Staff Frontend Engineer

2 months ago

USA (city not specified)Staff+

Base Salary

$175k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

Set frontend architecture strategy across products and define shared patterns, platforms, and technical direction.
Lead the design system as an engineering platform, including its technical direction, contribution and release model, and adoption strategy.
Own frontend quality and production health by establishing standards for accessibility, performance, reliability, security, and testing.
Create APIs, tooling, guardrails, documentation, and defaults that enable engineers to build frontend software effectively.
Define AI-native engineering practices for specifying, validating, testing, and reviewing agentic engineering work.
Set technical direction across teams, build alignment with Engineering, Product, Design, and QA, and grow Senior engineers into broader ownership.
Remain hands-on for the highest-risk technical work and use production evidence to drive platform-level improvements.

Deep frontend architecture expertise with substantial Angular, React, or comparable applications.
Technical depth in component architecture, state and reactivity, rendering, module and package boundaries, dependency management, browser behavior, and performance.
Experience leading an Angular and TypeScript platform or transferring equivalent frontend architecture expertise across frameworks.
Experience building frontend platforms, component APIs, design systems, or component libraries that other teams depend on.
Ability to establish quality, performance, security, privacy, accessibility, testing, and quality-gate standards across teams.
Understanding of API and service boundaries, authentication and authorization, asynchronous systems, observability, failure modes, and deployment behavior.
Ability to create durable technical direction, defend consequential decisions, build alignment without relying on authority, and grow engineers into broader ownership.
Experience creating patterns and guardrails for delegating meaningful engineering work to AI agents while maintaining understandable, testable, secure, maintainable, and consistent output.
Bonus qualifications include hands-on Angular expertise, ownership of a component library or design system used outside the candidate’s organization, or contributions to open-source frontend tooling.

Full benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, an employee assistance program, and a wellness program.
Base salary range of $175,000-$225,000 USD.

1,001-5,000 employees