Senior Frontend Engineer (JS/TS)

About Smartcat

Smartcat was founded in 2016 to help global enterprises create and manage their multilingual content. Today, Smartcat is the essential language AI platform for the global enterprise. 

Our client-tailored language AI turns content in any format into any language, from documents to videos to complex websites and software, making global operations simple for any corporate team. It also allows any user to create new content by tapping into a multilingual enterprise library. 

More than 1,000 global companies including 25% of the Fortune 500 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world.

Smartcat’s vision is to realise a world where there is equal access to innovations and ideas. 

Smartcat is backed by Matrix Partners, FJ Labs, and other leading VC firms focusing on SaaS, marketplaces and AI. You might recognize names like HubSpot, Zendesk, Uber, Stripe, RigUp, and Quora in their portfolios. Despite the economic recession, Smartcat is growing at 150% YoY. It's well-funded and capital efficient, providing a unique combination of a hyper-growth environment with downside protection and the ability to think and plan long-term.

Mission

As a Senior Frontend Engineer at Smartcat, you'll be at the forefront of shaping our platform's future. You'll lead the development of cutting-edge features, optimize our application's performance and scalability, and ensure our growing global client base enjoys an exceptional user experience.

Outcomes

• Design, develop, and deploy frontend applications that solve real-world customer challenges
• Enhance application performance, scalability, and security
• Develop and maintain components within the Smartcat design system
• Collaborate closely with product managers and UX/UI designers
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues efficiently
• Actively participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional Software Engineering experience, with 2+ years in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience in SaaS product companies (1+ years)
• Passion and skill for writing clean, maintainable, and testable code and well-documented JavaScript/TypeScript code
• Experience with writing and maintaining Unit tests (Vitest) and E2E tests (Playwright)
• Strong experience with Vue.js
• Ability to create pixel-perfect HTML layouts from Figma designs
• Solid understanding of working with HTTP APIs
• Upper-intermediate or higher English proficiency (written and spoken)
• Strong problem-solving skills and a growth mindset
• Readiness to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment with extreme focus, a strong sense of ownership, and determination
• Openness to constructive feedback and value the ideas and opinions of others

Our technologies

• Frontend: Vue.js 2/3, Nuxt 3, Typescript
• Backend: .NET Core (C#), Python
• Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
• Messaging Queue: Kafka
• Cloud Provider: Amazon AWS
• Monitoring & Logging: ELK (EFK), Prometheus, Grafana

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

• Innovating the $50 Billion industry
  Smartcat’s innovative business model taps into this $50B language translation industry with a platform allowing enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing and enjoy easy-to-use AI-powered SaaS that delivers immediate high-quality results at a fraction of the cost.
• High-impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organisations
  You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide. 
• Fully remote team of high-performers
  We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more Smartcaters than others, such as Boston, NYC, the Bay Area, London, Lisbon, Belgrade, and Yerevan.  We strive to grow ambitiously, but we also preserve our high performance, engagement, and open feedback culture. As diverse as we are, we love working and having fun together, and we’re sure you’ll love working with us too. Check out our Culture Code to learn why we love being Smartcaters. 
• Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together
  We are looking for someone who will become a part of the team and play a crit