Senior Frontend Engineer

Overview

About Toptal Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members based around the globe, Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce. We take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun.

We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold.

Job Summary As a member of the Hire Global team, you will contribute to building and scaling our business and subproducts—not just with your engineering experience, but through technical leadership and proactive thinking. Our product development team operates collaboratively, with team members contributing to product and technical direction, process decisions, and execution. You will have the freedom to drive change and influence the direction of our products and processes.

In our technical stack, we employ Ruby on Rails for the backend and a combination of Apollo, Type Script, and React for the frontend. This is a remote position. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.

• Make decisions based on multiple quality dimensions like user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, security breaches, and performance.
• Mentor fellow teammates.
• Collaborate on novel ideas to improve the team processes.
• Lead initiatives.
• Care for and monitor the quality of our product.
• Raise awareness of technical issues.
• Develop a clear understanding of business value and collaborate with stakeholders by analyzing features and suggesting alternatives.
• Proactively identify technical debt and product areas that require attention or improvements and suggest improvements in our technology stack.
• Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager.

• Solid 5+ years front-end experience.
• Experience in Type Script, React, and HTML is required.
• React, Apollo Graph
  
  QL, Type Script, and Jest are our front-end stack. The desire to learn and be proficient in them is welcome.
• Experience with Next.js, monorepo, and Progressive Web Apps is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus.
• Experience with other non-frontend programming languages and technical stacks is welcome.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Thriving in autonomy in every aspect of daily work - be able to unblock yourself by finding the right people or help.
• Being a team player by avoiding solo performances and unblocking your peers.
• Caring for quality through impactful tests, process change proposals, and raising awareness of issues, be they product or technical.
• Caring for architecture - applying best practices, using software design patterns, and bringing ideas for improvements.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
• You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive  will not be here just to tell other people what to do.