PHP/ Drupal 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 are looking for a senior React.js developer who can guide the current team and also work on our project. The requirement could be for 3-4 months or at max 6 months. Hence a full-time remote consultant is preferred with about 4-5 years of experience in React.

This position is for a ReactJS developer. Since we are a start-up this position will have a lot of exposure to other verticals such as product management as well. There is no limit to learning for a person who is willing to take responsibility.

• Design and code features for the website application as per the specifications provided by the Product and Design teams.
• Ship features in fast-moving agile sprints.
• Work closely with Backend, Product Design, and Product Management teams to brainstorm and chalk out details of features.
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion

Must have:

• Good understanding of Javascript and Clean architecture.
• Good understanding of asynchronous programming, callback, and closures.
• Strong experience with Javascript frontend framework/libraries like ReactJS
• Understanding of stateless application
• Good knowledge of CSS and its pre-processors like SASS/LESS
• Good understanding of server-side templates.
• Experience with creating cross-browser compatible web apps
• Should be Strong in MySql / Postgres database.
• Stronghold in Data structure and processing JSON

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of CI, CD
• Intermediate knowledge in any cloud services(AWS, GCP)
• Familiar with testing frameworks like Mocha, Cypress

• 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