Software Engineer (Javascript)

Position Overview: Front-End Developer (Next.js)

We are seeking an experienced Front-End Developer with strong hands-on expertise in Next.js and React.js. The ideal candidate will build and maintain scalable, responsive web applications using modern front-end technologies and best practices in performance, SEO, and rendering techniques.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain responsive, scalable web applications using React.js and Next.js
• Implement CSR, SSR, and SSG using Next.js best practices
• Build reusable, modular UI components following clean front-end architecture
• Integrate and manage REST APIs for data retrieval, caching, and error handling (React Query or similar)
• Optimize applications for performance, SEO, and accessibility
• Collaborate with backend engineers and UI/UX designers to deliver high-quality user interfaces
• Debug, test, and document code to ensure maintainability and scalability

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of Next.js fundamentals (routing, rendering techniques, API routes)
• Proficiency with React Hooks and understanding of component lifecycle
• Solid experience integrating REST APIs and handling errors effectively
• Familiarity with state management libraries such as React Query, Redux, or Zustand
• Strong skills in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3
• 7–10 years of front-end development experience

We build the best of commerce tools for brands across India. We power commerce for some of the top brands like Levis, boAt, Birkenstock, Kohler and lot more. We are looking for a rockstar Reactjs developer to join us and build the best of tools to empower the largest brands of India.

1. 3-5 years of experience in front-end development with React.js.
2. Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript (preferred).
3. Hands-on experience with Redux, Context API, or Zustand.
4. Good understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and WebSockets.
5. Experience with front-end build tools (Webpack, Babel, Vite, etc.).
6. Knowledge of CSS frameworks like TailwindCSS, Bootstrap, Material UI.
7. Familiarity with unit testing (Jest, Cypress, React Testing Library).
8. Experience with Git, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
9. Ability to work in an Agile development environment.
10. Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Software Engineer - Frontend

Experiencing the world we live in is fundamental to our collective happiness and progress as a society. Headout’s mission is, and will always be, to unlock this happier world by connecting amazing in-person experiences with people all over the globe, giving them the opportunity to be entertained, educated and inspired. We are evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences at the push of a button. By combining delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations, our single minded focus is on solving a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time? On this mission, we've already served 7M+ guests from 190 countries who have headed out to an experience with us. While building scale that drives $200M+ in annualised sales, we hit profitability that is such a rarity on the back of our superior model.

As travel and in-person experiences recover, Headout is playing a critical role in our return to our way-of-life. With pent-up demand, generation and digitisation of experiences having been pushed forward by a decade, there is no better time to build than NOW.

We at Headout, like to solve real-world problems in the simplest & most elegant manner possible. We're seeking Frontend Engineers with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. We also love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun. ;-)

👩‍💻 The Role

• Craft the front-end architecture, develop our core features, and collaborate with our Product & Design teams to build something useful and beautiful.
• Build slick UI interfaces to provide the best user experience.
• Get your hands dirty with cross-platform architectural challenges, new frameworks, design patterns, and technologies.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• 2+ years of experience developing front-end platforms preferably in a high-growth startup.
• Solid hands-on experience with Javascript ES5 and ES6.
• Experience with NodeJS, Typescript, browser dev-tools etc.
• An opinion and preferably hands-on experience of CSS in JS vs old school style of writing CSS.
• Experience developing responsive designs using open source frameworks or even better, an attempt at your own framework.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and it's underlying communication protocols.
• People who give up anything to optimize that animation that they just created.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in UX, travel, local experiences & hospitality.

Software Engineering

• 4+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining React-based applications
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing medium to large-scale applications using Javascript frameworks
• Experience with projects that involve, improving the reliability and performance of your web-apps, by leveraging different observability tools like Lighthouse, Sentry, and Datadog.
• Good understanding of functional programming paradigms and UI architecture patterns
• A decent understanding of cloud infrastructure like AWS to orchestrate and manage our applications.
• Experience with testing frameworks like JEST, modern auth mechanisms, and server-side rendering through frameworks like NextJS
• Experience with backend technologies like JAVA, and Kotlin would be good to have.

Product Development

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to resolve dependency risks.
• Well-versed in working in an agile environment and being involved in different stages of SDLC - Design, Development, Code Review, Testing, and Release Management
• Ability to work with different CI/CD frameworks, with hands-on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Continuously refactor applications so that they are easy to maintain, easy to extend, and contribute to

Your Tech Stack

Web Application Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails

Programming Languages: ReasonML/Rescript, Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, HTML, CSS

Tools and Libraries: Webpack, Sentry, NextJS, NodeJS, Jest, Figma

Communication: HTTP, GraphQL, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS

Observability: Google Analytics, Lighthouse, Sentry, Kibana, Datadog

What you will build with us?

The front-end platform at Porter is geared toward developing a variety of products for customers, partners, and our internal teams. You will be a part of Porter’s Web Engineering Platform team.

What will be your primary focus?

1. enabling our engineering teams to create highly reliable and scalable software systems, reduce client and server outages and increase system hygiene.
2. building the right set of tooling and flows for our web and mobile teams, for improving developer productivity. This will enable our application teams to churn out user features rapidly and will help them build the best-in-class product solutions for our business teams.
3. work on security initiatives, to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

What will you closely influence?

1. Providing the right user experience to our customers, partners, and cc agents when they reach out to us
2. Building tools to help boost user growth on our platform including our driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models. A step towards sustainable user growth and providing personalized experiences, on our platform
3. Unlocking new growth levels for Porter, in form of our new vibrant customer base through business initiatives like Packers and Movers, Part-Load, and help Porter on its journey to becoming a super Logistic App.
4. Enabling us to engage our partner ecosystem better with our fast-moving initiatives in the Insurance and Lending segments. Your work here will directly impact the livelihood of our partners
5. Solving problems related to optimal pricepoint for partners and customers, matchmaking with supply and demand, and building confidence around payment experience and location tracking.

JOB OVERVIEW

Responsible for the front-end development of user interfaces ensuring an enhanced user experience. Follow

emerging trends, adhere to development best practices, and help make improvements to existing web pages,

emails, and all other user interfaces/experiences.

we will need some stronger UX skills to round out the rest of the team (comfortable working with figma and creating responsive/pixel perfect designs

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work in collaboration with Callaway Golf Designers to turn their vision into functional HTML templates

integrated into SAP Hybris across international sites and multiple brands

• Work in collaboration with backend developers to ensure proper implementation of website data and

functionality.

• Help manage projects through the design, development, and QA processes

• Continue to expand knowledge of new technologies, as well as strengthen current knowledge base

• Build responsive sites for mobile and desktop web experiences.

• Follow the latest advancements in front end technologies and techniques.

• Review code and mentor other developers on best-practices for front end development.

• Help import content and product data into sites using a multi-country model including localization and site[1]specific catalogs

• Help integrate images from digital asset management system

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):

• Experience developing web-based responsive applications

• Fluent in HTML/CSS/JavaScript and able to develop rich client experiences from mock-ups from the ground

up

• Experience using established CSS architecture patterns for code reuse and modularity such as BEM,

SMACSS and others

• Experience with CSS pre-processors such as LESS or SASS

• Experience building responsive templates using bootstrap

• Front end and visualization experience using JavaScript and extensive experience with jQuery Libraries,

React.js, underscore, or native JS for DOM manipulation.

• Experience using HTML markup languages such as JSTL to create high performing applications

• Experience with CMS platforms, such as WordPress, Shopify or Hybris

• Experience using web templating engines

• Extensive knowledge of respective browser compatibility issues (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome).

• Experience integrating iframes

• Experience loading product and content data onto management tools

• Experience working with RESTful JSON Web Services is a plus

• Experience with front end build tools such as webpack, gulp, grunt, etc.

• Experience with development processes including git

• Experience in working with client and offshore team to ensure seamless delivery.

• Creative, artistic and understanding of how human interacts with computer

• An impeccable eye for detail with the ability to match your UI to any design in a cross-browser and device

environment

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an affinity for problem-solving

• Ability to self-manage during projects and proactively raise issues/concerns to the team

• A desire to own a project from beginning to end, with a strong sense of pride in a job exceptionally done

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Expertise level knowledge of  HTML5 : Comprehensive knowledge of tags, HTML API (Geo, Storage, More APIs), Canvas APIs, META Tags and Semantic markup 
• Expertise level knowledge of CSS3 : CSS Object Model, Selectors & Hierarchy, Layouts, Responsive Designs, Build Tools, SASS / SCSS & Flexbox
• Expertise level knowledge of ES6: Object-Oriented programming principles,  DOM Selectors, Event Handlers, Jquery - Functions, Callbacks, Promises, Debugging tools & approach
• Experience in creating build scripts from scratch using Webpack & Gulp with relevant plugins to improve DevOps
• Ability to independently create technical design of an Epic utilising the knowledge of JavaScript design patterns and CSS best practices
• Experience in reviewing the technical design and implementation of other frontend team members
• Ability to Suggest better alternatives to existing solutions for improving the solution quality (both functional and non-functional problems) 
• Ability to coach and line-manage senior frontend engineers, to help them grow their career
• Experience in Typescript and contemporary FE development frameworks like ReactJS, Angular & VueJS is preferred

QUALIFICATIONS & CHARACTERISTICS

• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Analytic and positive mindset with a personable and professional approach.
• Sharp attention to detail and a passion for new technology.
• Professional written and verbal communication.