Principal Frontend Engineer
Hostaway
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Austria
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About the role
- Define and evolve the frontend architectural vision: design systems, micro-frontends, developer tooling, and long-term scalability.
- Lead cross-organization frontend initiatives, influencing multiple teams and aligning technical direction with product strategy.
- Establish and champion standards for accessibility, performance, and usability across the company but specifically our front-end community.
- Mentor and grow technical leaders, raising the bar for frontend engineering excellence.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver cohesive, scalable, and customer-centric solutions.
- Identify and drive tech debt remediation to ensure frontend scalability and maintainability.
- Influence executive-level decisions on frontend technology strategy.
Requirements
- 10+ years in frontend engineering, with proven architectural leadership.
- Deep expertise in React, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
- Led large-scale frontend transformations - such as micro-frontend migrations, monolith decomposition, framework modernisation, or design system overhauls - that impacted multiple teams and required coordinated organisational change.
- Strong knowledge of frontend performance optimization, accessibility (a11y), testing at all layers (unit, component, system).
- Skilled in modern build and release tooling (Webpack, Vite, CI/CD).
- Experience integrating design workflows (Figma, tokens, component libraries).
- Exceptional ability to influence across functions (Engineering, Product, Design).
- Experience leading micro-frontend migrations or frontend platform refactors.
- Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, GCP).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and their frontend implications - including state management across services, handling eventual consistency, error boundaries for service failures, and frontend observability.
- Proven track record of leveraging AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLMs) to accelerate development velocity while maintaining code quality.
- Advocates for AI adoption across teams, establishes guardrails for AI-assisted development, and fosters a culture of experimentation with emerging AI-powered workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
- 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table.
- Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company.
- Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good.
- Professional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.
- Annual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms.
- Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary.
- Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
ReactNode.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptCSSHTMLfrontend performance optimizationaccessibilitymicro-frontend migrationsdistributed systems architecture
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringinfluencingcollaborationcommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingadvocacyorganizational change managementculture of experimentation