Senior Frontend Engineer — Remote & Async Leadership

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

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.