Staff Frontend Engineer - Remote

Overview

As a Staff Frontend Engineer at Farther, you will be a key technical leader within our engineering organization, driving frontend architecture and technical excellence across multiple projects and teams.

In Short

• Drive technical architecture decisions that shape the future of our frontend platform
• Lead the design and implementation of large-scale technical initiatives across multiple projects
• Establish frontend engineering standards and best practices that scale across the organization
• Tackle complex technical challenges in performance, scalability, and system design
• Guide and mentor senior engineers through complex technical decisions
• Drive technical excellence through code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical documentation
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to define technical strategy and roadmap
• Work across teams to solve architectural challenges and ensure system cohesion
• Champion engineering excellence and innovation in frontend development practices
• Lead technical discovery and implementation of major new features and systems

Requirements

• 10+ years of frontend development experience, with proven expertise in React and TypeScript
• Deep expertise in frontend architecture, performance optimization, and scalable system design
• Extensive experience leading technical implementation of large-scale projects
• Strong background in functional programming principles and patterns
• Track record of making significant technical decisions that positively impact engineering organizations
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving technical best practices
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, particularly in technical documentation
• Proven ability to break down complex technical problems and guide solutions across multiple teams
• Experience building and maintaining complex financial or data-intensive applications
• History of successful technical leadership without direct management responsibilities

Benefits

• Everything you need to build the perfect dev station from hardware to software
• Learn & grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
• Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options
• Unlimited PTO
• An amazing collaborative atmosphere between product, design, and engineering to solve hard problems together
• We don’t use Jira!