Senior Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Customer Experience) (React)

Location: Based in San Ramon, California, with three days per week in the office; regular in-person meetings and events, domestic travel, and a valid driver's license are required.

Base salary: $209,000–$253,000 annually for California; full-time exempt position with eligibility for an annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is developing electric pickup trucks and rugged SUVs by electrifying and digitizing an iconic American vehicle brand.

What you will do

• Define frontend architecture across the customer purchase journey, including trade-in, vehicle configuration, finance, leasing, and delivery.
• Build performant customer-facing interfaces end-to-end, including UI implementation, API integration, error handling, and production monitoring.
• Own frontend performance and reliability across Core Web Vitals, load times, rendering, and degraded backend or third-party services.
• Lead the shared component library and design system, promoting consistency, accessibility, and developer ergonomics.
• Partner with product and design on interaction patterns and UX decisions, and drive cross-team frontend standards and architecture reviews.
• Mentor senior frontend engineers, document architectural decisions, and evaluate pragmatic AI-assisted development tools and practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of frontend engineering experience with senior staff-level or equivalent technical scope and demonstrated organization-wide influence.
• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript, including advanced patterns, performance optimization, and large-scale application architecture.
• Deep expertise in WebGL, GSAP, Framer, and Astro, focused on performant and maintainable systems.
• Experience owning and evolving component libraries or design systems at scale.
• Mastery of frontend performance, including Core Web Vitals, SSR, SSG, CSR, code splitting, and bundle optimization.
• Deep understanding of WCAG and practical experience building accessible, inclusive experiences.
• Experience leading frontend technical strategy across teams, authoring RFCs, conducting architecture reviews, and influencing stakeholders.
• Strong UX and interaction design instincts, experience translating design intent into maintainable implementations, and excellent communication with product, design, and engineering stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI/ML platform foundations or developer AI tooling.
• Experience in automotive, mobility, retail, ecommerce, or digital consumer products.
• Experience building multi-tenant platforms and shared enterprise services.
• Full-stack engineering experience, including microfrontend architecture and mobile platform foundations such as iOS, Android, or React Native.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, entrepreneurial, collaborative, and fast-paced environment focused on building products and a company from the ground up.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection plans.
• 401(k) with employer match and immediate vesting.
• 20 days of planned PTO, 40 hours of unplanned PTO, and 14 company or floating holidays annually.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, plus paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting, and military leave.

Hiring process

• Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.
• Reasonable accommodation is available for the application, testing, interview, or hiring process through ScoutAccommodations@scoutmotors.com.