Principal Frontend Engineer, Remote

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Headquartered in Dublin since 2013, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages.

The position

Brown Apps has an opening for a Principal Frontend Engineer, Remote. Hands-on frontend role. You'll ship features, fix layout bugs on odd screen sizes and help maintain our shared component library. You can work from home anywhere in Ireland. We have no office requirement. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Your responsibilities

• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers
• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs

Required qualifications

• 8-10 years building production web applications
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components

Preferred

• Figma, including Dev Mode
• Some Node.js backend work
• Internationalization (i18n) and right-to-left layouts

Salary range: €124,000 - €165,000 per annum

Benefits

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Company pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance
• Income protection

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Brown Apps.