React.js Developer

Job Title : Lead Web Developer / Frontend Engineer

Experience Required : 10+ Years

Location : Bangalore (Hybrid – 3 Days Work From Office)

Work Timings : 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM IST

Notice Period : Immediate or Up to 30 Days (Preferred)

Work Mode : Hybrid

Interview Mode : Face-to-Face mandatory (for Round 2)

Role Overview :

We are hiring a Lead Frontend Engineer with 10+ Years of experience to drive the development of scalable, modern, and high-performance web applications.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on React.js, micro-frontends, and Backend for Frontend (BFF) architecture, requiring both coding expertise and team leadership skills.

Mandatory Skills :

React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, micro-frontend architecture, Backend for Frontend (BFF), Webpack, Jenkins (CI/CD), GCP, RDBMS/SQL, Git, and team leadership.

Core Responsibilities :

• Design and develop cloud-based web applications using React.js, HTML, CSS.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers and backend engineers to implement seamless user experiences.
• Lead and mentor a team of frontend developers.
• Write clean, well-documented, scalable code using modern JavaScript/TypeScript practices.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, deploy applications to CDNs.
• Integrate with GCP services, optimize front-end performance.
• Stay updated with modern frontend technologies and design patterns.
• Use Git for version control and collaborative workflows.
• Implement JavaScript libraries for web analytics and performance monitoring.

Key Requirements :

• 10+ Years of experience as a frontend/web developer.
• Strong proficiency in React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
• Experience with micro-frontend architecture and Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns.
• Proficiency in frontend design frameworks and libraries (jQuery, Node.js).
• Strong understanding of build tools like Webpack, CI/CD using Jenkins.
• Experience with GCP and deploying to CDNs.
• Solid experience in RDBMS, SQL.
• Familiarity with Git and agile development practices.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or a related field.

Nice to Have :

• Experience with Node.js.
• Previous experience working with web analytics frameworks.
• Exposure to JavaScript observability tools.

Interview Process :

1. Round 1 : Online Technical Interview (via Geektrust – 1 Hour)

2. Round 2 : Face-to-Face Interview with the Indian team in Bangalore (3 Hours – Mandatory)

3. Round 3 : Online Interview with CEO (30 Minutes)

Important Notes :

• Face-to-face interview in Bangalore is mandatory for Round 2.
• Preference given to candidates currently in Bangalore or willing to travel for interviews.
• Remote applicants who cannot attend the in-person round will not be considered.

Key Responsibilities:

• Development of a Single Page Application (SPA) and it's components in Typescript: deployed and optimized for progressive mobile and browsers using Angular 2 and Ionic 2 frameworks.
• Creating custom, general use modules and smart components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular framework.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components in Typescript and using responsive HTML and CSS.
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts.
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

Skills and Qualifications:

• Should have experience with CSS 3, SCSS, Java script and HTML5.
• Full-time knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience. Or 2 Year or more experience with other industry-leading frameworks like React.
• Minimum 1-year experience in working and extending one of the CSS or UI frameworks like Ng-lightening, Angular-material

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

What you can expect as a Senior Frontend Engineer at HappyFox:

• You will consistently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. 
• You’ll work alongside the Product, Design, and, Backend Engineering teams to iterate on new features within HappyFox products.
• You will advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• You will solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• You will craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. 
• You will maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• You will recognize inefficiencies in our team, and propose solutions.

You should apply if:

• You have 5+ years of relevant professional experience in building web applications with javascript frameworks like Ember.js or React.js.
• You have a sound knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• You can clearly and concisely communicate complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough, iterative solutions.
• You are comfortable working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• You have demonstrated the ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• You have a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• You have experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• You are self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.

1. Working on MERN stack product development for core product
2. Exploring possibilities with proof of concepts & prototyping
3. Building the product as per specifications 
4. Developing the user-facing features using React.js
5. Designing a modern highly responsive web-based user interface 
6. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
7. Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
8. Learn and understand user interactions
9. Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers 
10. Coordinating with various teams working on distinct layers
11. As a React.js Developer, you will be involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound and aesthetically impressive. 

1. Node.js & ReactJS/Next.js ( MEAN/MERN Stack)
2. Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
3. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
4. Prior experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
5. Familiarity with more current specifications of EcmaScript
6. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
7. Great CSS skills. Familiarity with React Styled Components, SCSS, LESS, etc.
8. Knowledge of modern authorisation mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
9. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
10. Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
11. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
12. A knack for benchmarking and optimisation.
13. Familiarity with code versioning tools
14. Familiarity with Test Driven Development and tools like JEST & React Testing Library is a plus.
15. Familiarity with Firebase and other backend as a services is a plus.

Responsibilities

Ability to work on a cross-functional team within a very agile team, delivering on time and with high quality

Adjusts and defines new processes as they arise due to known and unknown customer/engineering requirements as it relates to frontend web development

Provides feedback on frontend architecture, code organization and CI/CD infrastructure for the team

Staying up to date with the best practices and future frontend development

Provides frontend leadership expertise and mentoring to other developers on not only the team, but the engineering organization as a whole

Takes pride in delivering ground breaking UI to web applications

Working closely with UX designers to turn their ideas into reality as it relates to creating visualizations for next generation cybersecurity

Qualifications

Proficient in developing large REACT Web Applications

Experience with Django applications

Proficient with TypeScript

Experience with Postgres or other relational database(s)

Experience developing REST APIs with authentication and scaling

Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

Cloud computing architectures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Experience with Docker a plus

Mandatory experience: 8 + years