Software Engineer I - Front End

Job Title: Frontend Engineer- Reactjs, Nextjs, MUI 

Location: Hybrid weekly ⅔ days WFO (Bengaluru- India)

About the Role:

We're looking for a passionate and skilled Frontend Engineer with 1–3 years of experience to join our growing development team. This role is front-end-heavy, focused on building clean, scalable, and high-performance user interfaces using the latest technologies in the MERN stack—particularly Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Material UI (MUI).

You’ll work alongside a collaborative and talented team to design and build seamless web experiences that delight users. If you're excited about modern frontend architecture and want to grow in a fast-moving, remote-first environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop responsive, high-performance web applications using Next.js, React, and TypeScript.
• Translate UI/UX designs into functional frontend components using MUI.
• Collaborate with backend developers, designers, and product managers to deliver new features and improvements.
• Ensure code quality through best practices, code reviews, and testing.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.

Must-Have Skills:

• 1–3 years of professional experience in frontend development.
• Strong proficiency in React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Experience with Material UI (MUI) or similar component libraries.
• Understanding of responsive design, modern frontend tooling, and web performance best practices.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative workflows.

Nice-to-Have (Bonus) Skills:

• Familiarity with testing libraries (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress).
• Experience working with design tools like Figma or Adobe XD.
• Basic knowledge of accessibility (a11y) standards and performance optimization.
• Basic experience with Node.js, MongoDB, or working in a MERN stack environment.
• Familiarity with AWS services or cloud deployment practices.
• Experience with RESTful APIs or integrating with backend services.

Responsibilities:-

• Extensive hands-on experience with frontend technology React Native.
• Build dynamic and reusable components using React Native
• Implement state management for better app performance.
• Use modern JavaScript features for efficient and maintainable code.
• Improve page load times with lazy loading, code splitting, and caching, while ensuring code quality through unit and integration testing.

Requirements:-

• 3-5 years of experience in frontend development working in a fintech industry, with a focus on highly scalable systems.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with experience managing teams of engineers and coordinating cross-functional efforts.
• Ability to solve complex problems under pressure, with a focus on delivering innovative solutions.
• Strong decision-making ability in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently while also collaborating in a team.

Opportunity:

We are looking for a young and enthusiastic personality who loves UI design and be at the forefront of creating exceptional user interfaces for our laundry industry. We believe that user-centric design ultimately leads to the best products, so we listen closely to our users, both external and internal. As an engineer on our close-knit, cross-functional team, you'll be an active voice in shaping our product.

Responsibilities:

         User Interface Development:

●     Develop and maintain responsive and user-friendly web and mobile user interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks.

●     Ensure consistent and pixel-perfect implementation of UI designs across different browsers and devices.

         Optimization:

●     Optimize UI code and assets for performance, speed, and scalability.

●     Implement responsive design principles for seamless user experiences on various screen sizes.

         Cross-Functional Collaboration:

●     Work closely with UI/UX designers to translate design concepts and wireframes into functional web interfaces.

●     Collaborate with product managers, back-end developers, and QA engineers to deliver high-quality products.

         Testing and Debugging:

●     Perform testing and debugging to identify and resolve front-end issues and ensure a smooth user experience.

●     Stay updated on industry best practices and emerging technologies.

Required Candidate Profile:

         Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Web Development, or a related field is preferred.

         Front-End Development Skills:

●     Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and front-end development frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).

●     Strong understanding of responsive web design principles.

         Experience: Previous experience in front-end development, with a portfolio demonstrating your skills and projects you've worked on.

         Cross-Browser Compatibility: Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and solutions.

         Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug and troubleshoot front-end issues effectively.

         Communication: Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

         Adaptability: Ability to adapt to changing project requirements and deadlines.

As a UI Developer on our team, you'll have the opportunity to shape the user interfaces of our digital products, contribute to the development of innovative features, and enhance the overall user experience.

About the company:

NowPurchase is transforming the 140B$ Metal Manufacturing industry. The metal industry forms the backbone of the economy and the fundamental block of the physical world - be it transportation, construction and every machinery. NowPurchase is building a rich, digital marketplace where Metal Manufacturers can procure high quality raw materials in a trusted manner. At the same time we are building the OS (Operating System) that will supercharge their productivity and processes to ultimately make procurement autonomous. Now Purchase raises USD 2.4 million in Nov 2021, led by Orios Venture Partners, InfoEdge Ventures.

About you: 

We are looking to add an immensely talented Senior Front End Engineer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet our vision. Expect to build a lot of web interfaces and dashboards both for the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises. You need to lead the front end team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and are constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
• Deliver high quality modular code deployed over web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets.. This would include visual dashboards and real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
• Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
• Own your Agile projects and lead the team from software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
• Transform UI designs and mockups into pages and flows using CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks. Be ready to do the mockups yourself sometimes.
• Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.
• Have an exceptional understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and service workers and command over the internals of JavaScript, React and Redux.
• Continuously evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.

Required Skills and qualification:

• 4+ years’ experience developing rich UI/Front-end for user-facing web applications.
• Strong experience with React or similar frameworks, TypeScript, SSR (Server Side Rendering), SPA (Single Page Application), PWA (Progressive Web application), OOP (Object Oriented Programming), Reactive programming, and Unit tests.
• Demonstrated ability to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Tech Stack skills required:

• React/Redux
• Python/Django/Celery
• Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
• PostgreSQL/Redis/S3

Location: 

On- site: Kolkata, West Bengal

Compensation & Benefits:

• Cash Compensation: As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
• ESOPs: 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
• Medical Insurance: Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
• Generous leave structure and WFHs including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
• Complete Relocation Expenses: We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.

Company Link: https://nowpurchase.com">https://nowpurchase.com

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6-9 years of relevant experience in building webapps at scale

You must have strong understanding of semantic HTML / HTML5, CSS / CSS3.

You must have a good understanding of MVC architecture.

Prior work experience in ReactJS is Must

You must have experience in setting up the full UI workflow layer right from Development, Testing, Building and Deployment.

Never give up attitude

Experience in frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation and CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS is desirable.

You should have exposure to page speed improvement techniques.

Exposure of building responsive websites at scale will be a plus.

Prior exposure to building React Native components for Hybrid mobile apps will be a plus

Prior work experience in Angular, Backbone along with ReactJs is desirable.

Good understanding of webpack and redux

Role Description:

We are looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer (  Preferably React Js) who will be architecting and developing cutting-edge features for Radiusagent web applications . An ideal candidate will have prior experience in eCommerce Products and worked closely with Product, Design, and other cross-functional partners. 

Responsible for- 

• You will be constantly and consistently implementing new features and optimize existing ones from controller-level to UI- Vigilantly and rapidly fix bugs.
• You will continuously solve problems to give our customers a delightful experience.
• You will be working closely with Product manager and back-end engineers to implement front-end solutions. 
• You will be endorsing upcoming standards, launching, iterating, and making a difference.
• You will have to be extremely detail-oriented to strive for pixel-perfect implementation in all browsers.
• You should have the ability to write well-abstracted, reusable, highly performant code for UI components.
• You should have the passion for performance debugging and benchmarking.

Requirement-

• 5+ years of experience in building scalable commercial web applications.
• A passion to provide a good user experience
• Deep expertise in Javascript and work experience in using one of the frameworks available (React JS, Angular, Node JS, EmberJS, etc).
• If you are passionate about implementing elegant User Interfaces using HTML and CSS.
• Ability to work autonomously and to be able to work cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, good visual design sense, in-depth experience in developing web-based applications.