Real-Time Vue/TypeScript Frontend Engineer

VueToronto; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k)

Medical, dental, vision

Paid time off

Discounted meals

Job summary

Wonder, based in Boston, is seeking a Frontend Engineer to build high-performance interfaces for our automated restaurants. You will work primarily with Vue.js, TypeScript, and CSS to create tools that operators use to interact with our robotic kitchen.

This role requires 3 days in the Boston office (Charlestown, MA) and offers a base salary range of $139,500 to $145,500 per year, with geographic salary structuring and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional frontend development experience with Vue.js, TypeScript and CSS.
• Strong experience with a centralized state management store and reactive data structures.
• A strong eye for UI/UX and the ability to contribute to design discussions.
• Experience building applications that rely on real-time WebSocket communication.
• Willingness to learn the Elixir/Phoenix layer when required.

Responsibilities

• Own the User Interface: Develop and maintain the Vue.js applications that serve as the primary interface for our robotics, providing restaurant team members with real-time visibility and controls to our machines.
• Master Real-Time Communication: Build and optimize systems that rely heavily on WebSockets, ensuring the UI stays responsive and accurate while processing high-frequency data from our backend.
• Collaborative Design: Partner with Product Designers to translate Figma mockups into reality, providing technical feedback to find the sweet spot between ambitious UX and high-performance implementation.
• Performance Engineering: Proactively diagnose and solve frontend performance bottlenecks, ensuring that complex state changes don’t compromise the user experience in high-pressure kitchen environments.
• Bridge the Stack: While primarily focused on Vue.js, you’re excited to familiarize yourself with our whole tech stack, eager to learn new frameworks and languages.

Skills

Vue.js

TypeScript

CSS

WebSockets

UI/UX

Performance tuning

Tools

Elixir/Phoenix

Figma

Job description

Wonder, based in Boston, is seeking a Frontend Engineer to build high-performance interfaces for our automated restaurants. You will work primarily with Vue.js, TypeScript, and CSS to create tools that operators use to interact with our robotic kitchen.

This role requires 3 days in the Boston office (Charlestown, MA) and offers a base salary range of $139,500 to $145,500 per year, with geographic salary structuring and a comprehensive benefits package.