Principal Frontend Engineer

Upserve; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading restaurant management platform is seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to join their remote web applications team. This role emphasizes technical leadership, collaborative design with UX, and a commitment to delivering high-quality user experiences. Ideal candidates will bring a passion for mentoring and a focus on practical, robust solutions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experienced with varied platforms and connectivity needs.
• Passionate about building robust, tested systems.
• Thrives in fast-paced environments with a focus on quality.

Responsibilities

• Be a technical leader and mentor within the web applications team.
• Collaborate with Product and UX teams on interface designs.
• Drive quality and testing methodologies to deliver robust solutions.

Skills

Technical leadership

User experience design

Quality assurance

Collaborative design

Problem solving

Job description

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Upserve is the magic ingredient that helps restaurateurs thrive by putting everything they need in one place. We are a leading restaurant management platform with a cloud-based Point of Sale (POS) system, data and analytics, inventory management and payments processing for small to midsize restaurants. Thousands of restaurants use Upserve to manage relationships with more than 57 million active diners, process over $12 billion in annual sales, and to serve over 36 million meals per month.

The Opportunity

Upserve is looking for a Principal Frontend Engineer with a design-centric approach and a passion for mentoring to join our web applications team. This team designs and creates both core and supplemental products for Upserve’s customers. Frontend Engineers on this team create compelling and functional UX in collaboration with backend engineers to meet new and existing product requirements with robust, maintainable solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Be a technical leader, gaining ownership and mutual respect over existing and new areas of the product, and collaboratively design with our customer’s needs as paramount.
• Imbue your team with passion for delightful user experiences.
• Drive quality and testing methodologies to ensure only robust solutions are delivered.
• Create maintainable solutions that meet Product and Engineering needs to grow the business.
• Collaborate with our Product and UX teams to disambiguate requirements and understand context to create the appropriate interfaces.
• Participate in sprint planning, code reviews, and retrospectives.
• Guide and mentor other engineers.

Who You Are

• You understand the web is consumed on many varied platforms with many varied levels of connectivity and bandwidth, and you design accordingly.
• You are an experienced and passionate technical leader who is comfortable defining technical solutions to stimulating challenges.
• You believe in building robust, rigorously-tested systems and components, and driving our quality bar cross-functionally.
• You take pride in your work and the value that it creates, enabling instrumentation and diagnostics post-release phase.
• You are a pragmatic idealist -- you strive for efficient and practical solutions not just theoretically ideal ones.
• You are a believer in moving fast with care and quality as key tenets.
• You enjoy talking about user functionality as much as you enjoy talking about functional programming.
• You feel a tremendous sense of urgency to get value to end users, and you tap into that energy to drive, lead, and motivate your colleagues.
• You get excited about types and algorithms, and know when to choose the right data structure for the right task.

* NOTE: This role is fully remote.

Upserve is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to have a team that is as diverse as the industry we serve. We partner with a number of local organizations working to improve access to the tech industry for underrepresented groups. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.