Staff Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Lokalise, a remote-first company, as a Staff Frontend Engineer and play a key role in shaping our frontend architecture. You will lead frontend development, mentor engineers, and establish best practices. This role requires extensive experience with React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and UI/UX design. You'll define our frontend technology roadmap, focusing on scalability and maintainability. We offer competitive salaries, stock options, flexible remote work, unlimited vacation, and various benefits including health insurance and wellness programs. The position requires legal work eligibility within Europe (including the UK).

Requirements

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Staff or Lead Frontend Engineer or similar senior-level frontend engineering role
• Hands-on technical leadership experience, providing direction and mentorship to frontend teams
• Extensive experience with React for developing rich, interactive web applications
• Strong skills in building and optimizing high-performance, responsive, and accessible web interfaces
• Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of modern web development techniques and tools
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining frontend architectures, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance
• Experience in UI/UX design principles
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication, collaboration, organizational, and time management skills
• Reside in Europe (inc UK) and have legal work eligibility within the country you will be based

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the evolution of our frontend architecture and user experience
• Provide technical guidance and mentor other engineers on best practices in frontend architecture, design patterns, and development workflows
• Establish and execute the frontend technology roadmap, focusing on scalability and maintainability
• Architect and develop reusable, scalable components, frameworks, and features with a strong emphasis on code quality, performance, and accessibility
• Define and establish coding standards, ensuring a high level of quality, security, and performance in all frontend projects
• Act as a champion for operational and engineering excellence, identifying areas for continuous improvement and leading initiatives to address them
• Identify and pioneer innovative solutions to enhance frontend workflow, CI/CD, and deployment processes
• Tackle complex issues in UI performance, and accessibility to ensure seamless, high-quality user experiences
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align strategies with broader product and engineering goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with server-side rendering BFF framework (e.g. Remix, Next.js)
• Familiarity with cloud-based services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and employee stock options plan
• Fully remote and flexible working hours
• Co-working budget
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Top-notch tech equipment for your work
• Learning & Development program
• Health insurance
• Wellness benefits
• Mental health support - every employee has access to a dedicated mental health platform
• Great startup atmosphere, team spirit, and team events