Senior Front-End Software Engineer (React)

Higher Logic

45d

About The Position

Higher Logic Vanilla is looking for a Senior Front-End Developer (React) who thrives at the intersection of product craftsmanship, performance, and modern developer workflows—including AI-assisted development. You’ll build and evolve rich, scalable user experiences used by millions of community members worldwide. While this role is primarily front-end focused, you’ll occasionally partner across the stack to deliver end-to-end features.

This is a great fit for someone who can own complex UI work, raise engineering standards, and uses AI tools (like Cursor) responsibly to accelerate delivery without compromising quality.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of Agile values and principles.
• Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript (ES6+), DOM fundamentals, and the JavaScript object model.
• Deep knowledge of React and its core principles (composition, hooks, rendering lifecycle, performance patterns).
• Solid grasp of asynchronous UI state and data flows (promises, async/await, request lifecycles, optimistic UI).
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with modern authorization mechanisms (e.g., JWT-based flows).
• Experience with common front-end tooling (Vite/Webpack, Babel, npm/yarn/pnpm).
• Comfort with Git-based workflows (branching, PRs, reviews, CI checks).
• Practical experience using AI coding tools (Cursor or equivalent) in day-to-day development, including validating generated code and avoiding insecure patterns.

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years building production web applications with React (or another major JS framework/library).
• 1+ years of TypeScript experience (or strong interest and demonstrated ability to adopt it quickly).
• Experience working in modular / pluggable architectures (themes, extensions, plugins, component systems).
• Strong HTML/CSS/SCSS fundamentals and experience implementing responsive UI.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG/ARIA) and building inclusive interfaces.
• Experience with testing practices and tools (unit/integration/E2E) and building confidence through automation.
• Strong product instincts: you sweat details, communicate tradeoffs, and care about user outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and ship high-quality product features in a multidisciplinary Agile team.
• Translate designs, wireframes, and product requirements into accessible, performant React experiences.
• Own UI architecture decisions: component design, state management approaches, data fetching patterns, and maintainable abstractions.
• Write reliable, well-tested code; participate in code review; mentor teammates through thoughtful feedback and shared patterns.
• Triage, debug, and resolve issues across browsers/devices; collaborate with QA/support/product to close the loop quickly.
• Optimize for real-world performance at scale (rendering efficiency, Core Web Vitals, bundle size, caching strategies).
• Contribute to guild practices: propose improvements to coding standards, tooling, documentation, and architectural approaches.
• Use AI-powered IDEs and assistants (e.g., Cursor, Copilot-style tools) to speed up implementation, refactoring, and test generation—while ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Apply AI thoughtfully: create strong prompts, verify outputs, and incorporate guardrails (linting, type checks, unit/integration tests, code review).
• Partner on AI-enabled product initiatives where relevant—such as AI-assisted content workflows, smarter search/discovery, moderation tooling, summarization, or admin productivity experiences—integrating front-end UX with backend services/APIs.
• Help define best practices for AI-assisted engineering (what to automate, what must be human-reviewed, and how to evaluate quality).

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive health benefits package.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Healthcare and dependent-care flexible spending account.
• Company short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Company culture that recognizes its employees.
• Room for growth and development and management that cares about your professional growth and will help you achieve your goals.
• Significant advancement opportunities for outstanding performers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees