Staff Frontend Engineer – Commerce

HighLevel

. Own the frontend architecture and technical quality for Commerce storefronts, checkout, and point-of-sale surfaces .

Posted 10/12/2026full-timeRemote • IndiaLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in frontend architecture and technical quality for Commerce storefronts, with a strong focus on performance, accessibility, and collaboration across teams. Proficient in building and leading design systems, implementing automated checks, and mentoring engineers in frontend best practices.

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Frontend Architecture OwnershipCommerce Surface DevelopmentDesign System LeadershipPerformance OptimizationAccessibility Audits

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Hard Skills

Frontend DevelopmentGo ProgrammingGRPC-WebConnectRPCBackend-for-Frontend IntegrationPerformance TracingModule FederationWCAG 2.2 ComplianceTyped RPC ContractsOpen Source Contributions

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationLeadership

Tools & Technologies

Real-User MonitoringCI/CD ToolsCoding Agents

Industry Keywords

CommerceFrontend StandardsAccessibilityPerformance MetricsDesign Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GRPCOpen SourceGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the frontend architecture and technical quality for Commerce storefronts, checkout, and point-of-sale surfaces
Set frontend standards covering architecture, state, data fetching, testing, accessibility, and performance
Review frontend pull requests across Commerce and document reusable patterns
Partner with the central frontend platform team to align roadmaps, co-design solutions, and upstream Commerce capabilities
Instrument real-user monitoring and publish LCP, INP, and CLS field metrics
Build independently deployable Commerce surfaces with enforced module boundaries
Establish performance and bundle budgets in CI
Implement automated accessibility checks and manual WCAG 2.2 AA audits
Deliver typed, generated API clients and backend-for-frontend integrations
Contribute Commerce capabilities to the central frontend platform
Hire and onboard the first Commerce frontend engineers
Lead or co-lead HighLevel-wide frontend decisions through RFCs
Write production code weekly and lead through design documents, code, reviews, and mentoring
Establish Commerce as HighLevel’s reference implementation for frontend excellence

Requirements

What you’ll need

9+ years of experience in building frontend systems
Experience building commerce surfaces at scale: storefronts, checkout, or point of sale
Experience building or leading a design system consumed by many teams, including safely shipping breaking changes
Experience using ConnectRPC, gRPC-Web, or protocol buffers from the browser
Ability to read and write Go well enough to build or review a backend-for-frontend
Contributions to open source, web standards discussions, or the frontend community
Experience teaching backend engineers to ship good frontend code
Experience contributing to a shared frontend platform or design system used by several product organizations
Ownership of frontend architecture across several teams for a multi-quarter effort
Experience partnering with a central platform team as both consumer and contributor
Knowledge of browser rendering pipeline, event loop, long tasks, Baseline, and MDN
Experience diagnosing and improving performance using field data, performance traces, and network waterfalls
Knowledge of module federation, native ES modules, import maps, monorepos, and independent deployments
Experience with backend-for-frontend layers, typed RPC contracts, caching, and invalidation
Knowledge of WCAG 2.2, colour contrast, keyboard and screen reader behavior
Experience leading accessibility audits
Knowledge of XSS, content security policy, sandboxed rendering, and npm supply chain risk
Daily disciplined use of coding agents, with ability to write context, specifications, and skills for agent output
Ability to write design documents and decision records

Benefits

Comp & perks

Global, remote-first organization
Equal Opportunity Employer
Voluntary demographic information; refusal will not affect application status