Junior Front End Developer

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Lahore, Punjab and two nearshore delivery centres. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

The role:

Hazelvault has an opening for a Junior Front End Developer. Part of this job is rebuilding an older AngularJS front end in React. Some of that work is unglamorous migration, and we won't pretend otherwise. We are headquartered in Lahore and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly.
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser.
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive.
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts.
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs.
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook.
• Manage client state with Redux Toolkit, Zustand or TanStack Query.
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.

What you need:

• 1+ years building production web applications.
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers.
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup.

Preferred:

• Figma, including Dev Mode.
• Experience building or maintaining a design system.
• Internationalization (i18n) and right-to-left layouts.

Salary: $2,250 to $2,900 monthly

Pay and benefits:

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Company laptop.
• Long-term engagement.

Please submit your CV in English.

Applications are reviewed weekly.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Hazelvault (Pvt.) Ltd..