Senior Software Engineer — Frontend, Vue.js / React - (f/m/d)

Location

Chennai, India — hybrid, with daily overlap with the German team

Experience

3–5 years professional front-end engineering (Senior Engineer band — equivalent to SDE-2/SDE-3 or Software Engineer II)

Reports to

Team Lead at Germany

Notice period

Immediate to 30 days strongly preferred; up to 60 days considered for strong fits

Compensation

Best in the Industry.

About the role

You'll be one of the first set of Software engineers on the ground in Chennai GCC of newboxes, Germany; building product interfaces alongside a small, high-ownership team.

The core ask is straightforward: the right front-end stack, and the ability to take a software requirement and own it end-to-end through the SDLC. Domain exposure (Industrial Systems & Decision Intelligence) is a bonus, not a prerequisite — we look for solid engineering fundamentals and grow the domain knowledge on the job.

Key responsibilities

- Understand software requirements and take full ownership through the SDLC — design, build, test, deploy, monitor and maintain
- Build and ship user-facing features end-to-end, from component design through to production
- Grow the Vue 3 component/design system into documented, tested, production-ready components
- Collaborate directly with product and the backend engineer to turn requirements into working software
- Contribute to frontend coding standards and review practices as the team grows
- Work async-first with the Germany-based team, with overlap hours for key syncs

Must-have skills

- 3–5 years building production frontend applications in Vue, React or Angular — this role works in Vue 3 (Composition API), so strong React experience with the ability to ramp quickly is genuinely welcome, not just a fallback.
- Solid TypeScript fundamentals — not just framework familiarity
- Experience integrating with REST or GraphQL APIs
- Demonstrated ability to take a requirement from spec to shipped feature with minimal hand-holding




- Comfort working in a small team with high autonomy, in hybrid mode

Nice-to-have

- Exposure to industrial, manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, ERP, or PLM domains — helpful context, not required
- Experience in an early-stage, lean team or first-engineer-on-the-ground setup
- Exposure to CI practices (automated builds/tests) is a plus; familiarity with CD or Infrastructure-as-Code is welcome but not expected.
- Basic exposure to AI/ML, Enterprise AI, Agentic AI is a plus.

What success looks like in the first 90 days

- Shipped at least one meaningful feature into production independently, start to finish
- Actively contributing to the Vue 3 component system
- Comfortable with the team's async collaboration rhythm with German Time zone (CET/ CEST)

Working Model

- Work from our office in Chennai and/or in Hybrid mode.
- Close daily collaboration with our team in Germany, with at least 4 to 5 hours of overlap
- You will work closely with product, engineering, and domain experts rather than in isolation
- We build products for the long term and value getting things right over shipping fast

Your Benefits

- Best in the Industry Compensation
- 30 days paid vacation per year
- High technical ownership & long-term architectural responsibility
- Modern tech environment
- Direct, visible impact — your work shapes the product from day one, not buried in a massive codebase

Your application

If you want to build products end-to-end and help shape an engineering team from its earliest days, we'd love to hear from you.

About us newboxes is an engineering-focused management and innovation consultancy. We help industrial and manufacturing organizations solve hard problems in risk, safety, cost, and complexity — combining systems thinking with real, hands-on software engineering. Our team spans Germany and India, and Chennai is where we're building that engineering capability from the ground up.

If you want to build software that structures real industrial complexity rather than ship features in isolation, we'd like to hear from you.

📌 Senior Software Engineer — Frontend, Vue.js / React (Chennai)
🏢 newboxes
📍 Chennai