Staff Frontend Engineer (TypeScriptJavaScript) Hybrid working model 100, Ho Chi Minh City

As a Staff Frontend Engineer you are a hands-on technical leader with company-level impact across our Real Estate vertical. Youll shape and evolve the frontend architecture powering our portals create shared frontend solutions adopted by multiple teams and orchestrate complex cross-team initiatives. 

You will get to collaborate and access the wealth of knowledge and experience from a community of amazing engineers who come from all parts of the globe and are ready to share their expertise and aid you in your path to fulfilling your potential.

Join our dynamic team located in six countries (Switzerland Serbia Vietnam France Germany and India) where creativity thrives. Together we tackle challenges celebrate successes and keep learning and growing.

Eligibility: This position is open to Vietnamese citizens only.

Our tech stack

Youll work primarily on the frontend while collaborating with full-stack and backend engineers:

• Frontend: mainly and some React both with TypeScript as the language of choice. We run a mix of client-side server-side pre-rendered and hybrid web apps.
• Backend: and TypeScript serverless and microservices architecture in a cloud-based environment using AWS (Lambda DynamoDB SQS SNS S3 and more).
• Monitoring & Observability: Mainly Datadog plus logging/alerting best practices.
• AI & Tooling: We actively adopt the latest developments in AI technology and expect you to embrace the innovation offered by large language models in your daily work.

At a high level you will:

• Lead the evolution of our Real Estate frontend architecture to support future requirements defining and improving SLAs/SLOs and anticipating ripple effects across systems together with other senior engineers and principals.
• Design and create shared frontend libraries components and tooling (e.g. design system performance tooling) that are widely used by internal teams focusing on pragmatic reusable solutions and driving their adoption.
• Orchestrate multi-system refactors and migrations (e.g. framework upgrades cross-product harmonisation) breaking them down into digestible plannable pieces and coordinating with engineers product and other stakeholders.
• Act as a go-to person across teams and locations for frontend topics influencing how we build web experiences across the Real Estate organisation.
• Mentor and coach other engineers through structured mentorship pairing and feedback helping them grow their skills and closing skill gaps you observe in the organisation.
• Model a healthy feedback culture helping people navigate tough conversations and conflicts in a constructive blameless way.
• Challenge and improve team and cross-team processes suggesting changes that improve focus quality and speed when needed.
• Youll still write plenty of code but your impact will be measured just as much by how you multiply the effectiveness of others as by your individual output.

Your day-to-day

• Youll be part of a regular product team splitting time about half and half between product delivery and staff responsibilities depending on the current needs and priorities.
• Innovate design implement and deploy frontend-focused engineering solutions for our Real Estate products from discovery to production.
• Own the end-to-end technical vision for key user journeys like Homegate and Immoscout24 and more with a strong focus on performance accessibility UX quality and reliability.
• Lead cross-team frontend initiatives (for example: shared design system improvements cross-brand UI harmonisation performance budgets or observability patterns). Identify and surface cross-cutting technical bottleneckssuch as performance drags in the core user journey.
• Identify and surface cross-cutting technical bottleneckssuch as performance drags in core user journeys or build-time inefficienciesand advocate for their resolution at the leadership level.
• Collaborate closely with Product Design and other engineering teams to shape technical strategy and trade-offs for new features and platform work.
• Partner with DevX to co-develop engineering blueprints and health scorecards setting the gold standard for what good looks like in our frontend repositories.
• Evaluate prototype and introduce new frontend technologies and approaches (frameworks tooling patterns) document your findings and drive adoption where they make sense.
• Own and evolve the Frontend ADR process ensuring technical decisions are documented socialized and consistently implemented across the Real Estate organization.
• Guide and review the work of other engineers through design reviews code reviews and informal coaching.
• Help the team embrace and leverage AI & large language models in our engineering workflows and products.
• Contribute to and facilitate guilds tech chats and other cross-team knowledge-sharing formats.
• Promote a culture of high-quality engineering: testing monitoring with Datadog observability security and operational excellence.

Qualifications :

What will you bring to the ride

• Excellent English communication skills spoken and written. You can explain complex topics clearly to different audiences in an international team setting.
• Strong experience with the ecosystem including Vue Router Pinia/Vuex and Vite.
• Proven track record of implementing and maintaining automated frontend testing using tools such as Jest Vitest and/or Cypress.
• Solid hands-on experience building production applications with Vue 3.
• Experience collaborating with designers using Figma ().
• Strong experience building and evolving large-scale frontend applications in modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Proven track record of technical leadership: leading complex initiatives aligning multiple stakeholders and taking responsibility from design through rollout and iteration.
• Deep understanding of modern CI/CD for frontend including automated release strategies and feature flagging in a microfrontend environment.
• Demonstrated experience creating and driving adoption of shared frontend solutions (e.g. design system components shared libraries cross-cutting tooling).
• Experience in influencing and supporting multiple teams or a whole product area.

We value engineers who

• Thrive in collaborative environments and are true team players.
• Have a growth mindset and are curiouswe love growing together.
• Are passionate about frontend architecture and building & scaling cloud-based solutions.
• Are open to change and able to propose pragmatic solutions not just point out problems.
• Feel free to challenge the status quo when it improves outcomes for users or the organisation.
• Are creative adaptable and enjoy solving complex ambiguous problems.

It would be great to also have most of these

• Significant professional experience in software development (including time in senior/lead roles).
• Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks ( React or similar).
• Strong understanding of web performance accessibility and SEO considerations for large user-facing sites.
• Prior working experience with APIs and microservices and how frontend apps best integrate with them.
• Prior working experience with cloud service providers like AWS Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience with server-side rendering / hybrid rendering patterns and edge / CDN optimisation.
• Experience integrating frontends with AWS Lambda

Additional Information :

What do we offer

• Purposeful & Impactful Careers: Be part of SMG Swiss Marketplace Group Switzerlands most relevant online marketplace promoting sustainable consumption contributing to a greener society...
• Attractive Compensation: Top salary Full pay during probation 13th-month bonus Annual profit growth share plan Commuting allowance
• Generous Benefits: 21 annual paid days off 10 paid days for sick leave Full Social insurance contributions plus Premium private insurances for you and your family
• Strong Learning & Development: Working with large scalable systems Modern technical stacks Transparent career paths 24 days for learning Personalized development plans Yearly education budgets Hackathons LinkedIn learning
• Fair Recognition & Evaluation: Clear OKRs Regular performance check-ins Annual performance cycle with 360-degree feedback mechanism Promotion opportunities for all
• Holistic Wellbeing & Balance: Annual health check-ups Flexible hours 40-hour work week with manageable workload Diverse team bonding & wellness activities Trips to Switzerland & Europe
• Modern Work Environment: Inclusive & innovative culture Hybrid working model with additional 12 remote weeks per year Top-tier equipment Best-in-kind AI assistants
• Supportive Onboarding: Comprehensive assistance to help you settle in

Recruitment Process  
We believe hiring is a two-way street where both parties get to know each other. Heres what you can expect:

1. Initial screening call with HR  A brief conversation to understand your background and expectations.
2. Meeting with the Hiring Manager - A deeper discussion about the role your experience and how we work.
3. Technical assessment - A hands-on assessment of your skills conducted via live coding and system design exercises.
4. Meet-the-team conversation - An informal discussion where youll meet potential future teammates.
5. Casual Meeting with Director  An informal conversation to align on vision culture and goals.

At SMG Vietnam we value diverse perspectives and individual growth. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you dont meet every requirement. Together we embrace differences nurture potential and celebrate success.

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About Us

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and a cutting-edge digital company that simplifies peoples lives with innovative products.
SMG Swiss Marketplace Group provides customers with the best tools to meet their life decision needs. The portfolio includes Real Estate (ImmoScout24 Homegate Flatfox    Publimmo  CASASOFT IAZI) Automotive (AutoScout24 MotoScout24) General Marketplaces (  Ricardo) and Finance & Insurance (FinanceScout24 ).

Disclaimer

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group primarily engages with candidates directly. We do not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies unless we have specifically requested their assistance for particular roles. Any submissions made without a prior request from our Talent Acquisition team will not be acknowledged or considered. We appreciate the understanding and cooperation of recruitment agencies in respecting this policy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time