Staff Frontend Engineer
As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll be a hands-on technical leader with company-level impact across our Real Estate vertical. You’ll shape and evolve the frontend architecture powering our portals, create shared frontend solutions adopted by multiple teams, and orchestrate complex cross-team initiatives.
Meet the team!
* Yuliya Zvolskaya - Engineering Manager - LinkedIn
Responsibilities
* Lead the evolution of our Real Estate frontend architecture to support future requirements, defining and improving SLAs/SLOs and anticipating ripple effects across systems together with other senior engineers and principals
* Design and create shared frontend libraries, components and tooling (e.g. design system, performance tooling) that are widely used by internal teams, focusing on pragmatic, reusable solutions and driving their adoption
* Orchestrate multi-system refactors and migrations (e.g. framework upgrades, cross-product harmonisation), breaking them down into digestible, plannable pieces and coordinating with engineers, product, and other stakeholders
* Act as a go-to person across teams and locations for frontend topics, influencing how we build web experiences across the Real Estate organisation
* Mentor and coach other engineers through structured mentorship, pairing, and feedback, helping them grow their skills and closing skill gaps you observe in the organisation.
* Model healthy feedback culture, helping people navigate tough conversations and conflicts in a constructive, blameless way
* Challenge and improve team and cross-team processes, suggesting changes that improve focus, quality, and speed when needed
Day-to-Day
* You’ll be part of a regular product team, splitting time about half and half between product delivery and staff responsibilities depending on the current needs and priorities
* Innovate, design, implement, and deploy frontend-focused engineering solutions for our Real Estate products, from discovery to production
* Own the end-to-end technical vision for key user journeys like Homegate and Immoscout24 and more, with a strong focus on performance, accessibility, UX quality, and reliability
* Lead cross-team frontend initiatives (for example: shared design system improvements, cross-brand UI harmonisation, performance budgets, or observability patterns) Identify and surface cross-cutting technical bottlenecks, such as performance drags in core user journeys or build-time inefficiencies, and advocate for their resolution at the leadership level
* Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to shape technical strategy and trade-offs for new features and platform work
* Partner with DevX to co-develop engineering 'blueprints' and health scorecards, setting the gold standard for what 'good' looks like in our frontend repositories
* Evaluate, prototype, and introduce new frontend technologies and approaches (frameworks, tooling, patterns), document your findings, and drive adoption where they make sense
* Own and evolve the Frontend ADR process, ensuring technical decisions are documented, socialized, and consistently implemented across the Real Estate organization
* Guide and review the work of other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and informal coaching
* Help the team embrace and leverage AI & large language models in our engineering workflows and products
* Contribute to and facilitate guilds, tech chats, and other cross-team knowledge-sharing formats
* Promote a culture of high-quality engineering: testing, monitoring with Datadog, observability, security, and operational excellence
Our Tech Stack
* Frontend: mainly Vue.js and some React both with TypeScript as the language of choice. We run a mix of client-side, server-side, pre-rendered, and hybrid web apps
* Backend: Node.js and TypeScript, serverless and microservices architecture in a cloud-based environment using AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, and more)
* Monitoring & Observability: Mainly Datadog plus logging/alerting best practices
* AI & Tooling: We actively adopt the latest developments in AI technology and expect you to embrace innovation offered by large language models in your daily work
Qualifications
* 8+ years of professional experience with the Vue.js, or similar frameworks
* Proven track record of implementing and maintaining automated frontend testing, using tools such as Jest,Vitest, and/or Cypress
* Solid hands-on experience building production applications with Vue 3
* Experience collaborating with designers using Figma (figma.com)
* Strong experience building and evolving large-scale frontend applications in modern JavaScript/TypeScript
* Proven track record of technical leadership: leading complex initiatives, aligning multiple stakeholders, and taking responsibility from design through rollout and iteration
* Deep understanding of modern CI/CD for frontend, including automated release strategies and feature flagging in a microfrontend environment
* Demonstrated experience creating and driving adoption of shared frontend solutions (e.g. design system components, shared libraries, cross-cutting tooling)
* Experience influencing and supporting multiple teams or a whole product area
* Excellent English communication skills, spoken and written. You can explain complex topics clearly to different audiences in an international team setting
We value engineers who:
* Thrive in collaborative environments and are true team players
* Have a growth mindset and are curious, we love growing together
* Are passionate about frontend architecture and building & scaling cloud-based solutions
* Are open to change and able to propose pragmatic solutions, not just point out problems
* Feel free to challenge the status quo when it improves outcomes for users or the organisation
* Are creative, adaptable, and enjoy solving complex, ambiguous problems
You will stand out if you have:
* Significant professional experience in software development (including time in senior/lead roles)
* Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (Vue.js, React, or similar)
* Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility, and SEO considerations for large user-facing sites
* Prior working experience with APIs and microservices and how frontend apps best integrate with them
* Prior working experience with cloud service providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
* Experience with server-side rendering / hybrid rendering patterns and edge / CDN optimisation
* Experience integrating frontends with AWS Lambda
Benefits
* 6 weeks of holidays per year (plus option to buy 10 extra)
* 40-hour work week with flexitime (capped at 45 hours)
* A hybrid work setup with flexibility to work remotely
* Generous parental leave: 18 weeks for maternity and 6 weeks for paternity/adoption
* SBB Half-Fare Card and first-class travel between SMG offices in Switzerland
* Gender-neutral pay and transparent career paths
* Choose your gear: Mac or Windows laptop, and iPhone, Samsung, or Pixel mobile
* An inclusive and innovative environment where your voice matters
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