REMOTE Sr. Front End SWE (JavaScript/TypeScript/React) - LATAM

Our customer in the streaming industry is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join their Web Engineering organization. In this role, you’ll help drive the technical direction and delivery of front-end experiences across their main streaming platform and the other brands they support. You’ll mentor a team of Engineers, drive execution on high-impact projects, and raise the bar on code quality, performance, and developer experience - all while shipping features that millions of users interact with every day. . You’ll spend meaningful time in the codebase while also mentoring engineers, unblocking teams, and partnering closely with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to deliver great user experiences (i.e. focusing mainly on front-end architecture, content discovery, personalization, playback experiences, and platform performance for millions of streaming users). This role consists of a mix of net new projects, maintenance/support of existing initiatives, etc.

• Help drive the technical planning, execution, and delivery of frontend features for our client’s 2 streaming web applications

• Build and maintain high-quality React and Next.js applications with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability

• Own and evolve frontend architecture decisions - component design, data fetching patterns, state management, and rendering strategies

• Contribute to and steward shared packages across a monorepo (pnpm workspaces, Turborepo)

• Mentor a team of engineers - provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and foster a culture of continuous improvement

• Drive web performance optimization across the application, with a focus on Core Web Vitals, critical rendering path, and perceived load times

• Work with personalization and collaboration teams to ship real-time recommendations, personalized artwork, sign-up flow optimization, and short-form video experiences across the 2 streaming platoforms’ web surfaces

• Partner with Product and Design teams to translate requirements into well-scoped, well-executed technical solutions

• Collaborate with Back End Engineering and DevOps/SRE teams to build and deploy high-performing services

• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), testing infrastructure, and developer tooling

• Champion the adoption of modern AI-powered development tools and workflows to accelerate team velocity and code quality

• Communicate tradeoffs, technical decisions, and project status clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Write things down - RFCs, ADRs, Confluence pages, Slack threads - and default to async communication that scales

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• 7+ years of experience in web application development

• Experience working on high-traffic customer sites

• Deep knowledge of web application development, best practices, and modern frontend architecture

• Deep knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming and Design, data structures, and algorithms

• Expert-level JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, Sass, HTML

• Strong experience building production applications with React (including SSR) and Next.js or similar frameworks

• Deep insight of web performance, browser rendering, Core Web Vitals, and the critical rendering path

• Experience with Webpack, Rspack, and/or Turbopack

• Strong testing discipline - Jest, Cypress, or equivalent

• Good knowledge of HTTP protocol and caching layers

• Solid knowledge of the HTML DOM and Event APIs

• Demonstrated ability to lead engineers, make architectural decisions, and communicate design concepts clearly - in writing, design reviews, and real-time discussions with engineers at all levels

• Experience using modern AI agents and tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, Cursor) to improve personal and team productivity

• Excellent communication skills and ability to take ownership, etc.

Additional Qualifications:

• You should know about micro-frontend architectures.

• Experience with microservices and distributed systems

• Working knowledge of Docker and CI tools

• Observability experience (New Relic, Datadog, or similar)

• Understanding or experience with Atomic Design concepts

• You’ve integrated recommendation or personalization APIs into production frontend applications

• Humility to speak up when lacking knowledge or experience in an area

• Experience working asynchronously across time zones * Knowledge of GraphQL - schema design, resolvers, federation; experience developing and maintaining a GraphQL API layer (Apollo Server) consumed by multiple frontend applications

• Familiarity with monorepo tooling (pnpm workspaces, Turborepo or equivalent)

• Experience with multi-zones is also important/understand platform and design system integration

• Previous experience working in the streaming industry/streaming event pipelines or real-time decisioning systems