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The Product Highway is seeking a senior Frontend Engineer to own architecture end-to-end, shape frontend standards, and mentor engineers. You will lead the creation of data-heavy dashboards and AI-native UI patterns, collaborating with product and backend teams.
You will drive design system evolution, performance optimization, and cross-stack collaboration, ensuring robust, scalable frontend delivery across projects.
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Frontend Engineer - The Product HighwayResponsibilities:Own frontend architecture end-to-end — rendering strategy, state management, component design, performance budgets. You set the architecture, not inherit it.Define and evolve frontend standards at TPH — component patterns, TypeScript conventions, testing strategy, AI workflow practices. What you establish becomes the team's baseline.Mentor SDE-1 and SDE-2 engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural walkthroughs. You make the people around you meaningfully better.Lead client-facing technical conversations — discovery sessions, translating UI requirements into architecture plans, representing TPH's engineering standards to stakeholders.Build and own complex interfaces — data-heavy dashboards, real-time UIs, AI-native UX patterns, multi-step flows. You take on the problems others aren't sure how to approach.Translate design into production UI with precision — and push back when something won't survive production contact. You propose better alternatives, not just flag problems.Step across the stack when needed — write API endpoints, fix backend issues. You don't let a backend change block a frontend delivery when you can solve it yourself.Write code the team can build on — clean component APIs, proper TypeScript, meaningful tests, documented decisions.
5+ years building production frontend applications — complex interactive products with real users, not landing pages or internal tools.Deep expertise in React and Next.js — server components, app router, SSR/SSG/ISR, middleware. You understand the rendering model well enough to make and defend architectural decisions.Strong TypeScript — generics, discriminated unions, type inference. This is how you design component APIs and catch bugs before they ship.Has owned frontend architecture independently — state management strategy, rendering approach, data fetching. You've made these calls on production systems and lived with the consequences.Has built or significantly evolved a design system or component library — not just consumed one, but established the primitives and patterns others depended on.Has mentored engineers demonstrably — code reviews, architecture feedback, direct coaching. You've made other engineers better, not just been good yourself.Performance engineering depth — bundle analysis, re-render profiling, Core Web Vitals. You've diagnosed and fixed real performance problems in production.Comfortable across the stack — trace a bug to a backend endpoint, write a fix, unblock the team. Full-stack willingness is non-negotiable.
Has led frontend teams or acted as technical lead in a consulting or services environment. Has integrated AI features at depth — streaming LLM responses, chat interfaces, generative UI, AI-powered search. Experience with animation and motion — Framer Motion, GSAP. You implement interactions that feel polished, not bolted on. Experience with both React and React Native or Flutter — working across web and mobile makes you far more deployable.
At SDE-3, you're not just using AI tools — you're defining how TPH's frontend engineers use them.Uses Cursor or Claude Code as primary development environment daily — components, refactoring, production features.Sets AI workflow standards for the team — CLAUDE.md templates, .cursorrules patterns. What you systematize, others inherit.Uses AI for rapid prototyping (v0, Claude, Cursor) and for code review, test generation, and documentation — but never ships AI output without reading it.Coaches SDE-1 and SDE-2 engineers on AI-assisted development — prompting habits, review quality, holding the bar on AI-generated code.
You think senior engineering is about writing better code, not raising the team's ceiling. You've never mentored or led technically — we need someone who's made other engineers better, not just someone who's very good individually. You refuse to touch backend code, or need fully specced designs for everything. You don't use AI tools daily in your current work.
Role: Computer Scientist II. Responsibilities include defining frontend architecture for developer surfaces, building scalable React features, creating reusable components, driving modern frontend standards, leading code reviews, resolving UI performance issues, and mentoring engineers. Requirements include 7-10 years of frontend or full-stack development experience with a strong frontend focus.