# Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

**Company:** [WorkWhile](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/workwhile)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Salary:** $220k – $310k/yr
**Skills:** JavaScript, React, React Native, Frontend Architecture, State Management, Accessibility, Performance Optimization, Component Libraries, Design Systems, Mentoring
**Posted:** 2026-05-20

> Staff Frontend Engineer owning and evolving frontend systems across product areas, shaping technical strategy, and leading architectural initiatives with React and React Native at a mission-driven startup.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and evolve frontend systems that span multiple product areas, ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability
- Partner with engineering leadership, product, and design to shape frontend technical strategy and long-term direction
- Lead high-impact initiatives such as architectural evolution, performance improvements, or major UX foundations
- Establish and uphold frontend standards around component design, state management, accessibility, and testing
- Act as a force multiplier for the team by guiding technical decisions, reviewing designs, and mentoring engineers
- Help define how frontend engineering is practiced as the company grows

## Requirements
- Significant experience building and scaling frontend systems using JavaScript and React and/or React Native
- Strong track record of owning complex UI systems or frontend platforms
- Deep care for user experience, performance, and long-term maintainability
- Ability to operate in ambiguity - defining problems, proposing solutions, and aligning stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising team-wide frontend quality

## Nice to Have
- Experience designing or maintaining shared component libraries or design systems
- Exposure to mobile performance, accessibility, or internationalization challenges
- Experience working on products with real-world impact and high user trust

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