PHP Developer

About the Role

Have you ever wanted to shape not just features, but frontend architecture and engineering culture across multiple products? As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will play a critical role in defining UI architecture, setting engineering standards, and mentoring senior engineers while still being hands-on with complex frontend systems.

You will work closely with Product, Design, Backend, and DevOps teams to build scalable, high-performance SaaS products from the ground up—often version 1—across CAW’s growing product portfolio.

This role is ideal for engineers who combine deep React expertise, systems thinking, and technical leadership.

📍 Location: Hyderabad (Office) or Remote

What Will You Do?

Technical & Architecture Ownership

• Own frontend architecture and design decisions across one or more products.
• Define and evolve scalable UI patterns, component libraries, and frontend frameworks.
• Lead initiatives for performance optimization, accessibility, and cross-browser consistency.
• Drive adoption of best practices in TypeScript, state management, testing, and observability.
• Partner with backend teams on API contracts, data flow, and system boundaries.

Product & Execution

• Translate ambiguous product requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Build pixel-perfect, buttery-smooth user interfaces for complex workflows.
• Ensure frontend systems are reliable, testable, and production-ready.
• Diagnose and resolve hard performance, scalability, and reliability issues.
• Take end-to-end ownership of critical frontend modules.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor Senior and Mid-level Frontend Engineers.
• Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and technical deep dives.
• Set quality benchmarks for frontend engineering across teams.
• Influence roadmap discussions with a strong engineering perspective.
• Be a role model for ownership, execution discipline, and technical excellence.

Experience Required

• 5-8 years of overall frontend engineering experience.
• 5+ years of deep React.js experience, building and scaling production SaaS products.
• Proven experience owning frontend systems at product or platform level.
• Experience working in fast-paced, product-driven environments.

Technical Skillset

Must Have

• Expert-level knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Deep expertise in React.js, including Hooks and modern patterns.
• Strong experience with state management (Redux, Context, or equivalent).
• Advanced proficiency in HTML, CSS, responsive design, and browser internals.
• Hands-on experience with performance profiling and optimization.
• Experience with frontend testing strategies (unit, integration, E2E).
• Strong understanding of web storage, caching, and browser lifecycle.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Sentry).
• Experience with analytics frameworks (Mixpanel, WebEngage, or similar).

Good to Have

• Experience designing or maintaining design systems / component libraries.
• Familiarity with backend technologies and API design.
• Exposure to micro-frontend or large-scale frontend architectures.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and frontend DevOps practices.

Functional & Behavioral Skills

• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Comfortable working with distributed global teams (Slack, Zoom, Google Meet).
• Ability to drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Strong bias for action, ownership, and delivery.
• Data-driven mindset with focus on productivity and quality metrics.

About CAW Studios

CAW Studios is a Product Engineering Company of 70+ engineers building and scaling SaaS products end-to-end.

Products we’ve built and run:

• Interakt
• CashFlo
• KaiPulse
• FastBar

We also power engineering for:

• Haptik
• EmailAnalytics
• GrowthZone
• Reliance General Insurance
• KWE Logistics

We are obsessed with automation, DevOps, OOPS, and SOLID principles. We don’t believe in rigid tech stacks—we believe in solving real problems well.

🌐 Website: https://www.caw.tech || https://www.knacklabs.ai/

We're hiring for technology company, reinventing hotel operations by seamlessly combining operations with labor management and compliance at the property level and across multiple properties, all in a single SaaS solution. We incorporate the latest technology, including IoT and AI, to evolve hotels into smart properties, enabling hotel owners, managers, and management companies across the US to better connect, collaborate, and document across roles and teams, increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and visibility into what is happening at their properties.

The Opportunity

• We are looking for a seasoned full-stack engineer to build out and manage our entire web infrastructure. Minimum of three years’ recent experience with all of the skills listed below.
• Design and implementation of the overall web architecture.
• Implementation of “Pixel-perfect” screens from our approved user interface.
• Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability.
• Design and construction of our REST API.
• Hands-on experience working with RDBMS and Document databases
• Exposure to graphql is an added advantage.
• Integrating our front-end UI with the API developed.
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment.
• Delivering on-time with quality.

What we Require

• To convert our existing web application into a micro front-end architecture. The ideal candidate should have experience in AngularJS, ReactJS, MobX, and SCSS. Exposure to socket integration, mqtt integration would be a plus.
• Identify our existing web application’s different components and modules. Separate them into independent micro front-ends.
• Develop and maintain micro front-ends using AngularJS, ReactJS, MobX and SCSS
• Implement and configure Module Federation in Webpack 5 to share components between micro front-ends.
• Optimize micro front-ends for maximum speed and scalability.

Nice-to-have:

• Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker)
• Upgraded an application from Webpack 4 to Webpack 5 for local development & production build
• Hands-on experience in converting JavaScript applications into Typescript

We are looking for a Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Experience of theme design on the WordPress CMS is mandatory.

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery

Note: Every front-end developer is expected to have a proficient knowledge of JavaScript, while most front-end developers should know jQuery.

• Good understanding of (Depending on the specific case, a developer should have the knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS etc.)
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as as Gimp or Photoshop is a plus.

Note: A UI/UX designer is expected to deliver finished resources for the developer to incorporate into the app. However, quite often a front-end web developer needs to make some small adjustments.

• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as (Git / Mercurial / SVN)
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.

• Work with the client and internal web development team to design new products or enhancements.
• Take part in system development including analysis, coding, and testing in an agile product development team.
• To develop business requirements into cost-effective and elegant technical solutions.
• Perform peer design and code reviews with other software engineers.
• Help to evaluate requirements and solutions from a technical perspective and implement custom built solutions. 
• Perform estimates of user stories that are to be implemented to help with product engineering planning.
• Work with backend development members to co-create APIs for frontend consumption
• Mentor less experienced team members on proper standards/techniques to improve their development practices and efficiency.
• Write scripts to perform unit testing, functional testing and assist with user acceptance testing support.
• Optimize UI for efficiency and maintainability
• Perform non-production and production deployment processes as scheduled.
• Provide on-going support to the application.

• You have 4-8 years of experience  in Frontend for web based applications with strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Frameworks like Angular  or React
• You love building things, and have built complex consumer web applications in the past.
• You have a sound understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• You are an expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
• You are an expert in at least one JavaScript framework, such as Angular 7+, React or Vue.
• You understand how website-backend interacts with frontend as well as external APIs.
• You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.

• Build responsive web-pages
• Experience in Javascript, jQuery, CSS, HTML5
• Expert in JavaScript who can build up a JavaScript framework from scratch.
• Possess good knowledge in front-end performance tuning.
• Understands how to use the page speed tool and tackle on issue based on its suggestions.
• Consume REST API's provided by the backend team
• Experience in some modern JavaScript framework like easyUI or reactJS would be a plus