Goken America
Senior Frontend Engineer – React & TypeScript (Interactive 2D Editor / Graphics)
Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio (USA) with Engineering Centers in Pune, India and Yokohama, Japan, Goken is a global Engineering Services and Product Development company founded in 2004. We partner with OEMs and suppliers across the mobility space, as well as clients in non-mobility industries, to deliver innovative solutions and accelerate product development.
At Goken, we embrace our motto of “Time to Innovate” by pushing boundaries, cultivating entrepreneurial thinking, and empowering individuals who thrive on tackling challenges, embrace fresh ideas, and are driven to create solutions that shape the future. This mindset fuels our mission and empowers our teams to solve complex problems, deliver measurable value, and move our clients and industries forward.
Our Vision is to empower associates to drive innovation and lead meaningful change wherever it’s needed, ensuring we stay ahead of the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. Our Mission is to build trust that fosters greatness in our people, excellence in our clients, and positive impact in the communities we serve.
Goken offers a competitive compensation structure and benefits that support professional growth and personal well-being. We also foster a culture built on high performance, collaboration, continuous improvement, and ongoing professional development.
Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Senior Frontend Engineer to build and evolve a web-based 2D design and circuit diagram editor that delivers a polished, CAD-like user experience. This role focuses on developing highly interactive, performance-sensitive UI systems rather than traditional form-based interfaces.
The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in React and TypeScript, along with proven experience building canvas- or SVG-based interactive applications involving drawing tools, transformations, snapping, zooming, panning, and precision editing behaviors.
You will work on a UI-centric product that enables structured diagram creation, rich element interactions, property-driven editing, and structured export/import workflows for downstream integrations.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain a high-performance interactive 2D editor using React and TypeScript.
- Build advanced drawing and editing tools supporting lines, points, areas, and custom shapes.
- Implement interaction mechanics such as drag, resize, rotate, multi-selection, and grouping.
- Develop intelligent snapping, alignment, and constraint-based behaviors.
- Implement smooth zooming and panning to support an infinite canvas experience.
- Design CAD-style UX patterns including toolbars, palettes, property panels, and context menus.
- Implement efficient keyboard shortcuts and power-user workflows.
- Architect and implement undo/redo functionality using a command-pattern approach.
- Collaborate closely with backend/API teams on diagram persistence and data workflows.
- Develop structured export/import capabilities using formats such as JSON or CSV.
- Optimize rendering performance for large diagrams and complex datasets.
- Ensure clean, scalable, and maintainable UI architecture.
- Contribute to technical design decisions and frontend best practices.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5+ years of professional frontend development experience.
- Strong expertise in React and TypeScript in production applications.
- Proven experience building highly interactive UI systems, not just standard dashboards or forms.
- Hands-on experience with 2D graphics or rendering technologies, such as Konva.js (preferred), Fabric.js, Pixi.js, Canvas API, or SVG-based rendering.
- Strong understanding of pointer/mouse events, interaction handling, and gesture-driven UI logic.
- Solid knowledge of coordinate systems, geometric transforms, scaling, and object manipulation.
- Experience implementing selection systems, editing workflows, and complex UI state management.
- Demonstrated ability to optimize performance, rendering efficiency, and re-render behavior.
Highly Preferred Skills
- Experience building diagram editors, design tools, CAD-like web applications, or visual builders.
- Strong grasp of geometry concepts such as snapping, constraints, hit-testing, and bounding boxes.
- Experience designing editor-style UX patterns similar to professional design tools.
- Familiarity with structured data models and export/import workflows.
- Experience integrating frontend systems with APIs or Node.js backends.
- Exposure to CAD or engineering software such as CATIA, AutoCAD, or SolidWorks is a plus.
- Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, or Playwright.
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