Senior Frontend Architect - Hybrid and Scale Web Platforms

EF Educational Tours; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

401(k) match

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Vacation & holidays

Professional growth trainings

Travel opportunities

EF Product Discounts

Office in Boston

Job summary

EF Educational Tours in Boston offers a Staff Software Engineer role focused on setting architecture and technical direction for customer sites, portals, and internal platforms. You’ll lead end-to-end web platform work, from frontend to backend integrations, while mentoring engineers and partnering with product and design.

The role emphasizes performance, security, accessibility, and scalable architectures, with a hybrid work model and a compensation range of $145,000-$185,000 based on

Qualifications

• Senior-level web platform engineering experience with multiple apps or teams.
• Proven architecture leadership across scope and teams.
• Deep React, TypeScript, Next.js expertise including SSR and caching.
• Backend basics with Node.js or .NET and GraphQL API design.
• Experience with AWS, Vercel/Cloudflare, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong security, testing, and performance practices at scale.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for the web platform and establish standards.
• Document cross-app architecture decisions and guide system design.
• Own performance, reliability, security, and accessibility of sites.
• Mentor engineers and grow architectural thinking across teams.
• Translate strategy into a technical roadmap and present trade-offs.

Skills

Front-end dev

Architecture leadership

React

TypeScript

Next.js

Node.js

GraphQL design

AWS cloud

Web performance

AI coding tools

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Node.js

GraphQL

Salesforce

AWS

Vercel

Cloudflare

Terraform

CDK

CI/CD

Job description

EF Educational Tours in Boston offers a Staff Software Engineer role focused on setting architecture and technical direction for customer sites, portals, and internal platforms. You’ll lead end-to-end web platform work, from frontend to backend integrations, while mentoring engineers and partnering with product and design.

The role emphasizes performance, security, accessibility, and scalable architectures, with a hybrid work model and a compensation range of $145,000-$185,000 based on