Senior Frontend Software Engineer – Enterprise, Commerce
Hopper
ReactTypeScript
Lead Senior Software Engineer – Frontend
Cars Commerce
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $135,300 - $169,150 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
JavaScriptReactSvelteTypeScriptVue.js
About the role
- Define and drive reusable, reliable, and scalable front-end architectures across the Cars Commerce platform experiences.
- Lead design and development of shared UI components and design systems, with attention to accessibility, theming, maintainability, and developer ergonomics.
- Optimize user-focused performance across browsers and devices.
- Work closely with engineering, design, and product partners across teams to align on front-end strategies and standards, elevate UI consistency, and reduce duplication.
- Serve as a front-end mentor, coaching other engineers and shaping team best practices.
- Treat components and libraries as products. Develop excellent documentation, innovative usage patterns, and internal developer experience.
- Collaborate with backend developers to integrate UIs with APIs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in front-end engineering, including a deep knowledge of JavaScript (and TypeScript), having working familiarity with, but no loyalty to, multiple frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte, etc)
- Deep understanding of browser fundamentals: HTML, CSS (Flexbox, Grid), DOM, event lifecycle, rendering, and performance tuning.
- Strong experience using browser dev tools across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. for layout debugging, JS tracing, and performance profiling.
- Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining component-based design systems with support for theming, responsive behavior, and accessibility.
- Passion for user experience, developer ergonomics, and performance measurement (including Core Web Vitals).
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence others, and align around technical direction.
- Solid understanding of working with back-end technologies, architectural patterns, RESTful APIs, and authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth, JWT, etc).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, providing prompt incident resolution, and conducting postmortems to improve system reliability.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
- New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
- Generous PTO
- Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
- Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day
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Hard skills
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactVueSvelteHTMLCSSFlexboxGridRESTful APIs
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationinterpersonal skillscollaborationinfluenceuser experiencedeveloper ergonomicsperformance measurementproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
