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Web Developer
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
1 month ago
🚀 Startup💻 Open SourceUses agentic AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code to generate code; emphasizes steering and validating agents rather than traditional vibe coding.
About the Role
Own and improve CometChat’s marketing website end-to-end, focusing on architecture, performance, technical SEO, and CMS-driven content. Ship fast, maintain high developer-focused quality, and use agentic AI tools to accelerate implementation while owning design tradeoffs and reliability.
Job Description
Role
CometChat is hiring a Website Engineer to own and improve the company marketing website as a product. You will be responsible for the web layer end-to-end — architecture, performance, technical SEO, CMS structure, UX quality, and fast landing page delivery in support of growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the marketing website; build pages, components, and content structures.
- Improve site performance and Core Web Vitals; proactively identify UX and performance improvements.
- Ensure technical SEO hygiene: schema, crawlability, sitemaps, canonical structure, redirects, and URL management.
- Maintain clean CMS models and scalable content architecture; implement structured data (JSON-LD).
- Work closely with marketing to ship landing pages quickly and reliably.
- Own architecture decisions, review quality, tests, performance, and security for the web product.
Requirements
Must have
- 2–4 years of production frontend experience.
- Experience with component-based frameworks (Svelte preferred; React also used).
- Experience integrating a headless CMS and working with headless architecture.
- Strong JavaScript fundamentals.
- Understanding of technical SEO (schema markup, Core Web Vitals, structured internal linking, SSR vs CSR implications).
- Experience shipping and maintaining live production websites.
- Comfortable working independently and owning technical decisions.
Good to have
- Experience with Storyblok.
- Experience with marketing or content-heavy sites.
- Familiarity with analytics implementation.
- Basic understanding of accessibility best practices.
Tech & Approach
- Primary technologies referenced: Svelte, React, Storyblok, headless architecture, JSON-LD, JavaScript.
- The team embraces an “AI-native” workflow where agentic tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) generate code; engineers are expected to steer agents, validate outputs, and debug generated code.
Location & Role Details
- Role is full-time and based in CometChat’s Chennai, Tamil Nadu office.
- This position sits within the marketing team and has clear ownership and impact on growth-focused web infrastructure.