Senior Frontend Engineer - React & TypeScript

Weekday 1; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekend is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer in Chicago to join a small, high-ownership team building highly interactive, data-intensive web applications using React and TypeScript. You will own key frontend architecture decisions and collaborate with backend engineers to ensure robust, scalable interfaces.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of professional experience, strong problem-solving skills, and a bias toward shipping with high quality and reliability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise in frontend development.
• Deep production experience with React and TypeScript.
• Experience building data-dense and form-heavy interfaces at scale.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and evolve complex production-grade applications using React and TypeScript.
• Build data-dense, form-heavy interfaces supporting large numbers of inputs and complex workflows.
• Design robust approaches for client-side state management, validation, dependencies, and application logic.
• Establish and evolve frontend architecture to support scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to define and refine API contracts and integration patterns.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend architecture

State management

REST APIs

Testing

Job description

Weekend is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer in Chicago to join a small, high-ownership team building highly interactive, data-intensive web applications using React and TypeScript. You will own key frontend architecture decisions and collaborate with backend engineers to ensure robust, scalable interfaces.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of professional experience, strong problem-solving skills, and a bias toward shipping with high quality and reliability.