Staff Frontend Engineer

Role Overview

Staff Frontend Engineer at Vetcove, leading the architecture and evolution of user-facing experiences across the company’s platforms. You’ll own critical frontend systems used daily by veterinary professionals and pet parents, spanning clinical workflows through patient care tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and delivery of large-scale frontend applications across web and mobile
• Build and evolve high-performance React and React Native applications
• Define and enforce frontend best practices (performance optimization, accessibility, maintainability)
• Develop shared component libraries, design systems, and frontend infrastructure to improve engineering velocity
• Improve application performance, reliability, and user experience
• Partner with product, design, and backend teams to deliver cohesive, user-centered features
• Mentor junior frontend engineers and influence technical direction/strategy across product areas
• Debug and resolve complex frontend and cross-stack issues

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong frontend focus
• Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks, especially React
• Experience architecting and scaling complex frontend applications and systems
• Strong understanding of performance optimization, state management, and frontend architecture patterns
• Experience building/maintaining design systems or shared component libraries
• Strong communication skills and a product-oriented mindset

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with Claude/Cursor to streamline frontend best practices
• React Native (or similar) mobile development experience
• Solid understanding of APIs and backend interactions such as REST and GraphQL
• Degree in CS or technical field (bachelor’s required)

Team & Work Model

• Fully remote environment with close collaboration across product, design, and backend teams