Principal Frontend Engineer

Front Range Software employs 350 people across engineering hubs in Hoover and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Headquartered in Hoover since 1995, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages.

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. We're hiring another Principal Frontend Engineer to build the web interfaces our customers use every day, mostly in React and TypeScript. Hands-on frontend role. You'll ship features, fix layout bugs on odd screen sizes and help maintain our shared component library. On site, Hoover.

Your responsibilities

• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack
• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress
• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser

What you'll need

• 8-10 years building production web applications
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM
• Git and a pull request based workflow

Benefits

Salary: $180,000 - $225,000 annually

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• Paid parental leave

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Front Range Software.