Senior Frontend Engineer — Lead React & AEM Headless

Hard Rock Hotel Cancun; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Global brand platform

Ownership over technical direction

Job summary

Hard Rock Hotel Cancun is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to evolve our React web application, currently live in production. The role includes integrating the frontend with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) in a headless setup, delivering content via GraphQL, and enabling authors to edit live pages through the Universal Editor.

The position requires strong TypeScript/React experience, experience with state management, testing, performance optimization, and collaboration across product, UX/UI,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3+ years in frontend development for consumer-facing web applications.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript (ES6+)
• Good working knowledge of React, including hooks, component lifecycle, and performance optimization
• Experience with state management libraries such as Redux Toolkit, Zustand, or MobX
• Proficiency with RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar tooling
• Understanding of web performance principles and accessibility (WCAG)
• Testing experience with Jest, RTL, Cypress or Playwright

Responsibilities

• Frontend Development: Maintain and extend the existing React application written in TypeScript/JavaScript (ES6+).
• Follow established frontend architecture patterns, coding standards, and development practices.
• Optimize performance with code-splitting, lazy-loading, and efficient data fetching; improve Core Web Vitals.
• Build responsive, accessible interfaces following WCAG standards.
• Contribute to CI/CD setup, testing strategy, and broader development lifecycle.
• AEM Headless Integration: Fetch content via GraphQL, integrate with AEM in a headless model.
• Collaborate with AEM backend developers on content models and GraphQL schemas.
• Maintain separation between frontend and AEM content layers.
• Code Quality & Delivery: Participate in code reviews and refactoring; ensure quality across codebase.
• Sprint planning, estimation, and technical decision-making.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Product, UX/UI, AEM backend, and QA engineers.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

React

Redux Toolkit / Zustand / MobX

GraphQL

REST APIs

Performance optimization

CI/CD (GitHub Actions/CircleCI)

AEM integration (headless)

Testing (Jest/RTL/Cypress)

WCAG accessibility

Tools

AEM

GraphQL

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Nx/Turborepo (monorepo tooling)

Job description

Hard Rock Hotel Cancun is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to evolve our React web application, currently live in production. The role includes integrating the frontend with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) in a headless setup, delivering content via GraphQL, and enabling authors to edit live pages through the Universal Editor.

The position requires strong TypeScript/React experience, experience with state management, testing, performance optimization, and collaboration across product, UX/UI,