Staff Frontend Engineer

Role overview

Join ClickUp as a Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the design and development of major frontend systems and product initiatives. You’ll collaborate across teams to tackle complex technical challenges, improve engineering velocity, and help shape the direction of frontend architecture.

Key missions

• Lead design and development of major frontend systems and product initiatives across teams.
• Architect scalable, reusable frontend patterns that improve product quality and developer velocity.
• Drive engineering best practices for frontend engineering.
• Mentor engineers and elevate frontend craftsmanship across the team, improving how engineers collaborate across domains.

Requirements

• Thrives in fast-paced environments, drives clarity in ambiguity, and influences technical decisions and execution.
• Deep expertise in performance optimization, debugging, and building large-scale web applications.
• Experience building reusable component systems and scalable frontend application structures.
• Strong communication and execution skills, especially in high-urgency environments.
• Strong command of TypeScript, RxJS, NgRx, and modern frontend architecture patterns.
• Product sense and ability to work cross-functionally.
• Demonstrated success leading major technical initiatives and influencing across teams.
• Strong mentorship skills and a track record of leveling up other engineers.
• 7+ years of frontend engineering experience with deep expertise in Angular (2+) and React.
• Strong experience with testing: unit, integration, and end-to-end using Jest, Vitest, Playwright (or related) and ability to define testing strategies.

Nice to have

• Not explicitly listed beyond the qualification expectations; ClickUp encourages applying even if you don’t meet every requirement, emphasizing ambition and grit.