Senior Frontend Engineer

Jobtailor; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior frontend engineer to lead the selection and migration of our frontend stack to a modern architecture. You will design scalable, high-performance frontend solutions delivering low-latency experiences across regions via CDNs.

You will mentor engineers in design systems, component architecture, and testing strategies. You will collaborate with design teams and founders to understand feature priorities and drive alignment with product goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend engineering experience at scale.
• Expert-level in TypeScript and JavaScript with modern frontend frameworks.
• Proven track record building world-class user experiences.
• Deep experience with design systems and shared components.
• Strong background in high-performance frontend delivery using CDNs.
• Experience with frontend analytics and experimentation frameworks.
• Hands-on with web bundlers like Esbuild, Webpack or Vite.
• Strong API design, end-to-end testing and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead selection of frontend stack and strategy to migrate legacy frontend.
• Design and implement scalable, low-latency frontend across regions via CDNs.
• Mentor engineers on best practices, design systems, and testing.
• Collaborate with design to deliver beautiful and reliable experiences.
• Work with founders and product managers to align frontend priorities.
• Leverage AI agents to derive feature work and productivity.

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

AngularJS

React

Design systems

CDNs

Analytics

Web bundlers

API design

CI/CD

Tools

Esbuild

Webpack

Vite

Cloudflare

Fastly

Playwright

AWS CodeDeploy

Sentry

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead the selection of our forward-looking frontend stack and develop a strategy for iteratively migrating our legacy frontend to the new architecture.
• Design and lead the implementation of scalable, high-performance frontend solutions – delivering low-latency experiences across multiple regions using modern CDNs.
• Up-level engineering rigor across the team by mentoring engineers in best practices, design systems, component architecture, and testing strategies.
• Work closely with our design team on design systems, shared components, and delivering experiences that are both beautiful and reliable.
• Work closely with founders and product managers to understand the why behind each feature, and help drive alignment on frontend priorities alongside product priorities.
• Utilizing AI agents and leveraging them to derive feature work and productivity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of frontend engineering experience working at scale
• Expert‑level skills with TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks (AngularJS and React a plus)
• A proven track record of building world‑class, end‑user‑facing product experiences
• Deep experience with design systems and authoring and maintaining shared components
• Strong background in high‑performance, low‑latency frontend delivery using modern CDNs (Cloudflare, Fastly, etc.) including bundle chunking
• Experience with frontend analytics and experimentation frameworks
• Hands‑on experience with Web bundlers like Esbuild, Webpack or Vite.
• Strong background in API design, end‑to‑end testing (Playwright a plus), and CI/CD practices (AWS CodeDeploy, Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus, Coralogix a plus)
• A strong ownership mindset — you lead complex implementations autonomously and bring others along with you
• Clear communication skills for collaborating across product, design, and customer‑facing teams