Lead Frontend Engineer (React.js)

RIB Software GmbH; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 400,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

RIB Software GmbH is seeking a hands-on Lead Frontend Engineer (React.js) to shape the architecture and delivery of cloud-based SaaS applications for construction collaboration. You will set technical direction, guide teams through implementation, and stay close to the code.

You will join the Collaboration Team, working with product, UX, backend, QA, DevOps, and platform teams across a distributed organization.

Qualifications

• Lead frontend engineer to shape architecture and delivery of cloud-based SaaS applications.
• Define frontend boundaries, integration contracts, reusable patterns, golden paths, and scalable delivery standards, including micro-frontends and APIs.
• Document significant decisions, review frontend ADRs, evaluate trade-offs, and challenge short-term solutions that create long-term risk.
• Drive engineering quality through automated testing, code review, performance, accessibility, observability, secure coding, and production readiness.
• Use AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve analysis, prototyping, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation with proper validation.
• Translate product and design intent into technically sound, design-system-aligned solutions without creating unnecessary central dependencies.
• Mentor engineers, raise the quality of technical discussions, and help teams move from broad requirements to deliverable solutions.
• Support existing applications, lead incremental modernization, and define practical migration and deprecation paths.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, testing, and delivery of frontend applications.
• Define clear frontend boundaries and patterns for scalable delivery.
• Review decisions, ADRs, and trade-offs to minimize long-term risks.
• Promote quality with automated tests, performance, accessibility, and security practices.
• Collaborate with product, UX, backend, QA, DevOps, and platform teams.
• Mentor engineers to raise technical discussions and solution clarity.

Skills

React and TypeScript

Architecture

Technical leadership

Modern web engineering

System thinking

AI-enabled development

Communication & ownership

Delivery discipline

Tools

Git/GitHub

CI/CD

Cloud environments

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Driven by transformative digital technologies and trends, we are RIB and we’ve made it our purpose to propel the industry forward and make engineering and construction more efficient and sustainable. Built on deep industry expertise and best practice, and with our people at the heart of everything we do, we deliver the world's leading end-to-end lifecycle solutions that empower our industry to build better.

With a steadfast commitment to innovation and a keen eye on the future, RIB comprises over 2,500 talented individuals who extend our software’s reach to over 100 countries worldwide. We are experienced experts and professionals from different cultures and backgrounds and we collaborate closely to provide transformative software products, innovative thinking and professional services to our global market. Our strong teams across the globe enable sustainable product investment and enhancements, to keep our clients at the cutting-edge of engineering, infrastructure and construction technology.

We know our people are our success - join us to be part of a global force that uses innovation to enhance the way the world builds.

Find out more at RIB Careers.

Job Title: Lead Frontend Engineer (React.js)

Experience Required: 10+ Years

Location: Nashik / Pune, India

About the Role

RIB Software is looking for a hands-on Lead Frontend Engineer to shape the architecture and delivery of our cloud-based SaaS applications for construction collaboration. You will set technical direction, make clear trade-offs, support teams through implementation, and remain close to the code.

Who You Will Work With

You will join the Collaboration Team, an in-house design and engineering group connecting office and construction-site workflows through focused digital tools. You will work closely with product, UX, backend, QA, DevOps, platform teams, and engineering leadership across a geographically distributed organization.

What You Will Do

• Lead the architecture, design, development, testing, and delivery of performant, accessible, and maintainable frontend applications.
• Define clear frontend boundaries, integration contracts, reusable patterns, golden paths, and scalable delivery standards, including micro-frontends, shared platform capabilities, APIs, backend-for-frontend patterns, versioning, and compatibility.
• Document significant decisions, review frontend ADRs, evaluate trade-offs, and challenge short-term solutions that create unnecessary long-term risk.
• Drive engineering quality through automated testing, code review, performance, accessibility, observability, secure coding, and production readiness.
• Use AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve analysis, prototyping, implementation, refactoring, testing, debugging, and documentation, with proper validation and human review.
• Translate product and design intent into technically sound, design-system-aligned solutions without creating unnecessary central dependencies or blocking product teams.
• Mentor engineers, raise the quality of technical discussions, and help teams move from broad requirements to clear, deliverable solutions.
• Support existing applications, lead incremental modernization, and define practical migration and deprecation paths where needed.

What You Bring

• **React and TypeScript: ** 6+ years of hands-on experience building and operating production web applications with React and TypeScript.
• **Architecture: ** Proven experience designing and evolving frontend architecture, defining boundaries, assessing trade-offs, and guiding implementation across teams.
• **Technical leadership: ** Demonstrated ability to define standards, review technical decisions, mentor engineers, and influence teams without relying only on formal authority.
• **Modern web engineering: ** Strong understanding of component architecture, state and data management, API integration, performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability.
• **System thinking: ** Experience balancing team autonomy, shared platform needs, delivery speed, technical debt, and long-term maintainability.
• **AI-enabled development: ** Practical experience using AI-enabled development tools responsibly to improve engineering outcomes rather than replace engineering judgement.
• **Communication and ownership: ** Strong written and verbal communication, clear ownership, and the ability to turn ambiguity into concrete decisions and actions.
• **Delivery discipline: ** Experience with Git/GitHub, CI/CD, cloud environments, Jira, Confluence, and modern engineering workflows.
• Formal education is not required. ** We value demonstrated experience, technical judgement, continuous learning, and evidence of impact over academic credentials.

Nice to Have

• Experience with micro-frontends, domain-driven design, backend-for-frontend patterns, or multi-team SaaS platforms.
• Experience with design systems, Figma-to-code workflows, component libraries, cross-product frontend governance, or user-facing AI capabilities.
• Hands-on experience with Testing Library, Jest, Playwright, Cypress, or comparable frontend testing tools.
• Experience with observability, production support, secure development, and frontend platform modernization.

What Success Looks Like

• Teams have clear standards, documented decisions, reusable patterns, and practical guidance they can apply independently.
• Frontend boundaries and integration contracts support team autonomy without weakening platform consistency.
• Technical risks, exceptions, migrations, and deprecations are visible, justified, and actively managed.
• AI-assisted development improves delivery and quality without weakening review, testing, security, or maintainability.
• Applications are fast, accessible, reliable, and secure, while engineers make better decisions through effective mentorship and technical leadership.

Our Culture

At RIB Software, we value customer orientation, innovation, excellence, secure engineering, and responsible decision-making. We are looking for someone who leads by example, asks the right questions, and helps teams choose the right solution for immediate delivery and the long-term platform.

RIB may require all successful applicants to undergo and pass a comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

RIB is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.

Come and join RIB to create the transformative technology that enables our customers to build a better world.