Senior Software Engineer Frontend

Role Description

The Senior Software Engineer, Frontend builds and improves Careforth’s digital products, including apps and websites used by family caregivers to confidently care for loved ones. You will deliver accessible, performant, and secure interfaces across the Careforth website and the caregiver intake funnel using modern JavaScript frameworks and CMS, and you will advance the design system. Your impact is measured by caregiver activation and engagement while sustaining high-quality program delivery. You will partner with Product, Clinical, and Data & Analytics to plan, instrument, and observe what you deliver. You write and review code and tests and deploy improvements via modern CI/CD and Agile practices. In collaboration with the Director, Digital Solutions, Manager, Software Engineering, and Principal Solutions & Infrastructure Architect, you also mentor Engineer I/II team members, raising engineering standards and sharing best practices.

What You Will Do

• Ensure high-quality delivery by writing unit and integration tests, partnering effectively with QA, and deploying reliably within CI/CD environments.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to ensure seamless integration with the Careforth application platform.
• Contribute to front-end development of the Careforth application platform, using JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS when required.
• Partner with stakeholders to support campaigns, analytics, and content updates.
• Implement responsive design and ensure cross-browser compatibility and accessibility.
• Integrate and manage Analytics, Tag Manager, and other tracking tools, in CMS and application platforms.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices for performance, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Complete complex assignments with architectural scope; provide technical leadership on critical projects by driving design decisions, reviewing code, and raising engineering standards.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, foster collaboration, and ensure high-quality delivery throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Promote operational excellence by supporting production readiness (e.g., logging/metrics/tracing, monitoring/alerting, debugging, and root-cause analysis) and contributing to reliability improvements.
• Maintain and troubleshoot CMS-based websites, including custom modules/plugins/themes development when required.
• Ensure compliance with SEO best practices and alignment with privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA).
• Mentor engineering team members and share expertise through pairing, code reviews, and technical guidance to promote technical growth.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend improvements to enhance platform performance and security.
• Document complex systems, data flows, and specifications clearly and present them to technical and business stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred or equivalent work experience.
• 7–10 years of professional software development experience, with strong front-end expertise.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with front-end technologies, including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. React experience is a plus.
• Working proficiency in PHP for back-end development. Proficiency with additional languages (Python/Golang) is required.
• Experience with Drupal and/or WordPress (both preferred) as a developer and administrator is an asset.
• Proficiency with Git and modern CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Familiarity with containerized deployments (Docker/Containerd) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Basic knowledge of Cloud environment and cloud-native patterns (AWS preferred).
• Experience with modern testing practices, including unit and integration testing.
• Strong Linux fundamentals are a plus.
• Experience implementing and tuning reverse-proxy caching (e.g., Varnish), including cache rules, invalidation, and performance optimization is an asset.
• Experience designing and optimizing search capabilities and relevance (e.g., Apache Solr), including indexing strategies, query performance tuning, and integration with application services is preferred.

Benefits

• Flexible schedules.
• Remote-first culture.
• Nationwide recognized wellness program.

Company Description

Founded in Boston, Careforth's caregiver programs and services improve health outcomes, keeping care at home longer. Additionally, our programs provide financial benefit to caregivers and cost savings to state agencies and health plans. At Careforth, we understand the challenges of caregiving and are committed to supporting family caregivers at every turn.