Frontend Engineer

The Role:

The Frontend Engineer at Razorpay strives to build solid frontend foundations, infrastructure, and top-notch experiences. You are required to work in teams alongside back-end developers, graphic designers, and user experience designers to ensure all elements of web creation are consistent. This requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop high-quality and responsive user interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Implement and maintain frontend frameworks and libraries, such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Collaborate with designers to translate wireframes and mockups into functional UI components.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and optimize web applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Write clean, modular, and maintainable code following coding standards and best practices.Conduct thorough testing and debugging to ensure the functionality and performance of UI components
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to improve code quality and maintainability
• Work closely with backend engineers to integrate frontend interfaces with server-side logic and APIs
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to understand project requirements and provide technical insights
• Stay up-to-date with the latest front-end technologies, trends, and best practices, and proactively suggest improvements to the development process
• Champion usability and accessibility, adhering to web accessibility guidelines (e.g., WCAG) and implementing UX principles

Mandatory Qualifications:

• A minimum of 1+ years of relevant experience
• Proficient knowledge of any popular JS framework like React, Ember, Angular, or Backbone
• Experience with common front-end tools like SASS/Stylus, Jade, Grunt/Gulp, etc
• Good understanding of REST API
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion
• A willingness to learn new technology, whatever lets you deliver the best product

Good to have:

We also expect the following, but we accept that you can be a great developer without fulfilling the below. So go ahead and apply even if the following isn’t applicable:

• Have a few weekend side projects up on GitHub
• Have contributed to an open-source project
• Have worked at a product company