Senior UI/UX Engineer

Job Title: Senior UI/UX EngineerLocation: 100% Remote (India Based Only)Hiring Manager: Director of EngineeringEstimated salary range: INR 2,500,000.00 to INR 4,000,000.00

• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

Position Overview:The Senior UI/UX Engineer is a high-impact individual contributor at Ocient who leads the implementation of UI/UX efforts for Ocient’s cutting-edge hyperscale data warehouse, working with industry-leading product architects and top-tier Product Managers to define and deliver the value Ocient brings to customers through its product experience. This role blends strong front-end engineering expertise with an eye for design and a passion for solving hard problems — setting the bar for high-quality code, creating and enforcing coding guidelines, architecture, and best practices, and interfacing across teams to drive UI/UX excellence. The Senior UI/UX Engineer is a trusted technical leader, a developer of junior talent, and a key contributor to Ocient’s product quality and customer experience.
Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of UI/UX efforts for Ocient’s hyperscale data warehouse platform, architecting scalable, maintainable front-end systems using TypeScript, React, and Python.
• Utilize AI-assistance and coding agents (Claude) to increase efficiency through architecture, design, development, and workflow management.
• Set the bar for high-quality code by creating and enforcing coding guidelines, front- end architecture patterns, and UI/UX best practices across the engineering organization.
• Work with design tools such as Figma to implement beautiful, streamlined UI/UX experiences that translate complex data platform capabilities into intuitive product interfaces.
• Interface across teams — including Product Management, Engineering, and Design — as the primary UI/UX technical authority, aligning on requirements, architecture, and product direction.
• Interact with REST APIs and SQL databases to build robust, performant front-end integrations that leverage Ocient’s backend data platform capabilities.
• Lead code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical design sessions, driving high-quality engineering decisions across the UI/UX codebase.
• Mentor UI/UX Engineer I and II contributors, supporting their technical growth and elevating front-end engineering quality across the team.

Ideal Qualifications:Experience:

• 4+ years of industry experience writing code to build scalable, maintainable user interfaces in a professional software engineering environment.
• 1+ year of industry experience working with design tools such as Figma to implement streamlined UI/UX experiences.

Functional/Technical Skills:

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Python with a track record of leading production-quality front-end engineering at scale.
• Demonstrable experience utilizing AI tools and agents to efficiently produce quality designs and software using structured prompts and context files.
• Strong technical leadership and communication skills with the ability to lead the UI team, interface across teams, set the bar for high-quality code, and create and enforce coding guidelines and architecture.
• Experience using Git for version control and leading collaborative software development workflows.
• Experience interacting with REST APIs and SQL databases from a front-end engineering perspective.
• A portfolio of previous work including code samples demonstrating front-end engineering quality and design sensibility.

An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience working with high-performance, distributed systems and databases.
• Experience with full-stack development, particularly in Java or C++.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience using and building code components for an enterprise-scale design system.
• Experience using Playwright or other UI testing framework.