Staff Frontend Engineer (React/TypeScript)

TL;DR

Staff Frontend Engineer (React/TypeScript): Leading the long-term technical strategy and architecture for hirify.global Markets’ frontend ecosystem with an accent on defining scalable patterns, driving large-scale initiatives like design system evolution, and reducing technical debt. Focus on shaping architecture, standards, and long-term technical strategy across hirify.global’s frontend surface area, and mentoring senior engineers.

Location: Remote (North America, Europe)

Company

hirify.global is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure, providing institutional-grade APIs for financial institutions across 40 countries to open financial services globally.

What you will do

• Act as a long-term technical steward for hirify.global’s frontend architecture, defining its evolution over 2-5 years.
• Design and evolve scalable frontend patterns for data fetching, state management, performance, and runtime configuration.
• Drive large-scale initiatives such as design system evolution, frontend platform standardization, and developer experience improvements.
• Lead cross-team, multi-quarter initiatives spanning multiple product areas, defining rollout strategies that enable change without blocking feature delivery.
• Influence engineers and leaders across the broader engineering organization by writing RFCs, decision records, and architectural proposals.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and help raise the overall frontend engineering bar.

Requirements

• Extensive experience building and scaling modern frontend applications (React + TypeScript or similar).
• Proven track record operating at Staff or equivalent level, with impact across multiple teams or domains.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture at scale, including data-fetching patterns, performance optimization, and design systems.
• Experience leading large technical initiatives from problem definition through adoption.
• 7+ years of professional experience in frontend development.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS (e.g. TailwindCSS), REST APIs, and WebSockets.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Financial services experience, trading, banking or algorithmic trading experience.
• Experience with major cloud platforms (GCP).
• Experience working in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Experience working in fully remote teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options.
• Health Benefits.
• One-time USD $500 New Hire Home-Office Setup.
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card.
• Globally distributed team with members spanning USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond.
• Deep commitment to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community.