Staff Engineer - Angular

About Wingstop

Wingstop’s mission is to serve the world flavor. Since 1994 we’ve grown to one billion wings, and today we operate a fast‑growing global brand that values entrepreneurial spirit, service‑mindfulness, fun, and authenticity.

The Staff Engineer – Angular is a senior technical leader responsible for the architecture, performance, and reliability of consumer‑facing web applications that support a high‑volume, multi‑billion‑dollar digital commerce platform. This role operates at enterprise scale, designing and owning front‑end systems that serve millions of users and directly impact revenue, conversion, and brand experience.

• Own the architecture and performance of large‑scale Angular applications serving millions of consumers
• Design and implement scalable front‑end systems integrated with distributed backend services on AWS (Cloud Front, S3, API Gateway, etc.)
• Drive technical decisions that impact user experience, conversion, and system reliability at scale
• Establish and enforce front‑end engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across teams
• Lead complex architectural initiatives such as performance optimization, state management strategies, and modular design systems
• Partner with product, UX, and backend teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Optimize applications for speed, scalability, accessibility, and maintainability
• Own observability, monitoring, and incident response for front‑end systems in production
• Mentor engineers and elevate overall team capability through technical leadership and coaching
• Identify and solve ambiguous, high‑impact technical challenges in a high‑throughput transactional environment

This engineer leads the evolution of modern web architecture across a distributed microservices ecosystem on AWS, ensuring high availability, sub‑100 ms performance expectations, and seamless integration with backend services. The role carries accountability for front‑end system health, observability, and production readiness, including incident response and continuous improvement of reliability and scalability. The Staff Engineer partners closely with product, design, and backend engineering to translate business objectives into performant, resilient, and scalable user experiences.

• Unlimited paid time off for exempt employees
• One paid volunteer day of your choice
• Competitive bonus structure for eligible roles
• Team member stock purchase plan
• Health savings or flexible spending account options
• 401(k) (matching 100% on the first 3 % and 50 ¢ on the dollar for the next 2 % of team member contributions up to 5 % of eligible compensation)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Basic life and AD&D insurance provided
• Pet insurance
• Education assistance
• Wellness reimbursement program
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Lunch provided every Tuesday and Thursday in office
• Discount on Wingstop gift cards
• Onsite game room

Wingstop provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.