Staff Software Engineer (Frontend), Application Platform Track

PandaDoc is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to join our Application Platform track, specifically in the Surfaces (Core UX) area — a team dedicated to building and evolving the core frontend infrastructure and user experience foundations that power the PandaDoc application.

We’re looking for an experienced engineer passionate about crafting high-quality user interfaces, elevating developer experience, and shaping platform-wide frontend strategy at scale. You’ll play a critical role in defining the technical vision for our shared components, performance tooling, and frontend architecture — helping us scale PandaDoc’s UI and design system across 35+ product teams.

About Surfaces (Core UX)

Surfaces is the foundational team for PandaDoc’s frontend experience. We focus on:

• Evolving frontend architecture to improve scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Delivering modern shared components and primitives that support a consistent and delightful user experience
• Empowering product teams with better DX and tooling for building UI faster and safer
• Driving best practices in accessibility, performance, testing, and maintainability
• Leading cross-team initiatives to modernize the frontend stack and introduce new technologies

In this role, you will

• Define and drive long-term technical strategy for core frontend architecture, shared components, and performance
• Lead design and delivery of scalable, reusable, and accessible UI components that align with our design system
• Collaborate across product and platform teams to ensure consistent user experience and engineering practices
• Guide major architectural improvements and migrations (e.g., modernizing React usage, bundling strategies, or performance instrumentation)
• Mentor engineers across the company on frontend best practices, accessibility, testing, and performance
• Set standards and drive adoption of new tools, libraries, and patterns that elevate developer experience and code quality
• Identify and resolve complex frontend challenges related to performance, accessibility, or scalability
• Partner with Design Systems and Platform teams to align on foundational UI and DevEx investments

Our stack

• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Event Sourcing
• React
• Redux
• Redux-saga
• Styled-components
• Webpack
• Jest/testing-library, playwright

About you

• 8+ years of frontend engineering experience, including 2+ years in a staff or principal-level role
• Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend architectures
• Strong understanding of web performance, responsive design, and testing strategies
• Experience designing scalable component libraries or frontend frameworks used by multiple teams
• Proven track record of technical leadership in cross-functional, multi-team initiatives
• Passion for clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence engineers and stakeholders at all levels
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, driving alignment, and making pragmatic trade-offs

Why join us?

• Lead platform-wide UI architecture that impacts millions of users
• Work with a kind, collaborative, and driven team of engineers and designers
• Influence the direction of frontend development across the company
• Help shape the future of PandaDoc’s engineering excellence and product quality
• Enjoy a supportive, remote-first environment that prioritizes growth and autonomy

Benefits

• An honest, open culture that emphasizes feedback and promotes professional and personal development
• An opportunity to work from anywhere — our team is distributed worldwide.
• 6 self-care days
• A competitive salary
• Medical insurance
• And much more!

Company Overview
PandaDoc empowers more than 60,000 growing organizations to thrive by taking the work out of document workflow. PandaDoc provides an all-in-one document workflow automation platform that helps fast-scaling teams accelerate the ability to create, manage, and sign digital documents including proposals, quotes, contracts, and more. For more information, please visit https://www.pandadoc.com.

Company Culture
We're known for our work-life balance, kind co-workers, & creative virtual team-bonding events. And although our Pandas are located across the globe, we stay connected with the help of technology and ensure that everyone on our team feels, well, like a team. Pandas work best when they're happy. We retain our talent by upholding our values of integrity & transparency, and selling a product that changes the lives of our customers. Check out our LinkedIn to learn more.

Benefits

• An honest, open culture that emphasizes feedback and promotes professional and personal development
• An opportunity to work from anywhere — our team is distributed worldwide.
• 6 self-care days
• A competitive salary
• Medical insurance
• And much more!

PandaDoc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal treatment of all employees without regard to race, national origin, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, physical or mental disability or other basis protected by law.

EXTERNAL RECRUITERS
Approval Requirement
Using external recruiters/staffing agencies requires prior approval from our HR Team. The HR Team at PandaDoc requests that external recruiters/staffing agencies not to contact PandaDoc employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. Complying with this request will be a factor in determining future professional relationships with PandaDoc.