application interfaces
Developing the technology strategy for UI development for the firm
Building re-usable web libraries and user-facing components that support large, complex web applications at the firm.
Designing and developing data intensive UI applications with great emphasis on data accuracy,reusability, scalability and performance
Institutionalizing UI development process compatible to work with product owners, users, backend engineers and operations.
Demonstrating the benefits of good design and user experience across AQR
Optimizing web applications on client side (browser) and server side (web servers) to maximize speed and scale.
Continually drive improvements in web infrastructure at the firm to be up-to-date with the latest in the industry.
What You’ll Bring
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or related field of engineering
Over 14+ years of working experience in leading teams and delivering software applications
Strong experience using modern browser frameworks like Angular, or React or Vue
In-depth knowledge of JavaScript and other browser technologies including HTML5 and CSS3.
Working experience with various front end libraries and components including Highchart, d3, ag-grid etc.,.
Strong understanding of user experience design and data visualization techniques
Familiarity with the whole web stack, including browser JS engine, HTTP, web servers and optimization
techniques
Outstanding coding, debugging skills and analytical skills










