Staff Frontend Engineer

Vendelux; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular Retreats

Recharge Weeks

Job summary

Vendelux is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with a strong frontend focus to build the next generation of our web application and ship critical product experiences at scale.

You will own major frontend experiences end-to-end, setting frontend architecture direction and mentoring engineers, while collaborating with product, design, data, and backend teams to turn complex requirements into delightful user experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience leading frontend architecture and engineering practices.
• Strong track record shipping customer-facing web applications at scale.
• 10+ years of complex software development experience.
• Excellent collaboration with product, design, data, and backend teams.
• Experience with modern web tooling and performance best practices.
• Comfortable mentoring engineers through reviews, design discussions, and pairing.

Responsibilities

• Own major frontend experiences end-to-end from design to shipping.
• Define frontend architecture, patterns, and engineering practices.
• Drive data-driven delivery balancing velocity with long-term health.
• Mentor engineers and participate in architecture discussions.
• Collaborate across stack with APIs, data platforms, and infra teams.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Shadcn/MUI

Node.js

Python

Django

AWS

GCP

Dagster

Snowflake

GitHub

Datadog

Cursor/Claude Code

Postgres

MySQL

Pulumi

API integration

Tools

Dagster

Snowflake

Pulumi

WeDeploy/GitHub

Datadog

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

• We’re growing, and looking for a Staff Software Engineer with a strong frontend focus to help us build the next generation of our web application and ship critical product experiences at scale
• This role reports directly to our Head of Engineering
• As a Staff Engineer at Vendelux, you’ll be a technical leader responsible for shaping how we build and evolve our customer-facing product
• You’ll work deeply in our frontend stack while also contributing across the broader system when needed
• Own major product experiences end-to-end, from technical design and frontend architecture through implementation, testing, measurement, and iteration
• Build and evolve our best-in-class web application using TypeScript, React, Shadcn/MUI, and Node.js, with a focus on usability, performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Set technical direction for frontend architecture, patterns, and engineering practices, helping the team build a consistent and scalable application as the product grows
• Ship high-quality, secure, well-tested software through incremental, data-driven delivery, balancing product velocity with long-term technical health
• Solve challenging product and technical problems across the stack, working closely with product, design, data, and backend engineers to turn ambiguous requirements into great user experiences
• Partner with our operations and revenue teams, as well as directly with customers, to understand how people use the product and turn user feedback and analytics into better product experiences
• Identify opportunities to improve frontend performance, developer experience, observability, testing, and overall application quality
• Work closely with our leadership team to define the product roadmap and technical strategy, particularly around the evolution of our customer-facing application
• Be a technical leader and valued contributor within an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
• Mentor engineers through pair programming, code reviews, architecture discussions, and hands-on technical leadership, with an emphasis on pragmatic, performant, and maintainable frontend engineering
• Contribute across the stack when it makes sense. Our frontend engineers work closely with the APIs, data platforms, and infrastructure that power the product, so you’ll have opportunities to influence the broader system as well
• Tech Stack:
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Shadcn / MUI, Node.js
• Backend: Python, Django, TypeScript, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, GCP
• Data: Python, Dagster, Snowflake
• Other tools: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Cursor / Claude Code

Benefits

• Regular Retreats: We regularly meet up in beautiful locations around the world to discuss all things Vendelux
• Recharge Weeks: The company shuts downs two times a year so everyone can recharge without work piling up

The humor and humility to maintain perspective while working in a fast-moving environmentExperience with infrastructure as code (IaC), preferably with PulumiComfortable working across the stack and understanding how frontend decisions interact with APIs, databases, data pipelines, and infrastructureGood judgment around technical debt, architectural tradeoffs, and when to optimize for speed versus long-term maintainabilityFamiliarity with network security and protecting production applicationsExperience working with data-intensive applications is a plus. Familiarity with moving, ingesting, and transforming data at scale is valuable, but you don’t need to be a data engineer to succeed in this roleA strong drive to raise the engineering bar through patterns, tooling, documentation, and best practices10+ years of experience building complex software applications, with significant experience building modern web applicationsYou build in the open, share context generously, and enjoy helping other engineers become more effectiveStrong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical decisions clearly to both engineers and non-engineersComfortable using modern AI development tools to accelerate development and improve engineering workflowsExperience deploying production applications and services on AWS or GCPA track record of shaping and shipping valuable product features, not just building technology for its own sakeStrong understanding of frontend architecture, state management, API integration, testing, accessibility, performance, and modern web development practicesExperience working with component libraries and/or design systems such as Shadcn or MUIDeep experience with TypeScript and React, and strong opinions about building maintainable, performant frontend systemsNot all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above and that’s ok! We are open to great people from non-traditional backgrounds