Frontend Developer

About Acelab

Our mission at Acelab is to transform how the building industry makes material decisions. We've created a comprehensive platform that connects architects with the right materials for their projects because we believe materials are fundamental to transforming inspired designs into exceptional buildings.

At the heart of our mission is the understanding that material choices shape aesthetics, performance, sustainability, and ultimately, the human experience of built spaces. We recognize that architects face overwhelming challenges in navigating hundreds of thousands of products while trying to capture and maintain their firm's collective material expertise.

Through our Material Hub platform, we aim to:

• Empower architects to make material choices that truly matter
• Provide easier access to innovative products and collective knowledge
• Elevate not just individual buildings but the entire built environment
• Create a shared language for materials that enables seamless communication between architects, manufacturers, contractors, and clients
• Preserve institutional knowledge within architecture firms
• Streamline the material selection and specification process

Our mission statement "Because Materials Matter" encapsulates our commitment to elevating material selection from a fragmented, time-consuming process to a strategic aspect of architectural excellence. By connecting the industry's deepest technical database with material decision-making workflow tools, we're working to ensure that every project benefits from better informed material decisions.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Frontend Developer to build exceptional user experiences for architects and design professionals using our Material Hub platform. You'll work with modern web technologies to create intuitive, performant interfaces that make complex material data accessible and actionable. This role combines technical excellence with deep user empathy, as you'll be crafting tools that directly impact how thousands of architects discover, evaluate, and specify building materials.

The Work You'll Do

• Product Development: Build and maintain user-facing features in Nuxt 3/Vue 3 that enable architects to efficiently search, compare, and manage building materials across their projects
• Performance & Scale: Optimize application performance for large datasets, implement efficient state management, and ensure smooth user experiences even when handling thousands of material specifications
• Component Architecture: Design and build reusable component libraries that maintain consistency across the platform while enabling rapid feature development
• API Integration: Work closely with backend engineers to integrate RESTful APIs.
• User Experience: Collaborate with designers to translate requirements into polished, intuitive interfaces that solve real workflow challenges for architecture professionals

Requirements

Required Qualifications
Technical Skills

• Expert-level Nuxt 3 and Vue 3 with SSR and deep understanding of Composition API, composables, and modern Vue patterns
• Strong TypeScript proficiency for type-safe application development
• Modern CSS/Styling: Expertise with Tailwind CSS, or similar modern styling approaches
• State Management: Experience with Pinia, Vuex or similar state management solutions for complex application state
• API Integration: Proven ability working with REST api's, handling authentication, caching, and error states
• Build Tools: Experience with Vite, module bundling, and optimizing production builds
• Version Control: Strong Git workflow practices including pull requests, code reviews, and collaborative development
• Testing: Experience with Vitest, Vue Test Utils, or similar testing frameworks for component and integration testing

Professional Competencies

• User-Centric Mindset: Ability to translate user needs into technical solutions with strong attention to detail and UX quality
• Performance Focus: Track record of building fast, responsive applications with attention to Core Web Vitals and user experience metrics
• Collaborative Communication: Excellent communication skills for working across design, product, and backend engineering teams
• Must have at least 3 years of experience and real world projects to demonstrate
• Problem Solving: Strategic approach to technical challenges with ability to balance ideal solutions with pragmatic delivery
• Ownership: Self-motivated with proven ability to take projects from concept through production deployment

Preferred Qualifications

• Design system development and maintenance experience
• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and building inclusive web applications
• Experience with data visualization libraries , , or similar)
• Experience with Figma or similar design tools for design-to-code workflows
• Background in B2B SaaS or tools for professionals
• Interest in or experience with the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) industry
• Experience working with large-scale datasets and implementing virtual scrolling, pagination, or similar optimization patterns

Responsibilities

• Develop new features and enhance existing functionality in our Nuxt 3-based Material Hub platform
• Build responsive, accessible interfaces that work seamlessly across desktop and tablet devices
• Implement efficient data fetching strategies and optimize application performance
• Create comprehensive component documentation and contribute to the design system
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to ensure pixel-perfect implementation of designs
• Work with backend engineers to define API contracts and data structures
• Monitor application performance and user experience metrics, proactively addressing issues
• Contribute to technical planning and architecture decisions for the frontend platform

Benefits

Shape User Experience: Your work directly impacts how architects discover and specify materials, influencing projects from homes to major commercial buildings

Technical Ownership: Take ownership of critical frontend infrastructure and establish patterns that guide the platform's evolution

Cross-Functional Influence: Work closely with design, product, and data teams to shape features from ideation through launch

Modern Tech Stack: Work with cutting-edge frontend technologies and best practices, with opportunities to evaluate and adopt new tools as the platform scales

Domain Expertise: Develop deep knowledge of the architecture industry and become an expert in the unique challenges of material specification workflows

Join us in building the future of how the architecture industry discovers, evaluates, and specifies building materials.

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