Senior/Principal Front-end Engineer

📋 Description

• Build and maintain high-quality front-end features in React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Own complex user-facing product flows in the Toptal Resume application.
• Build performant, accessible, responsive UI components with strong attention to usability and polish.
• Optimize front-end performance, including rendering behavior, loading experience, bundle size, and Core Web Vitals.
• Work with modern CSS patterns; Tailwind CSS experience is strongly preferred.
• Integrate front-end features with backend APIs and collaborate on API contracts.

🎯 Requirements

• Senior or Principal-level front-end engineering experience, with a strong delivery track record.
• Deep production experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Strong CSS fundamentals; experience with Tailwind CSS or similar modern styling approaches.
• Proven ability to build polished, responsive, accessible user interfaces.
• Strong understanding of front-end performance optimization and Core Web Vitals.
• Experience building consistent, reusable UI components and front-end patterns.

🎁 Benefits

• Work on an AI-powered career services platform with real users and direct business impact.
• Join a small, high-velocity team where strong individual contributors can shape the product.
• Front-end quality matters: performance, accessibility, polish, and delivery speed are all important.
• AI-first engineering culture: engineers actively use AI tools to improve development speed and quality.
• Modern stack: Next.js 15, TypeScript, Rails 7.1, Turbo monorepo, and well-structured product/domain boundaries.
• Opportunity to own meaningful product surfaces rather than only implementing isolated tickets.