Senior Front End Engineer

Job Overview

Be engineer #3 on a fast-moving, high-ownership team. As our Senior Front End Engineer, you'll architect and deliver web experiences that are performant, accessible, and scalable. You'll work closely with Product, Design, and QA to bring ideas to life—and directly with the CTO to influence technical direction.

This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll own features end-to-end, mentor teammates, and help us evolve toward TypeScript, stronger CI/CD, and modern front-end practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of responsive, accessible UIs and reusable component patterns.
• Implement features using modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML, CSS, and PHP for WordPress templating/hooks.
• Collaborate with Product/Design to translate requirements into clean, maintainable code.
• Integrate with internal and third-party REST/AJAX APIs; influence API design when needed.
• Drive performance improvements across rendering, queries, assets, and Core Web Vitals.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues; participate in on-call if/when formalized.
• Contribute to architecture, technical design, and documentation.
• Guide adoption of TypeScript and modern front-end tooling.
• Provide mentorship and set high standards through thoughtful code reviews.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7–12 years experience building and scaling modern web applications.
• Advanced front-end expertise: JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3 (Flexbox/Grid), responsive design, Sass/PostCSS.
• Strong WordPress experience: custom themes/plugins, WP REST API, hooks/filters, Gutenberg and/or ACF.
• Skilled in Git workflows, code reviews, and collaborative development.
• Familiarity with RESTful API design/consumption, JSON, OAuth.
• MySQL fundamentals and ability to optimize queries.
• Testing experience with at least one framework (e.g., Jest, PHPUnit).
• Proven experience shipping accessible UIs (WCAG 2.1 AA) and optimizing performance.
• Clear communicator and effective collaborator in Agile sprints.

Strongly Preferred

• TypeScript adoption or migration experience.
• Experience with React, Vue, or Angular.
• Build tools (Vite/Webpack), npm/yarn/pnpm.
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Docker.
• Observability tools (Sentry, Datadog, New Relic).
• Experience shaping design systems/component libraries in collaboration with Product/Design.
• Internationalization/localization.
• Mentorship and leadership experience in small teams.

How We Work

• Ownership mindset: You'll drive projects end-to-end and tie technical work to business goals.
• Technical leadership: Help guide architecture, standards, and best practices.
• Pragmatism: Balance complexity with delivery speed, iterating toward long-term improvements.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with teammates, giving and receiving feedback effectively.

Success Metrics

• On-time delivery with low defect rates.
• Measurable improvements in Core Web Vitals (LCP/INP) and backend response times.
• High-quality code reviews, clear documentation, and meaningful test coverage.
• Fewer production incidents and faster MTTR.
• Visible impact on team growth and front-end excellence.

Our stack and tools

• Backend: WordPress + PHP 8.x, MySQL
• Frontend: HTML/CSS, JavaScript (ES6+), jQuery (path toward TypeScript)
• Collaboration: Slack, Notion, Klaviyo integration
• Process: Git, Agile (2-week sprints)

Logistics

• Work arrangement: Fully remote; must be able to work standard PST/PDT hours (Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm).
• Team: You'll be the third engineer, reporting directly to the CTO with outsized ownership and influence.

Team: You'll be the third core engineer, reporting directly to the CTO, with high ownership but no direct reports initially.

Interview Process (fast, four steps)

• Preliminary Chat – Get to know you and your motivation.
• Intro & Role Alignment with the CTO.
• Technical Deep Dive – Practical front-end/WordPress problem-solving (no long take-homes).
• Team Conversation + Final Q&A.

Compensation & Benefits (Philippines)

• 13th-month pay (standard local practice).

Paid time off:

• 15 vacation days/year
• 10 sick days/year
• Philippine regular public holidays observed
• Option to use select "special non-working" holidays as floating days
• Opportunities for promotion and pay raises.
• Fully remote role (work from home).

Note: Compensation is currently focused on salary + 13th-month pay. HMO/insurance and stipends are not included.

Equal Opportunity

We're an equal opportunity employer. If you need accommodations during the hiring process, let us know and we'll make it work.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Php Php456.95 per hour

Benefits:

• Opportunities for promotion
• Pay raise
• Work from home

Work Location: Remote