React.js Developer

Director - Frontend | Snapmint

Location: Gurgaon (Unitech Cyber Park, Sector 39)

Work Days: Monday – Friday

Experience: 12-16 years

About Snapmint: Founded by serial entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay, Snapmint is redefining how banking works by building the experience from the ground up. Our flagship offering provides 0% interest purchase financing to over 300 million banked Indian consumers even those without credit cards — through instant credit scoring and advanced underwriting systems.

By evaluating hundreds of data points beyond traditional credit models, we deliver real-time credit approvals, seamless digital loan servicing, and repayments — revolutionizing financial access for the modern, smartphone-first Indian consumer.

https://snapmint.com/

Job Overview:

We’re looking for a Director of Frontend Engineering with a strong focus on Web (React/Next.js) to lead the design, architecture, and execution of Snapmint’s consumer-facing platforms. This role will own web engineering at scale, while also overseeing Android frontend teams to ensure consistency, performance, and a unified user experience across platforms.

You will be responsible for building and scaling high-performance, modular frontend systems that serve millions of users, with a strong emphasis on design thinking, component reusability, and engineering excellence. This is a strategic leadership role that demands a deep understanding of web technologies, system architecture, and modern frontend design patterns, coupled with the ability to mentor teams and drive execution at speed.

🔧 Key Responsibilities:

• Own the frontend web strategy, architecture, and roadmap, focusing on React.js, Next.js, and scalable design systems.
• Lead and mentor web engineers to build modular, maintainable, and high-performing web applications.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver intuitive and performant cross-platform experiences.
• Oversee the Android frontend team (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose), ensuring consistency in UX, shared design principles, and code quality across platforms.
• Drive the development of design systems and component libraries that scale across web and mobile.
• Champion frontend modularization and micro-frontend architecture to support faster development and easier codebase management.
• Ensure adherence to code quality, performance, security, and accessibility standards.
• Implement best-in-class observability, error tracking, and performance monitoring tools (e.g., Sentry, Firebase, Lighthouse).
• Lead UI experimentation efforts (e.g., A/B testing, feature flags), continuously improving UX based on data.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and collaborative innovation within the frontend engineering teams.
• Keep the engineering org updated with the latest in frontend tech, frameworks, and tooling.

✅ Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 8+ years in frontend development and 5+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise in:

○ React.js, Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript

○ Component-driven architecture, server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG)

○ Building and scaling design systems and modular UIs

• Strong understanding of web performance optimization, SEO, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards (WCAG).
• Experience building scalable consumer-facing applications with millions of users.
• Exposure to Android frontend development (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose) with ability to guide and align mobile teams on UI/UX consistency.
• Familiarity with DevOps for frontend: CI/CD pipelines, feature flagging, analytics, and deployment strategies.
• Passion for design thinking, user-centric product development, and pixel-perfect implementation.
• Strong problem-solving, project management, and communication skills.
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• As a lead engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members.
• Participate in code reviews, app architecture, and design discussions.
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables.
• Be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting. 
• Mentoring junior developers and set best practices for coding, reviews, etc.
• Ensuring performance and scalability in all new product features being developed. 

• Overall of 5+ years expertise in writing HTML/CSS/JavaScript 
• Experience in Angular and preferably React.js
• Expertise in database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries.
• Expertise in all common AWS cloud technologies, knowledge of CI/CD tools, and workflows.

We are looking out for Flutter Developers who will be running and designing product application features across various cross platform devices. We are looking out for someone who has experience using Flutter widgets that can be plugged together, customized and deployed anywhere. You should be passionate about writing code, and taking up full ownership of app development.

Qualification :

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Experience :

Minimum 1 year experience in Flutter or Andriod App Development.

Responsibilities

• ● Building and shipping a robust application to Android/iOS devices using a single codebase
• ● Writing readable and clear code using Dart that will be extensively documented for future use and upgrades
• ● Sharing feedback and brainstorming ideas with teams to improve the development process
• ● Understand basic concepts of design for developing user friendly applications
• ● Stay up to date with the latest technologies
• ● Familiarize yourself with the different stacks and products.
• ● Lead development initiatives for other features
• Job Qualifications and Skill Sets
• ● Experience in development of Android/iOS applications and have deployed them on Google Play/App Store
• ● 3+ years knowledge in mobile app development
• ● In depth understanding of Object Oriented programming
• ● Familiarity using Git and IDEs like Android Studio & VS Code
• ● Understanding of the Agile Software Development Life Cycle and been exposed to
• Scrum projects
• ● Knowledge of Dart programming language, Rest APIs and integration of various APIs
• from third parties
• ● Comfortable using test cases for debugging code, enhancing performance and reliability
• ● Track record of successfully managing multiple company or customer websites
• ● Excellent time-management and communication skills 

As someone who will be a part of our team, your understanding of the product and our customers will be incredibly valuable.

Skills Required

• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.
• Experience with popular state management tool -Redux
• Experience with HTTP based packages like Axios.
• GIT experience is a plus

About You

• You take initiative and ownership to see things through to completion. If it needs doing, you do it.
• You’re eager to take on challenges. When you don’t know something, you embrace the chance to grow and get better.
• We work together as a team, and that means we encourage each other to improve as a team. You are self-sufficient and love the challenge of solving problems and learning new things

As a React.js Developer, you will be involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound and aesthetically impressive.

Benefits:

• Food allowance
• Leave encashment
• Paid sick time

• Leading a team, Collaborate with team to deploy and continuously improve our solutions
• 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 and pixel perfect code.
• Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• And everything that a coder does.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and theJavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of React.js and Redux its core principles.
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMA Script is a plus.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.Knowledge of modern authorisation 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.
• Lead a product (would be a plus)
• Have managed a team before

Job Role:  Senior Software Developer (React native/React js)

Required Skills

• React Native minimum experience should be 3 YRS.
• 2+ years of experience in javascript. 
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Typescript and ReactJs. 
• React-native components Knowledge and Redux. 
• Design Layout knowledge 
• Good communication