Lead Front End Developer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Headquartered in Mumbai since 2008, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages.

The position:

Himalaya Apps has an opening for a Lead Front End Developer. This role sits between design and backend engineering. Expect to spend most of your time in TypeScript, CSS and browser dev tools. Remote within India. The team meets in Mumbai once a quarter, travel covered. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

Job duties:

• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts
• Manage client state with Redux Toolkit, Zustand or TanStack Query
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers
• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years building production web applications
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts

Preferred:

• Figma, including Dev Mode
• Some Node.js backend work
• Experience building or maintaining a design system
• Next.js or Remix with server-side rendering

Compensation: ₹18,50,000 - ₹25,00,000 pa

Why work with us:

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Learning budget
• Internet reimbursement
• Group term life insurance

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Himalaya Apps.