Staff Frontend Engineer – Commerce

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the frontend architecture and technical quality for Commerce storefronts, checkout processes, and point-of-sale interfaces.

• Establish frontend standards that encompass architecture, state management, data fetching, testing, accessibility, and performance metrics.

• Review frontend pull requests within Commerce and document reusable patterns effectively.

• Collaborate with the central frontend platform team to synchronize roadmaps, co-design solutions, and enhance Commerce capabilities.

• Implement real-user monitoring and publish metrics for LCP, INP, and CLS.

• Develop independently deployable Commerce surfaces with defined module boundaries.

• Set performance and bundle budgets within continuous integration (CI).

• Conduct automated accessibility checks and perform manual audits for WCAG 2.2 AA compliance.

• Deliver typed, generated API clients and backend-for-frontend integrations.

• Contribute Commerce functionalities to the central frontend platform.

• Recruit and onboard the inaugural Commerce frontend engineers.

• Lead or co-lead frontend decisions across HighLevel through Requests for Comments (RFCs).

• Write production code on a weekly basis and guide through design documents, code reviews, and mentoring.

• Position Commerce as HighLevel’s benchmark for frontend excellence.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 9 years of experience in developing frontend systems.

• Proven experience in building commerce surfaces at scale, including storefronts, checkout processes, or point of sale.

• Experience in creating or leading a design system utilized by multiple teams, including the ability to safely implement breaking changes.

• Familiarity with ConnectRPC, gRPC-Web, or protocol buffers from the browser.

• Proficient in reading and writing Go sufficiently to construct or review a backend-for-frontend solution.

• Contributions to open-source projects, web standards discussions, or the frontend community.

• Experience in teaching backend engineers to deliver high-quality frontend code.

• Contributions to a shared frontend platform or design system employed by several product organizations.

• Accountability for frontend architecture across multiple teams over a multi-quarter initiative.

• Experience collaborating with a central platform team in both consumer and contributor roles.

• In-depth knowledge of the browser rendering pipeline, event loop, long tasks, Baseline, and MDN.

• Proven track record in diagnosing and enhancing performance using field data, performance traces, and network waterfalls.

• Familiarity with module federation, native ES modules, import maps, monorepos, and independent deployments.

• Experience with backend-for-frontend layers, typed RPC contracts, caching strategies, and invalidation processes.

• Understanding of WCAG 2.2 standards, color contrast, keyboard navigation, and screen reader behavior.

• Experience leading accessibility audits.

• Knowledge of XSS, content security policies, sandboxed rendering, and npm supply chain risks.

• Regular disciplined use of coding agents, with the ability to write context, specifications, and skills for agent output.

• Capable of drafting design documents and decision records.

🏝️ Benefits

• A global, remote-first organization.

• An Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Voluntary demographic information; refusal to provide this will not impact your application status.