Sr. Frontend 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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Job Description

• Experience in UI development using React JS
• In depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML and front-end languages
• Excellent front-end coding skills, and a good understanding of progressive applications
• Strong knowledge of UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience working with JavaScript and Typescript, React, Redux, RxJS, Yarn
• Experience in test driven development using modern source control and continuous integration
• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software
• Delivering high quality and well-structured code

What you’ll do: 

● Own and build next-generation web applications which are efficient, reusable front-end abstractions 

and systems. 

● Explore and design lively and compelling consumer experiences. 

● Ensure that all the assigned systems are performing to scale. 

● Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes 

● You will mentor junior engineers on design and proper coding practices 

What you will need: 

● A deep expertise in Angular / React, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3. 

● Understanding of browser internals and a basic understanding of the network stack. 

● Understanding of common design patterns followed in front-end projects. 

● Basic awareness of application security practices and deployment techniques for front-end projects. 

● Should have sound knowledge in computer science fundamentals like data structure, object-oriented 

programming and possess excellent communication skills. 

We are looking for a highly motivated individual that can help us solve interesting and complex problems for our clients. You will be working closely with product and engineering teams based out of the USA, Europe, and India to build proof-of-concepts, validate strategic architecture decisions, and develop modern and scalable solutions. We firmly believe that your success is our success, and we are willing to take a stake in that.

About Altir

Altir is a product engineering company that builds top-notch software products for very select companies across various industries and stages of their lifecycle. We help start-ups to Fortune 500 companies nurture and transform validated ideas into successful products by amalgamating efficient business & technology strategy, development, and engineering capabilities. We are a team of entrepreneurs, engineers, product leaders, and designers who are builders and systems thinkers coming from some of the most iconic technology companies like Microsoft, Accenture, Apple, Google, and Salesforce. We exercise thorough attention to detail at every stage – from product exploration to delivery, integrating technology, automation, and our teams' expertise into the mix. We infuse our prowess from the consumer and enterprise worlds into every client's business. Our customers work with us to be their force multipliers, disrupters and to help them create unfair advantages.

Hailing from some of the world’s most innovative technology companies, we’re a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and makers. We’ve learned what it takes to build paradigm-shifting technology and companies, but we learned it the hard way. That’s why we created Altir - to be disruptive by design. By generating a suite of knowledge resources, category-defining playbooks, and reusable technology components, we’ve productized the launch and scale of transformational companies for maximum impact.

Company Link:

http://www.altir.co

Requirements

*5-10 years of software engineering experience with at least 4 years of experience in react.

*Programming languages (Typescript, JavaScript, Reactjs , redux)

*Creating fluid visual interactions. Developing and implementing mobile user experience patterns.

*Developing and maintaining iOS/Android applications from the requirements to the App Store.

Unit Test (Jest, Mocha), software design patterns and data structures.

*Excellent leadership, stakeholder management and program management skills.

*Successful experience in a properly functioning agile team would be extremely advantageous.

Required

*Design and develop user interface components using React.js This includes creating reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.

*Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.

*Redux for state management.

*React JS developers should be proficient in modern web development.

*Implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.

*Develop and maintain user interfaces using React.js.

Must have

*Strong understanding of web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

*Experience with code migration and refactoring

*Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot technical issues

*Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams

*Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver high-quality code

*Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Benefits

*Participation in profit sharing

*Parental leave

*Opportunity to travel and work with our global team

*Flexible PTO and work timings

*Premium health insurance

*Teammate recognition awards

*Company get together, off sites and events

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or similar.

• Previous work experience of 4-6 years as an angularJS developer.
• Proficient in CSS, HTML, and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Experience using JavaScript building tools like Gulp or Grunt.
• Knowledge of JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks including AngluarJS.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Proven experience implementing front-end and back-end JavaScript applications.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Critical thinker and good problem-solver.

Job Description: Senior React.js Developer

• 2+ years of relevant experience in software development building web applications
• Well acquainted with cutting edge front-end framework like React Javascript dialects like ES6.

• CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation HTML5, CSS3 and tools like Gulp/Webpack
• Strong analytical and problem- solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions.
• Enjoys and gets energized by complex problem solving and ability to push the innovation on solutions.
• Ability to work both independently and in various team settings.

• 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

• 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 data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of GraphQL is a plus.

• 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

• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git


Timeline:

Responsibilities:

• Build the foundation of our supply side (enterprise) product from scratch. Maintain high standards of pixel perfect Ui’s and efficient User Experiences. 
• Our Supply Side ecosystem involves a plethora of products such as Catalog Management, Analytics Dashboard, Orders Processing, Finance Reconciliation, Notification centres etc. Develop a deep understanding of the mentioned use cases and build the systems for scale.
• Coordinate with Product managers, Product Designers & Backend Developers and outline sprints and tasks on a weekly basis.
• Conduct Comprehensive Unit tests before passing features to QAs. This requires a good top level understanding of backend infrastructure.
• Maintain High level of Code Quality and constantly optimize for performance and user experience.
• Be Collaborative. Self reliant and always keep pushing the limits of your knowledge.

Senior Frontend Developer || CSS, HTML, JavaScript, React.js|| 3+ years exp