Senior Frontend Engineer

Role Description

LeafLink is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our remote-based team who is passionate about working on teams that solve interesting, large-scale problems at a rapid pace. This role will contribute heavily to the buildout and iteration of LeafLink’s existing and emerging systems, powering an ever-expanding set of product offerings. As a member of our engineering team, you will be in a position to have a direct, lasting impact everywhere that technology powers our business. LeafLink is currently gearing up to tackle a large-scale platform overhaul that will strengthen our position as a technical leader within the industry. As such, this role has the opportunity to help shape and grow this new platform, as well as work within new and growing technologies. It’s a very exciting time to join our engineering team!

• Design, build, and maintain scalable frontend applications using Vue 3, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript tooling.
• Own complex frontend features from technical design through production release.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to translate requirements into high-quality user experiences.
• Build reusable components, patterns, and frontend architecture that improve developer velocity.
• Improve application performance, accessibility, responsiveness, and reliability.
• Partner with backend engineers on API design, data contracts, error handling, and integration patterns.
• Write high-quality tests using tools such as Vitest, Vue Test Utils, Playwright, or similar.
• Participate in code reviews and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback.
• Mentor engineers and help establish frontend best practices across the team.
• Evaluate and introduce modern frontend technologies where they provide clear business or engineering value.
• Contribute to CI/CD improvements, observability, monitoring, and frontend release quality.
• Help maintain strong standards around security, privacy, and safe handling of user data.

Qualifications

• 5+ years working in rich, complex, and ever-evolving front-end user experiences.
• Proven track record of practical, thoughtful problem-solving.
• Strong professional experience building production web applications.
• Deep experience with Vue.js, preferably Vue 3 and the Composition API.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with modern frontend tooling such as Vite, ESBuild, pnpm/npm/yarn, and modern build pipelines.
• Experience with state management patterns and libraries such as Pinia, Vuex, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of component architecture, design systems, and reusable UI patterns.
• Experience integrating frontend applications with REST, GraphQL, or event-driven APIs.
• Strong testing experience, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Understanding of frontend performance optimization, bundle analysis, caching, lazy loading, and Core Web Vitals.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards such as WCAG and semantic HTML.
• Experience working in agile development environments with cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives with minimal supervision.
• Experience building applications and working with underlying systems that work within fully containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) a plus.
• An active member of the open source and New York tech community a plus.
• An interest in the cannabis industry and/or the LeafLink brand.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO - you’re going to be working hard so enjoy time off with no cap!
• A robust stock option plan to give our employees a direct stake in LeafLink’s success.
• 5 Days of Volunteer Time Off (VTO) - giving back is important to us and we want our employees to prioritize cultivating a better community.
• Competitive compensation and 401k.
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision).
• Commuter Benefits through our Flexible Spending Account.

Company Description

LeafLink is the largest unified B2B cannabis platform, providing licensed cannabis businesses a suite of tools to manage their business more effectively, sell or order from their favorite brands and accelerate growth. We are one platform, one solution and we’re defining the way thousands of cannabis brands, distributors, and retailers streamline their operations. With thousands of brands and retailers across 30+ markets in North America, we are setting the industry standard for how cannabis businesses grow together. LeafLink processes more than $5 billion in wholesale cannabis orders annually.

Our team, backed by funding from leading VC's, including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Nosara Capital, and Lerer Hippeau is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology. LeafLink was named one of Inc. 5000’s ‘Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies’; one of Fast Company's 'Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for 2020', joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare; one of Built In NYC's 'Best Places to Work in 2021'; 2024 Fast Company’s Best WorkPlaces for Innovators for Banking, Finance, and Fintech category; 2024 Green Market Report Award for Best Fintech in cannabis - and we're just getting started!