Senior Frontend Engineer
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
Senior Frontend Engineer (Marketplace Rewrite)
Job Summary
Our client - a fast growing hospitality marketplace is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to serve as the technical cornerstone for their Marketplace web architecture overhaul.
In this role you will spearhead the reconstruction of our highest-traffic user journeys and establish the foundational frontend standards and patterns that will guide our team for years to come. This is a Senior-level position with a scope that leans toward Staff.
Location: In-person 4 days a week (Monday through Thursday) at our vibrant New York City headquarters.
Compensation: very attractive base salary plus benefits & equity scaled to your experience level.
Responsibilities
- Drive Key Initiatives: Take end-to-end ownership of major features on our highest-volume surfacesfocusing initially on Search Results (SRP) and Details (DLP)with a sharp focus on optimizing Core Web Vitals conversion rates and SEO.
- Lead Technical Design: Author RFCs and technical design documents for complex changes cultivate alignment across Product and Design teams and make smart practical architectural trade-offs.
- Establish Core Patterns: Design and deploy reusable architectural patterns within a App Router environment spanning routing data fetching caching component structures error handling and analytics tracking.
- Elevate Engineering Quality: Champion high standards through robust code reviews and technical guidelines mentoring a growing junior-leaning team to help them level up.
- Optimize Developer Velocity: Refine our internal tooling and development practices including our Playwright testing strategy Datadog observability and CI pipeline efficiency.
- Collaborate Across Stack: Work closely with backend engineers to define API contracts that maximize frontend performance and development speed.
Tech Stack
- Frontend: (App Router) React TypeScript Tailwind CSS shadcn/ui.
- Testing: Playwright.
- Observability: Datadog.
- Backend Architecture: Ruby on Rails and deployed on AWS backed by Postgres and MongoDB.
Qualifications
- 7 years of experience engineering production-grade web applications (or equivalent senior-level engineering mastery).
- Deep React Expertise: Comprehensive command of modern frontend architectures with specific experience in -style SSR/SPA hybrids.
- Proven Track Record: Experience leading major migrations or full code rewrites for high-traffic platforms delivering quantifiable improvements in SEO Core Web Vitals reliability and conversion.
- Strong Technical Judgement: Comfort navigating ambiguity with the ability to steer complex projects from early scoping through deployment and post-launch evaluation.
- High Technical Bar: A disciplined approach to automated testing an observability-first mindset and a commitment to writing clean maintainable code.
- Leadership & Mentorship: A natural ability to elevate the capabilities of surrounding engineers through clear communication and supportive technical leadership.
Required Skills:
CSSshadcnplaywrightdatadogSEO