Job Summary

Our client is seeking a highly skilled Front-End Engineer to support the modernization of a large-scale, design-driven web platform. The ideal candidate will help transition a legacy Gatsby codebase within a Yarn monorepo into Astro, while improving content architecture, site performance, accessibility, and overall scalability. This role requires exceptional attention to visual detail, strong front-end engineering expertise, and an enthusiasm for integrating emerging technologies such as LLMs and MCPs into both development workflows and content experiences.

The selected engineer will collaborate closely with a small, fast-moving team focused on building innovative, high-performance web experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Rewrite legacy Gatsby components and functionality into Astro within a Yarn monorepo environment.
• Improve and modernize the content architecture across multiple content sources (MDX with frontmatter, Contentful, hardcoded content).
• Enhance site performance, SEO, WCAG accessibility, and LLM readability.
• Implement advanced, design-forward UI interactions using modern CSS, SCSS, animations, and tools such as Rive and Lottie.
• Collaborate with design and engineering teams to maintain extremely high standards for visual and interaction design.
• Integrate marketing operations tools and APIs (e.g., Marketo, Inflection, Ashby).
• Work with developer tooling such as GitHub Actions, Playwright, Vercel, and observability tools.
• Support experimentation and integration with LLMs, MCPs, analytics tools, and emerging front-end technologies.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of front-end architecture, deployment processes, and code quality.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in JavaScript and CSS/SCSS.
• Intermediate experience with:
• Astro
• React
• Gatsby
• TailwindCSS
• Emotion
• Experience working within monorepo environments (e.g., Yarn workspaces).
• Strong understanding of front-end performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex UI/UX designs into highly polished, production-quality interfaces.
• Experience ensuring WCAG compliance and using accessibility tools.
• Familiarity with Lottie/Rive animation workflows.
• Strong Git/GitHub workflow knowledge, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as Playwright.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Next.js.
• Familiarity with MDX, frontmatter standards, and headless CMS workflows (e.g., Contentful).
• Experience integrating or building tools using LLMs and MCPs.
• Experience with analytics integrations (e.g., Plausible).
• Exposure to design collaboration tools such as Figma and related MCP workflows.
• Background working in agile environments using tools like JIRA.