Staff Web Architect: Next.js, SEO & AI Lead (Remote/Hybrid)

A Place for Mom, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus: 10% annual earnings

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

A Place for Mom, Inc. seeks a Staff Software Engineer to steer our public web experiences. You will own Next.js/React platform choices, optimize Core Web Vitals, and collaborate with product/SEO for scalable web delivery and AI-enabled features.

You will mentor engineers, accelerate content publishing via Sanity, and balance performance with cost, security, and reliability in a fast-growing senior care search platform.

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical leadership shaping web platform direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture of Next.js/React web platform and select rendering strategies (SSR/SSG/CSR).
• Own mobile-first performance and Core Web Vitals, set budgets, and drive gains.
• Collaborate on technical SEO: crawlability, indexation, structured data, redirects, sitemaps.
• Build Node.js services and APIs with MongoDB/relational stores and edge caching.
• Evolve headless CMS (Sanity) for rapid content publishing by marketing.
• Develop analytics/experimentation foundations: feature flags, A/B tests, event taxonomy.
• Champion testing and CI/CD, enforce quality from design to production.
• Review code, create reference implementations, mentor engineers.
• Partner with product to size feasibility, risk, and scalability of AI features.
• Identify reusable frameworks/components for other teams.
• Improve AI evaluation, quality scoring, metrics and fallbacks.
• Use AI coding agents in daily workflow and define adoption strategies.
• Solid experience with Next.js and rendering strategies and their SEO impact.
• Proven track record improving Core Web Vitals and mobile performance with Lighthouse/CrUX.
• Back-end familiarity: Node.js APIs, MongoDB, relational databases (GraphQL a plus).
• Understanding of headless CMS concepts: content modeling/preview/publishing.
• Experience with experimentation, feature flags, and product analytics: test design and event tracking.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-backed features and AI coding agents.
• Experience with AWS, CDNs, and edge caching.
• Track record of technical leadership and mentoring.

Skills

Next.js

Front-end rendering

Performance optimization

SEO

Node.js

MongoDB

Relational DBs

GraphQL

Sanity CMS

AWS

GitHub Actions

AI features

Tools

Sanity

PostHog

Segment

AWS

GraphQL

GitHub Actions

Job description

A Place for Mom, Inc. seeks a Staff Software Engineer to steer our public web experiences. You will own Next.js/React platform choices, optimize Core Web Vitals, and collaborate with product/SEO for scalable web delivery and AI-enabled features.

You will mentor engineers, accelerate content publishing via Sanity, and balance performance with cost, security, and reliability in a fast-growing senior care search platform.