Frontend Software Engineer joining RealSelf's product engineering team. Building high-quality frontend features and collaborating with design, product, and backend teams.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain high-quality, scalable frontend features using Next.js, React, and TypeScript.
Collaborate with designers and product managers to translate complex user needs into clean, performant UI solutions.
Contribute to RealSelf’s shared UI component library and design system, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and ease of reuse across the platform.
Implement modern rendering patterns (SSR, ISR, and streaming) to optimize performance and SEO.
Integrate securely with backend APIs, leveraging React Query, Suspense, and server actions for efficient data fetching.
Improve site performance, accessibility (WCAG compliance), and Core Web Vitals through measurement and optimization.
Collaborate with backend, data, and DevOps teams on API design, caching strategies, and deployment workflows.
Conduct thorough code reviews, write reliable tests, and maintain high code quality standards.
Advocate for frontend best practices, tooling improvements, and developer productivity initiatives.
Use AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) to accelerate delivery and enhance quality.
Requirements
5+ years of professional frontend development experience.
Expertise in React, Next.js (App Router), and TypeScript.
Strong grasp of SSR, SSG, and hybrid rendering for SEO and performance.
Deep understanding of CSS architecture (Tailwind, SCSS, CSS Modules, BEM) and responsive design.
Experience integrating with APIs, handling async data, and building robust state management solutions (React Query, Zustand, Redux Toolkit, etc.).
Experience building or contributing to design systems and component libraries.
Strong accessibility, testing, and performance optimization skills.
Proficiency with modern frontend build pipelines, CI/CD, and Git-based workflows.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable in cross-functional environments.
Demonstrated ability to own large-scale frontend projects from concept to production.
Bonus Qualities:
Experience building consumer web products or marketplaces at scale.
Familiarity with analytics, experimentation frameworks (A/B testing), and event tracking.
Prior work on personalization, search, or recommendation systems.
Experience integrating payments, bookings, or user onboarding flows.
Knowledge of server components, Suspense, and streaming architectures.
Experience with web performance monitoring tools (e.g., Lighthouse, Datadog RUM).
Contributions to open-source frontend frameworks or developer tooling.
Frontend Developer building intuitive and seamless cross - platform sports betting applications at iGaming startup. Focusing on coding, debugging, and enhancing user experience in Lisbon.
Front - end Developer creating and maintaining web applications using React and Next.js at IntellectEU. Collaborating with QA engineers and architecture teams in a hybrid work environment.
Frontend Software Engineer leading the transition to modern Angular architecture for cloud - based solutions. Collaborating with teams to deliver secure, user - focused applications in a rapidly evolving environment.
Front End Developer implementing dashboards and data visualizations for government supply chain decision - making. Working under architectural governance to create actionable user interfaces.
Collaborating with technology team to assess user needs and resolve issues. Direct communication with candidates for humanized service and KPI management.
Front - End Developer designing web applications to enhance flexible working at OfficeRnD. Collaborating with stakeholders to innovate and implement user - centric features.
Senior Frontend Developer creating high - performance user interfaces for Vivo. Responsible for defining application architecture and mentoring junior developers in an agile setting.
Staff Frontend Engineer for AI Copilot focusing on developing and delivering AI - enhanced customer service solutions. Collaborating across teams to build accessible and performant user interfaces with a focus on TypeScript and React.
Front - End Software Engineer developing KinaTrax data visualization tools for sports teams. Collaborating with product development team to enhance athlete performance data solutions.