Staff Backend Engineer – Marketplace

Your Role

• UI Architecture & Design
• Define and implement a scalable front-end architecture using React, ensuring maintainability and performance.
• Drive decisions around state management, component composition, and design patterns (e.g., Redux, Context API, or similar libraries).
• Hands-on Development
• Build and maintain high-quality, reusable components in React (and possibly TypeScript) to support rapid feature development and consistent UX patterns.
• Collaborate closely with backend engineers to integrate RESTful or GraphQL APIs, ensuring robust data fetching strategies and error handling.
• Performance & Reliability
• Implement front-end optimizations for fast load times and smooth interactions, leveraging modern caching, code-splitting, and bundling techniques.
• Champion best practices for monitoring front-end performance in production (e.g., real user monitoring, error tracking, analytics).
• E-commerce & Marketplace User Experience
• Design engaging, intuitive workflows for browsing, purchasing, and managing SKUs in our marketplace.
• Incorporate secure payment flows and user authentication patterns that streamline checkout processes while maintaining compliance and security.
• Continuously refine the user journey in response to feedback, usage metrics, and evolving product goals.
• Technical Leadership & Mentoring
• Guide mid-level and junior front-end developers, conducting code reviews and sharing best practices.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other engineers to align on project goals and manage technical priorities.
• Contribute to long-term technical strategy and front-end standards (code quality, testing, accessibility).
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work with Product, UX, and QA teams to gather requirements, ensure design fidelity, and maintain a consistent look and feel throughout the marketplace.
• Align with back-end and infrastructure teams to enable continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI / CD) and orchestrate frontend environments effectively.

Required Skills & Experience

If you’re passionate about building high-performance, intuitive front-end experiences in a cloud-native environment and want to help define the look, feel, and functionality of a cutting-edge marketplace, we encourage you to apply. Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of observability-driven e-commerce.