Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

About the Company

At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.

The Role You’ll Play

• Build and maintain performant, accessible React applications that drive real-world experiences
• Partner with Product, Design and Engineering to bring features to life from ideation through deployment, always iterating with the end-user in mind
• Champion engineering best practices: DDD (Domain Driven Design), automated testing, peer reviews, observability, and clean component design
• Lead and influence frontend architecture decisions that prioritize scalability and simplicity
• Own the frontend platform direction: tooling, performance, error handling, and responsive design
• Author RFCs and lead cross-squad initiatives from design through rollout
• Seek feedback, iterate fast, and balance innovation with reliability
• Approach development with empathy, understanding how your work supports both our partners and their communities
• Mentor others and help foster a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture

Experience You Bring

You care about writing great code and solving the right problems. You’re energized by big-picture thinking and grounded in delivering value with clarity and care.

• Senior-level experience building large-scale SaaS frontends with React and TypeScript
• Deep understanding of frontend architecture: design systems, state and data-fetching patterns, and the backend-for-frontend pattern
• Strong testing discipline with Jest or Vitest, React Testing Library, and Cypress or competing technologies
• Familiarity with frontend observability tools like Datadog RUM
• Comfortable with modern build tooling (Vite, linters, type checking, CI gates) and Node.js services like NestJS
• Agile mindset and strong grasp of software development lifecycle practices
• Ability to navigate complexity, assess tradeoffs, and execute with confidence
• Excellent communicator who brings others along and helps ideas stick

Technologies you'll be working with

• Languages: TypeScript, Javascript, SCSS
• Frameworks and libraries: React, Ant Design, AG Grid, SWR, TanStack Query, Zustand, React Hook Form, internal @itg-fe component library
• Tooling and testing: Vite, oxlint, Storybook, Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress
• Monitoring and flags: Datadog RUM, LaunchDarkly
• Backend-for-frontend: NestJS on Node.js