Senior Frontend Engineer (LATAM)

Lateral Group; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Lateral Group is seeking a senior Frontend Engineer based in LATAM to lead front-end work on shipped products. This role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, end-to-end ownership of features, and a strong focus on quality and continuous improvement.

You'll design and implement UI features in React with TypeScript, drive projects from concept to deployment, and collaborate asynchronously with designers, backend engineers, product managers, and clients in a distributed team.

Qualifications

• Significant production experience with React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Proven ability to lead projects and make sound technical decisions.
• Comfort with asynchronous, distributed, self-managed work environments.
• Willingness to give and receive feedback for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain front-end features in React with modern JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Drive projects from concept through completion, including technical decisions, implementation planning, and deployment.
• Lead front-end best practices, proposing improvements to build processes, UI patterns, and tooling when they offer real benefit.
• Collaborate with designers, back-end developers, product managers, and clients in an asynchronous workflow, including demos and requirement clarifications.
• Profile and refine performance, animations, and browser-specific behaviour, debugging issues and writing tests to prevent regressions.
• Stay current with industry trends, evaluating new technologies for genuine product or developer experience gains.

Skills

React

JavaScript/TypeScript

Leadership

Async work

Job description

Role overview

A senior Frontend Engineer role is open for someone based in LATAM to lead front-end work on shipped products. The position combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, decision-making, and end-to-end ownership of features. The team is distributed, async-first, and self-managed, with a strong emphasis on quality, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain front-end features in React with modern JavaScript or TypeScript, building reusable components and polished, responsive interfaces.
• Drive projects from concept through completion, including technical decisions, implementation planning, and deployment.
• Lead front-end best practices, proposing improvements to build processes, UI patterns, and tooling when they offer real benefit.
• Collaborate with designers, back-end developers, product managers, and clients in an asynchronous workflow, including demos and requirement clarifications.
• Profile and refine performance, animations, and browser-specific behaviour, debugging issues and writing tests to prevent regressions.
• Stay current with industry trends, evaluating new technologies for genuine product or developer experience gains.

Requirements

• Significant experience with React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript in production.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects and make sound technical decisions independently.
• Comfort working asynchronously in a distributed, self-managed environment.
• Willingness to give and receive detailed feedback as part of continuous improvement.
• Adaptability to shifting priorities and ambiguity during a scaling, maturing phase.

Nice to have

• A track record of introducing front-end best practices or tooling that measurably improved a team or product.