Frontend Architect

at Simpplr

Hybrid - Gurugram, India

**Who We Are**:
Simpplr delivers exceptional AI-powered employee experiences at scale. It is the only platform that unifies employee engagement, enablement, and self-service to provide every employee with a seamless and personalized experience so they can do their best work from anywhere. Organizations use our forward-looking, adaptable products to deliver personalized experiences that inspire and engage their employees. Wherever people work, Simpplr enables them to flourish.

Trusted by more than 700+ leading brands, including Penske, Snowflake, Moderna, Eurostar, and AAA, our customers are achieving measurable improvements in employee engagement, productivity, and accelerated business performance.

We are proud to share that Simpplr has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Intranet Packaged Solutions with the highest position for Ability to Execute. We believe this recognition reflects our unwavering focus on combining operational excellence with forward-looking innovation.

Simpplr is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA with offices in the UK, Canada, and India, and is backed by Sapphire Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Tola Capital.

**Job Title**:Frontend Architect

**Location**: Gurgaon/Bangalore, India (Hybrid)

**Employment Type**: Full-Time

**About Simpplr**:
Simpplr is the leading comprehensive modern intranet platform that helps companies connect and engage employees across the enterprise. Organizations use our forward-looking, adaptable products to deliver personalized experiences that inspire and engage their employees. Simpplr was built to help businesses not only create an immersive and inspiring digital workplace but also to reinforce their unique culture. We aim to break the barriers of traditional work environments to deliver a better workplace, anywhere.

Trusted by more than 700+ leading brands, including Penske, Snowflake, Moderna, Eurostar, and AAA, our customers are achieving measurable improvements in employee engagement, productivity, and accelerated business performance.

Simpplr is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA with offices in UK, Canada, and India, and is backed by Sapphire Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Tola Capital.

**The Opportunity**:
We’re looking for an experienced **hands-on Frontend Architect** who will take charge of architecture, design, and implementation while playing an active role in coding, mentoring, and driving technical excellence in the team. This is a leadership role that balances strategic thinking with a practical, roll-up-your-sleeves approach to solving complex technical challenges.You’ll collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams across multiple divisions to deliver outstanding software that our customers love.

**Your Job Responsibilities**:
**What you will be doing**:

- **Architect Scalable Solutions**: Define and implement the frontend architecture for our Single Page Applications (SPAs), ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
- **UI Component Development**: Build reusable, efficient, and accessible UI components leveraging modern frameworks like React and TypeScript.
- **Collaborative Design**: Work closely with backend architects, product managers, and UX designers to translate requirements into highly engaging user interfaces.
- **DevOps Integration**: Contribute to and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring smooth, automated testing and deployments.
- **Quality Assurance**: Implement automated testing strategies to deliver reliable and maintainable codebases, using tools like Vitest and Playwright.
- **Technical Leadership**: Mentor developers, review code, and drive technical decisions to maintain high engineering standards.

**Your Skill Set**:
**What makes you a great fit for our team**:

- **User-focused**: You prioritize solving customer problems collaboratively, with a say in planning, design, and execution.
- **Strong communicator**: Confident leading discussions with teams across the organization and presenting ideas in open forums. You have experience delivering projects where collaboration was essential.

**Self motivated: You can work independently seeing a project to completion with mínimal guidance.**Technical expertise**:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with **React**, including a deep understanding of its internals and the wider JavaScript ecosystem.
- Proficiency in **TypeScript**.
- Strong knowledge of **browser internals**, debugging/profiling tools, and techniques for performance optimization.
- Expertise in building in-house **component libraries**, with a solid grasp of modular CSS, design systems, and bundlers - including ESM.
- Comprehensive knowledge of **CI/CD pipelines**, automated testing frameworks (e.g., Vitest, Playwright), and associated challenges for frontend systems.

**We’d especially love to hear from you if**:

- You have experience planning a