Senior Frontend Engineer building reliable order - flow and trading experiences for Wealthsimple, Canada’s leading financial innovator. Owning frontend systems across equities, options, crypto, and real - time market data.
About the role
- Technical lead for frontend engineering at Alpaca, focusing on user experience and frontend architecture. Collaborating with teams to drive innovation and reduce technical debt while enhancing performance.
Responsibilities
- Act as a long-term technical steward for Alpaca’s frontend architecture (2–5 year horizon).
- Design and evolve scalable frontend patterns for data fetching, state management, performance, and runtime configuration.
- Drive large-scale initiatives such as:
- • Design system evolution and adoption
- • Frontend platform standardization
- • Performance, reliability, and developer-experience improvements.
- Identify and reduce systemic frontend technical debt with measurable business impact.
- Lead cross-team, multi-quarter initiatives spanning multiple product areas.
- Define rollout strategies that enable change without blocking feature delivery (e.g. phased migrations, feature flags, compatibility layers).
- Partner with backend and platform teams to solve end-to-end system problems, not just frontend symptoms.
- Influence engineers and leaders across the broader engineering organization.
- Write RFCs, decision records, and architectural proposals that align teams and drive adoption.
- Mentor Senior Engineers and help raise the overall frontend engineering bar.
- Navigate conflicting opinions and help teams disagree and commit.
- Take loosely defined business problems and turn them into clear, actionable technical initiatives.
- Manage risk in large migrations, architectural shifts, and platform-level changes.
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability, even when ROI is not immediately visible.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building and scaling modern frontend applications (React + TypeScript or similar).
- Proven track record operating at Staff or equivalent level, with impact across multiple teams or domains.
- Strong understanding of frontend architecture at scale, including:
- • Data-fetching patterns
- • Performance optimization
- • Design systems
- • Runtime configuration
- • Observability and reliability.
- Experience leading large technical initiatives from problem definition through adoption.
- 7+ years of professional experience in frontend development.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to translate product mockups and designs into fully realised user interfaces.
- Strong proficiency with:
- • TypeScript and React
- • HTML and CSS (e.g. TailwindCSS).
- Passion for creating intuitive, high-performance user interfaces.
- Experience working with REST APIs and WebSocket best practices.
- Track record of setting or influencing frontend best practices.
- Strong attention to detail and appreciation for design quality and aesthetics.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
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