The Product Engineer at Razorpay strives to build solid frontend foundations and top-notch user experiences. You will play a key role in designing, developing, and implementing high-quality user interfaces for our software products. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and backend engineers, to create intuitive and visually appealing frontend solutions. Your expertise in frontend development and user experience will be instrumental in delivering exceptional products to our customers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to understand product requirements, user needs, and technical constraints.
• Design and develop user interfaces for web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (such as React, Angular, or Vue.js) while ensuring cross-browser compatibility and responsiveness.
• Create reusable and scalable frontend components that can be leveraged across multiple projects and applications.
• Optimize application performance and ensure smooth user experience by implementing efficient coding practices, performance optimizations, and caching strategies.
• Own and drive our payments frontend applications to make it faster and simpler to use.
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging to identify and fix frontend defects and ensure the quality and stability of the product.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest frontend development trends, tools, and best practices, and actively contribute to the adoption of new technologies and methodologies.
• Collaborate with the UX/UI design team to translate design concepts into interactive and visually appealing user interfaces.
• Work closely with backend engineers to integrate frontend components with backend APIs and ensure seamless data flow and functionality.
• Contribute to the overall software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, estimation, documentation, and deployment.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 0-2 years of proven experience as a frontend engineer or similar role
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with experience in frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Solid understanding of responsive design principles and mobile-first development.
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion
• A willingness to learn new technology, whatever lets you deliver the best product
• Experience with common front-end tools like SASS/Stylus, Jade, Webpack/rollup, etc
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and asynchronous programming concepts.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to quickly debug and fix frontend issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress) and knowledge of automated testing practices is desirable.

Good to have:

• Have a few weekend side-projects up on GitHub
• Participate in code reviews to provide and receive constructive feedback and improve code quality and maintainability.
• Familiarity with backend technologies and languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java) is a plus.
• Have contributed to an open-source project
• Have worked at a product company
• Have a working knowledge of a backend programming language