Senior Software Engineer (UI) - IACM

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$240M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

Harness is an engineering and innovation first company. Our teams take pride in solving complex, computer science problems to empower Software and DevOps professionals.
The Harness UI team is a highly talented engineering team and we are building user interfaces for the world’s most advanced tools which help make software releases more efficient and reliable.
This is an amazing opportunity to be a Senior-level Front-end Engineer in a high-growth, high-potential startup. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, developing and delivering high quality front-end applications using cutting-edge technologies like React, CSS/Tailwind and micro-frontends, that have a direct impact on the company’s product’s user experience.

About the role

● Lead the design and development of user-friendly and responsive user interfaces for the
product, using ReactJS, CSS and HTML .
● Collaborate with cross functional teams that comprises UX designers, Product
Managers, backend engineers, Devops and Customer Success to create and ship
elegant and high quality web applications.
● Contribute to integration of micro frontends to ensure modularity and scalability in the
front end architecture.
● Participate and contribute in key discussions related to user experience and end to end
functional design of features.
● Quickly understand and be able to diagnose/troubleshoot complex systems/code and
own key pieces of the system.
● Participate in peer reviews of specifications, design and code.
● Mentor junior engineers and drive best practices in front-end development.
● Own E2E from design, development to deployment of code using Docker and CI CD
processes.
● Drive improvements in overall development processes, quality, identify key technical
gaps and work closely with engineering leadership to prioritize and address.
● Stay updated with latest industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously
improve our front end solutions.

About you
● Proven experience as a Front end Engineer, with Strong portfolio of work using ReactJS,
Typescript, HTML, CSS.
● Experience with responsive design and deep understanding of object-oriented design.
● Experience with performance debugging, front end caching and benchmarking.
● Good problem solving and debugging skills.
● Experience with building intuitive UI for dev-ops products will be a perfect fit.
● Experience with building shared platforms for high reusability would be great.
● Experience with building Micro-frontends and related patterns is a huge plus.
● Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD processes is a huge plus.
● Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
● Strong desire to work in an unstructured, fast moving startup environment
● Formal Computer Science education required

Work Location
Bangalore - Hybrid on-site schedule, 3 days / week

What you will have at Harness
● Competitive salary
● Comprehensive healthcare benefits
● Flexible work schedule
● Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
● Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
● Monthly internet reimbursement

Harness in the news:

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code

• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation

• How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal

• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare

• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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