Staff Frontend Engineer / Staff Frontend Engineeress

Company Description

Welcome to SMG Swiss Marketplace Group!

SMG is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and a leading European digital company that simplifies people’s lives with forward-looking products. We operate leading marketplaces across real estate, automotive, general classifieds, and finance & insurance. We’re driven by our values: Better Together, Aim High, and Act Responsibly.

Job Description

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll be a hands-on technical leader with company-wide 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 cross-team initiatives.

Meet the Team

At SMG, our strength lies in our people. Meet the Manager with whom you could work:

• Yuliya Zvolskaya - Engineering Manager - LinkedIn

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of our Real Estate frontend architecture to support future requirements, defining and improving SLAs/SLOs while anticipating ripple effects across systems in collaboration with other senior engineers and principals.
• Design and create shared frontend libraries, components, and tooling (e.g., design system, performance tooling) that are widely used by internal teams, focusing on pragmatic, reusable solutions and driving their adoption.
• Orchestrate multi-system refactors and migrations, breaking projects into manageable pieces while coordinating with engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders.
• Act as a go-to person across teams and locations for frontend topics, influencing how web experiences are built across the Real Estate organization.
• Mentor and coach other engineers through structured mentorship, pairing, and feedback, helping them grow their skills and addressing skill gaps.
• Model a healthy feedback culture, assisting team members in navigating tough conversations and conflicts constructively.
• Challenge and improve team and cross-team processes, proposing changes to enhance focus, quality, and speed as needed.
• Write code while also multiplying the effectiveness of others, balancing personal contributions with team impact.

Your Day-to-Day

• You'll be part of a regular product team, dividing your time between product delivery and staff responsibilities based on current needs and priorities.
• Innovate, design, implement, and deploy frontend-focused engineering solutions for our Real Estate products, from discovery to production.
• Own the end-to-end technical vision for key user journeys like Homegate and Immoscout24, with a strong focus on performance, accessibility, UX quality, and reliability.
• Lead cross-team frontend initiatives and advocate for the resolution of cross-cutting technical bottlenecks 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 our frontend repositories.
• Evaluate, prototype, and introduce new frontend technologies and approaches, documenting findings and advocating for adoption.
• Own and evolve the Frontend ADR process to ensure technical decisions are documented and consistently implemented.
• Guide and review the work of other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and informal coaching.
• Help the team embrace AI & large language models in engineering workflows and products.
• Contribute to and facilitate guilds, tech chats, and other cross-team knowledge-sharing formats.
• Promote a culture of high-quality engineering encompassing testing, monitoring with Datadog, observability, security, and operational excellence.

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: Mainly Vue.js and some React, using TypeScript as the language of choice.
• Backend: Node.js and TypeScript in a serverless and microservices architecture using AWS (including Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and S3).
• Monitoring & Observability: Primarily Datadog with logging and alerting best practices.
• AI & Tooling: We actively adopt the latest developments in AI technology and encourage innovation in daily workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience with Vue.js or similar frameworks.
• A proven track record in implementing and maintaining automated frontend testing using tools such as Jest, Vitest, and/or Cypress.
• Solid hands-on experience building production applications with Vue 3.
• Experience collaborating with designers using Figma.
• Strong experience building and evolving large-scale frontend applications in modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, managing complex initiatives while coordinating multiple stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of modern CI/CD practices for frontend development, including automated release strategies and feature flagging.
• Experience creating and driving adoption of shared frontend solutions like design system components and shared libraries.
• Excellent English communication skills, capable of explaining complex topics clearly to diverse audiences in an international team setting.

Our Culture

We value engineers who:

• Thrive in collaborative environments and are true team players.
• Have a growth mindset and are curious; we love growing together.
• Are passionate about frontend architecture and building & scaling cloud-based solutions.
• Are open to change and proactive in proposing pragmatic solutions.
• Challenge the status quo to improve outcomes for users and the organization.
• Enjoy solving complex, ambiguous problems with creativity and adaptability.

What Do We Offer?

• 6 weeks of holidays per year, plus the option to purchase an additional 10 weeks.
• A 40-hour work week with flexitime (capped at 45 hours).
• A hybrid work setup offering 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, plus an iPhone, Samsung, or Pixel mobile.
• An inclusive and innovative environment where your voice matters.

Application Process

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Only applications matching the job profile will be considered.