
Staff Software Engineer, Front End
Perchwell
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $245,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of our new frontend platform — setting the foundation for years of future development.
- Drive org-wide frontend best practices, including patterns for maintainability, performance, testing, accessibility, and scalability.
- Mentor and guide engineers across teams — through code reviews, design discussions, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with design, product, domain experts, and backend teams to ensure seamless end-to-end experiences, excellent API contracts, and shared patterns.
- Evangelize and operationalize new tools, frameworks, and approaches — including AI-assisted development workflows that accelerate delivery while maintaining quality.
- Define and enforce frontend standards: component libraries, coding conventions, tooling, CI/CD, testing strategy, and performance budgets.
- Troubleshoot and resolve deep architectural challenges, and drive decisions that influence the entire engineering organization.
- Lead cross-team initiatives and technical programs to completion with measurable outcomes and clear impact.
- Champion frontend engineering excellence — including documentation, onboarding, learning, and team rituals around quality and craftsmanship.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on frontend development, frameworks, and modern tooling.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS, and React.
- Deep understanding of how frontend systems are built, deployed, and operated in production, including infrastructure, caching, API integration patterns, and performance optimization.
- Track record of architecting and delivering large-scale, complex frontend systems with high performance and maintainability.
- Experience defining and implementing frontend best practices for modularity, testing (unit/integration/e2e), component libraries, and performance optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction, drive engineering initiatives across teams, and align stakeholders on strategy.
- Strong mentoring and leadership capabilities — ability to grow engineers at all levels.
- Excellent communication skills, with a passion for collaboration across functional teams.
- Experience in establishing developer workflows and automation that improve productivity and code quality.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO, plus 10 paid company holidays
- 401K with a company match
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- HSA and FSA options
- Commuter benefits
- Parental leave
- Company-wide onsite or offsite each year
- Beautiful office in Soho, Manhattan with a stocked kitchen, catered breakfast and lunch once per week, happy hours and meet-ups
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptJavaScriptHTML5CSSReactfrontend developmentperformance optimizationtestingAPI integrationmodularity
Soft Skills
mentoringleadershipcommunicationcollaborationinfluencingknowledge sharingproblem-solvingteam ritualsdocumentationonboarding