Company Description
Welcome to SMG Swiss Marketplace Group!
SMG is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and a leading European digital company that simplifies people’s lives with forward-looking products. We operate leading marketplaces across real estate, automotive, general classifieds, and finance & insurance. We’re driven by our values: Better Together, Aim High, and Act Responsibly.
Job Description
As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll be a hands-on technical leader with company-wide impact across our Real Estate vertical. You’ll shape and evolve the frontend architecture powering our portals, create shared frontend solutions adopted by multiple teams, and orchestrate complex cross-team initiatives.
Meet the Team
At SMG, our strength lies in our people. Meet the Manager with whom you could work:
- Yuliya Zvolskaya - Engineering Manager - LinkedIn
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the evolution of our Real Estate frontend architecture to support future requirements, defining and improving SLAs/SLOs while anticipating ripple effects across systems in collaboration with other senior engineers and principals.
- Design and create shared frontend libraries, components, and tooling (e.g., design system, performance tooling) that are widely used by internal teams, focusing on pragmatic, reusable solutions and driving their adoption.
- Orchestrate multi-system refactors and migrations, breaking projects into manageable pieces while coordinating with engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders.
- Act as a go-to person across teams and locations for frontend topics, influencing how web experiences are built across the Real Estate organization.
- Mentor and coach other engineers through structured mentorship, pairing, and feedback, helping them grow their skills and addressing skill gaps.
- Model a healthy feedback culture, assisting team members in navigating tough conversations and conflicts constructively.
- Challenge and improve team and cross-team processes, proposing changes to enhance focus, quality, and speed as needed.
- Write code while also multiplying the effectiveness of others, balancing personal contributions with team impact.
Your Day-to-Day
- You'll be part of a regular product team, dividing your time between product delivery and staff responsibilities based on current needs and priorities.
- Innovate, design, implement, and deploy frontend-focused engineering solutions for our Real Estate products, from discovery to production.
- Own the end-to-end technical vision for key user journeys like Homegate and Immoscout24, with a strong focus on performance, accessibility, UX quality, and reliability.
- Lead cross-team frontend initiatives and advocate for the resolution of cross-cutting technical bottlenecks at the leadership level.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to shape technical strategy and trade-offs for new features and platform work.
- Partner with DevX to co-develop engineering 'blueprints' and health scorecards, setting the gold standard for our frontend repositories.
- Evaluate, prototype, and introduce new frontend technologies and approaches, documenting findings and advocating for adoption.
- Own and evolve the Frontend ADR process to ensure technical decisions are documented and consistently implemented.
- Guide and review the work of other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and informal coaching.
- Help the team embrace AI & large language models in engineering workflows and products.
- Contribute to and facilitate guilds, tech chats, and other cross-team knowledge-sharing formats.
- Promote a culture of high-quality engineering encompassing testing, monitoring with Datadog, observability, security, and operational excellence.
Our Tech Stack
- Frontend: Mainly Vue.js and some React, using TypeScript as the language of choice.
- Backend: Node.js and TypeScript in a serverless and microservices architecture using AWS (including Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and S3).
- Monitoring & Observability: Primarily Datadog with logging and alerting best practices.
- AI & Tooling: We actively adopt the latest developments in AI technology and encourage innovation in daily workflows.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional experience with Vue.js or similar frameworks.
- A proven track record in implementing and maintaining automated frontend testing using tools such as Jest, Vitest, and/or Cypress.
- Solid hands-on experience building production applications with Vue 3.
- Experience collaborating with designers using Figma.
- Strong experience building and evolving large-scale frontend applications in modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, managing complex initiatives while coordinating multiple stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of modern CI/CD practices for frontend development, including automated release strategies and feature flagging.
- Experience creating and driving adoption of shared frontend solutions like design system components and shared libraries.
- Excellent English communication skills, capable of explaining complex topics clearly to diverse audiences in an international team setting.
Our Culture
We value engineers who:
- Thrive in collaborative environments and are true team players.
- Have a growth mindset and are curious; we love growing together.
- Are passionate about frontend architecture and building & scaling cloud-based solutions.
- Are open to change and proactive in proposing pragmatic solutions.
- Challenge the status quo to improve outcomes for users and the organization.
- Enjoy solving complex, ambiguous problems with creativity and adaptability.
What Do We Offer?
- 6 weeks of holidays per year, plus the option to purchase an additional 10 weeks.
- A 40-hour work week with flexitime (capped at 45 hours).
- A hybrid work setup offering flexibility to work remotely.
- Generous parental leave: 18 weeks for maternity and 6 weeks for paternity/adoption.
- SBB Half-Fare Card and first-class travel between SMG offices in Switzerland.
- Gender-neutral pay and transparent career paths.
- Choose your gear: Mac or Windows laptop, plus an iPhone, Samsung, or Pixel mobile.
- An inclusive and innovative environment where your voice matters.
Application Process
Apply online using the form below.
Only applications matching the job profile will be considered.