Frontend Engineer - Marketing & Digital Experience

Posted 3 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in Canada
Remote
135K-165K Annually
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Gaming • Sports
The Role
Own and evolve Nex’s marketing website, CMS, frontend architecture, component library, analytics integrations, and content publishing workflows. Build polished landing pages, campaign experiences, commerce integrations, tooling, and third-party API integrations. Improve performance, Core Web Vitals, reliability, accessibility, and user experience while collaborating closely with design, marketing, publishing, and leadership.
Summary Generated by Built In

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.

Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.

Nex employees may be expected to collaborate with colleagues across different time zones. Depending on the role and location, occasional travel may also be required for company events, external meetings, and other business-related activities.

Important Notice: ⚠️ To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.

Location: Canada - Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal

Work Arrangement: Remote within Canada

Work Location: Candidates must be based in one of the listed locations and authorized to work in Canada.

Annual salary: CA$135k - CA$165k (Final base salary within this range will be determined based on job-related factors, including the candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location)

Type: Full-Time

Reports to: Engineering Manager

 The Role

Join a small, ambitious team where your work shapes how customers first discover and fall in love with our product. You'll be a frontend-first engineer who owns and evolves our marketing site — the CMS powering our pages, the component library keeping our UI consistent, the performance and the polish that makes every visit feel intentional. This is a role for someone who takes genuine pride in a well-maintained, well-crafted web presence; who notices when something's a pixel off, when a page loads a tad too slow, or when the content publishing workflow could be half as painful with a smarter setup.

What makes this role special is the ownership and the visibility. You'll work directly with designers, marketers, and leadership — close enough to understand the why behind every build, and trusted enough to run with it. You'll be the person who keeps the lights on beautifully — iterating on the design system, improving the content publishing pipeline, and making sure our public-facing web experience is always in great shape. Your work will be live, visible, and experienced by millions of visitors. If you care deeply about frontend craft, love the intersection of design and code, and want to be the person a whole team relies on to make things look and work brilliantly — let's talk.

What You'll Do
  • Own and evolve our marketing site — the CMS, the component library, the frontend architecture, and the analytics integrations that tell us how it's all performing. This is yours to steward and improve.
  • Collaborate with Design and Marketing to build and maintain customer-facing web experiences — landing pages, campaign builds, and commerce integrations — that are polished, performant, and on-brand.
  • Partner with Design, Marketing, and Publishing to keep our content publishing pipeline smooth — so the team can move fast without depending on engineering for every update.
  • Build and maintain lightweight integrations and tooling — connecting third-party services, CX tools, and external APIs — that make the broader team more productive.
  • Obsess over performance and user experience — from Core Web Vitals to CMS workflows — so that every interaction feels fast, polished, and intentional.
  • Develop and maintain our Web Design System and component libraries, keeping the foundation consistent and scalable as the brand and team grow.
About You
  • You've built and maintained a performant, production marketing site that real teams depend on — and you know what it takes to keep it fast, stable, and easy to update. We'd love to hear about it.
  • You've set up or significantly evolved a CMS for a non-technical team — you've thought about content modelling, editor experience, and how to make publishing fast without breaking things.
  • You care about code quality and reliability — you write tests, sweat the edge cases, and don't consider something shipped until you're confident it holds up in the real world.
  • You've diagnosed and fixed real performance bottlenecks on a public-facing site — you know what kills LCP, how to audit a slow page, and how to make the fix stick.
  • You’re ready to take charge end-to-end — from scoping and building to deployment and smoke testing in production.
  • You've worked closely with non-engineering teams before — marketers, designers, stakeholders — and you know how to translate between creative vision and technical reality.
  • You have a DIY mindset and genuine obsession with code quality, user experience, and craft — always asking how things could be better, and doing something about it.
  • You embrace AI-assisted tools like Claude Code — and you know when to trust them and when to push back.
  • You are proficient in TypeScript and have experience in a modern full-stack JS frameworks (we use SvelteKit, but Next.js or similar is great!) — bonus points if you've already shipped something in Svelte.
Bonus If You
  • Have a good eye for design and are comfortable giving and receiving feedback in design tools like Figma — you don't just implement designs, you help make them better.
  • Have worked with Sanity CMS — it's what we use day-to-day, and hitting the ground running here would be a genuine advantage.
  • Have experience with international localization tools and architecture — big plus given where we're headed.
  • Have implemented privacy compliance (e.g. GDPR) and managed cookie consent flows.
  • Have maintained software libraries or written technical documentation others actually want to read.
We Offer
  • Competitive compensation package.
  • Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
  • Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
  • Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field

Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at https://www.nexplayground.com/about. 
We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!

Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.

We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.

Skills Required

  • Production experience building and maintaining a performant marketing website
  • Experience setting up or significantly evolving a CMS for non-technical teams
  • Experience with content modeling and improving the content publishing workflow
  • Strong focus on code quality, reliability, testing, and edge cases
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving performance bottlenecks on public-facing websites
  • Ability to own work end-to-end from scoping and development through deployment and production testing
  • Experience collaborating with marketers, designers, and other non-engineering stakeholders
  • Proficiency in TypeScript
  • Experience with a modern full-stack JavaScript framework such as SvelteKit, Next.js, or similar
  • Experience with Svelte
  • Comfort using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code
  • Comfort working with design tools such as Figma
  • Experience with Sanity CMS
  • Experience with internationalization and localization tools or architecture
  • Experience implementing privacy compliance and cookie consent flows, such as GDPR
  • Experience maintaining software libraries or writing technical documentation
  • Authorization to work in Canada
  • Residence in Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal
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The Company
HQ: San Jose, CA
55 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Nex is helping families reconnect with the joy of movement through fun, social, and interactive content that’s accessible to all ages. Its award-winning Nex Playground console, launched in December 2023, uses cutting-edge AI, mobile and vision technologies to merge digital and physical worlds, immersing players in the experience using their natural body movement. Nex Playground games range from original sports and fitness titles, to educational games and titles in collaboration with Hasbro and Sesame Workshop. Since its founding, Nex has been recognised as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has been awarded the prestigious Apple Design Award. Nex Playground is also kidSAFE+ COPPA certified, highlighting the company’s firm stance on privacy and safety for kids and families. To learn more, visit https://www.nex.inc or follow the company on Instagram and Facebook. See current job openings at https://www.nex.inc/careers

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