Staff Frontend Engineer

What you'll be doing

  • Ship features end to end: take ownership from design handoff to production, building accessible, performant components and confidently shipping them.
  • Author API contracts and maintain a technical roadmap with clear intent, trade-offs, and success criteria.
  • Drive consistency across web properties, set departmental standards, and lead migration efforts utilizing new framework capabilities.
  • Own quality, security, performance, and reliability standards including client-side security measures and incident readiness.
  • Manage the build and deployment pipeline, improving processes and making commercially-aware decisions on hosting and tools.
  • Develop other engineers by mentoring IC3 engineers, raising hiring standards, and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability.
  • Lead AI-assisted engineering efforts using Kiro and other AI tools to enhance workflow and product integration standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of frontend experience building and operating production web applications at scale with leadership on complex projects.
  • Strong ability to bridge engineering and product, translating business priorities into technical solutions and vice versa.
  • Recognized technical authority in frontend engineering influencing decisions beyond immediate teams.
  • Deep expertise in modern CSS/SCSS, HTML, ECMAScript proposals, and sound framework trade-off understanding.
  • Comprehensive experience with unit/E2E testing and building CI workflows.
  • Proficient with TypeScript, modern React (hooks, composition), Next.js, SSR, routing, and data fetching.
  • Experienced in observability, Core Web Vitals, accessibility auditing, and frontend performance tuning.
  • Broad team experience with pragmatic judgment on build-refactor-replace decisions informed by production challenges.
  • Genuine interest in leading AI-assisted development workflows.

Nice to haves

  • Experience owning and maintaining a design system across multiple teams.
  • Ability to create sensible UI designs independently for moderately complex work.
  • Experience evaluating vendors and third-party tools with clear technical and commercial criteria for build-vs-buy decisions.
  • Experience maintaining and evolving complex legacy systems at scale.
  • Backend fluency to understand and shape API contracts without being full-stack.
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