Staff Frontend Engineer – Commerce

• Own the frontend architecture and technical quality for Commerce storefronts, checkout, and point-of-sale surfaces
• Set frontend standards covering architecture, state, data fetching, testing, accessibility, and performance
• Review frontend pull requests across Commerce and document reusable patterns
• Partner with the central frontend platform team to align roadmaps, co-design solutions, and upstream Commerce capabilities
• Instrument real-user monitoring and publish LCP, INP, and CLS field metrics
• Build independently deployable Commerce surfaces with enforced module boundaries
• Establish performance and bundle budgets in CI
• Implement automated accessibility checks and manual WCAG 2.2 AA audits
• Deliver typed, generated API clients and backend-for-frontend integrations
• Contribute Commerce capabilities to the central frontend platform
• Hire and onboard the first Commerce frontend engineers
• Lead or co-lead HighLevel-wide frontend decisions through RFCs
• Write production code weekly and lead through design documents, code, reviews, and mentoring
• Establish Commerce as HighLevel’s reference implementation for frontend excellence

• 9+ years of experience in building frontend systems
• Experience building commerce surfaces at scale: storefronts, checkout, or point of sale
• Experience building or leading a design system consumed by many teams, including safely shipping breaking changes
• Experience using ConnectRPC, gRPC-Web, or protocol buffers from the browser
• Ability to read and write Go well enough to build or review a backend-for-frontend
• Contributions to open source, web standards discussions, or the frontend community
• Experience teaching backend engineers to ship good frontend code
• Experience contributing to a shared frontend platform or design system used by several product organizations
• Ownership of frontend architecture across several teams for a multi-quarter effort
• Experience partnering with a central platform team as both consumer and contributor
• Knowledge of browser rendering pipeline, event loop, long tasks, Baseline, and MDN
• Experience diagnosing and improving performance using field data, performance traces, and network waterfalls
• Knowledge of module federation, native ES modules, import maps, monorepos, and independent deployments
• Experience with backend-for-frontend layers, typed RPC contracts, caching, and invalidation
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.2, colour contrast, keyboard and screen reader behavior
• Experience leading accessibility audits
• Knowledge of XSS, content security policy, sandboxed rendering, and npm supply chain risk
• Daily disciplined use of coding agents, with ability to write context, specifications, and skills for agent output
• Ability to write design documents and decision records

• Global, remote-first organization
• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Voluntary demographic information; refusal will not affect application status