Staff Frontend Engineer

Role Description

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you’ll lead the architecture and evolution of the user facing experience across Vetcove’s platforms. You’ll own critical frontend systems that power how tens of thousands of veterinary professionals and millions of pet parents interact with our products daily; from clinical workflows to patient care tools.

This role goes beyond implementation. You’ll define frontend strategy, establish best practices, and shape how our applications scale in performance, usability, and maintainability. You’ll work closely with product, design, and backend teams to deliver seamless, high-quality user experiences at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of large scale frontend applications across web and mobile
• Build and evolve high performance React and React Native applications
• Define and enforce frontend best practices, including performance optimization, accessibility, and maintainability
• Develop shared component libraries, design systems, and frontend infrastructure to improve team velocity
• Drive improvements in application performance, reliability, and user experience
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver cohesive, user centered features
• Mentor junior front end engineers
• Influence technical direction and frontend strategy across multiple product areas
• Debug and resolve complex frontend and cross stack issues

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on frontend development
• Experience building Claude/Cursor skills to help streamline FE best practices
• Bachelor’s degree required, CS or technical degree preferred
• Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (especially React)
• Experience architecting and scaling complex frontend applications and systems
• Strong understanding of performance optimization, state management, and frontend architecture patterns
• Experience building and maintaining design systems or shared component libraries
• Familiarity with mobile development (React Native or similar) is a plus
• Solid understanding of APIs and backend interactions (REST, GraphQL, etc.)
• Proven ability to lead projects and mentor engineers
• Strong communication skills and a product-oriented mindset
• Comfortable operating in fast paced, evolving environments

Tools We Use

• Backend: Python (Django, Django Rest Framework)
• Frontend: JavaScript (React, React-Query), TypeScript
• Datastores: Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, Clickhouse
• Mobile: React Native
• Version Control: Git

Benefits

• 100% remote within the USA
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Automatic 401k contribution
• Employee referral program
• At home office set up
• Bi-annual company retreats
• Open vacation policy
• Equity
• Monthly team events