Senior Frontend Engineer

About Vumedi:

Vumedi is the largest video education platform for doctors worldwide, dedicated to advancing medical education through innovative video-based learning. Our mission is to empower healthcare professionals by providing them with access to the latest clinical knowledge and surgical techniques from experts around the globe. We curate a vast library of high-quality educational content, enabling users to enhance their skills, stay informed about industry trends, and improve patient outcomes. We are headquartered in Oakland, CA, and have additional offices in Minneapolis, MN, and Zagreb, Croatia. 

We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to lead the development of our digital platform and products at this critical stage of Vumedi’s growth. 

Why join Vumedi right now?

• Build technology that matters in a fast-scaling Silicon Valley digital healthcare company: Your work directly impacts how doctors across the world learn and make decisions that save lives.
• Grow as we grow: Be part of a company in an accelerated growth phase, where expanding teams, products, and markets create real opportunities for ownership, leadership, and career progression.
• Build with AI: Work on applied LLM systems - from intelligent search to AI-driven content agents - and shape how AI transforms medical knowledge delivery.
• Own your craft end-to-end: Take full responsibility for building systems that scale globally and power mission-critical workflows.
• Collaborate globally: Join a world-class team of passionate engineers on modern tech stack which will further drive your career development.
• Have real product impact: Influence the direction of product development by collaborating closely with product and leadership teams.

About the role:

As a Senior Frontend Engineer you will collaborate with your team to work on the video technology platform. You have been in software engineering for 5+ years and have honed your craft. From this experience you have developed broad competencies, technical skills and you use frameworks to build out products and implement business processes. You have the drive to solve complex problems, and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs concerning limited resources. You have a passion for technology, data and problem solving. 

What you will do:

• Collaborate closely with the engineering and product teams to define and execute frontend projects on our platform
• Develop and maintain automated tests to ensure new features and functionalities are reliable and meet quality standards, focusing on frontend components and user interactions.
• Conduct peer reviews and review pull requests from other team members, offering constructive feedback and ensuring best practices in frontend development.
• Keep abreast of the latest trends and technologies in frontend development, particularly those relevant to our tech stack. 
• Assess and recommend updates or new tools and frameworks that could enhance our platform's performance and user experience.
• Engage in roadmap planning discussions, contributing insights and suggestions on what to build and how to approach frontend development challenges.

Who you are:

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in frontend development.
• Strong knowledge of core web technologies (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS)
• Experience building and maintaining modern, reusable web components.
• Experience with build tools and frontend infrastructure(e.g., Webpack, Vite, Babel, npm/yarn)
• Understanding of UI/UX best practices, accessibility, and responsive design.
• Ability to work with and modernize legacy codebases (jQuery, Bootstrap)
• Understanding of browser fundamentals (DOM, rendering, performance)
• Communication skills: can explain tradeoffs when building complex solutions to non-technical colleagues
• Ability to analyze scope vs. cost of requirements to suggest the best solution

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Python/Django templating
• Experience working in dynamic startup-like environments
• Experienced growth from early stage to a mature business
• Experience contributing to or building design systems.

You can expect:

The base salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors, including but not limited to skills and scope required, unique relevant experience, and job-related skills.

Cash salary is but one component of our compensation package. It’s inclusive of base salary, education budget, supplemental health insurance, free meals allowance, work from an alternative workplace allowance, occasional awards - Christmas bonus, and an annual bonus.

This is a hybrid role, working 3 days a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) in our Zagreb office.