Senior Frontend Engineer - Bengaluru
Role Overview
Build high-performance web experiences at upGrad using Next.js, React, and TypeScript.
Own web performance, scalability, and the end-to-end user journey.
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Role Overview
Build high-performance web experiences at upGrad using Next.js, React, and TypeScript.
Own web performance, scalability, and the end-to-end user journey.
Company Details
upGrad is described as a South Asia-focused higher education technology platform.
The company uses technology, industry partnerships, and expert-led learning to support learner career outcomes.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of software engineering experience with strong frontend and web fundamentals.
- Strong hands-on experience with Next.js, React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
- Strong understanding of browser fundamentals, rendering, networking, caching, and web performance.
- Practical experience with Core Web Vitals including LCP, INP, CLS, and TTFB.
- Experience with SSR, SSG, CSR, hydration, and modern Next.js rendering and caching patterns.
- Experience with RUM, browser profiling, Lighthouse, and observability tools.
- Understanding of CDNs, cloud, caching, deployments, APIs, and server-side or edge execution.
- Ability to reason about performance, scalability, maintainability, reliability, and cost.
- Ability to use AI for coding, debugging, profiling, testing, and exploration while owning engineering decisions.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve web applications using Next.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
- Own and continuously improve web performance and Core Web Vitals.
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks using profiling, Lighthouse, RUM, and observability tools.
- Optimise the complete request journey from CDN and caching to server rendering, APIs, browser execution, and user experience.
- Build reusable frontend foundations and patterns that scale across products and teams.
- Reduce unnecessary dependencies, JavaScript, expensive rendering, and avoidable complexity.
- Collaborate with backend, infrastructure, design, and product teams when required.
- Ship, measure, learn, and continuously improve the product experience.
- Use AI as an engineering tool while validating its output and maintaining ownership of technical decisions.
Workplace
- The role is based in Bengaluru and is performed from the office.
Interview Process
- The process includes recruiter screening, a technical assessment, a frontend technical interview, a hiring manager interview, and a final interview.
Recruitment Partner
CLANX is identified as a recruitment partner helping upGrad hire the Frontend Engineer.
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