Senior Frontend Engineer

Toptal; Remote; EUR 65.000 - 85.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A global talent network provider is looking for a highly skilled software engineer to join their remote team. In this role, you will leverage your front-end expertise, primarily in TypeScript and React, to build and maintain software that serves numerous businesses. The ideal candidate will possess at least 5 years of experience and exceptional communication skills, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and actively contribute to improving team processes. This position allows you to make impactful contributions while working autonomously.

Qualifikationen

• Solid 5+ years front-end experience.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company.

Aufgaben

• Build and maintain software used by numerous businesses.
• Mentor fellow teammates.
• Collaborate on ideas to improve team processes.

Kenntnisse

Front-end experience

TypeScript

React

HTML

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Next.js

Apollo

Progressive Web Apps

Jobbeschreibung

Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members based around the globe, Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce.

We take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun. We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold.

Job Summary

As a member of the HireGlobal team, you will contribute to building and scaling our business and subproducts—not just with your engineering experience, but through technical leadership and proactive thinking. Our product development team operates collaboratively, with team members contributing to product and technical direction, process decisions, and execution. You will have the freedom to drive change and influence the direction of our products and processes.

In our technical stack, we employ Ruby on Rails for the backend and a combination of Apollo, TypeScript, and React for the frontend.

This is a remote position. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.

Responsibilities:

The following information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or required skills.

You will build and maintain first-class software used by numerous businesses.

• Make decisions based on multiple quality dimensions like user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, security breaches, and performance.
• Mentor fellow teammates.
• Collaborate on novel ideas to improve the team processes.
• Lead initiatives.
• Care for and monitor the quality of our product.
• Raise awareness of technical issues.
• Develop a clear understanding of business value and collaborate with stakeholders by analyzing features and suggesting alternatives.
• Proactively identify technical debt and product areas that require attention or improvements and suggest improvements in our technology stack.
• Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager.

In the first week, expect to:

• Meet your team members.
• Get acquainted with our technical stack.
• Learn about our architecture and the development process.

In the first month, expect to:

• Attend regular meetings, like technical calls, retrospectives, and the monthly Engineering All-hands meeting.
• Start working on general team tasks and become familiar with the domain.
• Start to receive regular feedback from your manager in accordance with the Toptal engineering growth program.

In the first three months, expect to:

• Settle in and get comfortable with the team processes.
• Contribute significantly to the application’s development.

In the first six months, expect to:

• Become a key member of the team and help others inside and outside of the team.
• Contribute to the planning of large initiatives.
• Lead technical initiatives within the team.
• Drive improvements to the codebase and processes.

In the first year, expect to:

• Mentor and be part of the interviewing processes, to support the growth of our top-skilled engineering team.
• Lead product initiatives.

Qualifications and Job Requirements:

• Solid 5+ years front-end experience.
• Experience in TypeScript, React, and HTML is required.
• React, Apollo GraphQL, TypeScript, and Jest are our front-end stack. The desire to learn and be proficient in them is welcome.
• Experience with Next.js, monorepo, and Progressive Web Apps is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus.
• Experience with other non-frontend programming languages and technical stacks is welcome.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Thriving in autonomy in every aspect of daily work - be able to unblock yourself by finding the right people or help.
• Being a team player by avoiding solo performances and unblocking your peers.
• Caring for quality through impactful tests, process change proposals, and raising awareness of issues, be they product or technical.
• Caring for architecture - applying best practices, using software design patterns, and bringing ideas for improvements.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
• You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.

As Toptal's GM of HireGlobal, Jessica leads a cross-functional team across product, engineering, and go-to-market to ensure HireGlobal scales effectively while continuing to deliver exceptional client outcomes. Prior to this role, Jessica held strategy and operations leadership positions at high-growth technology companies, including Attentive Mobile, where she built and scaled business operations during a period of rapid expansion. She began her career at Bain & Company, advising global organizations on growth strategy and transformation. Jessica holds a degree in Finance from the University of British Columbia.

Chief Software Architect

Alexander is Toptal's Chief Software Architect, currently leading the team behind HireGlobal. Since joining Toptal in 2012, he has served in various engineering management positions, setting technical direction, maintaining high engineering standards, and helping shape how the company builds and delivers software. Prior to Toptal, he gained experience both in corporate environments and as a startup co-founder, which has shaped his approach to building scalable systems while staying adaptable to changing business needs. Alexander holds a Master\'s degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

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