Staff Frontend Engineer

Overview

In this Staff Frontend Engineer role, you will lead frontend engineering across cross-functional squads to ship high-quality web features at scale. You’ll own architectural decisions, guide migrations, and shape the AI-enabled frontend strategy to accelerate delivery. The position sits at a fast-growing scale-up, emphasizing collaboration, code quality, and measurable impact on product and business outcomes. You’ll work closely with engineers, designers, data analysts, and a product manager to drive consistent, modern web experiences.

Responsibilities

• Ship end-to-end features with accessible, performant components
• Own API contracts and department documentation while maintaining a technical roadmap
• Drive consistency across web properties and lead migration efforts
• Set frontend security, reliability standards, and production readiness criteria
• Oversee build and deployment, evaluate hosting and build-vs-buy decisions
• Develop IC3 engineers into technical leaders and foster ownership culture
• Lead AI-assisted engineering using Kiro and standardize AI integration in workflows

Key requirements

• 5+ years of frontend experience delivering production web applications at scale
• Ability to translate business priorities into technical decisions under uncertainty
• Recognised as a technical frontend authority with influence beyond own team
• Deep expertise in CSS/SCSS, HTML, and modern ECMAScript; strong framework trade-offs knowledge
• Experience writing unit and E2E tests and building CI workflows
• Strong TypeScript and modern React experience, plus Next.js for SSR/routing/data fetching
• Pragmatic build-vs-refactor-vs-replace judgment informed by scale challenges
• Interest in leading AI-assisted development in the team workflow
• leadership and mentorship
• strong communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams
• business-minded technical decision-making
• TypeScript
• React (hooks, component composition)
• Next.js (SSR, routing, data fetching)

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