Staff Engineer - UI

Responsibilities

Architecture

• Define and evolve frontend architecture patterns and shared capabilities used across multiple product teams.
• Drive adoption of scalable patterns for component architecture, state management, application structure, and frontend integrations.
• Ensure consistency, reusability, maintainability, and scalability across frontend codebases.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on frontend design decisions across teams.
• Identify opportunities to simplify frontend systems through shared abstractions and reusable solutions.

Frontend Platform and Shared Capabilities

• Drive adoption of shared frontend platforms, frameworks, and tooling across teams.
• Partner with platform and product teams to improve consistency across the frontend ecosystem.
• Reduce duplicated engineering effort through reusable solutions and shared capabilities.
• Improve engineering velocity through standardization, automation, and platform investments.
• Contribute to design systems, UI frameworks, and shared frontend infrastructure.

Technical Direction

• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to align architectural decisions with product, platform, and engineering objectives.
• Establish engineering standards, best practices, and decision frameworks for frontend development.
• Guide teams toward technical decisions that support long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Drive adoption of modern frontend technologies, tools, and workflows.
• Influence technical direction across multiple teams through collaboration and technical leadership.

Performance, Quality, and Experience

• Define and drive standards for performance, accessibility, and user experience across frontend applications.
• Lead initiatives to improve application performance, responsiveness, and reliability.
• Establish best practices for testing, observability, monitoring, and frontend reliability.
• Improve developer experience through tooling, workflows, documentation, and platform capabilities.
• Drive initiatives that improve engineering productivity and reduce friction in frontend development.

Risk and System Evolution

• Identify systemic frontend risks, including performance bottlenecks, architectural inconsistencies, scalability challenges, and maintainability concerns.
• Lead cross-team efforts to address technical debt and improve overall system health.
• Evolve frontend systems to support increasing scale, complexity, and business needs.
• Proactively identify engineering challenges affecting multiple teams and drive sustainable solutions.

Technical Leadership

• Mentor senior engineers and elevate frontend engineering standards across teams.
• Help teams solve recurring engineering challenges through reusable solutions and architectural guidance.
• Influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Foster quality, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Lead critical technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or domains.
• Facilitate technical alignment between product and platform engineering teams.

Requirements

• 8–12 years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in frontend development.
• Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Extensive experience with React or similar frameworks in large-scale applications.
• Strong expertise in frontend architecture, design systems, and scalable UI development.
• Proven experience building and evolving shared component libraries or frontend platforms.
• Deep understanding of browser internals, rendering, and performance optimization.
• Experience defining and driving frontend standards and best practices across teams.
• Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority.
• Ability to translate product and design needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience with modern frontend tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and performance tracking tools.
• Experience working on large-scale SaaS platforms.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading or contributing to design systems at scale.
• Exposure to micro-frontend architectures or modular frontend systems.
• Familiarity with security considerations in frontend applications.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Codex or Cursor.
• Background in developer experience and platform engineering.
• Experience driving frontend modernization or platform adoption initiatives.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Medical benefits.
• Internet reimbursement.
• Home office stipend.
• Continued education stipend.
• Festive and achievement celebrations.
• Dynamic office environment.