UX Designer

Role Overview:

We’re hiring a WebGL/Three.js Engineer who is passionate about 3D rendering and browser-based visual experiences. This is a hands-on WebGL/Three.js role where you’ll own the rendering pipeline - from 3D asset ingestion to advanced shaders and real-time lighting.

You will build high-performance, photorealistic, and smooth 60fps experiences across devices, crafting custom rendering solutions that push the limits of WebGL.

What You’ll Build:

1. 3D Rendering & Visualization:

• Develop and optimize real-time 3D viewers running at 60fps across all devices
• Implement advanced rendering: PBR, IBL, shadows, reflections
• Create custom shaders for metals, glass, fabrics, transparency, and complex materials
• Build dynamic lighting systems for photorealism
• Implement AR placement and real-world environmental rendering
• Add post-processing effects: bloom, AO, depth of field, color grading
• Build interactive 3D configurators with real-time customization

2. Performance Optimization:

• Optimize 3D asset loading for near-instant initial render
• Implement LOD systems, shader optimization, and efficient resource usage
• Use compression pipelines: geometry, textures, KTX2/Basis
• Implement frustum & occlusion culling, instancing, and batching
• Profile GPU memory, draw calls, and shader performance
• Build adaptive quality settings based on device capabilities

3. 3D Asset Pipeline & Tools:

• Build loaders/parsers for glTF, USDZ, OBJ, FBX
• Implement asset optimization: UV mapping, normal maps, texture atlasing
• Create mesh-processing tools: decimation, smoothing, tangents
• Build progressive loading, caching, and streaming systems
• Develop debugging and visualization tools for asset inspection

4. Interactive Controls & UI Features:

• Implement camera systems: orbit, pan, zoom, animated transitions
• Build gestures for mobile: pinch, rotate, drag
• Create 360° product viewers with fluid interactions
• Add hotspots, annotations, measurement tools, and view presets
• Enable screenshot and recording functionalities

5. WebXR & AR Experiences:

• Implement WebXR VR/AR experiences directly inside browsers
• Build AR Quick Look integration for iOS
• Integrate AR.js / 8th Wall for seamless web AR
• Implement environment lighting estimation and hit testing
• Build cross-platform AR for iOS + Android

6. Graphics Systems Architecture:

• Architect custom WebGL rendering solutions from scratch
• Build material/shader libraries and rendering modules
• Create scene graph management systems
• Build modular systems with reusable rendering utilities
• Design APIs for frontend integration and customization

Technical Stack:

1. Graphics & Rendering:

• WebGL 1.0/2.0, OpenGL ES, GLSL
• 3D formats: glTF 2.0, USDZ, OBJ, FBX, Collada
• Tools: Blender, RenderDoc, Spector.js
• Texture tools: Sharp, ImageMagick, compression utilities

2. Frontend & Web:

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• React, Next.js, familiarity with Vue
• Webpack, Vite, Rollup
• Jest, Cypress

3. Performance:

• Chrome DevTools, WebGL Inspector, GPU profilers
• Draco, meshoptimizer, KTX2/Basis
• Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront

4. Collaboration:

• Git/GitHub
• Technical documentation: shaders, specs, APIs

What We’re Looking For:

1. Must-Haves:

• 5-8+ years in graphics programming with deep WebGL/Three.js knowledge
• Strong understanding of the full rendering pipeline
• Expert in GLSL: vertex, fragment, compute shaders
• Mastery of PBR, material systems, and physically accurate lighting
• Proven experience building high-performance 3D web apps
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills
• Solid understanding of 3D math: matrices, vectors, quaternions
• Experience with 3D formats, UV mapping, texture workflows
• Ability to debug GPU issues and optimize across browsers/devices
• Ability to build custom WebGL engines from scratch

2. Highly Desirable:

• Experience with Three.js/Babylon.js (plus, not required)
• E-commerce and 3D configurator experience
• WebXR development experience
• Strong mobile optimization knowledge
• Experience with GPU compute, GPGPU
• Familiarity with Unity/Unreal internals
• Background in advanced rendering research
• Knowledge of ray tracing, path tracing
• Experience with photogrammetry or 3D scanning
• Open-source graphics contributions

Technical Challenges You’ll Tackle:

• Achieving photorealistic 60fps rendering on mobile browsers
• Sub-second loading for complex 3D models
• Realistic shaders for different materials (jewelry, fabric, metal, glass)
• Adaptive rendering across low-end to high-end devices
• Seamless AR blending of virtual + real environments
• Managing thousands of product SKUs with diverse materials
• Debugging GPU issues across browsers, devices, and GPU vendors

Why Join the Company:

• Pure graphics engineering — not generic frontend work
• Solve deep rendering challenges that push WebGL limits
• Create visually stunning work seen by millions
• Work with modern WebGL 2.0 capabilities
• Freedom to experiment with advanced graphic techniques
• High-performance engineering culture
• Your rendering work directly influences customer engagement
• Access to high-end GPUs, devices, and graphics tools
• Backed by NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google

Location & Work Culture:

• Bengaluru (HSR Layout)
• 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)
• Culture: performance-focused, graphics craftsmanship, high attention to detail
• Small, senior engineering team with deep expertise
• Access to GPUs, testing devices, and 3D tools

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the design and backend team to build and develop web applications for our forward-thinking products.
• Design large-scale systems with high complexity to support our high throughput applications.
• Understand how to leverage infrastructure for solving such large-scale problems.
• Develop tools and contribute to open source wherever possible.
• Adopt problem-solving as a way of life - always go to the root cause.
• Develop scalable front-end engineering, for the largest FinTech companies in India who use our product.
• Actively think about improving UX and UI.
• Collaborate with the team to discuss and implement ideas.
• Build responsive, robust, and optimized applications.

• Professional development experience with Angular 10
• At least 1-2 years of JavaScript development experience for web applications.
• Strong eye for design, UI, and UX.
• Passion for front-end development.
• Willingness to learn and experiment with new technologies.

• A self-driven UI engineer with an eye for detail UI Design and Development
• Build solutions that’ll be used by thousands of enterprises globally
• Meld UX and great looking UI and Wireframe while keeping excellent code quality
• Thrive in a collaborative team environment and work with challenging timelines
• Design and build web apps that are scalable, puts user experience front and center
• Develop modular UI components for company-wide reuse
• Evolve a common design language for UI across apps
• Establish and advocate front-end coding guidelines
• Iterate UI features with high speed
• Work with ambiguous product requirements and shared backend APIs

REQUIREMENT-

• 2-4 years of experience with working on UI frameworks like Angular
• Experience in product companies would be a plus
• Must have a solid understanding of JavaScript and related libs, CSS
• Big plus if familiar with Django, Flask, Postgres, Linux, Git, AWS
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code
• Ability to define cross-core contracts and bring them to closure through collaboration.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of Git and proficiency with Jenkin

About Hop:

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in Frontend development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
• Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.

Technical Skills

• Relevant work experience as a UI Developer. Proficient in JavaScript , ReactJS and/or Reactive Native, Angular , JQuery Experience with HTML, CSS, Knowledge of web services and related technologies (REST) Experience with Web Services and API integration
• Candidate should have a stronghold on HTML & CSS
• Can understand and troubleshoot REST APIs calls
• Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
• Knowledge of SASS & LESS will be a plus as well
• Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
• Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
• Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
• Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities 

1. Use JavaScript and cutting-edge JS frameworks to develop front end applications that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models
2. Solve and articulate complex problems through application design, product development, and user experiences. 
3. Develop software used by people who are not software developers--ensure the exceptional software you create influences them to be exceptional professionals in their respective fields
4. Collaborate with other programmers and mentor junior engineers through the development process
5. Leverage the knowledge of your peers to better understand business trends, customer communities, and technology adoption patterns
6. Evolve your language skills in JavaScript by staying current with complementary programming languages, development methodologies, user interface design techniques, and database tools.

• 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
• 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 modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• 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
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native Issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.

Responsibilities:

• Build customer facing technology product for global customers.
• Own the Product's frontend and backend development, building reusable, testable, and scalable code
• Research, evaluate, analyse and implement technical requirements
• Collaborate with product management teams to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
• Mentor Junior members of the team

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building scalable products, distributed applications product/services in JavaScript and one of Angular/React
• Should have sound knowledge and experience in HTML and CSS
• Familiarity with UI layout, and CSS grid system or experience working with Bootstrap or any other CSS frameworks is a must
• Should have worked on the complete UI lifecycle of converting UI/UX designs into prototypes, write reusable modules
• Implement UI development principles to ensure client side scaling and clean and maintainable code that performs well on various performance metrics
• Understanding of multiple delivery platforms, such as Mobile & Web and developing Responsive UI
• Designing Unit Test cases, integrated test cases using Selenium and Protractor
• Strong coding and problem solving skills
• Ability to own end-to-end deliveries, right from requirements till release
• Excellent coding skills and ability to produce high quality, bug free and testable production grade code
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Ability to review code and continuously push for higher standards of development
• Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL database services and related tools with the expertise to create efficient schemas, preferably MongoDB would be nice to have