Senior Frontend Engineer - Content Team

About Strapi

Strapi is a leading open-source Headless CMS that empowers developers and content creators to build, manage, and scale their digital experiences. Our mission is to make content management simpler, more flexible, and accessible for everyone. Join our innovative and collaborative team as we continue to grow and shape the future of digital content.

📍Location

We embrace the "work from anywhere" culture as much as possible!

This role is fully remote, CET +/-2H

Locations available: France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Romania, Lithuania - unfortunately these are the only countries that we are hiring in right now.

We're hiring a senior frontend engineer

As a product-driven company developing open-source software, we’re looking for an experienced and innovative Senior Frontend Engineer to join our team. Building Open Source Software used by thousands of developers and Content Managers worldwide means every decision impacts real businesses and developers’ workflows. We value humility, transparency, and a passion for learning and exploration.

Key Responsibilities

- Collaborate with other engineers, product designers, and product managers in all phases of product development to deliver a high quality, stable product that delights users.

- Lead cross-team collaboration and knowledge sharing, breaking down silos and improving technical alignment.

- Partner with product designers to maintain and evolve our design system, ensuring a cohesive user experience.

- Use your industry experience and growth mindset to drive innovation and experimentation.

- Provide technical guidance and mentorship. Promote best practices for writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code.

- Conduct thorough code reviews for your peers and support community contributors.

Qualifications

- Strong expertise in front-end architecture, design systems and performance optimisation.

- Experience as a maintainer or active contributor to an open-source project with an engaged community.

- Expert in TypeScript, React and its ecosystem: (Redux, Redux Toolkit, Redux Toolkit Query, Styled components, Storybook, Vite).

- Proficient in writing unit and end-to-end tests with Jest and Playwright.

- Awareness of web accessibility standards and a solid understanding of WAI-ARIA principles.

- A self-driven, curious, and empathetic problem solver who enjoys exploring emerging technologies.

- Team player and excellent communication skills: empathy, humility and transparency are highly valued.

- 6+ years of experience in a similar role.

- Fluency in English.

- Bonus: Familiarity with Strapi CMS or other content management systems.

We understand that no candidate checks every box. If you believe you can bring value to our team and contribute to our success, we’d love to hear your story. Many of us took a chance—and it paid off.

About the Content Team

The Content Team focuses on enhancing the content management experience by making Strapi an enjoyable place to write content in and supporting collaboration through advanced workflows. We work on features like content preview, review workflows, scheduled releases, bulk publishing, media library and the onboarding tour.

Our team consists of one backend engineer, one frontend engineer, two fullstack engineers, a Product Manager, and an Engineering Manager, supported by a Quality Assurance Engineer and a Designer. We keep our processes light, optimize for autonomy and efficiency, and value strong human connections in a fully remote environment. We are based in France, Spain and Italy but have other open countries.

👾 Strapi benefits

🕰️ Flexible working hours.

🌍 Work from anywhere: We're a remote-first company, so we can work wherever our home WiFi is.

💰 Equity for everyone: We win together. On top of a competitive salary, every Strapier has equity that grows with you in the company.

💺 Remote setup budget: until $1,000 per year, equivalent to having a great work-from-home setup (desk, light, office chair, etc.).

📁 Co-working space rental budget: until $500 per month when you need it.

💻 You'll always be up to date: We’ll cover all hardware and software needed, so you’re always with the latest versions.

🎓 Grow as you are: From day one, we provide budget and tools to learn and grow both professionally and personally.

🎉 Onsite: We all gather physically once a year.

🌱 Mental health support: We offer Moka.care one-on-one sessions with certified specialists.

🚑 Expanded health benefits: Including premium medical, dental, and vision coverage.

👭 Referral program: $1500 if your recommendation gets hired

🏖️ 5 weeks of paid time off (If your country has a more advantageous PTO duration, the specific law will apply)

🙏🏾 Emergency days: 5 paid days per year for each Strapier in trouble (miscarriage, grief, domestic violence, sick kids or dependents) who needs a day or a few days off to manage it.

🐣 Parents on a mission: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave after a year at Strapi.

💥 Our Talent Acquisition process

This process tends to take 2-3 weeks, but happy to adapt to your specific needs.

Meet the team!

First call with the Engineering Manager to talk about engineering culture, communication, Product vision - 1h

Technical call with a tech lead - 1h

Meet your potential future team - 2 x 30mins

CTO call

At any moment, the process can stop, and the team will be happy to give you a call to share their feedback or get into more details.

🎉 Celebrating You being YOU!

Strapi's mission is to empower a global community of users to create a million unique, tailor-made projects. To achieve this, we're building a diverse team that reflects the people we serve. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels safe to to bring their authentic selves. Your individuality, your unique perspectives, experiences, cultures, and challenges, enriches our team and drives us all to be our best.

We are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring experience. If you need any accommodations during the interview process, please let us know—we're here to support you every step of the way.

📖 Want to learn more about us?

Take a look at our open positions at our Careers Website, Join our community, read our latest news at Strapi's blog, learn more about our story and check out our Glassdoor page!