The Senior Frontend Engineer will enhance user productivity by developing a scalable collaboration platform, optimizing app performance, and leading feature design and implementation.
ABOUT US
At VibeIQ, we pioneer the future of digital collaboration with our innovative suite of apps built specifically for product teams. Our mission is to allow companies that design, manufacture, or sell products to work more effectively, enable a more sustainable work life balance, and reduce their impact on the environment.
POSITION SUMMARY
We’re looking for a Sr. Frontend Engineer to join the Core Apps team. Our team is focused on building a visual collaboration canvas platform enabling our users to brainstorm, design, and bring product ideas to life.
As a Sr. Frontend Engineer for the Core Apps team, you will play a key role in shaping our core canvas collaboration ecosystem and delivering solutions that fundamentally enhance user productivity. In this role, you will work on our application from end-to-end to take on a variety of challenges, including optimizing data-intensive frontend pipelines, designing highly scalable and robust architecture, and tackling complex frontend challenges.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define, design and implement new features in the domain including bringing new ideas and designing solutions from start to finish.
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance capabilities using TypeScript, Angular, Canvas API/WebGL, and related technologies.
- Optimize application performance and scalability, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary enhancements.
- Influence and improve upon our software engineering standards, including code quality, code cleanliness, code reviews, continuous integration, and testing.
- Own features end-to-end, from technical design through deployment and monitoring.
- Collaborate with teams across VibeIQ to improve our product, architecture, and engineering practices.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
- 6+ years building user-facing products as a frontend developer.
- A track record of designing reliable and highly scalable systems with heavy traffic.
- Strong experience with Angular (preferred) or React, state management (NgRx/RxJS), WebSockets, browser performance optimization, RESTful APIs, and microservice architectures.
- Strong problem-solving skills. You can effectively research problems, weigh approaches, and design complex systems that span the entirety of our application.
- Proactive communication and relationship-building skills. You care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same.
- Comfort with taking ownership and ramping up quickly at a young startup.
BONUS POINTS
- Backend/full-stack experience (Node.js, serverless, databases).
- Experience with WebSockets, Canvas API/WebGL, or real-time sync (CRDTs, OT).
- Experience with automated testing.
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical blog posts.
- A strong intuition for UX. You can identify when something feels off and improve upon it.
BENEFITS
401(k), Health, Dental, Vision
9 Paid Holidays per Year
Discretionary Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
VIBEIQ, LLC values a diverse team and is an equal opportunity employer.
Top Skills
Angular
Canvas Api
Ngrx
Node.js
Restful Apis
Rxjs
Typescript
Webgl
Websockets
VibeIQ Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60654
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