As a Frontend Infrastructure Engineer at Imagen, you will be responsible for shaping the foundations of our frontend ecosystem. You’ll work on our design system, developer experience, platform tooling, monitoring, and performance optimizations to ensure our frontend codebase is scalable, reliable, and efficient.
This role is ideal for someone who loves building frameworks, improving developer workflows, and enabling frontend teams to ship high-quality code faster. You'll collaborate closely with frontend engineers, designers, and product teams to create a best-in-class frontend infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and maintenance of our design system to ensure consistency and efficiency across all frontend applications.
- Enhance Developer Experience (DX) by improving build tools, CI/CD pipelines, documentation, and frontend workflows.
- Optimize frontend performance by implementing best practices, monitoring key metrics, and improving page speed and application responsiveness.
- Develop and maintain frontend platform tools and libraries to streamline engineering efforts and reduce duplication.
- Implement monitoring and observability solutions to track frontend performance, errors, and user experience issues.
- Ensure best practices in frontend architecture, modularization, and maintainability across our codebase.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to drive adoption of infrastructure improvements and provide guidance on frontend best practices.
- Evaluate and integrate new frontend technologies to enhance our stack and improve developer productivity.
Requirements
- Experience working in frontend infrastructure, platform engineering, or a related role in a SaaS or product-driven company.
- Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, or similar) and frontend build tools (Webpack, Vite, Esbuild, etc.).
- Deep understanding of CSS architecture and component-based design (e.g., Design Systems, Tailwind, CSS-in-JS).
- Proficiency in performance optimization techniques (lazy loading, code splitting, caching strategies, etc.).
- Experience with frontend monitoring tools (Sentry, Datadog, New Relic, etc.) and logging/debugging strategies.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and frontend automation to improve deployment and testing workflows.
- Passion for developer experience (DX) and creating tools that enhance productivity and code quality.
- Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively across teams and advocate for frontend infrastructure best practices.
Bonus Points
- Experience with WebAssembly, Electron.
- Knowledge of Web Performance APIs, Lighthouse, or RUM monitoring.
- Contributions to open-source frontend tooling or frameworks.
- Familiarity with monorepo architectures (Nx, Turborepo) and package management (PNPM, Yarn Workspaces).
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What We Do
ImagenAI provides an AI-based cloud platform for photographers aimed at streamlining the photo selection and editing process.
