SDE I (Frontend)

Navi Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Navi Limited is seeking a UI Engineer - 1 in Bengaluru to join our frontend team and contribute to building reliable user-facing products.

This early-career role emphasizes solving real product problems using modern web technologies, including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React. You’ll learn through collaboration with engineers, designers, and product teams, focusing on performance and clean, maintainable UI.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years frontend engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of React or similar frontend frameworks.
• Basic understanding of UI architecture: components, state, props, rendering, and data flow.
• Awareness of web performance, and test driven development.
• Ability to communicate thought processes clearly while solving problems.
• Experience with browser devtools and basic debugging.

Responsibilities

• Analyze product and technical problems and design efficient solutions with a focus on performance and customer experience.
• Build user-facing web interfaces using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and preferably React or similar framework.
• Translate product requirements into clean, functional, and maintainable UI.
• Debug frontend issues and reason through code behavior step by step.
• Apply basic security best practices across all features you build.
• Write unit tests (and higher-level tests with senior guidance) covering happy paths, edge cases, and robust error handling.
• Write readable and organized code that other engineers can understand and maintain.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product teams to ship reliable frontend experiences.

Skills

JavaScript basics

React

Frontend architecture

Debugging

UI testing

Tools

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

Job description

About Navi

At Navi, our mission is to simplify finance for a billion people, through technology‑first products built at scale.

Founded in 2018 by Sachin Bansal and Ankit Agarwal, Navi has grown rapidly across Loans, UPI, Insurance, Mutual Funds and Digital Gold building products designed around speed, simplicity and customer experience.

Today, millions of customers use Navi for experiences like instant personal loans, fully digital home loan sanctions within minutes, low-cost mutual funds, instant credit lines in minutes and one of Indias fastest‑growing UPI platforms.

What makes Navi different is the way we build.

We move fast, solve real customer problems and give people the ownership to create meaningful impact early in their journey.

Why Explore a Career at Navi?

Where Ownership Creates Real Impact

At Navi, ownership starts early. People here are trusted to solve problems, make decisions and drive outcomes that directly shape the products and experiences used by millions of customers every day.

Where Careers Accelerate

Growth at Navi is driven by impact, not tenure. We strongly believe in promoting from within and creating opportunities for people to take on larger responsibilities as they grow. If you consistently raise the bar, you’ll find the space to grow quickly here.

Where Great Talent Builds Together

We take pride in building high talent‑density teams where ambitious people learn from one another every day. Working on high‑scale business and technology problems creates steep learning curves, fast execution cycles and opportunities to make visible impact throughout your journey.

About the Role

We are looking for a “UI Engineer - 1” who is curious, strong in frontend fundamentals, and eager to build reliable user‑facing products. This role is suited for early‑career frontend engineers who enjoy solving problems, writing clean code, and learning through collaboration. At Navi, we value clarity of thought, problem‑solving approach, frontend fundamentals, and growth mindset.

What You'll Own

• Analyze product and technical problems and design efficient solutions with a focus on performance and customer experience.
• Build user‑facing web interfaces using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and preferably React or similar framework.
• Translate product requirements into clean, functional, and maintainable UI.
• Debug frontend issues and reason through code behavior step by step.
• Apply basic security best practices across all features you build.
• Write unit tests (and higher‑level tests with senior guidance) covering happy paths, edge cases, and robust error handling.
• Write readable and organized code that other engineers can understand and maintain.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product teams to ship reliable frontend experiences.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 0-2 years of frontend engineering experience (including internships, academic, or personal projects).
• Good understanding of JavaScript fundamentals: closures, scope, event loop, async behavior, prototypes, and "this".
• Working knowledge of React or similar frontend frameworks.
• Basic understanding of UI architecture: components, state, props, rendering, and data flow.
• Awareness of web performance, and test driven development.
• Ability to communicate thought processes clearly while solving problems.
• Experience with browser devtools and basic debugging.

The Navi OS

The Navi OS is our Operating System for how we work every day. Success at Navi is defined by living these core values.

• Start with the Customer
• Master the Details
• Act with Urgency
• Own the Outcome
• Build for a Decade - Not a Day
• Win as One

We hire talented individuals who already show these strengths, because those who share these values thrive at Navi and grow with the organisation.

To read more about the Navi OS, visit navi.com/our-values

Life at Navi

Life at Navi is fast‑paced, ambitious and deeply collaborative. Beyond work, teams come together through sports, celebrations, offsites, music jams, team outings and many more shared experiences that make the journey exciting and memorable.

We believe people do their best work when they feel supported, through flexible leave policies, strong health and wellness benefits, free financial, legal and medical consultations, ESOPs and a workplace designed for both productivity and well‑being.

Whether it’s the sports turf, gym, focus zone or nap rooms, the campus is built to make everyday work more enjoyable.

If you’d like to know more about life at Navi, our culture and employee benefits, head to our careers page: navi.com/careers/life‑at‑navi

If solving meaningful problems, building at scale and growing alongside ambitious teams excites you,

Navi could be the place for you.