Website Frontend Engineer - React

What is the role?

dotCMS is a cloud-based Universal CMS that is changing how enterprises do digital. We’re looking for a Website Frontend Engineer (React) to join our dynamic Product team, you'll technically lead the front-end implementation of our headless CMS-powered web experience, bringing together technical development expertise, a strong design eye, and a product-oriented mindset. You’ll bridge Marketing and Product by translating design vision into scalable, high-performance, content-driven interfaces using React and Next.js.

This is a full-time on-site contractor position based in Karachi. The work schedule is from afternoon shift 1:00 PM to 10:00 PM or evening shift 3:00 PM to Midnight local time (UTC+05:00), with a one-hour break. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.

What is dotCMS?

Founded in 2003, dotCMS is the most agile, scalable and secure content management system for enterprise. Built on leading Java technology, dotCMS is an open-source, universal content management system that gives developers the flexibility of a headless CMS while equipping marketers with no-code visual content authoring. Whether you're building a network of global websites, an employee intranet, a customer portal, or a single-page web application, dotCMS helps you manage content, images, and assets in one centralized location and deliver them to any channel. Some of our notable customers include Telus, Standard & Poors, Hospital Corporation of America, Royal Bank of Canada, Deutsche Bank, Comcast, Vodafone, Thomson Reuters, Dairy Queen, Lennox International, and O’Reilly Autoparts.

Who are we, really?
At “the dot,” you’ll find a diverse team of authentic individuals who share the goal of building the most agile, scalable, and secure content management system, delighting customers, and having a lot of fun doing it. Our mission is to make content work for everyone by simplifying content creation and delivery to drive collaboration & engagement. We are accountable, collaborative team players who take ownership and deliver excellence. As doers, we are driven by dedication and a strong work ethic. We are passionately dedicated, innovative, curious, and transparent, while remaining humble. Above all, we are customer-obsessed, focused on exceeding expectations with empathy and solutions-oriented thinking.
Working worldwide is in our DNA—whether it’s from the beautiful beaches of South America, the bustling cities of Pakistan, the innovative hubs of the USA and Canada, or the charming landscapes of Europe. We embrace the diversity of new cultures and experiences while valuing “your” time to recharge and thrive. And since we are all distributed, we like to gather around the cool waters of the Caribbean once a year for our regular off-site, where we blow off some steam and re-energize as a group.  

What you’ll bring to the team: 

• Convert Figma designs into pixel-perfect, responsive interfaces with strong attention to typography, spacing, and usability.
  
• Ensure pages and components follow SEO best practices (structured markup, metadata, site performance).
• Partner with Marketing and Design to translate creative concepts into technically sound, performant solutions.
• Contribute to product ideation with a strategic mindset, connecting front-end decisions to business outcomes and content strategy.
• Develop and maintain reusable, scalable, and performant UI components using React.js and Next.js, aligning with modern front-end architecture patterns.
• Integrate headless CMS solutions (e.g., dotCMS or similar) with GraphQL and REST APIs to manage and surface content dynamically.
• Build data-rich dashboards, implement interactive ChatGPT-driven experiences, and embed bot functionality based on specifications.
• Convert Figma designs into responsive interfaces leveraging Tailwind CSS, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Design solutions with a customer-centric mindset, ensuring features solve real user pain points and deliver measurable value.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: including design, marketing, backend, and product, to refine UI/UX quality and content strategy.
• Use version control tools (Git) and modern build/deployment systems to support CI/CD workflows.
• Actively engage in Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, product ideation and kickoff, retrospectives, and product demos.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders translating technical concepts into clear business value, and demonstrate delivered features to internal teams.
• Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and team collaboration.
• Ensure all code and processes comply with established security and data privacy requirements.
  

Why we get excited about you: 

• 3 to 5 years of professional front-end development experience.
• Expertise in React.js, Next.js, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and Tailwind CSS
• Proven track record of: 
  • Integrating headless CMS platforms using GraphQL and RestAPI.
  • Proven design sensibility and UI/UX understanding – you can balance visual polish with scalable architecture.
  • Experience implementing SEO optimizations and web performance improvements that drive measurable outcomes.
  • Ability to bridge marketing design with engineering best practices, ensuring brand consistency while maintaining technical integrity.
  • Hands-on development experience with dashboard UI and bot implementations
  • Strong foundation in front-end performance optimization, accessibility, SEO, and responsive design
  • Ability to work closely with remote teams and communicate design coordination through Figma and PR workflows.
    
    

Why should you join?

If you have a great experience but are tired of being a cog in a giant corporate wheel, this job is for you. It’s a chance to create a new product marketing function at an established, growing company with a mature product in use by major global organizations. Everything you do everyday, will make a huge impact on our company. Your work will be seen, felt and recognized and your past experience valued. 

Your Compensation. We offer competitive compensation that allows you to make a great living for yourself and your loved ones. 

Your Team. We are a humble, competitive, and small vendor making waves in our industry, and you will be part of a team that has your back. You never walk alone! We are a diverse and distributed team, and we offer annual company-paid training and development to our team members.

Your Voice. Your voice matters to all of us, and we appreciate your opinion as we scale our company to the next level in an open and transparent environment. We will periodically update the entire team on business performance and strategic initiatives and offer the stage for an entrepreneurial-minded professional to produce key initiatives that help to move the needle.

Your Time. We value you as an individual, team member, and professional. We can only expect you to deliver high performance within the right amount of You-time. Therefore, you will have access to an Open PTO policy (after the first 90 days in the company) and a generous number of local company-paid holidays.

dotCMS is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.