Job Title - Front End Developer – Technical Lead
Location – Chennai (Onsite)
Role Summary
We are hiring a Lead Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience to own frontend architecture, performance, real-time communication, and UI systems at scale. This role is for an engineer who understands not only how to build UIs, but why certain styling, state, and library choices scale better over time.
Core Responsibilities
Frontend Architecture & System Design
Design scalable, maintainable frontend architectures for complex web applications
Define application structure, module boundaries, and shared component strategies.
Drive decisions around: Rendering models (SSR, SSG, ISR, CSR)
Styling architecture
State and data flow
Apply architectural patterns such as: Component-driven architecture
Feature/domain-based organization
Micro-frontend patterns (when justified)
Maintain architecture documentation, diagrams, and ADRs
Frontend Engineering (Hands-on)
Build and maintain production-grade applications using Next.js (3+ years) and modern React
Write clean, maintainable TypeScript
Design and evolve reusable component libraries and design systems
Lead code reviews focusing on architecture, performance, and long-term maintainability
Styling & UI Architecture
Design and enforce scalable styling strategies using a mix of: CSS Modules
Styled-components / Emotion
Utility-first CSS (Tailwind or similar)
Traditional CSS / SCSS where appropriate
Make informed trade-offs between: Runtime vs build-time styling
Global vs scoped styles
Design system tokens vs local overrides
Build and maintain: Theming systems
Responsive and adaptive layouts
Skills Required
- 10+ years frontend engineering experience
- 3+ years Next.js experience
- Modern React proficiency
- TypeScript proficiency
- Experience designing scalable frontend architectures and rendering models (SSR, SSG, ISR, CSR)
- Experience building and evolving reusable component libraries and design systems
- Experience with styling strategies: CSS Modules, Styled-components, Emotion, Tailwind (utility-first), SCSS
- Experience defining state and data flow architectures
- Familiarity with micro-frontend patterns and when to apply them
- Proven experience with performance optimization and real-time communication in web apps
What We Do
SRM Technologies is a global IT services company specialising in automotive technologies, digital transformation and product engineering services. We provide technology consulting, platform development, data analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud enablement, digital infrastructure, quality assurance, embedded software and design to manufacturing product solutions to various industries and enterprises across the North America, Japan, Europe and India. At the heart of our organization are passionate employees who embody our core belief - 'ideas@work.' We firmly believe that ideas and innovation truly matter only when they create a meaningful impact on our customers' businesses and the lives of their end customers. Therefore, we prioritize the practical application of these ideas and their transformative impact through our talented and ever-growing workforce. 𝘚𝘙𝘔 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘙𝘔 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱, 𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘙𝘔 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢
