Join us in bringing joy to customer experience. Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, bringing the power of cloud innovation to customers worldwide.
Living our values everyday results in our team-first culture and enables us to innovate, grow, and thrive while enjoying the journey together. We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive environment, empowering our employees to be their authentic selves.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Digital Team, you will design, develop, and maintain frontend software solutions supporting Five9’s digital initiatives. This role focuses on building scalable, reliable, and high-performance frontend applications.
Our dedicated team is committed to optimizing user experiences, streamlining workflows, and enhancing productivity across the board. Whether empowering agents with intuitive interfaces, equipping supervisors with powerful management tools, or enabling seamless access to critical applications across multiple platforms, we strive to deliver with efficiency and customer satisfaction.
You will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and advancing applications and component libraries across Five9. Responsibilities include software design and development, testing, and documentation across our React component library and applications. A passion for developing consistent, high-quality, and performant user interfaces is essential.
The role also involves deep technical exploration of emerging technologies and partnering with product teams to bring innovative ideas into production. In addition, this position plays a key role in mentoring engineers and driving frontend engineering best practices across Five9.
What You'll Do• Build reusable, responsive, and WCAG-accessible components for our design system and web applications while translating Figma designs into production-ready component code aligned with design specifications
• Maintain and organize the design token system, bootloader, and codemods in collaboration with other frontend developers and the design team
• Continuously improve our React component library by adopting modern frontend packages, patterns, and engineering best practices
• Ensure seamless deployment by implementing CI/CD workflows, unit tests, integration tests, and visual regression testing, while publishing and communicating component library enhancements
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including design teams, product managers, UI architects, and frontend developers to build new capabilities and improve existing experiences
• Advocate and establish standards, best practices, and engineering guidelines that ensure high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code
• Drive architectural discussions and influence technical direction across frontend initiatives
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers through code reviews, strategic planning, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
• Stay current with evolving technologies and help evaluate and adopt tools that strengthen our frontend ecosystem
What You Bring• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate and resolve complex application issues
• 7–10 years of frontend development experience with modern web technologies
• Strong expertise in React and TypeScript
• Strong proficiency in semantic HTML, CSS (preferably SCSS), and JavaScript
• Experience building and maintaining component libraries, design systems, and design tokens
• Strong expertise in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Experience with frontend tooling and migration frameworks (preferably Vite and Codemods)
• Experience with testing frameworks such as React Testing Library, Cypress, Enzyme, and Chromatic
• Experience working closely with design teams using Figma
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, application performance optimization, and scalable UI patterns
• Understanding of product architecture and modern frontend application design principles
• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written, with a proactive approach to collaboration
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and ownership-driven, with a strong commitment to delivering high-quality solutions
• Comfortable leveraging agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development environments to enhance productivity and code quality
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
Nice to Have• Experience with Tokens Studio and Style Dictionary for managing design tokens
• Experience with Storybook
• Experience with bundlers such as Rollup
• Deep understanding of CORS, CDNs, and i18n
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, JIRA, Confluence, and end-to-end testing practices
• Exposure to backend technologies and API-driven architectures
Technology & ToolsLanguages & Frameworks: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS/SCSS
Frontend Ecosystem: Storybook, Design Tokens, Vite, Rollup, Codemods
Testing: React Testing Library, Cypress, Enzyme, Chromatic
DevOps & CI/CD: Git, GitLab CI/CD
Design & Collaboration: Figma, JIRA, Confluence
Hardware: Apple MacBook options available
Five9 embraces diversity and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better we are. Five9 is an equal opportunity employer.
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Skills Required
- 7-10 years of frontend development experience with modern web technologies
- Strong expertise in React and TypeScript
- Proficiency in semantic HTML, CSS (preferably SCSS), and JavaScript
- Experience building and maintaining component libraries and design systems
- Strong expertise in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Experience with frontend tooling and migration frameworks (preferably Vite and Codemods)
- Experience with testing frameworks such as React Testing Library, Cypress, Enzyme, and Chromatic
- Experience working closely with design teams using Figma
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
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What We Do
Five9 is an industry-leading provider of cloud contact center solutions, bringing the power of cloud innovation to more than 2,000 customers worldwide and facilitating billions of customer engagements annually. The Five9 Intelligent Cloud Contact Center provides digital engagement, analytics, workflow automation, workforce optimization, and practical AI to help customers reimagine their customer experience. Designed to be reliable, secure, compliant, and scalable, the Five9 platform helps increase agent and supervisor productivity, connects the contact center to the business, and ultimately deliver tangible business results including increased revenue and enhanced customer trust and loyalty
