Senior Frontend Engineer (React.js)

Who we are is what we do.

Deel and our family of growing companies are made up of global teams dedicated to helping businesses hire anyone, anywhere, easily.

The team comprises over three thousand self-driven individuals spanning over 100 countries, and our unified yet diverse culture keeps us continually learning and innovating the platform and products for customers.

Companies should be able to hire the best talent anywhere in the world, so we are building the best platform to make that a reality. Our market-leading technology, expertise, and global team are crucial to the platform’s success. We deliver the best products and features in our space, enabling millions of jobs worldwide and connecting the global workforce with the best companies and opportunities.

Why should you be part of our success story?

A 30-mile hiring radius should no longer dictate how companies hire because exceptional talent lives everywhere. Deel sees a world without hiring borders and endless talent that pairs perfect candidates with great companies.

We offer global teams all the tools they need to hire, onboard, manage, pay, and scale at full speed. We aim to foster a diverse global economy by building a generational platform that seamlessly connects companies with talent worldwide.

After our successful Series D in 2021, we raised another $50M in 2023, doubling our valuation to $12B. There’s never been a more exciting time to join Deel — the international payroll and compliance market leader.

The Role:

We’re looking for a Front-End Software Engineer who’s passionate about building sleek, user-friendly web apps. You’ll work closely with our product, design, and backend teams to bring ideas to life, ensuring our customers have a seamless experience.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate and Create: Partner with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to develop new features and enhance our products.

• Plan and Execute: Contribute to product planning from the early stages. Your technical insights will help shape the product's direction.

• Build and Optimize: Build scalable and reusable front-end components using React.js and TypeScript, ensuring performance and reliability. Leverage advanced techniques like memoization, lazy loading, and code splitting to optimize performance.

• Ensure Quality: Write tests with Jest and react-testing-library. Use tools like React DevTools to debug and optimize.

What We’re Looking For:

• React Expertise: 5+ years of experience with React.js, including hooks, state management (e.g., MobX, Redux), JSX, the virtual DOM, and component lifecycle.

• TypeScript Proficiency: Strong experience with TypeScript, including advanced types, interfaces, and generics for creating type-safe components.

• JavaScript Mastery: In-depth knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+), including closures, async/await, event loop, DOM API, and reactive programming patterns.

• Performance Optimization: Proven ability to optimize apps for speed, efficiency, and responsiveness using techniques such as memoization, lazy loading, code splitting, reducing bundle size, tree-shaking, and leveraging modern build tools (e.g., Vite)

• UI/UX Focus: A strong eye for creating beautiful, intuitive, and responsive user interfaces, with a keen sense for user experience best practice

• API Master: Expertise in integrating real-world APIs, handling asynchronous operations, and gracefully managing errors.

• Security and Accessibility: Knowledge of web security practices, including preventing XSS and CSRF, and a commitment to building accessible applications.

• Testing Experience: Experience with testing libraries such as Jest and react-testing-library, and familiarity with Storybook for component documentation and testing. Understanding of how to test asynchronous code.

You’ll Fit Right In If:

• Excel in the art of designing, coding, testing, and maintaining applications using the tech listed above.

• Thrive in a collaborative, remote-first work culture where teamwork, camaraderie, and being Together Everywhere are key.

• Embrace independence and take ownership of your projects, yet also excel in a team setting and love to contribute.

• Communicate complex ideas with ease and enjoy collaborating with diverse teams of technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Are passionate about solving customer problems with your coding superpowers, and approach challenges with Default Optimism whilst maintaining a balanced perspective in all aspects of your work.

• Take a business-focused approach to software development, with a keen eye on delivering high-value outcomes for our clients.

• Embody our core value of Genuine Care, deeply understanding and addressing the impact of your work on our customers.

Bonus Points:

• SaaS Experience: Familiar with building SaaS products, especially in a cloud environment.

• Back-end Knowledge: Basic understanding of server-side languages, particularly Node.js, to collaborate effectively with back-end teams.

• FinTech Knowledge: Experience in the FinTech industry is a plus.

Total Rewards

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

Some things you’ll enjoy

• Provided computer equipment tailored to your role

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location

• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country

• The flexibility of remote work, including WeWork access where available

At Deel, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Unless otherwise agreed, we will communicate with job applicants using Deel-specific emails, which include @deel.com and other acquired company emails like @payspace.com and @paygroup.com. You can view the most up-to-date job listings at Deel by visiting our careers page.

Deel is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects different abilities, backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, identities and perspectives.

Deel will provide accommodation on request throughout the recruitment, selection and assessment process for applicants with disabilities. If you require accommodation, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected] of the nature of the accommodation that you may require, to ensure your equal participation.