Sr. Frontend Engineer

As a Senior Frontend Engineer with us, your main responsibilities include developing and maintaining our React-based frontend using Next.js, TypeScript, and TailwindCSS. You'll design scalable UI components that interact with GraphQL APIs while ensuring high performance through techniques like lazy loading and caching. Collaborating closely with backend engineers and product teams is vital, as you'll enhance user experience with AI-driven insights, leading code quality and performance optimization efforts.

To qualify for the Senior Frontend Engineer position in San Francisco, applicants should have at least 6 years of frontend development experience, particularly expertise in React and TypeScript. A strong grasp of GraphQL, real-time data integration, and modern frontend frameworks like Next.js is essential. Knowledge of UX/UI best practices and accessibility is also crucial, as is the ability to write scalable, maintainable code.

Collaboration between the Senior Frontend Engineer and backend teams is key to success in this role. You will work closely with backend engineers to efficiently integrate GraphQL APIs, ensuring data flows smoothly to the user interface. Effective communication and teamwork will enhance the overall quality of the application, allowing real-time data updates through technologies like WebSockets and polling to provide users with the best experience.

In this role, the Senior Frontend Engineer will work extensively with React, TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, TailwindCSS, and WebSockets, alongside AWS for deployment and server management. You will implement performance tuning and frontend best practices while developing user-friendly interfaces that leverage AI-driven insights.

Bonus skills for a Senior Frontend Engineer include experience with AI-powered UIs, chatbot interactions, and familiarity with server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG). Having prior work experience in B2B SaaS, analytics dashboards, or complex data-driven interfaces can also be advantageous and make your candidacy stand out.

Certainly! When answering this question, discuss specific projects where you utilized React. Highlight your approach to building components, managing state, and integrating React with other technologies. Mention any challenges you faced and how you overcame them, showcasing your problem-solving skills.

To optimize frontend performance, you can talk about techniques like lazy loading for images and components, code splitting, and caching strategies. Highlight how you've applied these techniques in past projects to enhance user experience and site speed.

In response, describe your hands-on experience with GraphQL. Discuss your approach to creating efficient queries, including how you prioritize fetching necessary data while minimizing request size. Share any tools or techniques you’ve used for query optimization.

When discussing accessibility, you should emphasize its crucial role in creating inclusive applications. Share how you adhere to accessibility best practices, such as using ARIA roles, ensuring keyboard navigability, and properly labeling interactive elements, and mention any tools you use to evaluate accessibility.

Talk about your process for ensuring great UI/UX, which could include user feedback sessions, usability testing, and collaboration with UI/UX designers. Share specific examples where you incorporated user feedback into design iterations.

You can share that you stay updated by following tech blogs, attending webinars, joining forums, and participating in community events. Highlight specific resources you find valuable, showcasing your proactivity in continuing education in your field.

Discuss your approach to resolving conflicts, emphasizing open communication, active listening, and finding common ground. Share a personal experience where you successfully navigated a disagreement to reach a positive outcome.

Reflect on a specific challenging project, outlining your responsibilities and the difficulties faced. Discuss the lessons you learned from the experience and how it helped you grow as a Senior Frontend Engineer.

Prepare to discuss a particular feature developed with Next.js, explaining how you structured your components, managed routing, and leveraged SSR or SSG to enhance performance. Be ready to articulate your choices and their impact on the application.

Discuss best practices for writing clean, maintainable code, such as following conventions, modular programming, and writing extensive documentation. Provide examples where you implemented these practices in previous projects to facilitate team collaboration.