Staff Software Engineer

XCEED; España; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited paid time off

Flexible working hours

Unlimited remote work

Workation — work from anywhere

Job summary

XCEED in Spain is seeking a Staff Frontend Software Engineer to be the technical anchor for our frontend org. Shape architecture, lead initiatives, and drive performance, accessibility, and maintainability across React SPAs and Next.js apps.

Collaborate with product, design, and backend, establish standards, review code, and mentor engineers in a fast-moving, globally distributed team. If you are passionate about federated design systems and shipping high-impact frontend at scale, join XCEED.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software/frontend engineering with leadership experience.
• Deep React mastery and Next.js App Router expertise for SEO-focused apps.
• Strong system design, state management, caching, and data-fetching.
• Experience with modern bundlers and CI/CD automation.
• Exceptional communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience building federated Design Systems across product lines.
• Open-source contributions and community involvement are a plus.
• Strong knowledge of web security best practices.
• Experience with WebAssembly and performance profiling is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Technical Strategy & Architecture: shape long-term frontend architecture across apps and widgets.
• Core Infrastructure & Tooling: own shared libraries, design tokens, pipelines, and release flows.
• Hands-on Delivery: contribute production frontend work and set the example.
• Technical Leadership & Governance: establish frontend standards and code-review culture.
• Performance, Accessibility & Resilience: own Core Web Vitals and WCAG compliance.
• Mentorship & Cross-functional Collaboration: elevate engineers and partner with product/design/backend.

Skills

8+ years

React mastery

Next.js App Router

System design

State management

CI/CD tooling

Soft communication

Federated Design System

Open‑source contributions

Web security

WebAssembly/WebGL

Tools

Vite

Next.js

Webpack

Turbopack

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Job description

At XCEED, we connect people with unforgettable nightlife and live experiences. Our success is built on a foundation of bringing great people—and that’s where you come in.

As a Staff Frontend Software Engineer, you will be the technical anchor for our frontend organization. This is not just a role for an expert coder; it is a role for a strategic thinker, an architectural pioneer, and a cultural catalyst. You will bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution, defining how XCEED builds user interfaces that are blazing fast, accessible, and highly maintainable.

You will report directly to the engineering leadership and work closely with Product, Design, and Cross-Functional Engineering teams to set the standard for frontend excellence.

Engineering principles

This engineer is a team player and is proactive on helping others when needed. This engineer is not afraid of asking questions. This engineer shows ownership in all stages of the software development life-cycle (SDLC). This engineer cares about XCEED’s product, and always tries his/her best to make the product better. Stop starting / start finishing mindset.

What You Will Do

• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Shape the long-term frontend architecture across our estate — a suite of plain-React applications and embeddable widgets, plus a Next.js (App Router) application — much of it shipping as independently versioned shared packages. Drive pragmatic evolution that scales with XCEED's growth — not architecture for its own sake.
• Core Infrastructure & Tooling: Champion developer velocity. Build and maintain the shared libraries, design-token system, build/release pipelines, and CI/CD that let our teams ship safely and fast — and keep our shared packages easy to release and consume.
• Hands-on Delivery: Stay close to the code. Ship production frontend work directly — including in the areas where frontend maturity has the most room to grow — and set the standard by example, not just by document.
• Technical Leadership & Governance: Establish frontend standards, best practices, and a rigorous-but-fast code-review culture. Be the technical reference point for complex frontend challenges, and raise the bar on the parts you can't see but that define a great product — types, tests, tooling, observability, security.
• Performance, Accessibility & Resilience: Own Core Web Vitals, performance budgets, and accessibility (WCAG) with a mobile‑first lens and an eye on traffic spikes — from client‑side bundle size and interaction latency in our React apps to SSR/ISR and SEO in our Next.js application.
• Mentorship & Cross-functional Collaboration: Elevate the engineers around you and partner with Product, Design, and backend to turn ambitious visions into technically sound, modular realities — keeping the design system and shared components a help, not a tax.

The Skills You Bring

• Experience: 8+ years in software/frontend engineering, with a track record at Staff/Principal level or leading large‑scale frontend initiatives end to end.
• Framework depth: Deep, production‑proven React mastery — you understand how React itself works (reconciliation, rendering, the hooks model), not just the API, because most of our apps are plain React SPAs that own their own routing, state, and bundling. Plus Next.js App Router depth (Server Components, SSR/ISR, hydration) for the application where SEO matters. Equivalent depth in another modern framework (Vue, Svelte) transfers.
• System design: Strong experience with state management, caching, and data‑fetching (we lean on TanStack Query over REST and GraphQL); client‑side SPA architecture (routing, code‑splitting, bundle budgets); and designing shared, versioned packages consumed across apps, including embeddable widgets.
• Tooling, build & release: Solid understanding of modern bundlers — Vite for our React apps and the Next.js pipeline (Webpack/Turbopack) — package build-and‑publish workflows, and CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions with automated Playwright e2e).
• Soft skills: Exceptional communication. You can explain complex tradeoffs to non‑technical stakeholders and rally engineers.
• Experience building or maintaining a federated Design System used across multiple product lines.
• Contributions to open‑source frontend projects or a presence in the tech community.
• Strong knowledge of web security best practices (CORS, XSS, CSP).
• Experience with WebAssembly, WebGL, or performance profiling using Chrome DevTools.

How We Support You

We believe in a culture that supports your best work and your best life.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Flexible Working Hours
• Unlimited Remote Work
• Workation — work from anywhere as long as it aligns with your team’s dynamics.
• Access to learning platforms (Codely, Coursera, MasterClass) and dedicated time for personal development.
• Team‑building activities and meet‑and‑greet events.
• Go Out — Free passes to XCEED partners’ events to experience what our users do
• Referral Program to helping us find incredible talent

Who We Are

From clubs to festivals, concerts to cultural movements, XCEED is where people come together through music, art, and shared experiences. We believe unforgettable nights don’t just entertain—they shape culture, bring communities together, and define local scenes.

XCEED is the platform behind the best nights out—empowering event organizers to manage ticketing, marketing, and audience insights, while helping fans discover their next unforgettable experience—all in one place.

We are creators and challengers who refuse to watch from the sidelines. Every day is a chance to rethink, rebuild, and push further. We celebrate success and embrace smart risks and deep ownership—because shaping the future isn’t for the passive.

Since 2009, we’ve been bridging the gap between the digital and physical—enhancing real moments with seamless technology. Today, as one of the Financial Times' "Fastest Growing Companies in Europe 2025," XCEED powers events in 350+ cities across 25 countries, developing in collaboration with leading venues, festivals, and organizers across four continents.

What Sets Us Apart

• We’re a growing, dynamic company with an international and remote team where you will have a big impact in any role.
• We celebrate diversity, and we ensure everyone feels valued and has fair opportunities.
• We constantly experiment with new solutions and encourage new ideas. We challenge the status quo.
• We believe in a culture where you can be yourself, do great work, and have a lot of fun along the way.

Our mission: bring people together through authentic experiences.

The Principles That Bring Us Together

I. Moderation is Fatal. We are fearless and think beyond boundaries. We believe it takes courage to write change.

II. Taste Everything. We are the discoverers of the future and take nothing for granted. We are curious. Everyday. About everything. We listen carefully to every customer, we forge trends, we experiment.

III. Always Inspire. We envision a world where empathy and sense of community drives humankind's passion for developing novelty. To make this happen, we are the doers at the front line of inspiration.

IV. Local at Heart. We believe creativity is born local and because of that, it should be nurtured by a sustainable ecosystem driven by the passion of artists, curators, and the people who truly love arts and give no fucks about posing.

V. Trust Above All. We prioritize trust among ourselves and with our customers, empowering it through transparency and open collaboration. If trust is compromised, we address it promptly.

VI. Embrace The Problem. Innovation happens when we spend time deeply understanding a pain, not jumping to a solution. We sit at the table and enjoy this process from A to Z.

VII. Have Fun. We are aware that changing the world won't always be pretty. So we'll always make sure to have a good time throughout the journey.

At XCEED we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and employer. We review applications for employment regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, marital status, or medical condition.