Frontend Developer

Who we’re looking for: A frontend engineer who enjoys building clean, scalable, and high-performance user-facing products using React, and who takes real ownership of what ships to users.

What the role is about: You’ll translate product and design ideas into high-quality frontend code, own large parts of our web experience, and continuously improve performance, scalability, and usability across devices.

Why you should apply: If you enjoy solving real user problems, care deeply about code quality and product polish, and want to see your work directly impact thousands of learners, this role gives you both responsibility and room to grow.

About us: Kraftshala is India’s largest higher-education institution in terms of marketing placements, with a 94% placement, and we are gunning to become the world’s largest career launchpad, across domains.

We’re backed by a number of eminent investors including ex-unicorn startup founders and CXOs of global giants like RedBus, NoBroker, Nestlé, and Performics.

As a Frontend Developer at Kraftshala, you will work closely with product, design, and backend teams to build fast, reliable, and scalable web applications. Your primary focus will be on developing user-facing features in React, ensuring excellent performance across platforms, and owning end-to-end delivery of frontend projects.

This role suits someone who combines strong JavaScript fundamentals with product thinking, attention to detail, and comfort in taking ownership in a fast-moving startup environment.

• Build and ship user-facing features using React.js.Metrics to measure: Feature delivery timelines, defect rates post-release, and adoption/usage of shipped features.
  

  
  

• Translate designs and product requirements into clean, reusable code. Metrics to measure: Design-to-code accuracy, reusability of components, and review feedback from design and product teams.
  

  
  

• Own frontend architecture for speed, scalability, and maintainability. Metrics to measure: Page load times, Lighthouse scores, and technical debt reduction over time.
  

  
  

• Ensure cross-platform responsiveness and mobile performance. Metrics to measure: Performance benchmarks across browsers/devices and mobile usability scores.
  

  
  

• Optimize web components for performance and reliability. Metrics to measure: Bundle size, render times, and reduction in performance-related bugs.
  

  
  

• Independently own large frontend projects end-to-end. Metrics to measure: On-time delivery, clarity of technical documentation, and stability of releases..
  

  
  

• Ownership & Accountability: An A-player takes full ownership of frontend outcomes from idea to production, whereas a B-player limits responsibility to assigned tickets.
  

  
  

• Code Quality & Craft: An A-player consistently writes clean, scalable, and well-documented code, whereas a B-player prioritizes speed over long-term maintainability.