Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Playlist is building a platform for intentional living that connects people with inspiring experiences. The Sr Software Engineer - Frontend will help build and evolve the frontend experiences, collaborating with Product, Design, and QA to deliver features that are reliable and user-friendly.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product and Design to deliver features from ideation through deployment, iterating based on feedback and outcomes
- Build polished, accessible user interfaces with a strong focus on performance, responsiveness, and UX quality
- Own frontend architecture decisions (component patterns, state management, data fetching, routing) to keep the codebase scalable and maintainable
- Work deeply with modern design systems and UI tooling (e.g., Tailwind, component libraries, tokens) to ensure consistency and speed of delivery
- Integrate with backend services and APIs (GraphQL/REST), collaborating on schemas, contracts, and end-to-end workflows
- Promote engineering excellence by driving simplicity, strengthening operational health, and upholding quality through automated testing, code reviews, and monitoring/observability
- Mentor teammates and raise the bar for engineering rigor and clarity, including best practices for responsible AI usage
Skills
- 8+ years building and operating modern web applications for large-scale products
- Expert proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript, including strong fundamentals in the language and ecosystem
- Deep understanding of how the browser works (rendering pipeline, event loop, networking, caching, performance profiling)
- Strong experience with modern React-based frameworks such as Next.js (SSR, routing, data fetching, performance tuning) and familiarity with Node.js
- Experience building and consuming GraphQL APIs (schema-driven development, client caching, pagination patterns)
- Expert-level debugging skills; comfortable using browser DevTools in and out (performance, memory, network, tracing)
- Strong knowledge of modern frontend build, bundling, and packaging (Vite/Webpack, Babel/SWC, code-splitting, tree-shaking, npm/pnpm/yarn)
- Solid engineering judgement and understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies
- Strong communication and collaboration across functions
- AI-native builder mindset with strong judgment; understanding of AI tooling such as MCPs, evals, RAG are good to have
Benefits
- The total compensation package may also include a performance bonus, benefits, and other applicable incentive compensation plans.
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