Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Shutterfly creates personalized products and helps customers capture and express meaningful life experiences through its family of brands. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II focused on frontend development to design, build, test, deploy, and optimize scalable interactive applications. The role owns frontend features end-to-end, collaborates with backend and platform teams, and contributes to architecture, accessibility, security, performance, and maintainability.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain complex, high-performance frontend applications using Backbone, Rails, React, Next.js, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript
- Build rich, interactive user experiences, including canvas-based rendering and custom UI workflows for personalized product creation (e.g., photo books, svg-layouts)
- Own frontend features end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch support
- Collaborate with backend and platform teams to integrate frontend applications with catalog, pricing, and commerce systems
- Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices using Jest and modern component/integration testing frameworks
- Ensure applications meet accessibility (WCAG), security, and privacy compliance standards
- Optimize frontend performance across rendering, memory usage, network efficiency, and bundle size
- Contribute to front-end architecture decisions, including state management, data-fetching strategies, and SSR/CSR tradeoffs
- Participate actively in code reviews, raising quality, consistency, and maintainability across the codebase
- Deploy and operate frontend services in AWS-based environments, working with CI/CD pipelines
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools where appropriate to improve developer productivity and software quality
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
- * 7+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on frontend development
- * Expertise in Backbone, React, Next.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript
- * Familiarity with cloud-based deployments, especially AWS
- * Experience integrating frontend systems with RESTful APIs
- * Comprehensive understanding of frontend architecture, single-page application (SPA) design, and modern rendering patterns
- * Strong computer science foundation, including data structures, algorithms, and performance analysis
- * Hands-on experience with canvas rendering, custom UI engines, or performance-critical frontend components
- * Proven track record in Test-Driven Development and automated testing using tools like Jest
- * Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- * Demonstrated success in building maintainable, scalable, and cost-effective frontend solutions
- * Adaptable to evolving product requirements and technical constraints
- * Balances user experience, engineering excellence, and long-term maintainability
- * Bring forward new ideas that promote modern engineering standards, tooling, and best practices
- * Continuously evaluate existing solutions and advocate for thoughtful refactoring and modernization
- Location: This is a fully remote position based in US
- This opportunity can be remote, but candidates must reside in a state in which Shutterfly is registered to do business. This includes all US states except District of Columbia, North Dakota, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wyoming
Benefits
- This position may be eligible for a bonus incentive.
- This position may be eligible for health benefits.
- This position may be eligible for a 401K program.
- This is a fully remote position based in US.
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