Senior Full Stack Engineer (Workflow)

Posted 22 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, California , USA
In-Office or Remote
5-5 Annually
Senior level
Design
The Role
The Senior Full-stack Engineer will rebuild the LottieFiles Platform, focusing on both frontend and backend development, technical leadership, and performance optimizations for scalable applications.
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About the Role

We're seeking an exceptional Senior Full-stack Engineer to take part in the ground-up rebuild of our LottieFiles Platform - a digital asset management and collaboration platform serving thousands of users worldwide. This is a rare opportunity to build a greenfield application from scratch, making foundational technical decisions that will impact our platform for the next 5+ years.

As a senior full stack engineer, you'll be responsible for both hands-on development and architectural discussions with the team leadership. You'll work with modern frontend and backend technologies while leveraging your expertise in systems-level programming to optimize performance-critical operations. 

This role is perfect for engineers who thrive at the intersection of elegant frontend experiences and high-performance backend systems - someone who can build beautiful UIs while also optimizing the hot paths that handle operations at scale.

What You'll Do

Technical Leadership & Architecture

  • Participate in shaping the technical vision for rebuilding our asset management platform from scratch
  • Design centralized data architecture with direct database integration and shared business logic reusable across SSR and future GraphQL. 
  • Make critical architectural decisions including tech stack selection, state management patterns, data layer design, and performance optimization strategies. 
  • Ensure future-proof architecture compatible with GraphQL migration while optimizing for immediate SSR performance
  • Define coding standards and best practices for the team, ensuring maintainable, scalable code
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to translate requirements into technical specifications

Full-stack Development

Frontend 

  • Build modern React-based apps with real-time capabilities using technologies like TanStack ecosystem, Server-Sent Events, and BroadcastChannel API
  • Build performant UI components with smooth data loading patterns, virtualization, and responsive user interactions
  • Optimize bundle size, lazy loading, and code splitting for <1s Time to Interactive

Backend Integration

  • Build a shared business logic layer reusable across multiple service boundaries and rendering contexts
  • Design database schema and ORM integration
  • Develop background job processing systems for asynchronous workflows

Performance-Critical Systems (Rust/Zig)

  • Design and optimize performance-critical operations using systems-level programming and worker-based architectures to keep heavy processing off the main thread
  • Implement WASM modules for browser-based file processing with near-native performance
  • Build batch processing systems capable of handling large-scale concurrent operations efficiently
  • Profile and eliminate performance bottlenecks across critical data processing and transformation pipelines

Required Qualifications

Core Skills

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant full-stack work
  • Expert-level React and TypeScript with deep understanding of modern patterns and performance optimization
  • Strong backend development experience with direct database integration, and API design
  • Experience designing centralized business logic layers reusable across multiple platforms (SSR, APIs)
  • Database expertise: Schema design, query optimization, PostgreSQL
  • Production experience with real-time web technologies (WebSockets, SSE, WebRTC)
  • Deep understanding of web performance (Core Web Vitals, bundle optimization, lazy loading, code splitting)
  • Experience with state management at scale (Redux, Zustand, Jotai, Recoil, or similar)
  • Strong experience in systems-level programming for performance-critical applications, with proficiency in low-level optimization techniques including parallel processing, memory management, profiling, and benchmarking.
  • Experience building robust file processing systems including upload/download handling, media compression and format conversion, file validation, and quality checks.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and monitoring/observability practices.

LottieFiles Perks

  • Fully Remote Working Environment
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • A welcome gift and LottieFiles swag pack
  •  Bonus to set up your workstation at home
  • Unlimited Leave Days
  • Medical Insurance
  • Generous learning budget
  • Gym membership
  • Co-working space membership

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Skills Required

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant full-stack work
  • Expert-level React and TypeScript
  • Strong backend development experience with direct database integration and API design
  • Database expertise: Schema design, query optimization, PostgreSQL
  • Production experience with real-time web technologies (WebSockets, SSE, WebRTC)
  • Strong experience in systems-level programming for performance-critical applications
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and monitoring/observability practices
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
111 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

LottieFiles is the creator of the animation file format, dotLottie (over 600% smaller in size than a GIF), the animation workflow platform LottieFiles, and is one of the largest, most active community of Motion Designers, Animators and Developers around Lottie Animations. LottieFiles is now used by over 65,000+ Global Companies. The company aims to streamline the animation workflow and create a new realm of possibilities with Interactive Design across industries such as media, marketing, platforms, gaming etc.

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