Staff Frontend Engineer - Commerce
GoHighLevel· Engineering – Mobile & Commerce
RemoteEmployee IndiaPosted 1w ago
About the role
Technical owner of the Commerce frontend across HighLevel, responsible for architecture, standards, performance, accessibility, and quality. Combines Commerce-specific leadership with broader HighLevel frontend platform collaboration in an individual contributor, staff-level role.
Responsibilities
- Publish the Commerce frontend standard: architecture, state, data fetching, testing, accessibility, and performance for all Commerce teams.
- Instrument real-user monitoring on every Commerce surface and publish field metrics (LCP, INP, CLS) per surface with owning teams.
- Review frontend pull requests across Commerce to raise quality and document patterns for scalable reviews.
- Map the central frontend platform roadmap to Commerce needs and establish a working contract between Commerce and the platform team.
- Set up ongoing design reviews with the central platform team to maintain alignment between Commerce and platform decisions.
- Produce a frontend hiring plan detailing how many engineers, at what levels, and in what order.
- Ship architecture enabling Commerce teams to independently build and deploy surfaces with enforced module boundaries.
- Put performance and bundle budgets in CI for every Commerce route and treat regressions as failures.
- Make accessibility a gate with automated CI checks and manual audits on checkout/storefront flows (WCAG 2.2 AA).
- Land typed, generated API clients end to end to catch backend contract changes at compile time.
- Contribute at least one Commerce-built capability to the central platform adopted by another organization.
- Hire and onboard the first Commerce frontend engineers.
- Lead or co-lead HighLevel-wide frontend decisions with the central platform team (RFCs) and drive Commerce standards across the company.
- Operate Commerce storefronts that meet Core Web Vitals targets and WCAG 2.2 AA, while ensuring backend engineers ship compatible frontend features.
Qualifications
- 9+ years of experience in building frontend systems
- Built commerce surfaces at scale: storefronts, checkout, or point of sale
- Built or led a design system consumed by many teams and shipped breaking changes safely
- Used ConnectRPC, gRPC-Web, or protocol buffers from the browser
- Read and write Go well enough to build or review a backend-for-frontend
- Contributed to open source, web standards discussions, or the frontend community
- Taught backend engineers to ship good frontend code
- Contributed to a shared frontend platform or design system used by several product organizations
Skills
Required:Frontend architectureDesign systemsBrowser-based RPC/contract techGo (backend-for-frontend reading/review)AccessibilityPerformance engineeringCross-team collaboration
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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