Senior Computer Scientist - Frontend

Roles & Responsibilities:

This is an individual contributor position. Expectations will be on the below lines:

• Responsible for design and architecture of new services and features
• Well versed in emerging industry technologies and trends, and the ability to channel that knowledge to the team and use it to influence product direction.
• Be responsible for all phases of engineering. From early specs, design/architecture, technology choice, development, unit-testing/integration automation, and deployment.
• Collaborate with architects, product management and other engineering teams to build the services and product features
• Build technical specifications, prototypes and presentations to communicate your ideas.
• Participate in resolution of production issues and develop solutions to prevent future issues from happening again
• Orchestrate with team to develop a product or parts of a large product.

Required Skills & Expertise:

• 10+ years of experience in technical roles, proven experience across product life cycle.
• Should have excellent computer science fundamentals and a good understanding of design, and performance of algorithm.
• Experience in scaling and leading teams building solution with cloud technologies
• Deep expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks like React.js, Angular, or Vue.js. and proficient in state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX, or Vuex).
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript ES6+ and TypeScript for building scalable applications.
• In-depth understanding of responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG).
• Expertise in optimizing frontend performance, including lazy loading, code splitting, and minimizing asset size.
• Proficient in tools like Lighthouse, Webpack, and Rollup.
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines and deploying frontend applications.
• Proficient in testing frameworks like Jest, Mocha, Cypress, or Puppeteer.
• Experience in writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Experience in handling WebSocket and real-time data updates
• Experience with server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG)
• Ability to build consensus & drive decisions in ambiguous scenarios
• Excellent work ethics and highly motivated
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (interpersonal and client-facing)
• Ability to manage systems development scope and changes in the context of the business environment.
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.

Architectural Skills

Scalable Design Patterns:

• Ability to design scalable, modular, and maintainable frontend architectures.
• Expertise in micro-frontends and component-driven development.

Performance Monitoring:

• Familiarity with tools like Adobe Analytics, New Relic, or Sentry to monitor application performance.

Component Libraries:

• Experience in designing and maintaining reusable component libraries using tools like Storybook.

Code Reviews & Standards:

• Skilled in conducting thorough code reviews and enforcing best practices.

System Design:

• Strong understanding of system design principles for large-scale web applications.