Software Engineer - UI/UX

We are seeking a highly skilled React JS Developer with exceptional DOM manipulation expertise and real-time data handling experience to join our team. You'll be building and optimizing high-performance user interfaces for stock market trading applications where milliseconds matter and data flows continuously.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, understands the intricacies of browser performance, and has hands-on experience with WebSockets and real-time data streaming architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Core Development

• Advanced DOM Operations: Implement complex, performance-optimized DOM manipulations for real-time trading interfaces
• Real-time Data Management: Build robust WebSocket connections and handle high-frequency data streams with minimal latency
• Performance Engineering: Create lightning-fast, scalable front-end applications that process thousands of market updates per second
• Custom Component Architecture: Design and build reusable, high-performance React components optimized for trading workflows

Collaboration & Integration

• Work closely with traders, quants, and backend developers to translate complex trading requirements into intuitive interfaces
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers and product managers to create responsive, trader-focused experiences
• Integrate with real-time market data APIs and trading execution systems

Technical Excellence

• Implement sophisticated data visualizations and interactive charts using libraries like Chartjs, TradingView, or custom D3.js solutions
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and responsiveness across multiple devices and screen sizes
• Debug and resolve complex performance issues, particularly in real-time data processing and rendering
• Maintain high-quality code through reviews, testing, and comprehensive documentation

Required Skills & Experience

React & JavaScript Mastery

• 5+ years of professional React.js development with deep understanding of React internals, hooks, and advanced patterns
• Expert-level JavaScript (ES6+) with strong proficiency in asynchronous programming, closures, and memory management
• Advanced HTML5 & CSS3 skills with focus on performance and cross-browser compatibility

Real-time & Performance Expertise

• Proven experience with WebSockets and real-time data streaming protocols
• Strong DOM manipulation skills - direct DOM access, virtual scrolling, efficient updates, and performance optimization
• RESTful API integration with experience in handling high-frequency data feeds
• Browser performance optimization - understanding of rendering pipeline, memory management, and profiling tools

Development Tools & Practices

• Proficiency with modern build tools: Webpack, Babel, Vite, or similar
• Experience with Git version control and collaborative development workflows
• Agile/Scrum development environment experience
• Understanding of testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library)

Financial Data Visualization

• Experience with financial charting libraries: Chartjs, TradingView, D3.js, or custom visualization solutions
• Understanding of market data structures, order books, and trading terminology
• Knowledge of data streaming optimization techniques for financial applications

Nice-to-Have Skills

Domain Expertise

• Prior experience in stock market, trading, or financial services - understanding of trading workflows, order management, risk systems
• Algorithmic trading knowledge or exposure to quantitative trading systems
• Financial market understanding - equities, derivatives, commodities

Technical Plus Points

• Backend development experience with GoLang, Python, or Node.js
• Database knowledge: SQL, NoSQL, time-series databases (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB)
• Cloud platform experience: AWS, Azure, GCP for deploying scalable applications
• Message queue systems: Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS for real-time data processing
• Microservices architecture understanding and API design principles

Advanced Skills

• Service Worker implementation for offline-first applications
• Progressive Web App (PWA) development
• Mobile-first responsive design expertise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)
• 5+ years of professional React.js development with demonstrable experience in performance-critical applications
• Portfolio or examples of complex real-time applications you've built
• Financial services experience strongly preferred

Why You'll Love Working Here

We're a team that hustles—plain and simple. But we also believe life outside work matters. No cubicles, no suits—just great people doing great work in a space built for comfort and creativity.

What We Offer

💰 Competitive salary – Get paid what you're worth

🌴 Generous paid time off – Recharge and come back sharper

🌍 Work with the best – Collaborate with top-tier global talent

✈️ Adventure together – Annual offsites (mostly outside India) and regular team outings

🎯 Performance rewards – Multiple bonuses for those who go above and beyond

🏥 Health covered – Comprehensive insurance so you're always protected

⚡ Fun, not just work – On-site sports, games, and a lively workspace

🧠 Learn and lead – Regular knowledge-sharing sessions led by your peers

📚 Annual Education Stipend – Take any external course, bootcamp, or certification that makes you better at your craft

🏋️ Stay fit – Gym memberships with equal employer contribution to keep you at your best

🚚 Relocation support – Smooth move? We've got your back

🏆 Friendly competition – Work challenges and extracurricular contests to keep things exciting

We work hard, play hard, and grow together. Join us.

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.)

• 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.

• 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.

Job Description

Frontend/Sr Frontend Developer

About company:-

It is a mission-oriented early-stage fin-tech startup which is building a suite of carefully tailored financial products and delivery mechanisms to fulfill the aspirations and needs of middle-income households in urban India. It was started by three cofounders, who have a pedigreed education background (IIT/IIM) and relevant professional experience in financial services. More importantly, they come from a similar background as the customer segment they are serving, and have done extensive customer research to understands the needs of the customer. It is backed by high-quality investors to realise this mission.

Responsibilities:-

- Develop all user-facing products preferably in React JS & React-Native

- Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

- Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code

- Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable

devices and browsers

- Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.

- Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.

- Enhance SEO, Analytics and overall frontend architecture for better performance

Requirements:-

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

- Good foundation in design and a knack for designing interactions and elegant interfaces

- Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

- Good to have experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

- Experience with data structure libraries

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs

- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

- A knack for benchmarking and optimization

- Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git)

- Proficient in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards,

Coding modularity, Prototypes etc.

- Experience in using debugging tools used for profiling/optimizing performance

- Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing UI components

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

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/

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React JS Developer 

• 0-1 years of experience as a React JS developer. 
• Good Communication skills must. 
• 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 or Redux) ● Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• Experience with HTML,CSS, Bootstrap and UI Design 
• Knowledge of 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 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools {such as Git} 

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Extreme CSS skills
• Experience with ReactJS or NextJS is a MUST
• Strong communication skills
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
• Sound knowledge of clean code, no unused code, optimized code and more.
• Always starting with a document and then implementing in a systematic and organized manner
• Past experience as a frontend developer building modern JavaScript-based web applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and

influencing skills.

Experience:

• Min 5 years experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• Engineering experience with a proven track record of building high performance consumer web applications or services
  
• Good exposure in front end ui frameworks like reactjs and angularJS
  
• Very good analytical and problem solving skills
  
• Building desktop and mobile web applications