Senior UI Engineer
DigitalOcean2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and long-term frontend architecture for core product interfaces, framework migrations, and complex workflows.
- Write RFCs and technical architecture documents for major UI features and system capabilities.
- Establish frontend engineering standards, design systems, and operational guidelines across product teams.
- Own frontend initiatives from scoping and design through implementation, release, and maintenance.
- Manage multiple projects and deliver milestones on schedule with minimal supervision.
- Improve legacy frontend components to support robust building, testing, deployment, and performance monitoring.
- Collaborate with Product Management, UX Design, and backend teams to define requirements and cohesive user experiences.
- Communicate technical plans, rollout strategies, and architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Diagnose and resolve production and multi-system frontend issues.
- Mentor IC1 and IC2 engineers and participate in interviewing and evaluating engineering candidates.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software development experience specializing in modern frontend architecture and complex web applications.
- Advanced proficiency in React, including functional components, hooks, custom state management patterns, and performance tuning.
- Experience with modern frontend build pipelines, CI/CD, and automated testing frameworks.
- Experience integrating with backend services through REST and GraphQL API architectures.
- Experience writing technical RFCs, managing inter-team dependencies, and driving projects end to end.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to facilitate technical alignment across teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid role located in Bengaluru, India.
- Professional development support including reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, subject to company policy.
- Benefits may include flexible time off, local team meetups, and mental health and well-being support, with eligibility varying by location.
- Eligible employees may participate in an annual bonus plan and may be eligible for equity compensation or an Employee Stock Purchase Program, subject to plan terms and local eligibility.
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean provides cloud infrastructure and platform services for developers, startups, and small to mid-sized businesses, including virtual machines (Droplets), managed Kubernetes and databases, object/block storage, networking, and GPUs for AI workloads. It operates a usage-based, self-service public cloud with APIs, CLI, and a marketplace to deploy and scale applications. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, DigitalOcean is a public company listed on the NYSE.