Staff Frontend Engineer

Are you looking

• To make meaningful changes at the fastest-growing tech company in Japan?
• For a fair, highly flexible, inclusive working environment where anyone, regardless of their background, can make an impact?
• To build the next bold idea in customer acquisition and revenue growth through conversational commerce technology?
• For a place where things are not just fast - but they happen now?

Role Overview

As our Senior Frontend Engineer, your typical day with us will involve leading the development of user-facing features, building reusable components, and ensuring our web applications are optimized for speed and scalability. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive and visually appealing user experiences, all while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to the overall technical direction of the frontend team.

Your Typical Day With Us

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced frontend features for our web applications, ensuring high performance, scalability, and user engagement.
• Architect and build reusable components and libraries that follow best practices in coding and design, contributing to a consistent and maintainable codebase.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs, collaborating closely with the design team to deliver intuitive and visually appealing user experiences.
• Optimize frontend performance to ensure fast load times, smooth interactions, and overall application responsiveness.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to define and implement API contracts, ensuring seamless integration between frontend and backend systems.
• Mentor and guide junior frontend engineers, providing code reviews, technical advice, and best practices to elevate team performance.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in frontend development, continuously improving the team's skill set and technical direction.
• Participate in cross-functional meetings to align frontend development with product goals and company objectives.
• Depending on the team, participation in an on-call rotation with additional compensation might be required.

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years of experience in frontend engineering or a similar role, with a strong focus on building large-scale, high-performance web applications.
• Proficiency in React.js or Vue.js and a deep understanding of Typescript.
• Strong knowledge of modern JavaScript build tools and frameworks, such as Webpack, Babel, and ES6+.
• Extensive experience in writing scalable and maintainable CSS/SCSS, with an eye for detail in UI/UX design.
• Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git, and a strong understanding of branching and merging strategies.
• Experience in working with micro-frontend architecture and implementing scalable frontend solutions.
• Proven experience in optimizing web applications for performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, providing clear technical guidance and recommendations.
• Previous experience leading or mentoring a team, with a passion for knowledge sharing and team development.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Hands-on experience with JS/TS tooling (eslint, prettier, etc.).
• A strong passion for creating accessible and user-friendly products.
• Experience with design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD.
• Knowledge of backend technologies and how they integrate with frontend systems.
• Leadership experience in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Our Tech Stack

• Backend Languages: Go, Python, Elixir
• Frontend Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (TypeScript, React.js, Recoil, Zod, Tanstack, etc)
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, GCP Pub/Sub, Kubernetes, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, Qdrant
• Configuration Management Tool: Terraform
• CI/CD: Github Actions, ArgoCD, CircleCI
• Monitoring: Grafana, GCP Cloud Monitoring, GCP Logging, GCP Cloud Trace, Opsgenie
• Data: BigQuery, Parquet, Spark, Scala, Python, dbt
• Knowledge Tools: Confluence
• Other: GitHub / Slack / Jira
• Process: Scrum

Ready to roll up your sleeves?

We obsess over bringing hospitality to everyone–be it our customers or you! We promise you a unique experience and co-workers that you can brag about to your friends and family.

Salary and Benefits

• Salary Range: Competitive (performance review every 6 months)
• Performance Review: Twice a year
• Holidays: 10 days paid holidays during the first year, weekends off, national holidays, summer and winter holiday
• Visa Support: Visa sponsorship for the right candidates
• Flexible Working: Highly flexible, remote-first international organization
• For Japanese Residence: Work from anywhere, interim work from overseas, full flex time
• Additional Benefits: Housing allowance, club activity allowance, shuffle lunch allowance, bi-monthly free flow beer party

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