Profile JavaScript execution and analyze performance metrics
Collaborate with cross-functional teams using async-friendly communication
Benefits
Full benefits: medical, dental, vision, paid holidays, PTO, parental leave
Life insurance and short- and long-term disability
401(k) plan
Corporate wellness program
Employee discount on home mortgage purchases and refinances
Full Job Description
Job Description
We9re hiring a Senior Front-End Software Engineer who thrives on performance optimization, SSR architecture, and pushing modern web applications to their limits. If you enjoy profiling apps, improving Core Web Vitals, reducing hydration cost, and driving Lighthouse scores into the 90s+.
Work Location Expectations: Hybrid with 3 days in office per week from our Austin, TX or Columbus, OH.
Ensure SSR output is crawlable, indexable, and structured correctly for search engines.
Optimize structured data, meta tags, and pre-render strategies.
Balance performance improvements with SEO and discoverability goals.
Partner with SEO and product teams to align technical implementation with organic growth strategy.
AI-Native Engineering & Workflow
Use AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) as part of the daily development workflow to accelerate implementation, refactoring, and debugging.
Apply agentic and AI-native workflows to routine engineering tasks - code review prep, test generation, documentation, and performance profiling - to increase team velocity.
Evaluate and adopt emerging AI-powered developer tooling, contributing to team standards and best practices for AI-assisted development.
Participate in architectural discussions and technical decision-making.
Perform thoughtful code reviews and help raise the quality bar.
Mentor mid-level and junior engineers on performance and front-end best practices.
Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and SEO specialists - many of whom are on remote and distributed teams - using async-friendly communication (written specs, recorded walkthroughs, thorough PR descriptions) alongside live collaboration.
Contribute to a culture that values ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.
Who you are:
5+ years of professional experience building modern, high-traffic web applications
Strong expertise in JavaScript and Vue.js or React experience.
Comfortable working with Node.js, particularly in server-side rendering (SSR) environments.
Proven experience optimizing performance for large-scale consumer applications (millions of users).
