Design, build, and optimise scalable front-end features using React and TypeScript. Translate UI/UX designs into accessible, responsive components; own front-end architecture; integrate REST APIs; profile and fix performance issues; participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and production debugging to improve reliability.
RemoFirst is transforming the way businesses hire and manage global teams. Our mission is to enable Freedom of Work by providing an all-in-one global HR platform that simplifies hiring, compliance, payroll, and benefits management. We partner with some of the world’s most innovative companies, including Fortune 500 businesses and leading startups.
We are a small but strong team of 200+ people (and growing) hyper-focused on delivering a world-class platform and unparalleled service with our industry-leading partnerships.
You will collaborate with international engineering, product, and design teams in a fully remote setup.
What You Will Do:
- Design, develop, and optimise scalable and performant front-end features using React.js and modern TypeScript
- Collaborate closely with UI/UX designers to translate designs and wireframes into high-quality, accessible, and maintainable codeImplement responsive and adaptive design to ensure consistent experiences across devices and screen sizes
- Take ownership of front-end architecture and component design within your areas of responsibility
- Integrate with RESTful APIs and backend services, understanding data flows and performance implications
- Write clean, testable, and maintainable code, following front-end best practices
- Participate actively in code reviews, providing thoughtful feedback and helping raise overall engineering quality
- Identify performance bottlenecks and apply benchmarking and optimisation techniques
- Contribute to technical planning, estimation, and sprint execution
- Debug production issues and help improve reliability and user experience
- Stay current with front-end trends and technologies, applying them pragmatically where they add value
What You Bring:
- 5+ years of professional front-end development experience, with strong hands-on expertise in React.js
- Excellent knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3
- Experience with common React ecosystem tools and libraries (Redux, React Query, Zustand, or similar)
- Solid understanding of component-based architecture, state management, and modern front-end patterns
- Experience building responsive, performant, and user-friendly web applications
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to break down complex UI and state-management challenges into clean solutions
- Experience with performance profiling, debugging, and optimisation
- Familiarity with Git and modern development workflows
- Strong communication skills in English and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
Why Remofirst:
- Fully remote role
- Opportunity to work on global-scale systems and products
- Exposure to international teams and modern engineering practices
- High ownership and autonomy in a fast-growing startup environment
- A strong culture grounded in speed, ownership, trust, transparency, customer obsession, and excellence.
- Real problems, global impact, and the chance to help redefine how the world works.
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