Staff Software Engineer, Front End
Full-time
Scout Motors
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and develop scalable and performant frontend applications for web platforms.
- Define and implement frontend best practices for accessibility, security, testing, performance, and maintainability.
- Mentor engineers and help raise the technical bar for frontend engineering.
- Partner with Design, Product, backend, platform, and business teams to deliver effective user experiences and integrations.
- Make architectural decisions regarding frameworks, tooling, and component design.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps and lead initiatives from concept through launch.
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects while improving reliability and reducing system complexity.
- Assist in calibrating and developing the software engineering team.
- Evaluate AI-assisted development tools and help establish effective team usage norms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of frontend engineering experience with staff-level or equivalent technical scope.
- Deep expertise with React, Node.js, GSAP, and their ecosystems and best practices.
- Experience addressing web application security vulnerabilities and applying secure coding and development lifecycle practices.
- Expertise with micro-frontend architecture in large-scale systems.
- Experience architecting complex frontend applications that consume GraphQL, REST, and/or RPC APIs.
- Deep knowledge of UI/UX principles, responsive and mobile-first design, SEO, WCAG accessibility, and performance optimization.
- Experience with analytics, experimentation platforms, feature flagging, IAM/SSO systems, branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud environments.
- Experience with Playwright and Cypress testing frameworks and AWS cloud environments.
- Experience contributing to technical roadmaps and strategic planning, launching 0-to-1 products, and working in startup settings.
- Preferred experience with React Native, AI/ML platform foundations, developer AI tooling, automotive or ecommerce products, multi-tenant platforms, shared enterprise services, iOS, Android, and full-stack engineering.
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, vision, and income protection insurance plans.
- 401(k) program with employer match and immediate vesting.
- 20 days of planned paid time off, 40 hours of unplanned PTO, and 14 company or floating holidays annually.
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave and paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting time, and military leave.
- The posting describes the role as remote but also requires 4–5 days per week in the office, regular in-person meetings, and occasional travel.
- Full-time, exempt position eligible for an annual performance bonus.
Vacancy posted more than 2 months ago
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