Staff Frontend Engineer

We are looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to lead high-impact projects and drive technical excellence across our frontend systems. You'll be responsible for building scalable, performant, and maintainable web applications while mentoring developers and shaping the technical direction of our frontend stack. This is a hands-on role focused on solving complex problems, improving architecture, and delivering high-quality user experiences. We're looking for someone who takes ownership, goes above and beyond, and takes pride in keeping their commitments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development of frontend modules and drive critical technical decisions.
• Build and maintain performant, reusable, and scalable React components and libraries.
• Take full ownership of deliverables from requirement understanding to release, ensuring quality, reliability, and timeliness.
• Drive SSR/SSG implementations for SEO optimisation and performance.
• Mentor and guide team members through code reviews, pair programming, and technical discussions.
• Define and enforce coding standards, testing practices, and performance guidelines across projects.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver seamless, delightful user experiences. bottlenecks an
• Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and improve app responsiveness.
• Ensure observability, reliability, and maintainability of frontend systems.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted development tools to enhance velocity and code quality.
• Drive frontend performance, SEO, and accessibility improvements through thoughtful architecture and metrics-driven development.
• Continuously improve developer experience through better tooling, documentation, and build pipelines.
• Influence frontend architecture and best practices across multiple projects.
• Take ownership of project timelines, prioritisation, and risk management, maintaining accountability and transparency.
• Use frontend profiling tools(Lighthouse, React Profiler, Web Vitals) to measure and optimise real-world performance.
• Stay up to date with evolving frontend ecosystems, frameworks, and emerging technologies, applying relevant improvements to the product.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with a deep understanding of hooks, component architecture, and performance optimisation.
• Strong command over TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5 and CSS3
• Proven expertise with SSR/SSG concepts and hands-on implementation.
• Experience with state management tools(Redux, Zustand, Recoil, or Context API).
• Familiarity with modern styling systems like TailwindCSS, styled-components, Emotion, or CSS Modules.
• Solid understanding of frontend architecture, browser rendering lifecycle, and performance metrics.
• Experience with frontend caching and data-fetching tools(React Query, SWR).
• Strong knowledge of build and bundling tools such as Webpack or Vite.
• Understanding of frontend security, accessibility (a11y), and performance best practices.
• Ability to debug complex UI flows and perform root cause analysis efficiently.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively at various levels - intra-team, inter-group, spoken skills, and written skills - including email, presentation and articulation skills.
• Strong knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows.
• Proficiency in testing frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress.
• Familiarity with scalable architecture patterns and design systems.
• Experience building or maintaining Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).
• Understanding of frontend observability tools(Sentry, Datadog, etc. ).
• Awareness of analytics and data-driven UI improvements.

This job was posted by Swetha Chandran from MyYogaTeacher.