R&D Senior Engineer - React Frontend Engineer- India Development Center

The opportunity:

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.

How you'll make an impact:

• 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.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity by taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background:

• 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.
• Opportunities to learn, mentor, and grow through challenging product development work. Primary locations: Chennai (India Development Centre).
• Proven troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

More about us:

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Client-provided location(s): Chennai, India

Job ID: Hitachi_Energy-JID3-191554

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-04-30T23:33:59