The Role
The Front End Engineer will design and maintain software applications, focusing on scalable user interfaces, accessibility, and performance. Responsibilities include leading frontend architecture, hands-on development with React.js, mentoring junior engineers, and optimizing applications for user experience and performance.
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About Perceptyx
The Role
What You’ll Do
What You Bring
Our Interview Process & AI Transparency
At Perceptyx, we’re on a mission to help organizations turn employee insights into measurable impact. Our AI-enabled employee experience platform leverages the science of listening, behavioral nudges, and predictive analytics to help clients elevate engagement, retention, and performance. We’re a team of innovators fueled by purpose, collaboration, and excellence — and we’re looking for someone who wants to play at the highest level.
As a Front End Engineer at Perceptyx, you will play an important role in designing, developing, and maintaining modern software applications that support our platform and customer experience. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams and fellow engineers to build scalable, high-performing user interfaces and contribute clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
In this role, you’ll collaborate on technical solutions, participate in code reviews, and help ensure engineering best practices are followed throughout the development lifecycle. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to architecture discussions, solve complex technical challenges, and continuously improve the quality and performance of our applications.
- Architect & Lead: Define and drive frontend architecture, coding standards, and design principles to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.
- Hands-On Development: Build high-quality, performant, and reusable components using React.js, TypeScript, and related libraries.
- Accessibility & Responsiveness: Champion accessibility (WCAG compliance) and responsive design, ensuring our applications work seamlessly across devices and for all users.
- Collaboration: Partner with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver cohesive features and intuitive user interfaces.
- Code Quality: Conduct code reviews, enforce best practices, and promote test-driven development.
- Mentorship: Guide and coach junior and mid-level engineers, fostering growth in technical depth and architectural thinking.
- System Thinking: Anticipate scaling challenges, plan for performance optimizations, and ensure smooth integration with APIs and backend systems.
- Continuous Improvement: Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks to recommend enhancements that elevate team velocity and product quality.
- Documentation & Standards: Write and maintain technical documentation, coding standards, and architectural guidelines to ensure consistency and knowledge sharing.
- Monitoring & Optimization: Monitor frontend performance and user experience in production (Core Web Vitals, error tracking, real-user monitoring) and drive continuous improvements.
- Experience: 5+ years in frontend development with increasing responsibility and ownership.
- React Expertise: Strong proficiency in React.js, TypeScript, hooks, state management patterns (Redux, Zustand, or Recoil), and React Query (or similar).
- Architecture Leadership: Experience designing large-scale SPAs with modular, reusable component architectures.
- Accessibility & UI/UX: Strong knowledge of WCAG standards, semantic HTML, ARIA, and responsive web design best practices.
- Testing: Hands-on experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress) for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Performance Optimization: Ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks (bundle size, rendering, caching, lazy loading).
- Tooling & CI/CD: Familiarity with modern build tools (Webpack, Vite, or similar) and working in CI/CD environments.
- Collaboration: Strong communication and leadership skills, with proven ability to influence architecture decisions across teams.
- AI-Assisted Development: Familiarity with modern AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools to accelerate development and boost productivity.
- Education: Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Bonus Points:
- Exposure to backend concepts (APIs, cloud services like AWS) and DevOps practices.
At Perceptyx, we value your time and want our interviewers to be fully engaged in the conversation.
- Note-Taking: We use Metaview.ai to record and summarize our interviews. This allows our hiring team to focus on you rather than typing notes, ensuring a fairer and more accurate evaluation of your experience.
- AI Disclosure: While we use AI to assist in summarizing interview data, all final hiring decisions are made by Perceptyx employees. We do not use automated tools as the sole basis for selecting or rejecting candidates.
- Your Choice (Opt-Out): Participation in recorded interviews is voluntary. If you prefer not to have your interview recorded via Metaview, please notify your recruiter prior to the start of the session. Opting out will not negatively impact your candidacy.
Perceptyx is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We comply with all local labor laws (Law 19.691 and Equality Act 2010) to ensure fair treatment globally.
Skills Required
- 5+ years in frontend development
- Strong proficiency in React.js and TypeScript
- Experience designing large-scale SPAs
- Knowledge of WCAG standards and responsive design
- Hands-on experience with testing frameworks
- Ability to optimize performance
- Familiarity with modern build tools and CI/CD
- Strong communication and leadership skills
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field
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The Company
What We Do
Perceptyx combines employee surveys and people analytics in a way that not only helps you see more of what’s going on in your organization, but also helps you see how to drive the organization forward. Too many surveys only focus on measurement, with overly prescriptive models that don’t offer a fresh perspective on the challenges facing your business. And they rarely connect the dots between the employee experience and business outcomes, making it difficult to know which actions will have the greatest impact. With a solution fully tailored to your specific organizational needs, Perceptyx makes it possible for organizations to see more clearly, see the bigger picture, and see the next steps. It’s why nearly one-third of the Fortune 100 already rely on Perceptyx and why 95% of the organizations that come to us stay with us. - Perceptyx. See the way forward.
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