Staff Frontend Engineer: Checkout & Performance Leader

Insight Global; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 114,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead frontend architecture for a major retail/eCommerce client. You will mentor engineers, drive performance, and coordinate across multiple teams.

You should bring deep React/Next.js, GraphQL, and AWS experience, a track record of shipping scalable customer-facing experiences, and the ability to influence technical decisions.

This hands-on role thrives in fast-paced environments and requires strong collaboration with cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of frontend development experience.
• Expertise in Next.js, React, GraphQL, and AWS deployments.
• 4–6+ years of technical leadership with mentoring responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple frontend teams.
• Drive frontend architecture and design decisions.
• Ensure performance, scalability, reliability of experiences.
• Oversee build, deployment, and testing processes.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and configuration management.
• Mentor developers and establish engineering best practices.
• Coordinate cross-team initiatives with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with North America and international teams.

Skills

Frontend development

Next.js

React

GraphQL

AWS deployments

Architectural design

Technical leadership

Mentoring

CI/CD pipelines

Build & test

Webpack

GitLab

AWS EKS

AWS Lambda

Retail/eCommerce

High-volume sites

Tools

Webpack

GitLab

AWS EKS

AWS Lambda

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead frontend architecture for a major retail/eCommerce client. You will mentor engineers, drive performance, and coordinate across multiple teams.

You should bring deep React/Next.js, GraphQL, and AWS experience, a track record of shipping scalable customer-facing experiences, and the ability to influence technical decisions.

This hands-on role thrives in fast-paced environments and requires strong collaboration with cross-functional partners.