Software Engineer (Front End)

Wonder Group, INC; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k)

Medical, dental, vision

Paid time off

Meal discounts

Job summary

Wonder in Boston, MA is hiring a Frontend Engineer to build high-performance interfaces for automated restaurants. You will work with Vue.js, TypeScript and CSS, using WebSockets to connect our cloud and on-premise robotics.

Collaborate with software, hardware and product teams to ship resilient features. We expect 3+ years of frontend experience with Vue.js, TypeScript and CSS; strong state management, UI/UX sensibility, and WebSocket proficiency.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional frontend development experience with Vue.js, TypeScript and CSS.
• Strong experience with centralized state management and complex reactive data structures.
• WebSocket fluency for real-time updates.
• Willingness to learn Elixir/Phoenix when needed.

Responsibilities

• Own the Vue.js interfaces serving as the primary UI for robotics in our kitchens.
• Build and optimize real-time WebSocket-based communications with backend.
• Collaborate with Product Designers to translate UI mockups into production code.
• Diagnose frontend performance bottlenecks and optimize for high-load kitchen environments.
• Learn and adapt across the full tech stack as needed.

Skills

Vue.js

TypeScript

CSS

WebSocket

UI/UX

Tools

Elixir/Phoenix

Job description

About Wonder

Everything’s on the menu at Wonder. Except compromise. Wonder is the mealtime platform built to feed every craving in one order. With Wonder, you can mix and match hundreds of dishes from 20+ exclusive restaurants in a single order, so everyone gets exactly what they’re craving. Enjoy everything from tacos to Thai with $0 delivery fees, plus dine-in or pick up at a Wonder location near you. Each dish is made to order on-site by our culinary team and served hot. Behind the scenes, Wonder owns and operates every step of the dining experience, from recipe development to the technology that powers our experience, allowing us to deliver quality, variety, and consistency at scale. Join us as we work to make great food more accessible. Within Wonder, the Robotics team is a core pillar of our innovation strategy. We build the automation solutions that help make Wonder’s 'no-compromise' promise possible at scale. Our mission is to use robotics to enable incredible variety and culinary authenticity. By reimagining the kitchen environment, we improve the daily experience of our team members and ensure every customer receives a perfect meal, every time. The best in the business are coming to Wonder, working every day to make us the destination for every mealtime moment. Join a team of technology, culinary, and logistics pioneers, backed by top-tier venture capitalists, and help us make great food more accessible.

About The Opportunity

We are looking for a Frontend Engineer to join our team and build high-performance interfaces that control our automated restaurants. In this role, you will be working on tools that allow operators to interact with our robotic kitchen. You will work primarily with Vue.js, TypeScript, and CSS using websockets to facilitate communication between our cloud infrastructure and on-premise robotics. You will collaborate closely with cross functional teams spanning from software, hardware, and product to ship features that are not only functional but resilient enough to power the future of food-tech.

The Impact

• Own the User Interface: Develop and maintain the Vue.js applications that serve as the primary interface for our robotics, providing restaurant team members with real-time visibility and controls to our machines.
• Master Real-Time Communication: Build and optimize systems that rely heavily on WebSockets, ensuring the UI stays responsive and accurate while processing high-frequency data from our backend.
• Collaborative Design: Partner with Product Designers to translate Figma mockups into reality, providing technical feedback to find the sweet spot between ambitious UX and high-performance implementation.
• Performance Engineering: Proactively diagnose and solve frontend performance bottlenecks, ensuring that complex state changes don’t compromise the user experience in high-pressure kitchen environments.
• Bridge the Stack: While primarily focused on Vue.js, you’re excited to familiarize yourself with our whole tech stack, eager to learn new frameworks and languages.

What You Bring to the Table

3+ years of professional frontend development experience, with deep expertise in Vue.js (or similar frontend frameworks, e.g. React, Angular, Svelte), TypeScript and CSS.

• State Management Understanding: Strong experience with a centralized state management store and a deep understanding of how to manage complex, reactive data structures.
• Design Sensibility: A strong eye for UI/UX and the ability to contribute meaningfully to design discussions, ensuring tools are intuitive for restaurant team members.
• WebSocket Fluency: Proven experience building applications that rely on persistent, two-way communication protocols for real-time updates.
• Performance Mindset: Ability to identify bottlenecks, using profiling tools to diagnose and solve performance issues under heavy loads.
• Pragmatic & Curious: A willingness to learn the Elixir/Phoenix layer when a project calls for it.

This role requires 3 days a week in the office. You're welcome—and encouraged—to be in the office up to 5 days a week if it works for you.

This role is based in our Boston office in Charlestown, MA

Base Salary Range: $139,500 - $145,500 per year. Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.

Benefits

The benefits applicable to this role include a competitive compensation package with equity and a 401(k). We also offer a choice of medical, dental, and vision plans, company paid short and long term disability coverage, paid time off including flexible time off for exempt employees, paid vacation for non-exempt employees, and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable law in addition to paid parental leave, discounted meals and exclusive perks across the Wonder family of brands. Eligibility, effective dates, and available plan options vary by employment classification and location.
To learn more about benefits for this role, visit our Careers page here.

A Final Note

At Wonder, we build the best teams by hiring with an objective lens — evaluating people for their potential while championing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. As part of our commitment to fair and compliant hiring practices, Wonder participates in the federal government's E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility. If you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know. We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy. Wonder is the mealtime platform built to feed every craving without compromise. With options including dine-in, delivery, pickup, and meal kits, Wonder makes every mealtime effortless. Through the Wonder app, customers can combine hundreds of dishes from exclusive, chef-developed concepts in a single order so everyone gets exactly what they’re craving. Wonder’s portfolio of brands includes meal-kit pioneer Blue Apron, leading online food marketplaces Grubhub and Seamless, and Emmy®-winning media company Tastemade. Together, we’re united by a single mission: to make great food more accessible. There has never been a more exciting time to join our world-class team. We’ve brought together people who are changing the way the world eats — with grit, optimism, care, and a little bit of salt, and pepper. And we’re just getting started.