Staff Frontend Engineer (React)

Location: Toronto, Canada. The team primarily works in the EST timezone, with some teammates in PST and Central timezones.

Company

hirify.global is a Series B SaaS startup that develops sales compensation software for designing, managing, and optimizing complex incentive programs.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and long-term evolution of frontend systems, patterns, and best practices.
• Drive cross-cutting frontend initiatives across multiple product areas and engineering teams.
• Translate complex compensation, automation, reporting, and operational workflows into scalable UI systems.
• Define reusable component and data visualization patterns for high-volume, configurable applications.
• Improve frontend performance, reliability, accessibility, testing strategy, state management, and developer experience.
• Partner with product, design, engineering, and leadership while mentoring engineers and influencing technical strategy.

Requirements

• Deep experience building and scaling production web applications with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Experience designing frontend architecture for complex, data-heavy, configurable applications.
• Experience leading large frontend initiatives or platform-level efforts across teams.
• Strong expertise in component design, state management, performance optimization, accessibility, and testing at scale.
• Experience with dashboards, BI tools, reporting, analytics, or data visualization platforms.
• Strong product judgment, communication, mentoring, and stakeholder-alignment skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms, compensation, finance, workflow automation, analytics, or operational tooling.
• Experience building design systems, frontend platforms, or shared component libraries.
• Familiarity with Python/Django, Java/Spring Boot, APIs, Postgres, AWS, or Docker.
• Experience supporting both internal operations teams and external customers.
• Experience influencing engineering strategy at team or organizational level.

Culture & Benefits

• Low-meeting environment with a high level of accountability.
• Employee stock ownership plan alongside base compensation.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, plus paid parental leave.
• $750 yearly training stipend for learning and development.
• Career growth opportunities as an individual contributor or people leader.
• Inclusive, collaborative, customer-focused working culture.

Hiring process

• The position is an existing vacancy.
• Only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.