Frontend Engineer

Role Summary

Senior frontend engineer building high-performance, real-time web experiences for streaming and interactive workflows. The role focuses on responsive UI, low-latency interactions, and robust behaviour under variable network and device conditions.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain real-time web applications using React (or comparable modern framework)

Implement real-time features: video/audio rendering, screen share, chat, annotations, and remote interaction controls

Integrate with WebRTC clients and signalling flows; handle reconnection, device selection, and user permissions

Optimise for performance: render efficiency, memory usage, frame rate stability, and startup time

Build accessible, maintainable component architectures and consistent UX patterns

Collaborate with backend/WebRTC teams on APIs, events, and session lifecycle

Implement telemetry and client-side logging to support production diagnostics

Must-have Skills & Experience

6-10 years in frontend engineering with modern React

Strong React expertise (state management, performance profiling, component architecture)

Experience building real-time/interactive web apps (streaming, collaboration, dashboards with live updates)

Comfortable debugging complex client issues (browser APIs, media devices, permissions)

Strong testing discipline (unit/integration/e2e as appropriate)

Good-to-have / Bonus

WebRTC integration experience on the frontend (media tracks, device APIs, reconnection)

Experience with Canvas/WebGL for overlays/annotations

Experience designing UX for low-latency control/feedback loops

Knowledge of observability tooling (client metrics, logging pipelines)