12 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain high-performance Vue 3 and SSR applications.
- Optimize SSR pipelines, Node.js throughput, concurrency, memory usage, hydration cost, caching, bundle splitting, dynamic imports, and tree-shaking.
- Improve Core Web Vitals and application performance through profiling, flame graph analysis, CPU profiling, and memory analysis.
- Implement SSR/CSR rendering strategies, CDN and edge caching, asset optimization, structured data, meta tags, and pre-rendering for SEO.
- Use AI-assisted coding and agentic developer tools for implementation, refactoring, debugging, testing, documentation, and performance profiling.
- Participate in architecture discussions, technical decisions, code reviews, and engineering quality initiatives.
- Mentor mid-level and junior engineers on front-end performance and best practices.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and SEO specialists across distributed teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience building modern, high-traffic web applications.
- Strong JavaScript expertise and experience with Vue.js or React.
- Experience with Node.js, particularly in server-side rendering environments.
- Proven experience optimizing performance for large-scale consumer applications.
- Hands-on experience improving Core Web Vitals and using Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, memory profiling, and flame graph analysis.
- Deep understanding of rendering strategies, hydration, code splitting, tree-shaking, browser rendering, Virtual DOM performance, and reactivity systems.
- Experience implementing CDN, caching, and asset optimization strategies and understanding SEO implications of SSR.
- Experience building maintainable systems with automated tests.
- Professional experience with AI-assisted or AI-native engineering workflows and agentic developer tools.
- Experience collaborating effectively on remote or distributed teams across time zones.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience in real estate, marketplaces, or high-scale consumer platforms; production Node.js performance tuning; and edge computing or CDN configuration.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with three days per week in the Austin, Texas or Columbus, Ohio office.
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About Lower LLC
Lower LLC is a direct-to-consumer mortgage lender that originates, underwrites, and funds residential home loans for buyers and homeowners. Its products include conventional purchase and refinance mortgages, cash‑out loans, and government‑backed options such as VA, FHA, and USDA loans, delivered through an online application and customer support. Founded in 2018, the privately held company is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.