Career guide

React Developer

React developers build the interfaces users actually touch. The modern job spans component architecture, state and data-fetching strategy, and performance — with server components and frameworks like Next.js moving much of the old client-side thinking to the server.

₹12–18L across 1 live listing5 core skillsInterview questions →

What the work actually is

  • Building components against a design system
  • State and data-fetching architecture (server components, React Query, stores)
  • Performance work: bundle size, rendering, Core Web Vitals
  • Tests: unit, component and end-to-end

The skills that get you hired

Core — expected at interview

JavaScript/TypeScriptReact (hooks, context, suspense)CSS proficiencyA framework (Next.js)Testing (Vitest/RTL/Playwright)

Differentiators

AccessibilityGraphQLAnimationNode basics

The path

  1. React/Frontend Developer0–3 yrsOwn components and pages; learn the rendering model, not just the API.
  2. Senior Frontend Engineer3–6 yrsOwn the app's architecture, performance budget and DX.
  3. Frontend Lead6+ yrsOwn standards across apps: design system, tooling, hiring bar.

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