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# Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

- **Company:** WORKFORCE AS A SERVICE, INC.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), ReactJS, Stripe, React Native, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** May 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4098e4755631afe6

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Cross-functional communication?, * Significant experience building and scaling frontend systems using JavaScript and React and/or React Native

 * A strong track record of owning complex UI systems or frontend platforms, not just individual features
 * Deep care for user experience, performance, and long-term maintainability
 * Ability to operate in ambiguity - defining problems, proposing solutions, and aligning stakeholders
 * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across teams
 * Experience mentoring engineers and raising team-wide frontend quality (people management not required)

Nice to have

 * Experience designing or maintaining shared component libraries or design systems
 * Exposure to mobile performance, accessibility, or internationalization challenges
 * Experience working on products with real-world impact and high user trust

## Description

* Own and evolve frontend systems that span multiple product areas, ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability
 * Partner with engineering leadership, product, and design to shape frontend technical strategy and long-term direction
 * Lead high-impact initiatives such as architectural evolution, performance improvements, or major UX foundations
 * Establish and uphold frontend standards around component design, state management, accessibility, and testing
 * Act as a force multiplier for the team: guiding technical decisions, reviewing designs, and mentoring engineers
 * Help define how frontend engineering is practiced as the company grows, * We're a small and mighty team with senior engineers from Rippling, Stripe, DoorDash, Faire among others
 * We value user-centricity, competence, speed, and having fun
 * We embrace independence and take ownership of our projects, yet are also great team players
 * We deal in outcomes, not projects
 * Read more about our team at https://tech.workwhile.ai


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