As a Staff-level Frontend Engineer at SMG Swiss Marketplace Group, you will be a technical leader shaping the frontend architecture for our Real Estate vertical. You'll drive cross-team initiatives, create shared solutions, and mentor engineers while splitting your time between hands-on coding and high-impact architectural leadership across global teams.
What You'll Do
- Lead the evolution of the Real Estate frontend architecture to support future requirements, defining and improving SLAs/SLOs, and anticipating ripple effects across systems with senior engineers and principals.
- Design and create shared frontend libraries, components, and tooling (e.g. design system, performance tooling) that are widely used by internal teams, focusing on pragmatic, reusable solutions and driving their adoption.
- Orchestrate multi-system refactors and migrations (e.g. framework upgrades, cross-product harmonisation), breaking them down into digestible, plannable pieces and coordinating with engineers, product, and other stakeholders.
- Act as a go-to person across teams and locations for frontend topics, influencing how web experiences are built across the Real Estate organisation.
- Mentor and coach other engineers through structured mentorship, pairing, and feedback, helping them grow their skills and closing skill gaps observed in the organisation.
- Model a healthy feedback culture, helping people navigate tough conversations and conflicts in a constructive, blameless way.
- Challenge and improve team and cross-team processes, suggesting changes that improve focus, quality, and speed when needed.
- Innovate, design, implement, and deploy frontend-focused engineering solutions for Real Estate products, from discovery to production.
- Own the end-to-end technical vision for key user journeys like Homegate and Immoscout24, 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, performance budgets, or observability patterns.
- Identify and surface cross-cutting technical bottlenecks—such as performance drags in core user journeys or build-time inefficiencies—and advocate for their resolution at the leadership level.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to shape technical strategy and trade-offs for new features and platform work.
- Partner with DevX to co-develop engineering 'blueprints' and health scorecards, setting the gold standard for what 'good' looks like in frontend repositories.
- Evaluate, prototype, and introduce new frontend technologies and approaches (frameworks, tooling, patterns), document findings, and drive adoption where they make sense.
- Own and evolve the Frontend ADR process, ensuring technical decisions are documented, socialized, and consistently implemented across the Real Estate organization.
- 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 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
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript and JavaScript
- Extensive experience with Vue.js for frontend development
- Proven ability to lead and influence at a company-wide technical level
- Experience designing and implementing shared frontend libraries, components, or design systems
- Experience leading complex, cross-team technical initiatives and migrations
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach other engineers effectively
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across global, distributed teams
- Experience with performance optimization, accessibility, and UX quality in large-scale web applications
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools, particularly Datadog
- Experience working in cloud-based environments, especially AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, etc.)
- Understanding of serverless and microservices architecture
- Ability to own end-to-end technical vision for key product user journeys
- Experience with technical decision documentation and governance (e.g. ADR process)
- Active adoption and integration of AI and large language models in engineering workflows
Nice to Have
- Experience with React in addition to Vue.js
- Experience with both client-side, server-side, pre-rendered, and hybrid web applications
- Prior work in real estate or marketplace technology domains
- Experience working in international, multi-location engineering teams
- Background in Node.js and full-stack development with TypeScript
Technical Stack
- Vue.js
- React
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3)
- Datadog
- Serverless Architecture
- Microservices
- AI & Large Language Models
- Design Systems
- Performance Tooling
- Observability & Logging
Team & Environment
- Global team across six countries (Switzerland, Serbia, Vietnam, France, Germany, and India)
- Cross-functional, distributed engineering teams working on Real Estate vertical with collaboration across Product, Design, and DevX
Benefits & Compensation
- Hybrid working model with 100% flexibility in Ho Chi Minh City
- Opportunity to collaborate with a global community of engineers from diverse international backgrounds
- Access to mentorship and knowledge-sharing from experienced engineers worldwide
- Dynamic, creative work environment with teams that celebrate successes and focus on continuous learning
- Involvement in cutting-edge AI and large language model integration in daily engineering work
Work Mode
- Hybrid role based in Ho Chi Minh City
- 100% hybrid working model
This position is open to Vietnamese citizens only.
