Lead Frontend Engineer

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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Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate UI/UX designs into high-quality code.
• Build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable frontend components and modules.
• Develop cutting-edge web applications with a focus on responsiveness, performance, and user experience.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members.
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality and adherence to best practices.
• Contribute to architectural and design decisions, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability of the frontend codebase.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and emerging technologies, incorporating them into our development processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Master's degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in a product development environment, with a focus on front-end technologies.
• Strong proficiency in HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript.
• In-depth understanding and at least 5+ years of hands-on experience with React.js and its core principles, such as lifecycle methods and virtual DOM.
• Experience working with Single Page Applications (SPA) and universal rendering capabilities.
• Proficiency in asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
• Expertise in profiling web applications for optimal memory and CPU usage.
• Familiarity with web assembly, web workers, and building browser extensions.
• Experience in developing unit test cases and end-to-end test cases for front-end applications.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Benefits at 314e Corporation:

• Medical Benefits
• Office Game space
• Referral Program
• Holiday parties

Responsibilities 
- Develop new user-facing features 
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs 
- Optimize application for maximum speed

Skills And Qualifications 
- 2+ years of experience in ReactJS and Redux 
- 1+ completed project of reasonable size using server-side rendering 
- Knowledge of Preact is a plus 
- Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 
- Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS 
- Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX 
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. 
- Proficient understanding of Git

 Lead Frontend Developer

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Responsibilities :

1. Develop user-facing stack from scratch
2. Build reusable code and libraries for future use
3. Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
4. Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
5. Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Technology Skills :

1. Proven 4 years work experience as a ReactJS Frontend developer
2. In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
3. Good experience with Typescript and ReactJS (17.x). NodeJS knowledge is a plus.
4. Familiarity with Unit Testing Frameworks, UI Testing, Monorepos and Graphql principles
5. Knowledge of Alerting and Monitoring tools
6. Knowledge of SPA principles
7. UI Performance: should have hands on experience of optimising page load, rendering, caching
8. Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective.

Soft Skills :

1. Obsessed with best practices, structuring, documentation and have an eye for detail.
2. Self starter with a high level of drive and commitment.
3. High energy and drive to work in a startup environment.
4. Conceptual thinking, flexibility and ability to juggle with multiple responsibilities.
5. Ability to work under pressure and confidence to deal with complex issues.
6. Good communication skills.
7. Hands-on and detail oriented.

-          Strong programming skills in JavaScript

-          Experience with ReactJS

-          Experience with frontend frameworks like bootstrap, Jquery

-          Object Oriented concepts

-          Good knowledge in HTML5, CSS, CSS3

-          Experience in working with RESTful APIS

-          Experience with HTTP, HTTPS and WebSockets

-          Building responsive design

-          Knowledge in version control- Git, Subversion

-          Good problem-solving skills 

• Responsible to develop web application using Angular 2 or above.
• To Create functional requirements and design documents for new features in web application.
• Write and maintain the front end code of web applications & To work in UI development.
• Must have developed web application.
• Hands on experience in Angular 2 or above , JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap.
• Knowledge in jasmine or karma (optional)

• In this role, you will Design, Develop and Deploy applications based on HTML, ReactJS, JS as front-end. You are a creative and technically skilled individual responsible for bringing great user experience and design to life. You create reusable, extensible, flexible, high-performing web applications from front end to back end.
• Execute in an agile environment using industry standard tools and delivering weekly code releases Develop and test for cross browser, cross platform applications.
• Experience in product designing, distributed architecture.
• Have a demonstrated track record of End to End product engineering responsibility