Staff Frontend Engineer | | Hybrid working model | Zurich

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group

Thurgauerstrasse 36, 8000 Zürich, SwitzerlandFestanstellungVeröffentlicht 10.7.2026

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SMG Swiss Marketplace Group is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and a leading European digital company operating leading marketplaces across real estate, automotive, general classifieds, and finance & insurance. As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll be a hands-on technical leader with company-level impact across our Real Estate vertical, shaping and evolving the frontend architecture powering our portals, creating shared frontend solutions adopted by multiple teams, and orchestrating complex initiatives.

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Set technical direction for frontend across multiple teams, building alignment among engineers, product managers, designers and senior stakeholders
Influence roadmaps, investment decisions, and engineering priorities by connecting frontend strategy to business outcomes, delivery risk and customer impact
Define and drive the culture of engineering excellence, lead the evolution of Real Estate frontend architecture, set and improve SLAs/SLOs and anticipate ripple effects across systems together with other engineers and principals
Act as a trusted technical leader across teams and locations for frontend topics, shaping how web experiences are built across the organisation and influencing decisions at both team and leadership levels
Represent frontend engineering in cross-functional and leadership discussions, helping the organisation make better long-term technical trade-offs
Design and create shared frontend libraries, components and tooling (e.g. design system, performance monitoring) that are widely used by internal teams, focusing on pragmatic, reusable solutions and driving their adoption
Orchestrate multi-system refactors and migrations like framework upgrades and cross-product harmonisation
Mentor and coach other engineers through structured mentorship, pairing, and feedback; close skill gaps by organising structured trainings
Model a healthy feedback culture, helping people navigate tough conversations and conflicts in a constructive, blameless way
Challenge and improve team and cross-team processes, suggesting changes that improve focus, quality, and speed when needed
Split time about half and half between product delivery and staff responsibilities, depending on current needs and priorities
Innovate, design, implement, and deploy frontend-focused engineering solutions for products, from discovery to production
Build alignment across teams with different goals and constraints, and unblock progress on ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives
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 (e.g. shared design system improvements, cross-brand UI harmonisation, performance budgets, or observability patterns)
Identify and surface cross-cutting technical bottlenecks (e.g. 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 frontend repositories
Evaluate, prototype, and introduce new frontend technologies and approaches (frameworks, tooling, patterns), document findings, and drive adoption where they make sense
Own and evolve the Frontend ADR process, ensuring technical decisions are documented, socialised, and consistently implemented
Guide and review the work of other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, guild, and informal coaching
Help the team embrace and leverage AI & large language models in engineering workflows and products
Contribute to and facilitate the frontend guild, tech chats, and other cross-team knowledge-sharing formats
Promote a culture of high-quality engineering: testing, monitoring with Datadog, observability, security, and operational excellence
Write plenty of code, with impact measured just as much by how you multiply the effectiveness of others as by individual output

Profil

8+ years of professional experience with React 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
Strong experience building and evolving large-scale frontend applications
Tech Stack you'll work with: Frontend mainly React with TypeScript (mix of client-side, server-side, pre-rendered, and hybrid web apps); Backend TypeScript, serverless and microservices architecture on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, and more); Monitoring & Observability mainly Datadog plus logging/alerting best practices
Willingness to actively adopt the latest developments in AI technology and embrace innovation offered by large language models in daily work

Rahmenbedingungen

Pensum: 80-100%
Arbeitsmodell: Hybrid working model
Standort: Zurich

Skills

Frontend-Architektur auf Staff-/Company-LevelTechnische Führung über mehrere TeamsDefinition und Verbesserung von SLAs/SLOsEntwicklung geteilter Frontend-LösungenStakeholder-Management (PM, Design, Engineering)Roadmap- und PriorisierungseinflussEnglischkenntnisse

Staff Frontend Engineer | | Hybrid working model | Zurich

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