Frontend Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for a Frontend Engineer to help build and scale Picnic’s real-time logistics and operations platforms. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys working on complex, high-performance systems, and wants to shape frontend architecture that directly powers real-world operations.

What you’ll do

• Design and build high-performance React applications powered by WebSockets, SSE, and GraphQL subscriptions.
• Contribute to and shape our courier mobile apps built in React Native.
• Lead technical design for complex features and systems, from initial architecture through production rollout
• Own projects end-to-end, driving execution, technical decisions, and cross-functional alignment
• Improve frontend reliability, latency, and scalability in a real-time, high-throughput environment
• Lead debugging, incident response, and performance investigations for frontend systems
• Mentor and coach engineers, raising the bar for frontend engineering across the team

What we’re looking for

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep frontend expertise
• Strong experience with TypeScript and modern web application development
• Solid understanding of client networking, async programming, performance optimization, caching, and client-side state management
• Experience integrating with GraphQL and REST APIs
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence architecture and best practices
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and supporting team growth
• Comfort working outside your immediate comfort zone and adapting as the product and team evolve

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating delivery, logistics, or real-time systems at scale
• Full-stack experience and an understanding of backend tradeoffs and system design
• Track record of improving developer productivity through tooling, patterns, or process improvements
• Familiarity with modern frontend architecture best practices, including performance, security, and usability