Frontend Developer

Capco; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Capco in Pune, India is seeking an experienced frontend engineer to implement parts of user journeys in React, focusing on correctness, performance basics, accessibility, and clean code.

You will collaborate with product, UX/UI, backend engineers, and QA, contribute to component libraries, write tests, and participate in code reviews, CI/CD, and documentation.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10 yrs of hands‑on experience building web applications or features using React and modern frontend tooling.
• Ability to debug and improve existing code with support (fixing UI/layout issues, addressing simple defects, making small functional enhancements).
• Understanding of core frontend concepts such as component structure, props/state, and introductory state management patterns (Context, basic Redux usage is a plus).
• Awareness of performance basics (avoiding unnecessary re‑renders, sensible component composition) and willingness to learn deeper optimisation techniques.
• Familiarity with accessibility fundamentals and inclusive UI practices (semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, basic ARIA; exposure to WCAG is a plus).
• Exposure to testing and code quality practices (for example: Jest/React Testing Library basics; willingness to learn integration/e2e testing).
• Clear communication skills, openness to feedback, and ability to collaborate with designers, engineers, and product partners in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Implement assigned parts of key user journeys, focusing on correctness, performance basics, accessibility, and clean, readable code.
• Use and contribute to existing component libraries by adding small enhancements, fixing bugs, and following design system guidelines.
• Debug and resolve straightforward issues in existing codebases (UI defects, layout problems, minor functional bugs) with support from senior engineers.
• Apply accessibility fundamentals (semantic HTML, labels, focus states, keyboard navigation) and use ARIA only when needed and guided by standards.
• Collaborate with product, UX/UI, backend engineers, and QA to clarify requirements, raise risks early, and deliver features end-to-end.
• Write and maintain unit/component tests for new work, and follow CI/CD pipelines (fixing build failures, addressing linting/type errors).
• Participate in code reviews by responding to feedback, learning team conventions, and gradually contributing constructive review comments.
• Document changes (README updates, component usage notes) and contribute to team ways of working through continuous improvement suggestions.

Skills

React

Frontend tooling

Debugging UI

State management basics

Accessibility fundamentals

Tools

Jest/RTL basics

CI/CD familiarity

Job description

Key responsibilities

• Implement assigned parts of key user journeys, focusing on correctness, performance basics, accessibility, and clean, readable code.
• Use and contribute to existing component libraries by adding small enhancements, fixing bugs, and following design system guidelines.
• Debug and resolve straightforward issues in existing codebases (UI defects, layout problems, minor functional bugs) with support from senior engineers.
• Apply accessibility fundamentals (semantic HTML, labels, focus states, keyboard navigation) and use ARIA only when needed and guided by standards.
• Collaborate with product, UX/UI, backend engineers, and QA to clarify requirements, raise risks early, and deliver features end-to-end.
• Write and maintain unit/component tests for new work, and follow CI/CD pipelines (fixing build failures, addressing linting/type errors).
• Participate in code reviews by responding to feedback, learning team conventions, and gradually contributing constructive review comments.
• Document changes (README updates, component usage notes) and contribute to team ways of working through continuous improvement suggestions.

Skills & Experience

• 8 to 10 yrs of hands‑on experience building web applications or features using React and modern frontend tooling
• Ability to debug and improve existing code with support (fixing UI/layout issues, addressing simple defects, making small functional enhancements).
• Understanding of core frontend concepts such as component structure, props/state, and introductory state management patterns (Context, basic Redux usage is a plus).
• Awareness of performance basics (avoiding unnecessary re‑renders, sensible component composition) and willingness to learn deeper optimisation techniques.
• Familiarity with accessibility fundamentals and inclusive UI practices (semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, basic ARIA; exposure to WCAG is a plus).
• Exposure to testing and code quality practices (for example: Jest/React Testing Library basics; willingness to learn integration/e2e testing).
• Clear communication skills, openness to feedback, and ability to collaborate with designers, engineers, and product partners in a team environment.