Alpaca

Staff Frontend Engineer

Alpaca

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Anywhere in North America

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

ReactTypeScript

About the role

  • Act as a long-term technical steward for Alpaca’s frontend architecture (2–5 year horizon).
  • Design and evolve scalable frontend patterns for data fetching, state management, performance, and runtime configuration.
  • Drive large-scale initiatives such as:
  • Design system evolution and adoption
  • Frontend platform standardization
  • Performance, reliability, and developer-experience improvements.
  • Identify and reduce systemic frontend technical debt with measurable business impact.
  • Lead cross-team, multi-quarter initiatives spanning multiple product areas.
  • Define rollout strategies that enable change without blocking feature delivery (e.g. phased migrations, feature flags, compatibility layers).
  • Partner with backend and platform teams to solve end-to-end system problems, not just frontend symptoms.
  • Influence engineers and leaders across the broader engineering organization.
  • Write RFCs, decision records, and architectural proposals that align teams and drive adoption.
  • Mentor Senior Engineers and help raise the overall frontend engineering bar.
  • Navigate conflicting opinions and help teams disagree and commit.
  • Take loosely defined business problems and turn them into clear, actionable technical initiatives.
  • Manage risk in large migrations, architectural shifts, and platform-level changes.
  • Balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability, even when ROI is not immediately visible.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience building and scaling modern frontend applications (React + TypeScript or similar).
  • Proven track record operating at Staff or equivalent level, with impact across multiple teams or domains.
  • Strong understanding of frontend architecture at scale, including:
  • Data-fetching patterns
  • Performance optimization
  • Design systems
  • Runtime configuration
  • Observability and reliability.
  • Experience leading large technical initiatives from problem definition through adoption.
  • 7+ years of professional experience in frontend development.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to translate product mockups and designs into fully realised user interfaces.
  • Strong proficiency with:
  • TypeScript and React
  • HTML and CSS (e.g. TailwindCSS).
  • Passion for creating intuitive, high-performance user interfaces.
  • Experience working with REST APIs and WebSocket best practices.
  • Track record of setting or influencing frontend best practices.
  • Strong attention to detail and appreciation for design quality and aesthetics.
Benefits
  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Health Benefits
  • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
ReactTypeScriptHTMLCSSTailwindCSSdata-fetching patternsperformance optimizationdesign systemsruntime configurationREST APIs
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvingattention to detailinfluencingnavigating conflicting opinionstranslating designsrisk managementbalancing short-term and long-term goals