Senior Software Engineer, Frontend , UCTalent

UCTalent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

UCTalent seeks a Senior Frontend Engineer to anchor our Marketplace web rewrite, rebuilding high-traffic journeys & setting frontend patterns for the next 5 years. Expect ~75% of pages updated this year with an aggressive roadmap including international expansion and new AI/Hotel SaaS initiatives.

Senior role with Staff-leaning scope, potential to become Tech Lead for major features, and cross-team influence across Marketplace Core, Growth, and Hotels.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building production web applications.
• Deep React expertise and Next.js SSR/SPA hybrids.
• Led rewrites or migrations of high-traffic surfaces with measurable results.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to lead ambiguous projects.
• High engineering bar: testing discipline, observability mindset, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Own major initiatives end-to-end across highest-traffic surfaces (SRP, DLP).
• Lead technical design for large changes (RFCs/design docs) and align with Product/Design.
• Define reusable patterns in Next.js App Router codebase (routing, data fetching, caching, architecture).
• Raise quality bar through standards, reviews, and mentorship for a junior-leaning team.
• Shape tooling and practices (Playwright testing, Datadog observability, CI hygiene).
• Partner with backend engineers on API contracts for frontend performance.

Skills

React expertise

Next.js

App Router / SSR

Frontend architecture

Testing discipline

Tools

Playwright

Datadog

CI/CD tools

Ruby on Rails

Node.js

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

AWS

Job description

We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to be the technical anchor for our Marketplace web rewrite - rebuilding the highest-traffic journeys and setting the frontend patterns the team will follow for the next 5 years. We expect to update ~75% of resortpass.com pages this year (foundation year for the web experience). The roadmap is aggressive: international expansion (Mexico & Caribbean this year, Europe next), in-housing search from Algolia, consumer experience rebuild, new Hotel SaaS tool, and Spa as a major new vertical. Senior role with Staff-leaning scope and clear growth path. Opportunity to become Tech Lead of the biggest features (full SRP and DLP rewrites) and expand cross-team influence across Marketplace Core, Growth, and Hotels. 2/3 of traffic goes to web, making performance business‑critical (Core Web Vitals, SEO, caching, API design). The web frontend is also the launchpad for AI integrations (concierge chatbot, AI spa booker). Tech stack: Next.js 16.x, App Router, React 19, Tailwind, shadcn UI. Also happy to evaluate strong Full Stack engineers willing to learn React/Next.js.

Responsibilities

• Own major initiatives end-to-end across highest-traffic surfaces (SRP, DLP), with goals around Core Web Vitals, SEO, and conversion.
• Lead technical design for large changes (RFCs/design docs), drive alignment with Product/Design.
• Define reusable patterns in Next.js App Router codebase (routing, data fetching, caching, component architecture, error handling, analytics).
• Raise quality bar through standards, reviews, and mentorship for a junior-leaning team.
• Shape tooling and practices (Playwright testing, Datadog observability, CI hygiene).
• Partner with backend engineers on API contracts for frontend performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years building production web applications (or equivalent senior experience).
• Deep React expertise and strong command of modern frontend architecture, especially Next.js-style SSR/SPA hybrids.
• Proven experience leading rewrites or migrations of high-traffic surfaces with measurable results (Core Web Vitals, SEO, conversion, reliability).
• Strong technical judgment and ability to lead ambiguous projects from scoping through rollout.
• High engineering bar: testing discipline, observability mindset, maintainable code.

Preferred Requirement

• Testing: Playwright
• Backend context: Ruby on Rails, Node.js on AWS, Postgres, MongoDB
• Visa: Not standard; possible exception for exceptional candidates
• Senior band $170K-$210K; mid band $160K-$180K; plus equity