Remote (Global)

Zack D. Films is hiring a Senior / Lead Frontend Engineer (Next.js, React & Web Platforms)

About the Role

Zack D. Films is hiring a Senior / Lead Frontend Engineer for a high-impact, hands-on role driving architectural decisions and owning major initiatives end-to-end for our telehealth platform. This position is ideal for someone who has worked in fast-moving, high-scale environments and wants to apply that experience to building meaningful products in healthcare.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead architectural decisions across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and data layers.
  • Establish engineering standards, best practices, and code quality guidelines.
  • Mentor and review the work of junior and mid-level engineers.
  • Own technical planning, sprint scoping, and long-term platform evolution.
  • Translate ambiguous product requirements into clear, scalable technical solutions.
  • Design and build high-performance REST and/or GraphQL APIs.
  • Architect scalable data models and schemas.
  • Implement secure authentication, RBAC, rate limiting, and API throttling.
  • Optimize performance, caching, and reliability.
  • Build integrations with third-party systems.
  • Build performant, production-grade UIs using Next.js.
  • Drive component architecture, state management, and front-end best practices.
  • Collaborate with product and design to deliver intuitive, complex workflows.
  • Ensure SEO optimization, accessibility, performance, and mobile responsiveness.
  • Architect and manage deployments on AWS, Vercel, or similar platforms.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, and automated testing frameworks.
  • Improve observability with monitoring, logging, and alerting.
  • Enforce security best practices for secrets, environments, and infrastructure.

What We’re Looking For

  • 6+ years of professional engineering experience, including senior or lead-level responsibility.
  • Strong expertise in Node.js and Next.js / React.
  • Proven experience designing and scaling production systems.
  • Solid understanding of databases, distributed systems, and API design.
  • Experience working in startup, scale-up, or high-growth environments.
  • Comfortable owning projects end-to-end with minimal supervision.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
  • Must be proficient in English.
  • Professional-level English communication.
  • Availability to work U.S. business hours.

Nice to Have

  • Experience working at large tech companies or high-scale startups.
  • Background in healthcare, fintech, or regulated industries.
  • Experience with multi-region or global user bases.
  • Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.

Technical Stack

  • Node.js, Next.js, React
  • PostgreSQL, Redis
  • AWS, Vercel
  • Datadog, Sentry, CloudWatch
  • Stripe, Twilio

Team & Environment

This role is part of a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Benefits & Compensation

  • High ownership and real technical influence.
  • Work on meaningful, real-world healthcare problems.
  • Remote-first culture with flexible work arrangements.
  • Competitive compensation based on experience.
  • Opportunity to help shape the engineering foundation of a growing healthtech platform.

Work Mode

This is a fully remote position open to candidates in South America.

LumiMeds is an equal opportunity employer. We hire based on skills, experience, and alignment with our values.

Required Skills
Next.jsReactNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisAWSVercelDatadogSentryCloudWatchTypeScriptWeb PerformanceSystem DesignCI/CDTesting
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Zack D. Films

Zack D. Films is a fast-growing 3D animation company producing viral short-form videos for an audience of 41M+. We’re known for engaging, visually stunning content that blends humor, psychology, and absurdity.

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Category frontend
Posted 3 months ago