Senior Staff Software Engineer, Front-end (Digital Products)

Description

• Architect, design, and develop scalable and performant front-end applications for web and mobile platforms.
• Collaborate with backend and platform engineers to ensure smooth integration and consistency across the digital stack.
• Lead and mentor engineers across multiple squads, fostering growth and raising the technical bar for front-end engineering.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap, ensure alignment with business goals, and guide major initiatives from concept to launch.
• Work with Design and Product teams to deliver seamless and delightful user experiences while balancing technical feasibility and scalability.
• Make critical decisions on frameworks, tooling, and component architecture to support long-term code health and efficiency.
• The responsibilities of this role require 1 day per week attendance in office with in-person meetings and events regularly.
• Define and drive implementation of best practices in front-end development, including accessibility, security, testing, performance, and maintainability.

Requirements

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with a passion for finding elegant solutions to complex challenges
• Residing in San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Prior experience working experience in a manufacturing or automotive environment
• Deep expertise with popular tools/frameworks and libraries such as React.js, WebGL, GSAP, Framer, Stro, etc., along with knowledge of their ecosystem and best practices, is required.
• Exposure to analytics, experimentation platforms, and feature flagging tools.
• Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.
• Experience operating in start-up settings, launching 0 to 1 product
• Expertise in micro-frontend architecture and its practical application in large-scale systems.
• Years of Experience required in type of role: 10+ years in software development and experience with scaling software products, with 4+ years in technical leadership roles focused on front-end development
• Residing in New York City: This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City.
• Residing in Los Angeles: Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Education/Certifications: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Significant contribution to technical roadmaps and strategic planning, ensuring front-end initiatives align with overall business objectives and technology vision.
• Proven ability to define and drive the architectural direction for large-scale front-end systems, with extensive experience building complex applications that consume GraphQL, RESTful, and RPC APIs—ensuring long-term scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Experience building mobile apps or backend services
• Deep knowledge of UI/UX design principles, responsive/mobile-first design, SEO, accessibility (WCAG), and performance optimization.
• Deep understanding and practical experience in identifying, mitigating, and preventing common web application security vulnerabilities, aligning with the OWASP Top 10 risks (e.g., Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Broken Access Control, Injection flaws). This includes a strong command of security best practices, secure coding principles, and experience integrating security into the development lifecycle.
• Deep understanding of robust branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks (Playwright, Cypress), and cloud environments (AWS preferred).

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off including:
• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
• Competitive insurance including:
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with:
• 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance