Junior Front-End/UI Engineer

About the Company

Kognitos is on the hunt for a Junior UI Engineer to join our fast-paced, innovative team. If you graduated from a top-tier CS program, have a couple of solid internships under your belt, and you’re passionate about crafting clean, user-friendly interfaces, this is your chance to grow alongside seasoned pros!

About the Role

This role involves collaborating with senior engineers and designers to create responsive UI components and implementing end-to-end UI features that enhance user experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior engineers and designers to turn mockups into pixel-perfect, responsive UI components
• Help implement end-to-end UI features that delight users and align with our design system
• Write clear, maintainable JavaScript/TypeScript code under guidance, optimizing for performance and scalability
• Participate in code reviews—both giving and receiving feedback—to continuously level up your skills
• Troubleshoot UI bugs, cross-browser inconsistencies, and accessibility issues
• Stay curious about emerging UI patterns, libraries, and best practices; share your findings with the team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university
• 1–3 years of hands-on UI development experience (including internships at well-known tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, etc.)

Required Skills

• Familiarity with React (or another modern framework like Vue.js or Angular)
• Solid grasp of JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals
• Comfortable with HTML5, CSS3 (Flexbox/Grid) and responsive design principles
• Basic understanding of cross-browser compatibility and web accessibility standards
• Experience using Git (branching, pull requests, merges)
• Strong communication skills and a growth-mindset attitude
• A portfolio or code samples that demonstrate your UI chops (school projects, open-source contributions, hackathon builds, etc.)

Preferred Skills

• Experience with additional modern frameworks or libraries
• Knowledge of design systems and UI/UX principles