Frontend Engineer, Sr. - Remote Opportunity

About the Company

Sniffies is a location-based, interactive web app that helps gay, bi, and curious individuals connect in a safe, judgment-free environment. Its map-based platform lets users discover nearby individuals and popular meetup spots, as well as participate in live video chats. Accessible through any device with a web browser, Sniffies allows users to connect without downloading an app. The company values creativity, collaboration, and an open, team-driven approach to building products for its community.

About the Role

Sniffies is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join its US-based product engineering team. The platform serves around 3 million monthly users and handles approximately 20 million messages each day, making frontend performance, reliability, and real-time functionality central to the role.

You will work in a modern Angular 20+ codebase, building and improving the experiences behind the live map, real-time messaging, subscriptions, advertising, and trust, safety, and privacy workflows. This is a senior individual contributor position for an engineer who can take ownership of features from technical design through release and ongoing improvement, make sound architectural decisions, and help maintain a high standard of engineering quality.

Key Responsibilities

Product Development

• Own frontend features from technical design and implementation through release, monitoring, and iteration.

• Build product functionality using Angular, Capacitor, and Ionic.

• Turn product requirements and design specifications into maintainable, well-structured frontend code.

• Ensure consistent performance across browsers, devices, and mobile app environments.

Architecture and Technical Design

• Write and review technical designs for frontend systems.

• Evaluate architectural tradeoffs and recommend practical solutions that balance delivery speed, quality, performance, and long-term maintainability.

• Lead complex work involving shared components, state management, routing, and API integration.

Performance and Production Quality

• Improve rendering, state management, and network handling across a high-traffic, real-time platform.

• Investigate production issues using Sentry, browser developer tools, logs, analytics, and QA feedback, then implement lasting fixes.

• Reduce regressions and make frontend systems easier to maintain, debug, and extend.

Team Collaboration

• Work closely with product, design, QA, and backend engineering teams to plan and deliver product improvements.

• Support less experienced engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience building, scaling, and supporting frontend applications in production.

• Strong, current expertise in Angular 20+ and TypeScript.

• Significant mobile development experience, ideally with Capacitor and Ionic. Experience with React Native or native iOS and Android development is also relevant.

• Demonstrated experience improving frontend performance for high-traffic, user-facing products.

• Strong knowledge of frontend architecture, component design, state management, routing, and API integration.

• Proven debugging skills across browsers, devices, client-side state, API integrations, and production systems.

• Experience with accessibility, responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility.

• Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively with engineering, product, design, and QA teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with social media, dating, or other consumer-facing platforms, particularly products involving real-time or location-based features.

• Familiarity with mobile release workflows, app store requirements, and native bridge integrations.

• Experience building or maintaining design systems, shared component libraries, or frontend platforms.

• Familiarity with backend development workflows involving Node.js, APIs, MongoDB, or cloud services.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release operations.

Salary and Work Arrangement

• Salary: $152,000–$170,000 per year, plus a 10% bonus.

• ⓘ View potential timezone restrictions

  Location: Remote within the US, with Central to Pacific time zones preferred.