Senior Front-End Software Engineer; React

Senior Front-End Software Engineer (React)

Higher Logic is a global human‑focused engagement platform that empowers organizations to build, retain, and grow member or customer communities. With 13+ years of industry leadership, we serve more than 3,000 customers and 200 million users worldwide across 42 countries.

As a Senior Front‑End Developer (React) in Higher Logic Vanilla, you will create and evolve rich, scalable user experiences used by millions of community members worldwide. This role focuses primarily on front‑end craftsmanship, performance, and modern developer workflows—including AI‑assisted development—while occasionally partnering across the stack to deliver end‑to‑end features.

• Build, maintain, and ship high‑quality product features in a multidisciplinary Agile team.
• Translate designs, wireframes, and product requirements into accessible, performant React experiences.
• Own UI architecture decisions: component design, state management approaches, data fetching patterns, and maintainable abstractions.
• Write reliable, well‑tested code; participate in code review; mentor teammates through thoughtful feedback and shared patterns.
• Triage, debug, and resolve issues across browsers/devices; collaborate with QA/support/product to close the loop quickly.
• Optimize for real‑world performance at scale (rendering efficiency, Core Web Vitals, bundle size, caching strategies).
• Contribute to guild practices: propose improvements to coding standards, tooling, documentation, and architectural approaches.

• Use AI‑powered IDEs and assistants (e.g., Cursor, Copilot‑style tools) to speed up implementation, refactoring, and test generation while ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Apply AI thoughtfully: create strong prompts, verify outputs, and incorporate guardrails (linting, type checks, unit/integration tests, code review).
• Partner on AI‑enabled product initiatives where relevant—such as AI‑assisted content workflows, smarter search/discovery, moderation tooling, summarization, or admin productivity experiences—integrating front‑end UX with backend services/APIs.
• Help define best practices for AI‑assisted engineering (what to automate, what must be human‑reviewed, and how to evaluate quality).

• Strong understanding of Agile values and principles.
• Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript (ES6+), DOM fundamentals, and the JavaScript object model.
• Deep knowledge of React and its core principles (composition, hooks, rendering lifecycle, performance patterns).
• Solid grasp of asynchronous UI state and data flows (promises, async/await, request life cycles, optimistic UI).
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with modern authorization mechanisms (e.g., JWT‑based flows).
• Experience with common front‑end tooling (Vite/Webpack, Babel, npm/yarn/pnpm).
• Comfort with Git‑based workflows (branching, PRs, reviews, CI checks).
• Practical experience using AI coding tools (Cursor or equivalent) in day‑to‑day development, including validating generated code and avoiding insecure patterns.

• 4+ years building production web applications with React (or another major JS framework/library).
• 1+ years of Type Script experience (or strong interest and demonstrated ability to adopt it quickly).
• Experience working in modular/pluggable architectures (themes, extensions, plugins, component systems).
• Strong HTML/CSS/SCSS fundamentals and experience implementing responsive UI.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG/ARIA) and building inclusive interfaces.
• Experience with testing practices and tools (unit/integration/E2E) and building confidence through automation.
• Strong product instincts: you sweat details, communicate tradeoffs, and care about user outcomes.

• Competitive base salary.
• Comprehensive health benefits package.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Healthcare and dependent‑care flexible spending account.
• Company short‑term and long‑term disability insurance.
• Company culture that recognizes its employees.
• Room for growth and development and management that cares about your professional…