Staff Frontend Engineer (f|m|d) | (80-100%) | Hybrid working model | Zurich — SMG Swiss Marketplace Group
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 13 days ago
Role overview
As a Staff Frontend Engineer , you'll be a hands-on technical leader with company-level impact across our Real Estate vertical.
You’ll shape and evolve the frontend architecture powering our portals, create shared frontend solutions adopted by multiple teams, and orchestrate complex initiatives.
Meet the team!
- As a Staff Frontend Engineer , you'll be a hands-on technical leader with company-level impact across our Real Estate vertical.
- You’ll shape and evolve the frontend architecture powering our portals, create shared frontend solutions adopted by multiple teams, and orchestrate complex initiatives.
- You'll be part of a product team, splitting time about half and half between product delivery and staff responsibilities, depending on the current needs and priorities
- Innovate, design, implement, and deploy frontend-focused engineering solutions for our products, from discovery to production.
- Qualifiche
- 8+ years of professional experience with the Vue.js or similar frameworks
Main responsibilities
- You'll be part of a product team, splitting time about half and half between product delivery and staff responsibilities, depending on the current needs and priorities
- Innovate, design, implement, and deploy frontend-focused engineering solutions for our products, from discovery to production.
- Build alignment across teams with different goals and constraints, and unblock progress on ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives.
- Step in to create clarity, momentum, and shared ownership when needed.
- Own the end-to-end technical vision for key user journeys like Homegate and Immoscout24 and more, with a strong focus on performance, accessibility, UX quality, and reliability
- Lead cross-team frontend initiatives (for example: 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 the core user journey 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 our frontend repositories
- Evaluate, prototype, and introduce new frontend technologies and approaches (frameworks, tooling, patterns), document your findings, and drive adoption where they make sense
Key requirements
- Qualifiche
- 8+ years of professional experience with the Vue.js or similar frameworks
- Proven track record of implementing and maintaining automated frontend testing, using tools such as Jest, Vitest, and/or Cypress
- Experience collaborating with designers using Figma (figma.com)
Application process
- Strong experience building and evolving large-scale frontend applications in modern JavaScript/TypeScript
- Proven track record of senior technical leadership in a Staff, Lead, or equivalent role : leading complex cross-team initiatives, aligning diverse stakeholders, influencing decisions without direct authority, and taking responsibility from strategy through rollout and iteration.
- 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 (e.g. design system components, shared libraries, cross-cutting tooling)
- Demonstrated experience influencing multiple teams or an entire product area, including driving alignment, adoption, and durable technical change across various teams.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers or tech leads, and raising the technical bar through coaching, feedback, and role modelling.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with Engineering- and Product leadership, as well as non-technical partners.
- Evidence of defining a technical strategy and turning it into execution across teams.
Contacts
- What do we offer?
- 6 weeks of holidays per year (plus option to buy 10 extra)
- 40-hour work week with flexitime (capped at 45 hours) A hybrid work setup with flexibility to work remotely
- Generous parental leave: 18 weeks for maternity and 6 weeks for paternity/adoption
- SBB Half-Fare Card and first-class travel between SMG offices in Switzerland
- Gender-neutral pay and transparent career paths
- Choose your gear: Mac or Windows laptop, and iPhone, Samsung, or Pixel mobile
- An inclusive and innovative environment where your voice matters Recruitment Process
- We keep hiring simple and human (mind this is a Senior Technical Leadership role, expect to be challenged):
- Initial Video-Call with one of our Recruiters Hiring Manager interview Technical Interview
Additional details
- At SMG, our strength lies in our people. Meet the Manager with whom you could work: Engineering Manager At a high level, you will:
- You’ll still write plenty of code, but your impact will be measured just as much by how you multiply the effectiveness of others as by your individual output.
- Promote a culture of high-quality engineering: testing, monitoring with Datadog, observability, security, and operational excellence
- You can explain complex topics clearly to different audiences in an international team setting We value engineers who:
- Are creative, adaptable, and enjoy solving complex, ambiguous problems You will stand out if you have:
- Experience integrating frontends with AWS Lambda Informazioni aggiuntive
- 40-hour work week with flexitime (capped at 45 hours) A hybrid work setup with flexibility to work remotely
- An inclusive and innovative environment where your voice matters Recruitment Process
- Initial Video-Call with one of our Recruiters Hiring Manager interview Technical Interview
- To take advantage of this great opportunity, please send us your detailed CV and feel free to include any supporting documents that will help us understand why you are the perfect fit.
Notes and original content
- At SMG, our strength lies in our people.
- Meet the Manager with whom you could work:
- Yuliya Zvolskaya
- Engineering Manager
- At a high level, you will:
- Your day-to-day
- Our Tech Stack
- You can explain complex topics clearly to different audiences in an international team setting
- We value engineers who:
- Are creative, adaptable, and enjoy solving complex, ambiguous problems
Questions about this listing
What salary does SMG Swiss Marketplace Group offer for this role?
SMG Swiss Marketplace Group lists CHF 73'500 - 111'500 gross per year for this position in Zürich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does SMG Swiss Marketplace Group offer?
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Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
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