Senior Frontend Engineer (Design Systems)

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Position summary

We're hiring another Senior Frontend Engineer (Design Systems) to build the web interfaces our customers use every day, mostly in React and TypeScript. Part of this job is rebuilding an older AngularJS front end in React. Some of that work is unglamorous migration, and we won't pretend otherwise. We are headquartered in Waltham and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Key responsibilities

• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent
• Manage client state with Redux Toolkit, Zustand or TanStack Query

Minimum qualifications

• 6+ years building production web applications
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers
• Git and a pull request based workflow

Pay: $35.00 - $39.00 per hour

What we offer

• Annual rate review
• Long-term engagement
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

Duration: 12 months. Start: Flexible.

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