Senior Frontend Engineer

Job Description

About Object Edge:

Established in 1994, Object Edge is an award-winning digital consultancy working with leading global brands. In a challenging digital landscape, we help businesses differentiate and compete by creating effortless digital experiences. We design, implement, and support commerce, content, subscription, and CPQ with a data-driven, highly collaborative, and best-in-class team.

We serve enterprise businesses who need to build digital experiences and want a nimble, personalized, and specialized partner..

About the Position:

• Architecture & Development: Lead the design and implementation of a headless frontend using Next.js and commercetools Frontend (formerly Frontastic) or custom SDK integrations.
• Performance Optimization: Implement advanced Next.js strategies (Static Site Generation, Incremental Static Regeneration) to ensure sub-second page loads and excellent Core Web Vitals.
• Feature Ownership: Build complex e-commerce features such as dynamic product listing pages (PLP), multi-step checkouts, and personalized account dashboards.
• API Orchestration: Use Node.js and GraphQL/REST to orchestrate data between commercetools, Headless CMS (e.g., Contentful), and third-party services (Payments, ERP, Search).
• Technical Leadership: Mentor junior developers, conduct rigorous code reviews, and establish frontend best practices (testing, accessibility, and documentation).
• Collaboration: Partner with UI/UX designers to translate high-fidelity wireframes into modular, reusable React components.

Location: Remote- Brazil

What You’ll Do:

• Architecture & Development: Lead the design and implementation of a headless frontend using Next.js and commercetools Frontend (formerly Frontastic) or custom SDK integrations.
• Performance Optimization: Implement advanced Next.js strategies (Static Site Generation, Incremental Static Regeneration) to ensure sub-second page loads and excellent Core Web Vitals.
• Feature Ownership: Build complex e-commerce features such as dynamic product listing pages (PLP), multi-step checkouts, and personalized account dashboards.
• API Orchestration: Use Node.js and GraphQL/REST to orchestrate data between commercetools, Headless CMS (e.g., Contentful), and third-party services (Payments, ERP, Search).
• Technical Leadership: Mentor junior developers, conduct rigorous code reviews, and establish frontend best practices (testing, accessibility, and documentation).
• Collaboration: Partner with UI/UX designers to translate high-fidelity wireframes into modular, reusable React components.

Experience You’ll Bring:

• Commercetools Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with commercetools APIs (Product, Cart, Order, Customer) and the Merchant Center. Experience with commercetools Frontend (Studio) is a major plus.
• Modern React & Next.js: Mastery of React 18+, Next.js ¹⁴⁄₁₅, TypeScript, and state management (Zustand, Redux, or React Query).
• Node.js Proficiency: Strong experience building server-side logic, API routes, or middleware using Node.js and Express.
• Headless Ecosystem: Familiarity with “Composable Commerce” concepts and integrating headless CMS, Search (Algolia/Elastic), and DAM.
• Quality & Testing: Proficiency with testing frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress.
• Tooling: Expert knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Vercel), and CSS-in-JS (Tailwind, Styled Components).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Mach Alliance principles.
• Knowledge of Web Accessibility (A11y) and SEO best practices for e-commerce.
• Commercetools “Functional Analyst” or “Developer” certification.

Compensation: Salary is commensurate with experience, based on department and role.

Object Edge provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. We believe in providing employees with a work environment free of unlawful discrimination and harassment. In addition to national law requirements, Object Edge complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.