About the job
At Freshworks, we are committed to crafting exceptional user experiences through innovative engineering. As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in developing sleek, fast, and accessible interfaces for our diverse range of global products. Your expertise will help transform complex business processes into engaging and intuitive interactions, while prioritizing both performance and usability at every turn.
Are you someone who thinks in components, cares deeply about rendering speed, and takes pride in writing seamless code? If so, you’ve found your ideal opportunity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop modular, high-performance UI components utilizing JavaScript frameworks.
- Work collaboratively with design, product, and backend teams to implement features that function flawlessly.
- Convert business and UX requirements into scalable frontend architectures.
- Lead initiatives for accessibility, rendering, and UI performance optimization across diverse browsers and devices.
- Conduct code reviews, guide prototyping projects, and enforce frontend best practices.
- Utilize your deep understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and browser internals.
- Ensure cross-browser compatibility, responsive design, and smooth user interactions.
- Maintain high standards for design consistency and code quality.
Required Qualifications:
- 3 to 5 years of frontend development experience in product-focused teams.
- Core Frontend Expertise: Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fundamentals, including UI prototyping, advanced CSS techniques, and essential JS concepts like closures.
- Modern Frameworks & Ecosystem: Strong understanding of JavaScript framework principles (such as component architecture and state management).
- Frontend Quality & Performance: Skill in implementing UI optimizations, ensuring web accessibility, and performance tuning.
- Problem-Solving & Optimization: Proven ability to tackle and refine medium-level coding challenges, with a solid grasp of time and space complexity.
- Experience in writing and reviewing clean, maintainable, and testable frontend code.
- Software Design: Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) for building extensible, clean, and well-structured frontend applications. Experience working on frontend architecture and performance in high-traffic applications.
- End-to-End Component Ownership: Experience designing, implementing, and delivering full-stack components, inclusive of backend integration and API interactions.
- Advanced Web Concepts: Familiarity with advanced web development topics, including browser APIs and build tools.
- Proficiency in debugging complex UI challenges and ensuring cross-browser support.

