Senior React Engineer (Next.js)

Description

We’re a high-growth fintech startup building products for the financial markets, and we’re looking for a senior Senior React Engineer (Next.js) to own our most critical frontend experiences. You’ll partner closely with product and design to ship intuitive, high-performance interfaces, and help us scale to millions of users.
What you’ll do:

- Design, build, and ship high-performance, responsive web UIs

- Partner with product managers, designers, and analysts to translate user needs into elegant product experiences

- Plan and execute short- and long-term roadmaps balancing user impact, technical quality, and delivery speed

- Raise the bar through code reviews, mentoring, and improvements to our tooling and processes

Requirements
Must-have expertise:

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Next.js (our web app is built with Next.js)

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Monorepos using Yarn Workspaces or Nx

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Tailwind CSS (our primary design system)

Technical requirements:

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5+ years of professional software development experience

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5+ years with React and its ecosystem (e.g., Redux, React Router)

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6/ES7) and TypeScript

- Deep knowledge of HTML/CSS , responsive design, and accessibility (a11y) best practices

- Hands-on with modern build tooling and package managers ( Vite , esbuild , Yarn )

- Experience with server-side rendering and Next.js , plus working knowledge of Node.js

- Comfortable with Git workflows and agile methodologies

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3+ years working with major cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)

- Storybook

Nice to have:

- Experience with monorepo release management and internal package versioning

- Familiarity with performance profiling, Web Vitals, and SEO in Next.js

- E2E testing (Playwright/Cypress) and CI/CD pipelines

- Experience in fintech or data-heavy, real-time UIs

Originally posted on Himalayas