Principal Frontend Engineer

September 18

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Paddle

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SaaS • Fintech • B2B

Paddle is a comprehensive merchant of record and payment solution specifically designed for SaaS businesses. It provides a complete suite of products and services including billing, subscription management, pricing strategies, tax compliance, fraud protection, and more. Paddle helps software companies manage payments, streamline billing, and enhance customer retention with tools like ProfitWell Metrics and Price Intelligently. By handling sales taxes, fraud liability, and all aspects of the billing process, Paddle enables SaaS businesses to focus on growth without worrying about the complexities of global compliance.

201 - 500 employees

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

💰 Debt Financing on 2022-05

📋 Description

• Own and articulate the long-term technical vision and architectural strategy for Paddle's frontend ecosystem • Define durable frontend architectural patterns, component libraries, and design systems that enable multiple teams to build consistently and safely at speed • Champion innovation in user experience technology and drive adoption of emerging frontend patterns that deliver measurable improvements in performance, accessibility, and developer velocity • Initiate and drive large, complex programmes of work that simplify frontend systems, improve performance metrics, and accelerate feature delivery • Serve as the decision-maker on high-stakes technical choices and architectural trade-offs • Develop deep product fluency connecting frontend architecture decisions to user satisfaction, conversion rates, and business metrics • Partner with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to turn ambitious user experience ideas into feasible technical implementations • Establish monitoring, performance profiling, and debugging patterns to elevate frontend operational excellence • Mentor Staff and Senior engineers and grow frontend technical leadership capability across the organisation • Represent Paddle's frontend technical direction in executive and cross-functional forums and lead transformative programmes to retire frontend complexity

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise designing and evolving large-scale, business-critical frontend systems with strong foundations in performance, accessibility, and maintainability • Mastery of React, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript ecosystems • Deep domain expertise in web service technologies (CDNs, monitoring tools like Sentry, performance optimization) • Track record of leading company-level frontend technical strategy and delivering multi-quarter, cross-team initiatives • Experience operating as an architect, strategist, and problem solver, making high-stakes technical decisions • Comfortable collaborating and getting hands-on with code, including code reviews and system design • Extensive experience leading large-scale initiatives and/or managing other engineers • Excellent communication skills across audiences, from engineers to executives • Championing frontend best practices including performance optimization, security, accessibility, and testing • Intellectual curiosity and passion for web technology evolution • Experience empowering and uplifting others through mentorship and documentation

🏖️ Benefits

• Attractive salaries • Stock options • Retirement plans • Private healthcare • Well-being initiatives • Unlimited holidays • Enhanced parental leave • Annual learning fund • Regular internal and external training • Flexible working (remote, hubs, hybrid) • Stylish office hubs