React.js Developer

·      JavaScript, Typescript

·      Any UI Framework (web components) - primarily React.js

·      Rxjs

·      State Management frameworks - redux

·      Design Patterns

·      Jest / WTR for testing

·      Playwright, cypress - functional tests (good to have)

Front-End Software Engineer (React, Next.js)

Location: Mumbai, India

Experience: 3+ years

Industry: Fintech / Startup

About MethodTech

At MethodTech, we’re building the next-generation platform for institutional investors, combining cutting-edge technology with advanced quantitative models, real-time analytics, and execution tools. Our goal is to empower institutional investors to make data-driven, informed decisions with ease. You will have the opportunity to work closely with the co-founders and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of MethodTech.

Job Description

We’re looking for a driven and innovative Front-End Software Engineer with expertise in React and Next.js. In this role, you will work closely with the co-founders to design, develop, and scale our platform’s front-end architecture. You’ll take ownership of key front-end decisions, collaborate with back-end teams, and contribute to the overall vision of the product. This is an exciting opportunity to make a lasting impact in a fast-growing startup.

Responsibilities

• Lead front-end development efforts using React and Next.js, delivering high-quality, scalable applications.
• Collaborate closely with the co-founders to define and implement the technical direction of the platform.
• Work alongside the product and design teams to turn ideas and concepts into user-centric features and functionality.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for the front-end of the platform.
• Optimize the performance and scalability of the application for enterprise use.
• Contribute to the overall architecture and design of the platform to ensure reliability, speed, and scalability.
• Participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and foster a culture of collaboration and learning.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in front-end development with hands-on expertise in React and Next.js.
• Experience with state management tools (e.g., Redux, Context API).
• Familiarity with Django Rest Framework is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a dynamic startup environment.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working directly with leadership.

Why Join Us?

• Work Directly with Co-Founders: Play a critical role in shaping the product and the company’s technical future.
• Early Impact: Your work will have a direct impact on the company’s success and growth.
• Growth Opportunities: We’re scaling quickly, and there’s a lot of room for personal and professional growth.
• Collaborative Team: Join a team that values innovation, teamwork, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Competitive Salary and Benefits: We offer a competitive compensation package to attract top talent.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaboratively work with UX team, product managers, back-end engineers and other technical teams to create new, delightful and scalable UI
• Mentor junior members through training and individual support
• Responsible for all front end development on a project
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images
• Optimize existing user interface designs
• Proactively learn and accordingly apply new technologies, best design practices and usability patterns

The ideal candidate must - 

• 5+ years of experience working with React or React-based frameworks
• Proficiency with browser-based debugging and performance testing
• Proficiency in Git and version control
• Considerable experience with a testing framework (Jest/Mocha)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JWT Tokens
• Good understanding of common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, Yarn etc
• Hands-on experience with CSS-in-JS libraries
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Keen to learn, mentor and willingness to take ownership of work items
• Possess strong communication and self-accountability

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.

• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.

• Maintain and write clean code to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

• Hands-on design and coding are mandatory.
• Design and develop new features and functionality for a consumer e-commerce product with rich UI content.
• 5+ years of experience in building single-page applications using modern JS frameworks.
• Expertise in React JS, ES6, HTML5, SCSS, and related technologies.
• Experience building front-end for products from scratch.
• Experience in building REST API, preferably using .Net Web API.
• Should have good experience with application design, implementation, maintenance, diagnosing/correcting issues, and maintaining compliance with industry security standards under minimal direction.
• Research and evaluate new software, frameworks, and techniques to provide recommendations to the division.
• Implement defect free quality code by writing appropriate unit-tests and regression tests.
• Should possess excellent Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a technical field.

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer with 4+ years of experience who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality products are very important.

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

Skills

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

● Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux, Redux, or Redux Saga)

● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript ● Knowledge of Node.js is considered a big plus

● Knowledge of D3.js is considered a plus

● You are always mindful of quality attributes like maintainability, performance, security, scalability, usability, and testability. As a result, you have successfully contributed to the architecture and UI/UX proposals and decisions.

● Strong experience creating pixel perfect and responsive designs

● Strong CSS skills (SCSS / Styled-components)

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Knowledge of Reactjs functional components and react hooks.

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs

● Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

● Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

● A knack for benchmarking and optimization

● Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git)