R&D Senior Engineer - React Frontend Engineer- India Development Center
Hitachi
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaremotePosted 4 months ago
Skill Required
Frontend DeveloperReactWeb AccessibilityEngineeringJavaScriptsimilar)securitybuildingGraphQLdesignReduxDesign PatternsAPIsFulltime
Key highlights
- 10+ years of experience building React‑based web applications.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline required.
- Primary location: Chennai, India Development Centre.
- Opportunities to learn, mentor, and grow through challenging product development work.
- Work with global R&D teams across 12 countries.
Role overview
Join Hitachi Energy’s India Development Centre (IDC), an R&D organization in Chennai and Bangalore. You will work with global R&D and research centers across 12 countries, helping design and deliver digital solutions and product capabilities while building modern, secure, high‑performing user interfaces and collaborating with cross‑functional teams, contributing to engineering best practices, and mentoring other developers.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain modern React applications using clean, reusable components and strong JavaScript skills.
- Define and follow solid UI architecture, folder structure, and coding standards.
- Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs for data fetching, caching, and error handling.
- Implement secure authentication and authorization flows, including token and session handling.
- Apply strong browser fundamentals including DOM behavior, events, storage, cookies, caching, and basic security.
- Improve UI performance by optimizing rendering, reducing bundle size, and managing memory efficiently.
- Debug and resolve UI, state, API integration, performance, and browser-related issues.
- Support and mentor junior developers, promoting best practices and continuous improvement.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
- Live Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity by taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
Requirements
- Required Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline with 10+ years of experience building React‑based web applications in an enterprise environment.
- Strong JavaScript skills with a focus on clean code and maintainable UI structure.
- Hands‑on experience with REST APIs, error handling, and secure token/session management.
- Working knowledge of GraphQL (Apollo or similar) and modern state management (e.g., Redux Toolkit, React Query).
- Strong understanding of browser fundamentals (DOM, events, storage, cookies, caching) and basic web security.
- Work with global R&D teams across multiple countries and technology areas.
- Proven troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Opportunities to learn, mentor, and grow through challenging product development work.
- Qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation for the application process.
Additional details
- Join Hitachi Energy’s India Development Centre (IDC), an R&D organization in Chennai and Bangalore.
- You will work with global R&D and research centers across 12 countries.
- You will help design and deliver digital solutions and product capabilities.
- You will build modern, secure, high‑performing user interfaces.
- You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, contribute to engineering best practices, and mentor other developers.
- Primary locations: Chennai (India Development Centre).
- Excited about a new opportunity? If this sounds like you, we’d like to see your application! Our selection process is ongoing, so don’t wait—apply today!