Staff Frontend Engineer (React/TypeScript)

TL;DR

Staff Frontend Engineer (React/TypeScript): Designing, building, and optimizing high-performance TypeScript & React SPAs for complex sports-organization workflows with an accent on modern frontend practices, design systems, and end-to-end quality. Focus on leading projects to improve coding practices, evaluating AI-driven tooling, and continuously exploring emerging web technologies to drive innovation.

Location: Remote (US only). hirify.global can only hire permanent US residents and does not hire in Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and West Virginia.

Salary: $200,000+ (inclusive of base and bonus)

Company

hirify.global is a fully distributed sports and communication platform dedicated to simplifying youth sports, serving millions of users and some of the world's largest youth and amateur sports organizations.

What you will do

• Design, build and optimize high-performance TypeScript & React SPAs for complex sports-organization workflows.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to extend the design system with reusable, accessible components and responsive patterns.
• Advocate modern front-end practices like type safety, component-driven architecture, and performance optimizations.
• Partner with backend, mobile, QA, and product teams to define APIs, refine specs, and ensure end-to-end quality.
• Mentor and up-level team members through code reviews and leadership roles in the web guild.
• Ensure reliability by writing automated tests, integrating with CI/CD, and rotating on-call for incident resolution.
• Lead projects to improve coding practices, build performance, test infrastructure, and CI/CD workflows.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-driven tooling to boost velocity and quality.

Requirements

• Must be a permanent US resident.
• 8+ years building production-scale web applications with React, advanced TypeScript, and modern toolchains (Vite, Webpack, or similar).
• 2+ years in a Staff/Tech-Lead role shaping frontend vision, driving standards, and mentoring senior engineers.
• Proven record integrating REST services and managing complex UI state with Context API, Redux, Zustand, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience architecting or evolving component libraries/design systems with a strong emphasis on responsive, mobile-first design.
• Demonstrated high-quality delivery through automated tests (unit, snapshot, E2E) and configuring CI/CD workflows.
• Comfortable shaping RESTful APIs alongside backend teams and defining type-safe data contracts.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback and influence cross-team alignment.

Nice to have

• Experience with micro-frontend architectures and/or SSR frameworks.
• Familiarity with performance profiling (Lighthouse, Web Vitals) and advanced caching/CDN strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI assistants, code-generation tools, or LLM services.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first company since 2009.
• Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave for all parents.
• 100% premium coverage of medical/dental/vision for you and your family.
• 401K to help you invest for the future.
• $1,500 annual learning and development stipend.
• Travel to fun locations for all-company meetings and team events.
• Generous home office allowance to set you up for success.
• Monthly stipend reimbursement for health & wellness.