Staff Frontend Engineer - Remote, Lead Complex Web Platform

Primer; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive share options

Uncapped holidays (25 days min)

Workations & Retreat

Home office stipend

Generous learning budget

Equipment provided

Job summary

Primer is seeking a Staff Engineer to set front-end technical direction across multiple teams. You’ll own architecture, patterns, state management, and performance while staying hands-on in critical work that ships.

You will collaborate with Product, Design and backend engineers, mentor engineers, and drive accessibility, observability, and a cohesive design system in a fully remote, globally distributed team, using TypeScript, React, Python, AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience operating at staff or principal level across multiple teams.
• Deep front-end engineering expertise with TypeScript and React.
• Architecting complex, long-lived web applications with scalable state management.

Responsibilities

• Set front-end technical strategy across Account Experience teams, from architecture to hands-on implementation.
• Own the architecture of a data-dense merchant platform and define patterns, state management, and performance.
• Shape Primer AI Companion front-end evolution as a first-class interface.
• Maintain coherence across multiple domains and build shared components and design-system foundations.
• Mentor engineers across teams, raising the front-end bar through reviews and guidance.
• Ensure accessibility, performance budgets, and front-end observability are integral.
• Partner with Product, Design, and backend engineers to align decisions with front-end constraints.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Frontend architecture

Mentorship

Cross-team leadership

Performance optimization

Accessibility

State management

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Job description

Primer is seeking a Staff Engineer to set front-end technical direction across multiple teams. You’ll own architecture, patterns, state management, and performance while staying hands-on in critical work that ships.

You will collaborate with Product, Design and backend engineers, mentor engineers, and drive accessibility, observability, and a cohesive design system in a fully remote, globally distributed team, using TypeScript, React, Python, AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform.