Code and Theory is seeking a Front-End Engineer to help build AI-native digital platforms and user experiences powering enterprise marketing workflows. Working closely with Engineering, Product, and Design teams, you’ll develop modern, performant, and scalable frontend applications that balance thoughtful user experience with technical excellence across web and AI-enabled systems.
The Machine, Stagwell’s AI orchestration platform, is an AI-first, AI-native, AI-always engineering team. Agentic workflows power how we collaborate across the development lifecycle. Every engineer here is expected to engage and advance the state of the art in the practice of AI-native software development.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and ship frontend applications and user experiences that power AI-native digital platforms
- Translate design concepts and wireframes into polished, production-ready interfaces
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver high-quality digital experiences end to end
- Create reusable components and patterns that raise consistency and development velocity across the team
- Prototype and iterate quickly on new features and user experiences
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and the team's engineering practices
- Help advance how the team builds with AI across the development lifecycle
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Strong, demonstrated experience building production frontend applications with React, Next.js (App Router), and TypeScript
- Proficiency with modern component libraries and UI systems such as Radix UI, shadcn/ui, Tailwind, or similar frameworks
- Solid grounding in responsive design, accessibility (a11y), frontend performance, and scalable UI architecture
- Experience integrating frontend applications with headless CMS platforms and backend APIs
- Familiarity with frontend tooling, Git workflows, testing practices, and CI/CD pipelines, plus analytics, SEO, and performance optimization
- Strong attention to detail and design sensibility, paired with strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- Experience in agency, consultancy, or enterprise SaaS environments
- Familiarity with Vercel and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with data visualization libraries such as D3 or Highcharts is a plus
- Comfort using AI-enabled tools day-to-day to accelerate engineering, automation, debugging, and operational work
- Experience orchestrating multi-step or agent-driven AI workflows, including selecting appropriate models, tools, and execution patterns for different use cases
- Strong judgment reviewing and hardening AI-assisted output for security, scalability, maintainability, and architectural fit, along with experience building prompts, evaluations, and operational context that improve engineering velocity and reliability
ABOUT US
Born in 2001, Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency that sits at the center of creativity and technology. We pride ourselves on not only solving consumer and business problems, but also helping to establish new capabilities for our clients. With a global client roster of Fortune 100s and start-ups alike, we crave the hardest problems to solve. We have teams distributed across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The Code and Theory global network of agencies is growing and includes Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Create Group, Current, and TrueLogic.
Striving never to be pigeonholed, we work across every major category: from tech to CPG, financial services to travel & hospitality, government and education to media and publishing. We value the collaboration with our client partners, including but not limited to Adidas, Amazon, Con Edison, Diageo, EY, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lenovo, Marriott, Mars, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and TikTok.
The Code and Theory network is comprised of nearly 2,000 people with 50% engineers and 50% creative talent. We’re always on the lookout for smart, driven, and forward-thinking people to join our team.
The base compensation range for this role is $90,000 – $125,000 and spans multiple levels. We're open to hiring at the level that best matches the right candidate's experience. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, budget, and location.
Skills Required
- Strong experience with React and Next.js
- Proficiency in TypeScript
- Experience with modern component libraries and UI systems
- Solid understanding of responsive design and accessibility
- Experience with API integration
- Familiarity with Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience in agency or enterprise SaaS environments
Code and Theory Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Code and Theory and has not been reviewed or approved by Code and Theory.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off policies include an “unlimited”/flexible PTO approach with paid holidays/sick time and seasonal early-close Fridays, offering notable flexibility. These options provide additional downtime beyond standard accrual models.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage is part of the standard package, with employer-verified health plan information cited as current. Life and disability insurance further reinforce foundational coverage.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is included in the package, supporting long-term savings. Candidates are encouraged to confirm the match formula during the offer stage.
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What We Do
Code and Theory is a strategically driven, digital-first creative agency that lives at the intersection of creativity and technology. We solve consumer and business problems across the entire customer journey that flex to meet the ever-changing needs of consumer expectations. We put the user, their behaviors and needs, at the center of everything we do — from our proprietary research methodologies, to product development processes, to how we create brand, channel and messaging strategies. Our goal is simple: to solve our clients business problems. We bring big ideas to life by looking holistically at brand ecosystems where digital plays a prominent role in driving the consumer from first-touch through to conversion to relationship deepening over time. We identify gaps in the consumer journey and opportunities in culture that require products, services or communications to fill. We work across categories, ranging as far and wide as health care (Pfizer, Sanofi, Reach MD, Bioreference Laboratories) to financial services (JP Morgan Chase, Prudential, Morgan Stanley, First Data) to cpg (Mars, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson) to technology companies (Facebook, Xerox, Samsung, Comcast) to culture brands (adidas, H&M). And because our DNA is in publishing — we’ve embedded in over 135 newsrooms in the past decade — we bring unique expertise in understanding how content is created, distributed and optimized, including our work with CNN, NBC News, NBC Sports, and Bustle Digital Group. At Code and Theory, we strive to only be limited by our own ambition and creativity. We believe in pushing our creativity beyond the easy and obvious answers in order to deliver the solutions that are right for our clients, their businesses, and their consumers.
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