Principal Engineer - Frontend
Job Description:
As a Lead UI developer, you will be involved in all aspects of development, playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, and deployment and help develop best practices for future development. You will be working closely with the Tech, Design and Quality teams to build and launch the product.
Role & Responsibility :
Code, develop, design and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship
Design, implement and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications
Deliver across the entire app life cycle: design, build, deploy, test, release and support
Work directly with developers and product managers to conceptualise, build, test and release products
Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency
Develop workflow/solution which gets reused across line of business.
Must have :
Advanced Javascript, NodeJs, CSS3, HTML5, DOM Concepts
JS design patterns and concepts of OOPS and functional programming in JS
Practical working knowledge of front-end build tools like Vite, Webpack or Rspack, etc.
Eye for details & experience with design system
JavaScript testing using vitest, mocha, chai, sinon or similar tools
Knowledge regarding Frontend performance improvements in the most common browsers, cross-browser compatibility issues
Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective
Some UI portfolio or samples will be required
Ai assisted development
BE/BTech from premier engineering colleges (IITs/NITs/IIIT/DCE - CSE)
6+ years of Javascript/HTML development
Any experience with internet companies or the travel industry will be a plus
Good to have
Experience with full stack development in any language
Knowledge about latest JS frameworks and libraries like React or any frameworks like react router, tanstack or NextJs
knowledge of agent skills & prompting techniques
Some experience with Java web frameworks like JSF/Struts/Spring is desirable
Using Figma