(1610) Principal FE Engineer
Nortal · Engineering · Lead · 19d ago
Open to candidates across LATAM.
Applies on the original listing · via Himalayas
Who can apply
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Open to candidates across LATAM.
“Join our close-knit LATAM remote team and connect through tech talks, virtual coffee breaks, and team-building activities.”
Remote LATAM team collaborating with clients in the US and stakeholders in Europe.
- Async-first
- Operates in an asynchronous engineering environment with flexibility, though requires meeting overlap with Europe.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As a Principal Web Engineer, you will lead the development of highly interactive web applications built on an existing 3D interface and graphics engine for a platform used by millions of customers. This is an approximately 50/50 role split between hands-on product engineering and technical leadership, architecture, and web quality. You will guide engineers and drive technical decisions without direct people management, optimizing consumer-facing web experiences and connecting frontend services to microservices backend systems.
What you'll do
- Own and improve web capabilities to deliver impactful customer outcomes while maintaining scalability, performance, and code quality.
- Coordinate complex technology roadmaps with a distributed engineering team and external partners.
- Partner with Product Managers, designers, and leadership to translate product requirements into technical direction.
- Promote robust engineering practices through code reviews, software design documents, observability, and test automation.
- Provide technical mentorship to small engineering teams and assist with hiring.
What you bring
- 7+ years of hands-on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
- 8+ years engineering production full-stack web codebases with ownership of systems at scale.
- 3+ years of technical leadership experience mentoring small engineering teams.
- 5+ years designing and shipping complex distributed systems and APIs.
- Advanced English proficiency to effectively communicate with US clients and distributed teammates.
- Ability to adjust work schedule for European meetings, with Eastern Time alignment preferred.
About Nortal
Nortal is a global digital transformation consultancy with over 25 years of experience delivering complex solutions for enterprises and public sector organizations. They leverage domain expertise, data, and AI to build scalable technology solutions that work in the real world.
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