Sr React JS 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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Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on frontend / UI development.

• Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript.

• Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript (ES6+).

• Experience integrating frontend applications with GraphQL APIs.

• Familiarity with microservices architectures and frontend–backend integration patterns.

• Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.

• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in day-to-day engineering work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with or alongside NestJS-based microservices.

• Familiarity with GraphQL client libraries such as Apollo Client.

• Experience with frontend testing tools including Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, or Playwright.

• Exposure to frontend performance optimization techniques (lazy loading, code splitting, memoization).

• Familiarity with design systems, accessibility tooling, and component-driven development.

• Exposure to LLM APIs, agent frameworks, or AI-enabled frontend automation.

Suggested Skills

• React / TypeScript

• GraphQL (Apollo Client)

• UI Architecture & Design Systems

• Frontend Testing (Jest, RTL, MSW)

• Build & Tooling (Webpack, ESLint, Prettier)

• CI/CD for Frontend

• AI-assisted Software Development & Automation

Additional Information

• AI-assisted development is a core expectation for this role.

• The team builds modern UI systems backed by GraphQL, NestJS microservices, and intelligent automation.

• This role offers opportunities to deepen frontend expertise while influencing how AI improves

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with product, design and development team to achieve high cohesion across features and;
• Feasibility analysis of the technical requirements and web designs;
• You will be responsible to develop and contribute towards consumer-facing web application;
• Writing modular code to achieve loose coupling and reusability of modules across application;
• Architecting, prototyping and implementing high-impact modules for our end users;
• UI/UX.

Requirements:

• High Proficiency in frontend technologies like Angular, React JS, Vue.Js Redux etc.;
• Good design skills and knowledge and experience working with UI design patterns and frameworks;
• Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application;
• 3-5 years of strong hands-on experience in Angular and React.

React JS Developers

Experience: 3-6 Years

Location: Bangalore (onsite)

Responsibilities:

Design and implement user interface components for JavaScript-based web applications

using React JS

 Work as a part of a small team that includes other react JS developers, designers, QA

experts, and managers

 Build app and UI components from prototypes and wireframes

 Built REST APIs for tight integrations with the Backend

 Write automated tests to ensure error-free code and performance

 Improve front-end performance by eliminating performance bottlenecks

 Create front-end modules with maximum code reusability and efficiency

 Work with third-party dependencies and APIs

 Work with Redux architecture to improve the performance of the websites/mobile apps

 Coordinate with the cross-functional teams to build apps in the stipulated time/budget

 Knowledge of TypeScript 

 Knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap

 React routing, React Hooks, Internationalization

Job description:- 

• Strong experience of Angular 2+ and above along with other technologies like HTML5, CSS, jQuery, AJAX with good knowledge of ECMA Scripts.
• Strong knowledge of JS Fundamentals.
• Design & development of Angular applications as per desired specifications, along with experience in frameworks/libraries like jQuery, Bootstrap, Typescript etc.
• Architecture design, development, testing and maintenance of Web Apps, Implementation based on Angular Application MVC Patterns.
• Own end to end product modules/features (from the requirement to going live)- Design & code review, troubleshoot & help team members on issues.
• Gather requirements by interacting directly with the end-users.
• Research on open source framework/technology required for developing the feature/application.

• Write clean, testable code with unit tests
• Build and improve code across the entire stack
• Ensure project scalability by having good project architecture
• Participate in the entire application life cycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Responsible for technical guidance and leading a team of react developers ensuring timely delivery

• Strong React.js, Node.js, and typescript experience
• Working knowledge of React Native and Redux-Saga
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs, HTML/CSS
• Knowledge of GIT
• Proficiency in SQL
• 3-4 years of minimum experience

• We make sure you are growing professionally with quarterly goals and appraisals.
• Health is wealth, so we provide health insurance
• Stand on Top - Employee professional development program
• Welcoming a new member in the family is a great please so we provide maternity and paternity leave

And much more...

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript / Typescript language and its nuances,
• including ES6+ syntax
• Knowledge of Object oriented programming
• Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage