Staff Frontend Engineer (f|m|d) | (80-100%) | Hybrid working model | Zurich

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

6 weeks of holidays

40-hour work week with flexitime

Generous parental leave

Choose your gear

Zusammenfassung

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group in Zürich is looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the frontend architecture in the Real Estate vertical. You will create shared frontend solutions, enhance user experiences, and mentor engineers while innovating across multiple teams.

The ideal candidate has substantial experience with Vue.js, technical leadership in design and implementation, and strong communication skills to collaborate effectively.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of professional experience with Vue.js, or similar frameworks.
• Proven track record of implementing automated frontend testing.
• Solid experience building production applications with Vue 3.
• Experience collaborating with designers using Figma.

Aufgaben

• Lead the evolution of Real Estate frontend architecture and improve SLAs/SLOs.
• Design and create shared frontend libraries and tooling.
• Orchestrate multi-system refactors and migrations.
• Mentor and coach other engineers through structured mentorship.

Kenntnisse

Vue.js

JavaScript/TypeScript

Automated frontend testing

Collaboration with designers

Technical leadership

CI/CD for frontend

Communication skills

Tools

Jest

Cypress

Figma

Jobbeschreibung

Staff Frontend Engineer

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

Meet the team!

• Yuliya Zvolskaya - Engineering Manager - LinkedIn

Responsibilities

• 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 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

Day-to-Day

• You’ll 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 bottlenecks, such as performance drags in core user journeys or build-time inefficiencies, and 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

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: mainly Vue.js 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: Node.js 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 innovation offered by large language models in your daily work

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience with the Vue.js , or similar frameworks
• 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 (figma.com)
• 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 influencing and supporting multiple teams or a whole product area
• Excellent English communication skills, spoken and written. You can explain complex topics clearly to different audiences in an international team setting

We value engineers who:

• Thrive in collaborative environments and are true team players
• Have a growth mindset and are curious, we 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

You will stand out if you have:

• Significant professional experience in software development (including time in senior/lead roles)
• Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (Vue.js, 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

Benefits

• 6 weeks of holidays per year (plus option to buy 10 extra)
• 40-hour work week with flexitime (capped at 45 hours)
• A hybrid work setup with flexibility to work remotely
• Generous parental leave: 18 weeks for maternity and 6 weeks for paternity/adoption
• SBB Half-Fare Card and first-class travel between SMG offices in Switzerland
• Gender-neutral pay and transparent career paths
• Choose your gear: Mac or Windows laptop, and iPhone, Samsung, or Pixel mobile
• An inclusive and innovative environment where your voice matters