Mid Level Front End > React.JS

Capcon Asia; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainability solutions is seeking a Front End Engineer to contribute to core projects and maintain legacy systems. The role focuses on modernizing applications, collaborating cross-functionally, and enhancing user experience. Ideal candidates will possess strong ReactJs skills and be part of a dynamic, hybrid-working team in Kuala Lumpur.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience with ReactJs.
• Experience with state management libraries like Redux.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Ownership over architecture qualities of front-end applications.
• Collaborate with product teams for ideation and technical input.
• Mentor junior developers and foster innovation.

Skills

ReactJs

Redux

Javascript

Accessibility

Usability

Performance

Tools

React testing library

Cypress

Job description

Why are they awesome?

• Mission-driven: a global SAAS solution for sustainability and climate change
• Serving over 100,000 companies across 175+ countries and 200+ industries
• EU unicorn with US$ 500m in new funding
• New office and tech hub in Malaysia, scaling to 30 engineers in 2025

Projects (100% Front end)

• Own & Building 1 core project (new product / feature / module)
• Maintenance and upgrade of 1-2 smaller projects
• Ongoing modernisation of legacy tech (10+ years old)
• Build rough prototypes (proofs of concepts) to illustrate higher-level concepts, design ideas & solution drafts.

Responsibilities

• 100% focused on Front end Engineering, take the ownership over architecture qualities of front-end applications (usability, accessibility, performance, etc.)
• You will be part of the core engineering team to modernize and stabilize existing core products - rebuild new internal toolings and develop fresh, modern UIs
• Collaborate closely with the product team - contribute to ideation/inception, provide technical inputs, establish guidelines based on proposed designs etc
• Deliver the best user experience - design and develop workflows that are simple, reliable, and user-friendly.

Team & Culture

• Reporting to the Engineering Manager of your assigned product/domain team while collaborating within a globally distributed engineering environment
• Each product team (10) has a dedicated Engineering Manager with 2 Front End engineers per team.
• Perform peer code reviews, and mentor junior developers. Foster innovation and actively encourages new ideas and POCs development

Must Have

• Most recent 2 years experience in ReactJs
• Experience with Redux / Zustand or a similar state management library

Nice to have

• Typescript (Some legacy code is in TS)
• Frontend JavaScript Engineering (Angular, Vue, React etc)
• Experience in building and implementing Microfrontend architectures / Monorepo.
• Testing: React testing library or Cypress

Grade / Level

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, 100% technical hands-on
• 5-8+ years total work experience

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid with 3 days work from office
• Based in central KL (Direct link to MRT / LRT)