Software Engineer II - Frontend at Plumhq · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 2 - 4 years · ₹10L - ₹25L / yr (ESOP available) · Raised funding · Posted 4 Aug 2022

About Plum
We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.
Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.
Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.
Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)
About the role
Having found exceptional product/market fit, we’re in the midst of transitioning from 'start-up' to ‘scale-up’, and looking for a senior frontend engineer to help us scale Plum, and spearhead the frontend of our product.
You will have a direct impact on the customer experience through the design and implementation of new features and functionalities in our product. You'll work as part of a small but rapidly growing high-energy team delivering incredible, creative improvements to our product. You'll be in charge of reviewing the implementation of applications following code standards and style guides. You would analyze and build UI Pattern Libraries (Design Systems, UI Kits, etc.)
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Spec, build, test, and deliver new features while improving the performance and quality of the product.
- Run test-harness to guarantee the structure, integrity, and design of the application.
- Solve complex CSS, HTML, and User Interface compatibility issues across browsers.
- Optimize JavaScript implementations to ensure that code remains performant.
- Implement front-end development workflows: build systems, dependency management, quality checkers (linting), etc.
- Ability to push things over the line, ship awesome features, and delight customers.
Experience and Qualifications:
- 2+ years of hands-on experience building web applications with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
- Comfortable with Responsive Web Design and Development and weave out beautiful code in React.
- Strong product and design sensibilities and has an obsessive attention to detail.
- Write testable, maintainable code that's easy to understand.
- Understand complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks.
- Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.

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Very strong hands on experience of web and mobile technologies: - HTML JavaScript, HTML5/CSS3,OOJS.
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5 + years of UI Development Experience using JavaScript Frameworks
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3+ years of Angular Development Experience
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Strong in OOJS(Mandatory)
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Has implemented coding patterns and built UI framework
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Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
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Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
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Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS
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Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments
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Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
About the Role
As a Frontend Developer, you’ll be working on building responsive and interactive user interfaces that delight customers. You’ll translate design concepts into clean, efficient code and collaborate with backend developers and designers.
What We’re Looking For
- Fresh graduates or candidates with up to 2 years of experience.
- Strong logical and analytical mindset with a passion for clean UI.
- Self-motivated learners who can adapt quickly.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Develop modern, responsive web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Work with libraries/frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed & scalability.
- Collaborate with designers to bring ideas into functional UI.
Must-Have Skills (for candidates with ~1 year experience)
- Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+).
- Hands-on experience in React.js/Angular/Vue.
- Ability to consume REST/GraphQL APIs.
- Version control (Git) and basic CI/CD exposure.
- Familiarity with responsive design and browser debugging tools.
Why Join Us
- Direct mentorship, hands-on exposure, and ownership opportunities.
- Be part of a team where your contributions directly improve user experience.
Perks & Benefits
- Fully remote role with flexible team culture.
- Fast-track growth, multi-role exposure in a startup ecosystem.
Work Mode & Schedule
Remote, 10 AM – 7 PM, Mon–Sat (own PC + reliable internet + availability on Zoom/Meet/Teams).
Compensation Note
Compensation will be discussed after evaluation and will reflect the candidate’s demonstrated skills and value in a startup ecosystem.
Primary Skills
Frontend framework ReactJS
Pure JavaScript, jQuery
Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS, SASS
Passionate about implementing UX\UI of web applications
Understanding of Web Accessibility Standards (WCAG)
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
- Experience in GraphQL
- Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
- Experience with popular React.js workflows (Redux)
- Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
- Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
- Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
- 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, SVN, and Mercurial)
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Qualifications
Proven 4+ experience as a client-side web Developer Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices
Add-Ons
Expertise in managing translation solutions for website localization.
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Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Great attention to detail
Organizational skills'
An analytical mind
Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field
About the Company
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- 🥇 Students-First approach
- 🇮🇩 🇮🇳 Teams in India and Indonesia
Skillset 🧗🏼♀️
- You primarily identify as a Frontend Engineer or a UI Engineer and are comfortable working on the browser side of things with 7+ years experience (preferably from B2C startup companies).
- You can build accessible interfaces with semantic HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
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- You can build features from scratch which are modular and scalable. You don’t hesitate to take them from design to implementation.
- You have shipped code to production recently and regularly.
- You are experienced in working with using modern web frameworks, like React, Vue, and friends. We use React but prefer people with strong web concepts and fundamentals who are open to learning any framework/library.
- You are fluent in using the tools of the trade: editors, git, command line, Slack, Jira (unfortunately yes)
- You are driven, you care about turning in quality work, and improving your craft.
- You have high integrity, and you are reliable.
What you can expect from us 👌🏼
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- We are a people-first, high-trust, high-autonomy team.
- We live in the TDD, Pair Programming, First Principles world
🌏 Remote done right
- Distributed does not mean working in isolation, feeling alone, being buried in Zoom calls.
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- A good balance between deep focussed work and collaborative work ⚖️
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- 30-minute alignment check and screening call
- A short take-home coding assignment, no more than 2-3 hours. Time is precious.
- Pair programming interview. Collaborate, work together. No sitting behind a desk and judging.
- In-depth engineering discussion around your skills and career so far.
- System design and architecture interview for senior roles.
What we ask from you👇🏼
- Bring your software engineering — both individual brilliance and collaborative skills.
- Bring your good nature — we're building a team that supports each other.
- Be vested or interested in the company vision
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- Responsible for integration with the services that reside on the back end.
Must-have skills:
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What you will bring
- Passionate engineer with 5 – 8 years of hands-on experience of developing next-generation user interface with high quality and performance
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Good to have
- Full-stack development experience
- Prior Startup Experience
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- Proficiency with Git/Github
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Success Factors
- Start-up mindset
- Good problem solving abilities
- ‘Can-do’ attitude
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