(1610) Principal FE Engineer

Job description

Join Nortal for your next big adventure. We are seeking **Principal FE Engineer** to join our team, grow with us, and teach us a few things along the way. **Why join Nortal** - **Say Goodbye to Micromanagement:** We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values. - **Outcomes Over Hours:** We believe in a work model focused on impact, providing you with the flexibility to balance your professional success with your personal well-being. - **Vibrant Community:** Join our close-knit LATAM remote team and connect through tech talks, virtual coffee breaks, and team-building activities. - **Support from Day One:** Our People Care team is here to support you throughout your journey, from wellness check-ins to professional growth. **Our benefits** ✨ - **Competitive USD salary.** - **100% remote work:** While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM. - **Paid time off & national holidays:** Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations while receiving your full salary. - **Sick leave:** Focus on your health without stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better. - **Annual credit:** Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance. - **Team-building activities:** Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community. - **Birthday off:** Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family. **About the project** Join the team behind an innovative 3D home design platform used by millions of customers worldwide. As a Principal-level Web Engineer, you’ll lead the development of highly interactive web experiences built on an existing 3D interface and graphics engine, helping shape a product that combines spatial computing, 3D graphics, e-commerce, and consumer technology at global scale. In this role, you will architect, implement, and optimize consumer-facing web applications connected to the platform’s 3D capabilities. You will own technical direction, web quality, performance, and the evolution of architectures, APIs, and features across the web and microservices cloud platform. You will be a trusted technical leader who can solve complex and novel problems, explain trade-offs, and connect technical decisions to product and customer outcomes. You will be hands-on for our distributed web engineering team. This is an approximately 50/50 role: part hands-on product engineering and part technical leadership, architecture, web quality, and partnership with Product and stakeholders. You will guide engineers and drive technical decisions without requiring direct people management. **What you’ll do** - Own and improve web capabilities so they deliver meaningful customer and product outcomes while remaining well engineered, maintainable, performant, and scalable. - Own and coordinate complex technology roadmaps with a distributed development team and our partners, making trade-offs clear and adapting the approach to novel problems. - Be a trusted technical partner to Product Managers, designers, company leadership, and external partners, translating product goals into technical direction and communicating risks and trade-offs clearly. - Drive seamless customer journeys by working closely with service teams to design, build, and develop an integrated customer experience across online and in-store channels. - Own and promote healthy engineering practices: conduct code reviews, maintain code and architecture quality, write and review software design documents, improve observability and performance, and drive efficient and effective test automation. **What makes you a great fit** - Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field - 7+ years of recent, hands-on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frontend development and React (or equivalent component frameworks), with deep expertise in state management, performance optimization, and frontend architecture. - 8+ years engineering substantial full-stack web codebases live in production, including ownership of systems at scale and experience understanding how frontend, backend, APIs, data, and infrastructure connect. - 3+ years providing technical leadership for small engineering teams (3-6 engineers) on business-critical projects, including mentoring, technical direction, hiring support, and growing the effectiveness of other engineers. Direct people management is not required. - 5+ years designing and shipping complex distributed systems, including API design, microservices integration, performance-critical architectures, and meaningful production ownership. - Strong foundations in Computer Science, software engineering, and structured problem solving. - Fluency with Internet web technologies and modern full-stack web application technology stacks. Backend language experience may include Node, Python, Java, .NET, or equivalent technologies. - Familiar with best practices for DevOps, observability, testing, and quality practices for effective and efficient delivery. - Experience with consumer internet applications and the ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes are strongly desired.