Software Engineer II (React)

Location: Boston, MA or Wilkes-Barre, PA, United States

Company

hirify.global is an e-commerce company serving pet parents through large-scale digital customer experiences.

What you will do

• Build and evolve reusable UI components, patterns, and design system foundations with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Design scalable, accessible, business-logic-agnostic component APIs for adoption across teams, applications, and domains.
• Lead technical design discussions and influence architecture decisions covering component systems, theming, accessibility, performance, and developer experience.
• Partner with Product Design, Accessibility, Front-End Platform, and application engineering teams to translate design systems into engineering solutions.
• Drive design system adoption through documentation, tooling, migration guidance, and developer enablement.
• Improve shared frontend infrastructure, including Storybook, testing, accessibility validation, design token pipelines, and developer workflows; mentor engineers through reviews and technical coaching.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building modern frontend applications, frontend platforms, shared UI libraries, or design systems.
• Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, including modern component architecture patterns and browser behavior.
• Experience building, maintaining, or scaling reusable component libraries or design systems used by multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of component API design, composition patterns, hooks, controlled and uncontrolled APIs, accessibility patterns, and developer ergonomics.
• Experience leading technical initiatives, influencing engineering decisions across teams, and independently solving ambiguous technical problems.
• Hands-on experience with Storybook or similar tools for component development, documentation, testing, and collaboration.
• Deep understanding of web accessibility, including WCAG, semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, focus management, screen readers, and accessibility testing.
• Experience with design tokens, theming systems, scalable frontend architecture, and mentoring engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for documenting technical decisions, tradeoffs, and engineering standards.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with enterprise design systems, Style Dictionary, design token governance, token pipelines, or token automation.
• Experience with multi-brand, multi-theme, or multi-platform frontend architectures and advanced Storybook capabilities.
• Experience with Next.js, React Server Components, Server Actions, streaming, monorepos, package publishing, build tooling, codemods, linting rules, or automated migration tooling.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools for developer experience, documentation, migration workflows, accessibility review, or platform adoption.
• Experience defining frontend standards, governance models, or platform strategy.
• Background in e-commerce, high-scale consumer applications, Agile environments, or cloud infrastructure supporting frontend platforms and developer tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, prescription, vision, dental, life, disability, and other insurance options.
• 401k eligibility and new-hire and annual equity grants; C08+ positions may also be eligible for an annual bonus.
• Parental leave, family services, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, employee assistance, and pet-related discounts and reimbursement.
• Unlimited PTO for exempt salary team members subject to manager approval, six paid holidays, and possible paid sick and family leave under applicable laws.
• Equal opportunity employment and disability or religious accommodations during the application process or employment.