Frontend Developer (React / TypeScript) — iTakeControl

Red Nucleus is hiring a Frontend Developer (React/TypeScript) - iTakeControl to join our global team. This role will be fully onsite at our Pune office. There may be flexibility to transition to a hybrid work model in the future, based on business requirements.

Our purpose is advancing knowledge to improve lives. We succeed by being the premier provider of strategic learning and development, scientific advisory services, and medical communications solutions for the life sciences industry. Our global team is composed of nearly 800 full-time employees whose commitment to creativity, quality, and on-time delivery is unrivaled in our space.

At Red Nucleus, we believe in providing a rich working environment that pushes us to innovate in ways that engages our employees to be their best selves. Our culture is about meaningful work, a true sense of community, and fun. We love to celebrate our people and we are proud to have been Internationally recognized as a “Great Place to Work".

How You Will Contribute

In this position, you will be working with our Clinical Research team. For more information, please visit ITC I Red Nucleus.

Job Overview

iTakeControl is a clinical trial platform supporting live studies within a validated, GxP-compliant environment. We are bringing the platform fully in-house and building the team that will own and grow it.

We are looking for a strong Frontend Developer to own and advance the platform’s web interfaces as a hands-on, code-first contributor. The platform spans several substantial frontends - an operator-facing administration portal, a participant-facing web experience, and a registration experience - built on a modern React stack with a shared component library. Working under the technical direction of the Technical Lead, you will write production-quality frontend code, maintain a high bar for usability and accessibility, and help keep a live regulated platform stable, performant, and reliable.

The role begins by building a deep working understanding of the existing interfaces during the handover from the outgoing vendor, then moves into ongoing feature development, refactoring, and UI quality work within the established compliance framework. It is a delivery-focused role for an experienced frontend engineer who takes ownership of their work and cares about the details - performance, accessibility, and visual consistency - on a platform where clarity and correctness carry regulatory weight.

The nature of this role: this is a frontend software-engineering position. The day-to-day work is designing and maintaining large, stateful single-page applications - application architecture, complex client-side state, data-heavy interactive interfaces, performance tuning, and automated testing. It goes well beyond HTML/CSS markup, templating, or responsive styling: we are looking for someone who reasons about and structures frontend application code, not only its presentation layer. Strong HTML5/CSS3 and responsive skills are expected, but they are the floor, not the role.

The role works with US-based stakeholders and requires regular overlap with US hours , particularly around releases.

What You’ll Own

Hands-on frontend delivery - building and maintaining features across the platform’s React web applications to a production-quality standard

Component library and design consistency - contributing to and maintaining a shared component library so UI patterns stay consistent across applications

UI quality - responsive layout, accessibility, cross-browser correctness, performance, and visual consistency

Frontend stability and performance - troubleshooting production UI issues, optimising rendering and bundle size, and contributing to the long-term technical health of the frontend

Compliance-aware development - building interfaces within the validated environment, preserving the clarity, auditability, and data-integrity expectations the platform requires

Codebase fluency - building a deep working understanding of the existing interfaces during the vendor handover and keeping documentation current for the areas you own

Collaboration - participating in code reviews and design discussions, working closely with backend engineers on API contracts, and partnering with QA on frontend test coverage

What We’re Looking For

This is a hands-on engineering role. We are looking for proven, production frontend capability across the areas below - what you can do matters more than titles held.

Core Engineering Skills (must-have)

React application engineering - strong, current, hands-on experience designing and building large single-page applications in React (we run a current React version). You understand how React actually renders and re-renders, design components that stay composable and performant as the application grows, and make sound architectural decisions rather than only wiring components together

State management at scale - designing predictable, maintainable application state for a large, multi-feature app (we use Redux Toolkit): normalised data, derived state, and async/server-data lifecycles - and the judgement to avoid the state bugs that surface at scale

TypeScript and modern JavaScript - strong asynchronous JavaScript and applied TypeScript (typing components, props, state, and API contracts); expert-level HTML5 and CSS3 with responsive and adaptive layout as a baseline

Frontend performance - profiling real applications and fixing what you find: unnecessary re-renders, slow rendering of large data sets, oversized bundles, and load-time problems

Complex, data-heavy UI - hands-on with enterprise data grids (e.g. ag-Grid, MUI X DataGrid): server-side/infinite row models, virtualised rendering, custom cell renderers and editors, and column sorting, filtering, grouping, and aggregation. Comfortable building interactive dashboards and charts (e.g. ECharts), configurable/draggable layouts, and schema- or rule-driven multi-step forms with conditional fields and client-side validation - always handling loading, error, empty, and edge states correctly

Application structure and maintainability - client-side routing in a large app, clear module/feature boundaries, separation of concerns, and keeping a large codebase coherent over time

Component-driven development - designing reusable, composable, accessible components and working within a theming/design-system approach (we use MUI). Documenting and visually testing components in a tool like Storybook, and maintaining a shared component library versioned across multiple applications

Accessibility and cross-browser quality - building accessible (WCAG-aware) interfaces that behave correctly across browsers, devices, and screen sizes

Automated frontend testing - writing component/unit tests that assert behaviour rather than implementation detail, plus end-to-end and visual-regression coverage, and shipping features together with their tests

Modern build tooling - working fluently with module systems, bundlers, and frontend build pipelines

API integration - consuming RESTful and/or real-time APIs, modelling client-side data, and collaborating with backend engineers on contracts

Version control and collaboration - strong Git workflows and a habit of writing reviewable, well-documented code

Delivery and Quality Mindset

Writes production-quality frontend code daily and takes ownership of it through to production

Cares about the user experience: performance, accessibility, and visual polish

Plans realistically and keeps the team informed on progress, risks, and trade-offs

Brings sound engineering judgement to a live, regulated platform, valuing well-tested, reliable changes

Collaborates well with backend, QA, design, and product, and is willing to support and mentor less experienced team members

Preferred Qualifications

Component library / design system tooling - experience building and documenting components in a tool such as Storybook

Visual regression and e2e testing - experience with frameworks such as Playwright or equivalent

Internationalisation - experience building multi-language interfaces (i18n)

Video / real-time UI - experience integrating video calling, WebRTC, or other real-time features into a web frontend

Server-side React frameworks - experience with Next.js or similar

Offline-capable web apps - experience with client-side storage, resumable uploads, or offline-first patterns

Regulated or healthcare environment - experience working within HIPAA, GxP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, or equivalent frameworks

Vendor takeover / legacy stabilisation - experience joining an existing system from an external vendor or stabilising a legacy frontend

AI-assisted development - practical, transparent use of AI tooling to improve delivery

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent hands-on experience)

6+ years of hands-on frontend development, with strong, current, production React experience building single-page applications (not primarily markup, templating, or static/content-driven UI)

Proven track record of independently delivering production frontend features end to end, including their state management and test coverage

Experience maintaining a large, stateful, established frontend application

Experience operating in a live, customer-facing production system where UI defects have real consequences

Experience working within regulated or validated software environments preferred

Experience in Life Sciences, Clinical Trials, Healthcare IT, or Medical Devices a plus

This job description captures the essential functions of this role as of July 2026. Management reserves the right to modify it as the platform and team evolve.

What You Will Enjoy at Red Nucleus

Competitive pay, incentives, retirement, and income security programs

Comprehensive benefits and wellness programs focused on healthy lifestyles

Generous paid time off, employee assistance programs and flexible work arrangements

Performance driven environment including professional development and transfer opportunities

People first culture fostering self expression, diversity, and a growth mindset

Celebrations! We love to celebrate service anniversaries, holidays, diversity and inclusion events, project milestones and anything else that is meaningful to our employees

Support of the community organizations you are passionate about

Ongoing programs and events designed to bring our global team together

Diversity, equity and inclusion are valued at Red Nucleus and we believe we have a shared responsibility to provide equal opportunity and foster an inclusive spirit. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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