React Lead

About One Impression

One Impression is one of the world’s largest influencer marketing platforms, working with 300+ global brands like Unilever, Nestle, and Amazon to connect with a diverse creator network. Our platform empowers brands and creators to collaborate seamlessly and scale their reach. To capture a significant share of global media ad spend, One Impression is quickly becoming the industry’s go-to influencer marketing platform.

Job Overview

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Frontend Engineer (SDE III) with over five years of experience to lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in software development, deep technical expertise, and a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale engineering teams and projects. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence.

As a Frontend Lead, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Team Development: Lead and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Manage the hiring, training, and career development of engineering staff.
• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Define technology roadmaps and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, robust software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure high-quality product delivery.
• Project and Program Management: Oversee the successful delivery of engineering projects, ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the technical point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, resource allocation, and performance metrics. Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and scalable system design.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks. For this we require expertise in JS/React, and React Native.
• Experience working with REST APIsMust have a knack for developing good looking frontend apps.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience in delivering full-stack B2B/SaaS applications including mobile applications, web frontend, and a scalable backend.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Why Join One Impression?

- Be a part of one of the largest influencer marketing platforms globally, working with top brands and influencers.

- Opportunity to lead and shape a fast-growing marketplace product.

- Competitive salary and benefits package.

- A collaborative and innovative work culture in a rapidly scaling company.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain user interfaces for the internal product suite.

• Collaborate closely with product managers and backend engineers to understand

requirements, translate them into user-friendly interfaces, and ensure a consistent

user experience across all products.

• Champion the technical feasibility of our UI/UX designs, ensuring seamless user experiences.

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code adhering to best practices and coding standards.

• Conduct unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and functionality.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest UI development trends and technologies.

• Take initiative and ownership of assigned tasks, ensuring they are completed efficiently and to a high standard. 

Requirements/Qualifications

• Bachelors in any Computers stream or related fields

• Minimum 1+ years of experience as a UI Developer.

• Proficiency in Javascript,Node.js & any one of (Angular, Nextjs or React.js)

• Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• A passion for modern web development practices and a drive to deliver high-quality

work.

• Good to have the Experience with responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.

Job Description

• Experience in UI development using React JS
• In depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML and front-end languages
• Excellent front-end coding skills, and a good understanding of progressive applications
• Strong knowledge of UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience working with JavaScript and Typescript, React, Redux, RxJS, Yarn
• Experience in test driven development using modern source control and continuous integration
• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software
• Delivering high quality and well-structured code

Requirements:

• Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux.
• Experience with user interface design.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Good project management skills.
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.

Skills Required:

• React (Must), Preferably mobx experience
• Modern CSS layouts like Flex, Grid
• Strong fundamentals in OOP design patterns
• Basic understanding of REST API's

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
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

We are building a global content marketplace that brings companies and content

creators together to scale up content creation processes across 50+ content verticals and 150+ industries. Over the past 2.5 years, we’ve worked with companies like India Today, Amazon India, Adobe, Swiggy, Dunzo, Businessworld, Paisabazaar, IndiGo Airlines, Apollo Hospitals, Infoedge, Times Group, Digit, BookMyShow, UpGrad, Yulu, YourStory, and 350+ other brands.
Our mission is to become the world’s largest content creation and distribution platform for all kinds of content creators and brands.

Our Team

We are a 25+ member company and is scaling up rapidly in both team size and our ambition.

If we were to define the kind of people and the culture we have, it would be -

a) Individuals with an Extreme Sense of Passion About Work

b) Individuals with Strong Customer and Creator Obsession

c) Individuals with Extraordinary Hustle, Perseverance & Ambition

We are on the lookout for individuals who are always open to going the extra mile and thrive in a fast-paced environment. We are strong believers in building a great, enduring

a company that can outlast its builders and create a massive impact on the lives of our

employees, creators, and customers alike.

Our Investors

We are fortunate to be backed by some of the industry’s most prolific angel investors - Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal (Snapdeal founders), YourStory Media. (Shradha Sharma); Dr. Saurabh Srivastava, Co-founder of IAN and NASSCOM; Slideshare co-founder Amit Ranjan; Indifi's Co-founder and CEO Alok Mittal; Sidharth Rao, Chairman of Dentsu Webchutney; Ritesh Malik, Co-founder and CEO of Innov8; Sanjay Tripathy, former CMO, HDFC Life, and CEO of Agilio Labs; Manan Maheshwari, Co-founder of WYSH; and Hemanshu Jain, Co-founder of Diabeto.