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# Staff Frontend Engineer / Frontend Architect

- **Company:** FactFinder
- **Location:** Pforzheim, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), .NET Framework, Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Encodings, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, Next.js, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, TypeScript, Web Applications, ReactJS, Claude Code, AI Coding Agents, Material UI, Production Code, Figma, Front End Software Development, Software Coding
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5914163602

## About the Role

* Expert-level React and TypeScript, proven in complex production SaaS frontends
 * A real AI-first engineering practice: you use AI coding tools and agents daily and have built workflows or frameworks that others use - not just "I use Copilot"
 * Design-system architecture: you've built or led a design system (tokens, component library, Storybook or similar) that was adopted across multiple teams or products
 * Web Components (Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, embedding in third-party environments) plus a frontend architecture track record: you've modernized or migrated a frontend stack at least once, ideally several times
 * 6+ years in frontend or software engineering, including 3+ years at Staff, Lead or Architect level - setting technical direction across teams, not just within your own
 * Hands-on today: you write production code yourself - this is not a concept-only architect position
 * Business-fluent English (C1); no formal degree required, your track record counts

Nice-to-have

 * Technical leadership without line management: you've led a SaaS frontend team through a major technology change
 * Meta-frameworks such as Next.js and/or Astro - and a clear view on when to use which
 * Design-to-code and prototyping tooling: Figma workflows, design-token pipelines, AI UI generation (v0, Claude Code, Cursor, MCP-based tooling)
 * eCommerce, search or product discovery frontends (search UIs, embeddable shop widgets)
 * React on non-JavaScript backends (Java/Spring, .NET); Fable/Feliz or Ant Design
 * Good German language skills

## Description

* Define and drive the target frontend architecture across both React products - one consistent, efficient React-based system, migrated step by step
 * Build and own our shared design system: tokens, component library and Web Components for embeddable shop UI, tightly aligned with Product Design
 * Create an AI-first prototyping and contribution framework - design system, AI coding tools, guardrails, automated review and CI - so product managers and designers can prototype and contribute production-grade UI
 * Stay hands-on: write a significant share of the critical code, set standards, and pair with and level up our frontend engineers
 * Work with a clear operating split: after architecture-focused first stints, spend around 80% of your time hands-on coding and 20% on architecture, design-system leadership and enablement

What success looks like

 * After 90 days: frontend audit of both products done, target architecture and migration roadmap agreed, design-system tokens and core components live, and the first prototype built and shipped by a product manager or designer on the new framework
 * After 12 months: both products run on the shared design system, the frontend rework shows measurable efficiency gains, and product and design prototype independently as a routine - frontend is no longer the bottleneck, * Real ownership with executive backing: you shape the frontend of two products end to end. You report to our VP Engineering; our CPTO is the executive sponsor of this role - both agree the target architecture and migration roadmap with you, and the CPTO reviews your 90-day goals and holds your final interview. A company-level priority, not a side project
 * AI-first as a leadership priority, with the tooling budget to match: Claude Code, Cursor or whatever makes you fastest
 * Impact without switching to management: a Staff/Principal IC track on our career ladder toward Principal/Distinguished - with the option to move into engineering management later if you want to
 * A product trio culture: engineering, product and design as co-owners, outcomes over outputs
 * Competitive compensation that reflects the Staff level of this role
 * Training and conference budget, 30 days of vacation, modern equipment, mobility offers and a company pension plan
 * Hybrid work with 2-3 office days per week in Berlin, Munich, Pforzheim or Stockholm

How we hire
Remote, with feedback within 48 hours after every step:

 1. 30-minute intro call with our Recruiter Mirko
 2. 60-minute technical interview with our VP Engineering (your future manager) and an engineering lead: one frontend modernization you led, your design-system story, and how you use AI day to day
 3. Case study: a hands-on part (AI tools explicitly welcome - walk us through how you used them) and a 45-minute architecture session
 4. Team panel and a 45-minute conversation with our CPTO - optionally on site