Senior Frontend Engineer

Salary

CHF 80’000 - 140’000 per year

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience with modern frontend development, including:
  • React (hooks, context, advanced patterns)
  • Type Script
  • Frontend build tools (Webpack, SWC, Babel)
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, performance, accessibility, and testing.
• Proven experience driving cross-team technical initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence engineering communities.
• Experience with agile methodologies.
• Fluent in English.

• Basic understanding of Java or backend concepts (helpful for cross-stack collaboration).
• Experience contributing to or maintaining design systems.
• Strong enthusiasm for exploring and pragmatically adopting AI-powered tools and solutions to boost developer productivity, automation, and code quality.
• Exposure to micro-frontend architectures – A history of Microfront ends at Swissquote.
• Experience with Python or other languages.

• A passion for frontend technologies and ecosystem evolution.
• The ability to lead by example and inspire others.
• A collaborative attitude and a desire to elevate engineering practices across the organization.
• A proactive, self-driven mindset.

Do you want to shape the future of engineering at Swissquote? Tech Drive is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join the Languages & Frameworks team and help elevate our frontend ecosystem to the next level.

You will play a key role in defining, evolving, and promoting the technologies, frameworks, and best practices used across all Swissquote engineering teams. Your work will directly empower hundreds of developers to deliver high-quality software faster, more confidently, and with less friction.

This role is ideal for someone who combines deep frontend expertise, strong architectural thinking, and the ability to influence and guide engineering communities.

• Provide sound technological guidance to all SWEs' value stream teams, having ownership of the following artifacts/processes:
• Technical Guidelines & best practices
• Tech Radar redaction and actualization in collaboration with the technical community of practices and fellow SWE teams to collect feedback from value stream teams
• Technological Survey (through conferences, POCs, etc.) in close collaboration with our Communities of Practice
• Ensure the frameworks we're using at scale are still appropriate for our current needs, adopting opinionated ones following a due diligence and trial phase
• Own and maintain common facilities and libraries supporting daily local development and code quality, including but not limited to:
• Frontend application templates
• Swissquote's Microfront end library
• Support teams with tough technical migrations, performance issues, and harnessing tech debt
• You will collaborate with our architecture team to evolve the state of the art in frontend architecture and help teams apply our architecture principles to build web applications. You will create automations to upgrade libraries and help teams reduce their tech debt, providing, among others, Open Rewrite recipes to your fellow colleagues.
• Communicate to the broader audience (inside and outside the company whenever it makes sense) the why and how of our technology choices (whether we go for homemade solutions or opinionated ones).
• You will be an integral part of providing self-service development capabilities to all engineers at Swissquote via the tools and services the team provides. Your work will empower engineers to deliver software features with more confidence, faster, while reducing toil. As part of this work, you will accelerate product delivery, which enables Swissquote's mission of democratizing finance.

• Contribute to the success of all team initiatives through design, implementation, and delivery of frontend-related tooling, libraries, and guidelines.
• Steer fellow value stream teams into adopting the team's solutions and guidance through presentations, workshops, pair programming sessions, and technical coaching.
• Implement strong collaboration with other technical stakeholders and…