SMG Swiss Marketplace Group is looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical leader with company-level impact across our Real Estate vertical. You will shape the frontend architecture powering our portals, create shared solutions for multiple teams, and orchestrate complex cross-team initiatives.
What You'll Do
- Lead the evolution of our Real Estate frontend architecture to support future requirements, defining SLAs/SLOs and anticipating ripple effects.
- Design and create shared frontend libraries, components, and tooling, such as a design system and performance tooling, for internal adoption.
- Orchestrate multi-system refactors and migrations, like framework upgrades, breaking them into digestible, plannable pieces.
- Act as a go-to person across teams and locations for frontend topics, influencing web experiences across the Real Estate organisation.
- Mentor and coach other engineers through structured mentorship, pairing, and feedback.
- Model healthy feedback culture, helping people navigate tough conversations constructively.
- Challenge and improve team and cross-team processes to improve focus, quality, and speed.
- Innovate, design, implement, and deploy frontend-focused engineering solutions for our Real Estate products, from discovery to production.
- Own the end-to-end technical vision for key user journeys with a strong focus on performance, accessibility, UX quality, and reliability.
- Lead cross-team frontend initiatives, such as shared design system improvements, cross-brand UI harmonisation, or performance budgets.
- Identify and surface cross-cutting technical bottlenecks and advocate for their resolution.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to shape technical strategy and trade-offs.
- Partner with DevX to co-develop engineering 'blueprints' and health scorecards for frontend repositories.
- Evaluate, prototype, and introduce new frontend technologies and approaches, document findings, and drive adoption.
- Own and evolve the Frontend ADR process, ensuring technical decisions are documented and implemented.
- Guide and review the work of other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and informal coaching.
- Help the team embrace and leverage AI & large language models in our engineering workflows and products.
- Contribute to and facilitate guilds, tech chats, and other cross-team knowledge-sharing formats.
- Promote a culture of high-quality engineering: testing, monitoring with Datadog, observability, security, and operational excellence.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of professional experience with Vue.js, or similar frameworks.
- Proven track record of implementing and maintaining automated frontend testing with tools like Jest, Vitest, and/or Cypress.
- Solid hands-on experience building production applications with Vue 3.
- Experience collaborating with designers using Figma.
- Strong experience building and evolving large-scale frontend applications in modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Proven track record of technical leadership: leading complex initiatives, aligning multiple stakeholders, and taking responsibility from design through rollout.
- Deep understanding of modern CI/CD for frontend, including automated release strategies and feature flagging in a microfrontend environment.
- Demonstrated experience creating and driving adoption of shared frontend solutions like design system components or shared libraries.
- Experience influencing and supporting multiple teams or a whole product area.
- Excellent English communication skills, spoken and written.
Nice to Have
- Significant professional experience in software development, including time in senior/lead roles.
- Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks like Vue.js or React.
- Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility, and SEO considerations for large user-facing sites.
- Prior working experience with APIs and microservices and how frontend apps best integrate with them.
- Prior working experience with cloud service providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with server-side rendering / hybrid rendering patterns and edge / CDN optimisation.
- Experience integrating frontends with AWS Lambda.
Technical Stack
- Vue.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js
- AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3)
- Datadog
Team & Environment
You'll be part of a team of 140+ talents at SMG Serbia, embedded in a regular product team. Your time will be split about half and half between product delivery and staff-level responsibilities.
Benefits & Compensation
- Hybrid work environment.
- 25 vacation days per year, with the option to buy another 10 days.
- 5 fully paid sick days per year, and another 5 days for special occasions.
- LinkedIn Learning.
- Great equipment, competitive salary and a variety of fringe benefits like a gym membership and discounts at local stores.
- International team and working environment of talented and fun people.
- Stimulating work experience that will allow you to grow both professionally and personally.
- Yearly budget for your personal development.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in Belgrade.
SMG Swiss Marketplace Group is an equal opportunity employer.
