Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer, Next.js, JavaScript

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal.

📋 Description

• Take charge of architectural decisions for intricate Next.js applications.

• Influence the scalability, performance, and testing processes of the frontend.

• Lead the architecture of extensive Next.js applications, including scaling within the App Router ecosystem.

• Foster a robust testing culture that ensures production reliability.

• Create fast and dependable web products catering to large audiences.

• Collaborate in a product-focused digital company that develops high-traffic, web-native platforms for a worldwide audience.

• Take ownership of decisions, impact, and career advancement in a highly autonomous, self-organized team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 9 years of professional software engineering experience, primarily focused on high-traffic, web-native products (SaaS, consumer web, or large-scale digital platforms).

• Demonstrated experience in steering the architecture of complex Next.js applications (App Router, Next.js 13+).

• Profound knowledge of rendering strategies: SSR, SSG, ISR, and React Server Components (RSC), along with caching strategies.

• Experience in transitioning to or scaling within the App Router ecosystem.

• Strong expertise in Vanilla JavaScript (ES6+), DOM manipulation, browser mechanics, and an understanding of the web's underlying frameworks.

• Practical focus on web performance: Core Web Vitals, SEO optimization, and creating accessible, fast user interfaces.

• A shift-left mindset with rigorous automated testing practices for production web applications.

• Possess ownership, self-motivation, and the capability to excel in a self-organized environment.

• Proficient in English (written and spoken).

🏝️ Benefits

• 15th month salary.

• Health insurance that covers your family.

• A day off for your birthday.

• Mobility program for digital nomads.

• Genuine work-life balance.