Staff Frontend Engineer

Vetcove is modernizing the future of veterinary software and enhancing the pet parent healthcare experience. As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will lead the architecture and evolution of user-facing experiences, ensuring high-quality performance and usability across their platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of large scale frontend applications across web and mobile
• Build and evolve high performance React and React Native applications
• Define and enforce frontend best practices, including performance optimization, accessibility, and maintainability
• Develop shared component libraries, design systems, and frontend infrastructure to improve team velocity
• Drive improvements in application performance, reliability, and user experience
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver cohesive, user centered features
• Mentor junior front end engineers
• Influence technical direction and frontend strategy across multiple product areas
• Debug and resolve complex frontend and cross stack issues

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on frontend development
• Experience building Claude/Cursor skills to help streamline FE best practices
• Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (especially React)
• Experience architecting and scaling complex frontend applications and systems
• Strong understanding of performance optimization, state management, and frontend architecture patterns
• Experience building and maintaining design systems or shared component libraries
• Solid understanding of APIs and backend interactions (REST, GraphQL, etc.)
• Proven ability to lead projects and mentor engineers
• Strong communication skills and a product-oriented mindset
• Comfortable operating in fast paced, evolving environments
• Bachelor's degree required, CS or technical degree preferred
• Familiarity with mobile development (React Native or similar) is a plus