Perchwell

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

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
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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptJavaScriptHTML5CSSReactfrontend developmentperformance optimizationtestingAPI integrationmodularity
Soft Skills
mentoringleadershipcommunicationcollaborationinfluencingknowledge sharingproblem-solvingteam ritualsdocumentationonboarding