React Frontend Lead_Onshore

Photon; United States; On-site; USD 50,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental benefits

401k retirement plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Photon seeks React Developers to build responsive, accessible UIs with React and Next.js, optimize performance, and connect front-end to RESTful APIs or GraphQL.

You will collaborate with UI/UX designers and backend engineers, implement testing with Jest/RTL/Cypress, and maintain a reusable component library (Storybook, Tailwind UI) to ensure brand consistency across storefronts.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building React/Next.js interfaces.
• Experience with GraphQL/REST APIs integration.
• Strong state management in React apps (Redux Toolkit, Zustand, React Query).

Responsibilities

• Build responsive, accessible UIs using React and Next.js.
• Optimize performance with SSR/SSG and image optimization.
• Connect front-end to APIs (REST/GraphQL).
• Implement client-side state handling with modern tools.
• Write modular, tested code with Jest/RTL/Cypress.
• Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to translate wireframes into code.
• Work with cloud hosting and CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain a reusable component library (Storybook, Tailwind UI).
• Secure front-end integration with identity providers and BFF layers.

Skills

React

Next.js

GraphQL

REST APIs

Redux Toolkit

Zustand

React Query

Jest

RTL

Cypress

UI/UX collaboration

Storybook

Tailwind UI

Security best practices

OAuth/OIDC

Storefront API

Cloud hosting (GCP)

Prisma

Tools

Storybook

Radix UI

Tailwind CSS

SAP Commerce Cloud

Contentful

Strapi

Prisma

OAuth libraries

Job description

React Developers

• Build responsive, accessible, and highly interactive user interfaces using React and Next.js.
• Maximize page speeds and Core Web Vitals using Next.js optimization features (SSR, SSG, image optimization, dynamic imports, and caching).
• Connect front-end components with internal and third-party services using RESTful APIs or GraphQL.
• Implement clean and efficient client-side state handling using Context API, Redux Toolkit, Zustand, or React Query.
• Write modular, reusable, and well-documented code with unit and integration tests (Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress).
• Partner with UI/UX designers, backend engineers, and product managers to translate technical requirements and Figma wireframes into functional code.
• Familiarity with Cloud hosting (preferably GCP Cloud Run) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with headless CMS platforms (Contentful, Strapi, Sanity), database systems (SQL/NoSQL), and ORMs like Prisma.
• Understanding of modern web security best practices (Next-Auth/Auth.js, JWT, CORS) and monorepos (Nx, Turborepo).
• Experience with identity providers using OAuth and OIDC.
• Build and maintain a highly configurable, reusable library of e-commerce React components to ensure UI consistency across brands using tools like Storybook, Radix UI, or Tailwind UI.
• Mastery of advanced React patterns (compound components, render props, slots) for deeply configurable components
• Develop and optimize headless e-commerce storefronts using React and Next.js
• Connect the frontend UI securely to a BFF layer/SAP Commerce Cloud using the Storefront API (GraphQL) and handle complex cart/checkout workflows.
• Experience implementing identity provider integration using OIDC with SAP Commerce Cloud.
• Manage deployments and CI/CD pipelines to edge platforms like SAP Commerce Cloud
• Strong understanding of the Storefront API, product catalogs, collections, customer accounts, and metafields.

Compensation, Benefits and Duration

Minimum Compensation: USD 50,000

Maximum Compensation: USD 175,000

Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.

Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.

This position is available for independent contractors

No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post