Top Front End Developer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Senior frontend-focused software engineer responsible for authentication, verification, and fraud experiences across web, mobile, and backend systems. The role owns team goals, designs and delivers highly available systems, collaborates with product and design partners, improves engineering standards, supports operations and on-call efforts, and mentors engineers. Candidates should have strong web application architecture experience, proficiency with React or Vue and JavaScript or TypeScript, and excellent communication skills.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Lead frontend development for Coinbase identity experiences including login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-factor authentication. Own projects from design through deployment and monitoring, guide Native versus Webview architecture, author technical designs, resolve systemic technical debt, lead on-call and incident response, and mentor engineers.

Lead the architecture and delivery of large-scale React and React Native applications across web and mobile. Establish frontend standards for performance, accessibility, reliability, and maintainability; build shared component libraries and design systems; resolve complex frontend and cross-stack issues; partner with product, design, and backend teams; and mentor engineers while shaping technical strategy across multiple product areas.

Leads the design and development of scalable full-stack software using Node.js, TypeScript, React, and AWS. Builds offline-first progressive web applications, REST and GraphQL APIs, event-driven services, distributed synchronization systems, and reliable data persistence solutions. Ensures data integrity, scalability, testing, and regulatory alignment while collaborating with product, design, security, and compliance teams. Provides technical mentorship and promotes engineering best practices.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Build and own end-to-end frontend experiences for Coinbase card products across web and mobile. Ship high-scale consumer features, improve payment flow performance and SLOs, reduce latency and CX contacts, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver reliable, user-focused card functionality.

Designs, integrates, verifies, and qualifies flight RF front-end electronics for spacecraft phased-array antennas and satellite communications. Responsibilities include RF and mixed-signal circuit design, PCB layout, component selection, phased-array calibration, laboratory characterization, environmental qualification, simulation-to-measurement correlation, troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also mentors engineers and supports repeatable RF design and verification practices.

Build and maintain responsive, accessible front-end interfaces using React, React Native, HTML, CSS, and Shopify. Apply UX/UI principles, collaborate with designers and multidisciplinary teams, provide clear technical feedback, and independently deliver high-quality work on complex technology or AI-related projects. Contractors complete output-based tasks and must meet weekly minimum submission requirements, with an expected start within 24–48 hours of onboarding.

Design, develop, and enhance custom SAP Fiori/UI5 applications; configure Fiori Launchpad; integrate OData services; perform UI debugging, performance optimization, code reviews, unit testing, and documentation while collaborating with backend and functional teams.

Build high-performance, responsive, and accessible frontend applications across e-commerce, B2B, and internal tools using Next.js, React, and TypeScript. Implement design-system components, optimize Core Web Vitals, add animations, support A/B testing, collaborate in a monorepo with backend teams, and design interfaces for AI agents with real-time streaming and error handling.

Build and maintain responsive, accessible React/NextJS web interfaces and support Chrome extension development (Manifest V3). Integrate with backend APIs or WebSockets, optimize performance, write tests, perform code reviews, monitor and document extension and web app behavior, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Volunteer Principal Front End Developer to build React/React Native web and mobile features, mentor engineers, implement scalable full‑stack solutions, ensure cross‑browser compatibility and testing, work with Node/MongoDB/AWS, attend weekly standups, and support a fundraising launch. Minimum 4 hours/week commitment.

Drive front-end development for customer-facing web and mobile experiences. Lead feature delivery from concept to production using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Svelte, and Tailwind. Troubleshoot integrations, write unit and integration tests, produce technical documentation, collaborate with product/design/data, and use AI tooling (preferably Claude) to accelerate design and implementation.

3-month contract Frontend Engineer to build client-facing UIs and integrations for cybersecurity use cases. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to deliver secure, performant, scalable features, maintain component libraries and automated tests. Remote (GMT+8) role focused on TypeScript and modern web tooling.

Develop modern web applications focusing on UI components using React while ensuring performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility.

Design, build, and deliver front-end features with strong UX focus. Own technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring in a continuous delivery, microservices environment. Collaborate with Product, implement automated QA practices, and contribute to production deployments while practicing robust testing methodologies.

Own frontend domains end to end, including architecture, implementation, testing, production quality, performance, accessibility, and security. Set technical direction, design reusable component systems, establish testing strategies, diagnose complex browser and production issues, and partner with Product, Design, QA, and engineering teams. Mentor engineers, review consequential changes, and use AI-first development practices while maintaining accountability for shipped software.

Leads frontend architecture strategy across products, directs design-system platform development, establishes quality, security, accessibility, performance, and testing standards, and creates tooling and guardrails for engineering teams. Sets AI-native frontend practices, improves production health, aligns Engineering, Product, Design, and QA, and develops senior engineers into broader technical ownership. The role remains hands-on for high-risk technical work while emphasizing organizational-scale technical direction.

Design, develop, test, and maintain complex distributed software systems with strong frontend expertise. Lead design and code reviews, translate requirements into scalable and secure solutions, guide sprint delivery, remove impediments, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes modern web applications, APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, containerization, DevSecOps, and technical strategy.

Build and ship polished, accessible, high-performance front-end features for Deepgram's Console and Playground. Partner with product and design to translate ideas into incremental releases, improve internal tools, and uphold front-end engineering standards through code reviews and design discussions.

Build and scale front-end experiences for Alteryx AI products using React, TypeScript, and micro frontend architecture. Develop reusable UI components, integrate backend services and AI workflows, improve accessibility, performance, testing, and reliability, and guide technical direction. Collaborate across Product, Design, Backend, and Platform teams while mentoring engineers and driving modernization, architecture, and developer experience improvements.

Build and own interactive web experiences across Chat, Notes, Calendar, Docs, and Sheets. Develop reusable frontend architecture, real-time collaboration, rich-text editing, scheduling, tables, spreadsheets, and streaming AI integrations. Partner with product, design, backend, and AI engineering teams to deliver reliable, accessible, high-performance experiences across browsers and devices.

Develops modern, responsive, accessible front-end interfaces, reusable component libraries, templates, and interactive features for federal and DoD-aligned IT environments. Collaborates with UX, backend, CMS, and product teams on API integrations, performance optimization, accessibility compliance, cross-browser troubleshooting, documentation, code reviews, and Agile delivery. Requires an active Secret clearance, bachelor’s degree, and at least seven years of front-end development experience.

Develop and maintain responsive front-end interfaces for federal and DoD-aligned digital properties. Responsibilities include UI and CSS updates, Section 508/WCAG accessibility improvements, content-driven template and component changes, cross-browser testing, performance optimization, design system support, code reviews, and deployment validation. The developer collaborates with UX, design, content, and backend teams while following enterprise brand, security, documentation, and version-control standards.