Remote · India & International
React Developer for Hire
This is frontend-focused work — either building the React layer for a product where someone else owns the backend, or fixing performance/architecture problems in an existing React app. It's not a full-stack engagement by default, though it can extend into one if the project needs it.
What I bring to the table
- •Clean component architecture that's easy for other developers to pick up
- •Performance-conscious builds — proper code-splitting, image optimization, and load times that don't hurt SEO
- •Comfortable working inside an existing codebase and design system, not just greenfield builds
- •Experience with Next.js for SEO-critical, server-rendered frontends
How this usually works
Understand the existing codebase or design
For an existing app, that means reading the current architecture before touching it. For a new build, it means understanding the design system and API contract upfront.
Build clean, reviewable components
Component architecture is kept easy for other developers on your team to pick up — this matters more when there's a team involved than when it's a solo project.
Optimize for real performance
Code-splitting, image optimization, and load times get real attention — especially where performance affects SEO, via Next.js server-rendering where appropriate.
Integrate and handoff
Work gets merged into your existing workflow (PRs, your team's conventions) rather than delivered as a separate disconnected chunk.
Typical projects
- •Building the frontend for a product while a separate team handles the backend
- •Fixing performance or UI issues in an existing React app
- •Converting static designs (Figma) into a production React codebase
Good fit if
- •Teams that need frontend capacity while a separate team or developer owns the backend
- •Existing React apps with real performance or UI problems that need fixing, not a rebuild
- •Converting finished Figma designs into a production-ready, accessible React codebase
Probably not if
- •Projects needing full backend/database work too — see the MERN stack developer page for that
- •Teams without any existing design or spec who need product/design decisions made, not just implementation
FAQ
Do you work inside an existing codebase, or only greenfield builds?
Both — a good amount of this work is picking up an existing app and either fixing specific problems or adding features inside your team's existing conventions and design system.
Do you handle the backend too?
Not by default for this specific service — it's frontend-focused. If your project also needs backend work, that's the MERN stack developer service, and the two can be combined.
Can you work with our existing design system or component library?
Yes — I'll work inside whatever conventions your team already has rather than imposing a different structure.
Do you use Next.js or plain React?
Depends on the project — Next.js when server-rendering and SEO matter, plain React (e.g. Vite) when it doesn't. Happy to work within whichever your project already uses.
Serving clients across: Mumbai
Other services: MERN Stack Developer