Frontend Developer (React) Junior (1-3 Years) Mumbai, India Full time, on-site Apply for this role Overview

Unico Connect is seeking a Frontend Developer (React) to build production user interfaces for client web products. The role spans component implementation, accessibility, performance, and the partnership with designers and backend engineers that ensures pixel-perfect production output. The position is well suited to early-career frontend engineers with strong React and TypeScript fundamentals and a good visual eye.

Key Responsibilities

- Build production React and Next.js apps with TypeScript
- Translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, responsive, accessible components
- Implement state management with TanStack Query, Zustand, or Redux Toolkit
- Write unit tests (Vitest or Testing Library) and end-to-end tests (Playwright)
- Optimise Core Web Vitals, bundle size, and SEO
- Collaborate closely with designers and backend engineers during feature development
- Pair with senior frontend engineers on architecture decisions and code reviews
- Participate in incident response for owned frontends
- Maintain technical documentation for owned components and patterns
- Contribute to shared design system components and internal libraries

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 1-3 years of React with TypeScript in production
- Working knowledge of Next.js (App Router or Pages Router)
- Comfort with CSS, Tailwind, and CSS-in-JS
- Familiarity with Git, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD
- Good visual eye; capacity to match designer specs precisely
- Solid understanding of accessibility basics and responsive design
- Working knowledge of state management patterns
- Excellent written communication for pull requests and design conversations
- Capacity to read backend code well enough to scope frontend-backend integrations

Preferred Qualifications

- Server components and streaming experience
- Storybook and component-driven development




- Motion (Framer Motion, GSAP)
- Hands-on with design tokens and Figma dev mode
- Open-source contributions

AI Tools Proficiency Production engineering at Unico Connect assumes AI tools form part of the daily workflow rather than an experimental augmentation. For this role specifically:

- Cursor or Claude Code as a daily coding driver
- v0 or Bolt for component scaffolding
- GitHub Copilot for inline code suggestions
- Figma Dev Mode with AI assistance for handoff

Required Skills React 18+Next.js (App Router)TypeScriptTanStack QueryTailwind / CSS-in-JS Benefits

- Hybrid working model — 1 day work-from-home per week
- MacBook Pro and external monitor for work
- Paid subscriptions to Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor
- Team events, offsites, and outings
- Referral bonus when you bring in a successful hire

What we look for at Unico Connect Every Unico role expects the same underlying traits — regardless of department or seniority. If these resonate, apply.

AI-augmented by default Fluent with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Figma AI, or whatever is relevant to your craft. We expect AI tools in the loop, not as a novelty.

Comfortable with startup pace Fast cycles, real ownership, low ceremony. You will not be a cog.

Driven by value creation Output and outcomes matter more than process. You ship work that moves a metric.

Ownership mindset You treat the codebase, the deliverable, and the client relationship as your own.

Builder energy You joined because you want to ship amazing tech products, not warm a seat.

Ready to build the future?

Join our team of engineers and help us shape the next generation of AI-native software for clients across the globe.

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📌 Frontend Developer (React) (Mumbai)
🏢 Unico Connect
📍 Mumbai