Front End Developer - Level Shoes

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distribution and marketing expertise for over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories. Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken to build a future where luxury dreams become reality — bridging cultures and crafting memorable experiences for our consumers. Be it by constantly reinventing itself, committing to innovation, or embracing new technologies, the Group is shaping the future of luxury retail. It delivers seamless omnichannel experiences across more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps. Driving this innovation journey is The Greenhouse — the Group’s innovation hub, incubator, and accelerator for startups and emerging businesses, regionally and globally. What you'll be doing We are looking for a skilled Front-End (React.js) Developer to join our e-commerce web team. You'll build and maintain the customer-facing storefront for a luxury retail platform serving multiple countries and languages across the GCC. Day-to-day, you'll develop user-interface components with React and Next.js, integrate them with our GraphQL commerce APIs, and profile and improve front-end performance. To succeed in this role you should have strong JavaScript and React fundamentals, hands-onNext.js experience, and a solid grasp of building responsive, high-performance, accessible web applications. You should be equally comfortable with both Next.js routing architectures —the Pages Router and the App Router — as well as working against GraphQL APIs, building components within a design system, and writing tests. Ultimately, a top front-end developer here designs and builds polished, fast, internationalized UI that scales across regions and devices. Responsibilities: - Collaborate with product, design, and back-end teams to turn requirements and UI designsinto working features. - Review application requirements and interface designs, surfacing edge cases andaccessibility considerations early. - Build highly responsive, reusable UI components with React and our Tailwind CSS designsystem. - Integrate the UI with GraphQL APIs using Apollo Client against our headless commercebackend. - Implement internationalized, RTL-ready interfaces (English/Arabic) across multiple countrystorefronts. - Write application logic in JavaScript following React and Next.js patterns across both thePages Router (our current architecture — SSR/SSG/ISR via getServerSideProps / getStaticProps) and the App Router (React Server Components, nested layouts,server/client components). - Contribute to our gradual migration toward the App Router, ensuring Pages Router and AppRouter code coexist cleanly throughout the transition. - Troubleshoot and debug interface and application code across browsers and devices. - Contribute to and extend the front-end architecture and shared component library,documented in Storybook. - Monitor and improve front-end performance and Core Web Vitals. - Write and maintain tests: unit/component tests with Jest + React Testing Library andE2E/regression tests with Cypress, and catch visual regressions with Storybook + Chromatic. - Participate in code reviews and uphold code quality through ESLint/Prettier and CI checks. What you’ll need to succeed - Proven experience working as a React.js / front-end developer. - In-depth knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML, CSS, and modern front-end tooling. - Hands-on experience with the Next.js framework, comfortable working in both the PagesRouter and the App Router (a must) — including SSR, SSG, and ISR data fetching and ReactServer Components. - Strong experience with Tailwind CSS (a must). - Experience consuming GraphQL APIs, ideally with Apollo Client. - Previous experience creating or maintaining a design system / shared component library. - Experience with component-driven development and Storybook. - Experience with automated testing — unit/component (Jest, React Testing Library) and E2E(Cypress). - Familiarity with UI / visual regression testing practices. - Experience with browser-based debugging and performance/profiling tools (e.g. ChromeDevTools, Lighthouse). - Experience with CI/CD tools and Git-based workflows. - Good understanding of responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and web accessibility(a11y). - Excellent troubleshooting skills, plus good collaboration, communication, and time-management skills Nice to have: - Experience migrating a Next.js codebase from the Pages Router to the App Router. - Experience with internationalization (i18n) and building RTL (Arabic) interfaces. - Experience in e-commerce / headless commerce (e.g. Magento) and integrating paymentproviders (e.g. Adyen, Payment servi