Experienced Senior Frontend / Architect (React / Next.js / SSR)
Travoom · Austin, TX · 1 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
Core Areas You May Own
- Social feeds and microblogging experiences
- Real-time messaging and notification systems
- TikTok-style video interfaces and engagement flows
- Live score and match interaction experiences
- Football history and SEO-driven content systems
- Shared component systems and frontend infrastructure
- Real-time data rendering and state management
- Mobile-first responsive experiences across web and native applications
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Arcitecting scalable frontend systems across web and mobile
- Building reusable, maintainable UI components and frontend infrastructure
- Developing high-performance real-time user experiences
- Collaborating closely with backend engineers on APIs, event systems, and real-time workflows
- Optimizing rendering performance, responsiveness, and frontend scalability
- Contributing to frontend architecture, standards, and engineering direction
- Helping establish long-term frontend engineering culture and technical quality
What We’re Looking For
- 7–12+ years of frontend or full-stack engineering experience
- Strong experience building complex consumer-facing products at scale
- Deep understanding of modern frontend architecture and performance optimization
- Strong experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern frontend tooling
- Experience building real-time applications, feeds, messaging systems, or high-engagement products
- Strong understanding of responsive design, frontend state management, and rendering performance
- Experience collaborating closely with product, design, and backend engineering teams
- Ability to operate independently with high ownership and minimal hand-holding
- Strong engineering judgment and ability to balance speed with long-term maintainability
Nice to Have
- Experience with SSR and SEO-focused frontend architecture
- Experience building video-heavy or media-rich products
- Experience with WebSockets, streaming, or event-driven systems
- Experience working alongside Rust backend infrastructure
- Experience with AI-driven consumer experiences
- Startup experience building products from zero to one
- Pasison for football, sports media, or global fan communities
What Makes Someone Successful in This Role
- You have personally built and operated production frontend systems
- You care deeply about performance, usability, and user experience quality
- You can explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly
- You understand how consumer products scale technically and operationally
- You focus on practical engineering over unnecessary complexity
- You are comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments
- You value ownership, simplicity, and execution