Senior React/Next.js Engineer

Job Description

About You

You are a Senior Frontend Engineer passionate about building modern, scalable, and high-performance web applications that power exceptional digital customer experiences. You thrive in collaborative environments where you partner with Product, UX, Platform Engineering, and Analytics teams to deliver intuitive, accessible, and responsive user interfaces.

You enjoy solving complex frontend challenges, promoting engineering best practices, and building reusable component architectures that support large-scale digital commerce platforms. You embrace continuous learning and leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery.

You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional Software Engineering experience, including 4+ years building and maintaining production applications using React.
• Strong experience developing scalable frontend applications using React, Next.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Experience delivering customer-facing web applications within e-commerce, retail, or high-traffic digital environments.
• Solid understanding of component-based architecture, design systems, state management, and reusable UI components.
• Experience with responsive design, accessibility standards, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Experience with Server-Side Rendering (SSR), Static Site Generation (SSG), and modern frontend architecture.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar technologies.
• Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable frontend applications and reusable UI components using React and Next.js.
• Build responsive, accessible, and high-performance user interfaces for digital commerce experiences.
• Promote engineering best practices related to component architecture, design systems, state management, and application scalability.
• Collaborate closely with Product, UX, Backend Engineering, and Platform teams to deliver end-to-end customer experiences.
• Support market-specific implementations while maintaining a scalable and consistent frontend platform.
• Partner with Analytics teams to implement instrumentation, A/B testing, and experimentation initiatives.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and Product teams to support release planning and continuous delivery.
• Troubleshoot production issues and leverage observability tools to improve platform reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with React and modern frontend development.
• Strong experience with React, Next.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Experience building scalable, responsive web applications using modern frontend architecture.
• Experience with SSR, SSG, and reusable component-based design.
• Advanced English proficiency.

Additional Information

About Us

We Are Engineered Different.

At Applaudo, talented people design, build, and scale meaningful, AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization, we collaborate across design, development, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate, make decisions, and grow.

We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication. These define how we work, how we support one another, and how we hold ourselves accountable.

Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and leading AI-native transformation at scale.