Web Developer

Front-End Software Engineer (React, Next.js)

Location: Mumbai, India

Experience: 3+ years

Industry: Fintech / Startup

About MethodTech

At MethodTech, we’re building the next-generation platform for institutional investors, combining cutting-edge technology with advanced quantitative models, real-time analytics, and execution tools. Our goal is to empower institutional investors to make data-driven, informed decisions with ease. You will have the opportunity to work closely with the co-founders and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of MethodTech.

Job Description

We’re looking for a driven and innovative Front-End Software Engineer with expertise in React and Next.js. In this role, you will work closely with the co-founders to design, develop, and scale our platform’s front-end architecture. You’ll take ownership of key front-end decisions, collaborate with back-end teams, and contribute to the overall vision of the product. This is an exciting opportunity to make a lasting impact in a fast-growing startup.

Responsibilities

• Lead front-end development efforts using React and Next.js, delivering high-quality, scalable applications.
• Collaborate closely with the co-founders to define and implement the technical direction of the platform.
• Work alongside the product and design teams to turn ideas and concepts into user-centric features and functionality.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for the front-end of the platform.
• Optimize the performance and scalability of the application for enterprise use.
• Contribute to the overall architecture and design of the platform to ensure reliability, speed, and scalability.
• Participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and foster a culture of collaboration and learning.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in front-end development with hands-on expertise in React and Next.js.
• Experience with state management tools (e.g., Redux, Context API).
• Familiarity with Django Rest Framework is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a dynamic startup environment.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working directly with leadership.

Why Join Us?

• Work Directly with Co-Founders: Play a critical role in shaping the product and the company’s technical future.
• Early Impact: Your work will have a direct impact on the company’s success and growth.
• Growth Opportunities: We’re scaling quickly, and there’s a lot of room for personal and professional growth.
• Collaborative Team: Join a team that values innovation, teamwork, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Competitive Salary and Benefits: We offer a competitive compensation package to attract top talent.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions.
• May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm.
• The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages.
• Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability, and scalability.
• Review code of development team to ensure quality and adherence to best practices and standards.
• Mentor junior developers to develop their skills and build strong talent.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure partners to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments.
• Define scalability and performance criteria for assigned applications.
• Ensure application meets the performance, privacy, and security requirements.
• Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements.
• Support business and technical presentations in relation to technology platforms and business solutions.
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls.
• Help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements.
• implement technology-specific best practices that are consistent with corporate standards.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project deliverables.
• Manage the software development process.
• Drive new technical and business process improvements.
• Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense.
• Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and contributes to the solution design.
• Construct application Architecture encompassing end-to-end designs.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree required with Masters, or equivalent experience preferred
• Minimum of 7 years of related experience.
• 7+ Years of Active Development Experience/ Expertise in Java/J2EE Based Applications proven ability with Hibernate, JPA, Spring, Spring MVC
• Exposure to XML/XSD, JSON and similar data presentation components
• Familiarity with Microservices based architecture and distributed systems.
• Ability to develop and work with REST APIs using Spring Boot framework.
• Knowledge of IBM MQ and messaging protocols such as JMS
• Understanding of Unix/Linux OS including shell scripting
• Strong database and PL/SQL skills
• Experience with CI/CD technologies like GIT, Jenkins, JoCoCo and Maven
• Experience with UI frameworks - Angular, NodeJS and NPM is a plus
• Experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and similar UI frameworks (jQuery, React Angular) is a plus
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology

We, Itu Chaudhuri Design Pvt Ltd, are one of India's leading graphic design studio. Our work covers branding, communication, packaging and digital, for editorial, social, consumer and product businesses. We also design and develop award-winning websites, which include news websites (The Hindu), e-commerce websites (Sleepwell), interactive and experimental applications (Re:Reader), ERP software, and more (https://icdindia.com/projects/category/digital)

We are hiring talented Web Developers to join our team. The CTC will depend on how the candidate performs in the interview process.

Responsibilities for Front End Developer

• translate UI/UX design wireframes to actual pixel-perfect code
• develop a responsive website using HTML and CSS
• develop complex animations using CSS and javascript that is responsive, fast, bug-free, and cross-browser/device compatible 
• write reusable code and libraries, enhance applications for maximum speed and scalability, validate input before submitting to the back end and follow other industrywide best practices to maintain the best quality of the code and websites
• the developed code should be secure, scalable, responsive, and fast and should incorporate all the latest features
• experiment with the latest technologies and create new work processes in the organization

Qualifications for Front-End Developer

• good communication skills and proficiency in English is a must
• 3 - 6 years of full-time work experience in a similar role
• expert knowledge of HTML/CSS, React.JS, and Javascript is a required
• working knowledge of WordPress, Shopify, Liquid.JS, Next.JS, GraphQL and other libraries is a plus
• good understanding of SEO
• proficient in code visioning tools like GitHub
• ability to work independently with minimal supervision while achieving benchmarks
• advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to optimize code for the best possible outcome
• understanding of web security issues and best practices
• familiarity with network diagnostics tools
• team management skills

Required Skills

As a developer, you have a passion for development and a thirst to learn. You enjoy working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You are a quick learner who can step up and take ownership of work to get things done on time. You also enjoy and appreciate working and collaborating with others from various backgrounds as part of a team.

Job Requirement

• Full-stack developer with exposure working in building products from scratch
• Have 2+ years in implementing front-end of applications using ReactJS
• Proficient in HTML 5, CSS 3, Bootstrap Ant-D, Redux, JavaScript and writing cross-browser compatible code
• Good knowledge of MVC, MVVM, OOPS concepts, Web Development Concept.
• Experience with RESTful services
• Work experience any one of the backend technologies such as Java, NodeJS, .NET will be a major plus
• Experience in JavaScript build tools such as web-pack /gulp
• Familiar with testing frameworks (such as Jasmine) and Test runner framework (such as Karma) (good to have)
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Knows unit testing
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Duty /Responsibility

• Your specific duties in this role will include:
• Responsible for the front end/UI development for of the web-based and mobile-based application
• Responsible for communicating with clients
• Responsible for communicating with Designing Team and Team Manager
• Responsible for Requirement Analysis
• Responsible for mentoring junior front-end developers
• Responsible for researching new web technologies
• Responsible for developing POCs
• Respond to technical queries/requests from team members and customers.
• Coach, guide, and mentor junior members in the team.

Requirements : 

a) CSS / Bootstrap : Flex Layout/ability to demonstrate the cascading nature of CSS clearly with example/Positioning.

b) Pure JavaScript: Prototype chain and inner workings of inheritance in JS. Understood DOM, Events, Event Bubbling, and Capturing/ ability to demonstrate it with example/ Promises and their use cases.

c) TypeScript: Basic understanding of using TS. Union Types, Index Signatures,

d) REST: Backend experience. REST principles, URL structures for APIs. integration using native JS (fetch and Promises) and in Angular. use cases of getting vs POST vs PUT vs PATCH.

e) Angular :  Abstractions of Angular Component, Service, Pipe, Directive, Module, Lifecycles. Knew advanced patterns as well Dynamic Components, Content Projection, Reactive Forms, ViewChild, ContentChild. Understood Observables and various operators demonstration of Design Skills ability to create the component and module hierarchy for a moderately complex application, along with their interactions

As a front end product engineer, you will work with product engineers & designers to improve the overall user experience, performance, reliability and scalability of our systems. From handling millions of messages/ payments a minute to extract buyer intent and priority for processing these transactions to building tools to trace and visualize payments made across a business you'll be involved in projects that span all aspects of the business. Our goals includes scaling and architecting systems to support advanced product features that may not be currently viable because of hard technical considerations. You'll collaborate with our small, but effective, framework team with a track record of highly impactful work for Finly.

WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU'LL

• Complete Finly's new-hire training week, and learn Accounts Payable Processes & the various partners we work with to make Finly happen.
• Investigate, solve and release a bug fix to production. In order to do this you will ramp up on Finly's engineering stack by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering training sessions designed and presented by the team.
• Meet with cross-functional peers around the company to learn how the product functions.
• Complete your engineering starter project and deploy your first changes to production.

WITHIN 3 MONTHs, YOU'LL

• Learn Finly's technical stack and apply development patterns through your work.
• Engage in your first on-call rotation in Support Engineering to help diagnose and resolve production problems and customer issues
• Individually contribute reliably ship full features to customers.
• Estimate technical scope and time to complete major features and initiatives.

WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Move to new product vertical & initiative and start designing scalable frontend systems.
• Have made a visible impact on the product for all the users of Finly.
• Work closely with your team to remove roadblocks, educate on best practices and improve how we work.
• Be comfortable navigating most of frontend stack and infrastructure
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new features
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture

WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Individually contribute and lead teams to reliably ship full improvements to our frontend services
• Define tools and standards for product engineering to measure performance impact of releases
• Drive service reliability by developing tooling that enables metric visibility using SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
• Developing Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability
• Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing and developing other learning opportunities
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals

Your understanding of front-end technologies, web application dev, system design, will be put to the test. You will take up a project for a team and then move to another project.

Join us & have the authority and responsibility to make things happen!

• Experience with Word press
• Experts in HTML To Word press theming
• Plugin Creation and Management
• Able to develop the theme. Mastery of HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery;
• Experience with object-oriented programming
• Experience with mobile platforms.
• Experience with the following technologies OOAD/OOPS (Object Oriented Programming) PHP 5, MySQL 5, any framework like Zend/Symfony/CakePHP, etc.
• Strong understanding and hands-on in HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery/Prototype and AJAX.
• Very strong understanding of database technologies and SQL Optimization.
• A clear understanding of product development environment and methodologies.
• Experience in SVN/GIT Hub/Beanstalk
• Familiarity with web technology trends (Web 2.0) and the evolution of the Internet.
• Experience with Word press is mandatory, other CMS/framework experience will be an added advantage.
• Experience with Word Press Theme, Widgets, and Plugin customizing and developing new word press themes, Plugin modification/development, and widgets development.
• Expert knowledge in Word press installation, configuration, administration, security, and optimization.
• Desired Experience in customizing existing 3rd party themes, Plugin.

• Strong development experience of 2 years using front end technologies such as HTML,  JavaScript, CSS, JQuery, HTML5, React JS, Angular 4 or higher , Type Script
• Skilled at Object Oriented JavaScript and having a working knowledge of at least one of  the following MVC Frameworks (Angular, Ember, React etc.)
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment) 
• Understanding of common frontend design patterns for developing high performance, user friendly and robust applications