Lead/Senior Frontend Engineer
About Locofy.ai
Locofy.ai is a fully remote (Singapore HQ) startup, building a low-code development devtool platform to help accelerate developers & designers to launch their core web/mobile products 5-10x faster. Having raised $7.5M in seed funding from the likes of Northstar Ventures, Accel, January Capital, Golden-Gate Ventures, BoldCap and backed by founders of Dropbox, Ola, Lottiefiles, Hasura, Holistics, Wego, Paysense, GajiGesa, Ohmyhome, 1bstories, Cyber-Sierra, it launched its beta platform in January 2022.
We're young, but we've made some serious progress - our Product Hunt launch in July 2022 was really encouraging and our community feedback has been strong! We got #1 Product of the Day, Week, and Month subsequently along with #1 Developer Tool and #1 Design Tool of the Day, Week and Month, and it's been a crazy ride ever since!
After running Locofy.ai in free public beta for 3.5 years, Locofy.ai recently came out of beta with paid plans in September 2024 and very rapidly sold 1000+ subscriptions with 50+ Enterprises.
The founders have held CxO roles in Product & Technology at some of Asia’s top startups covering Gaming, Travel, Fintech, Healthtech, and SaaS, and won multiple awards for their products globally. After years building these products, they’re now determined to build a devtools SaaS platform from South-East Asia to improve the lives of product & engineering teams globally!
At the heart of everything, Locofy's mission is to build for builders i.e. developers, designers & product managers. As builders ourselves, we want to allow anyone with any idea to be able to build world-class products with lean teams, by empowering their teams with digital steroids to move faster!
Reports To
Head of Engineering (but work closely with both founders & founding employees)
Job Location
Vietnam (Remote)
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Lead Engineer to lead the company’s technology efforts. You will be working in the extremely challenging low-code design to code domain and you will be responsible for end-to-end development of the platform, starting from prioritization of the roadmap, solutioning with PMs and leading squads all the way to launch. The candidate has to be almost obsessed with web/app development to the point that they can dare to automate their work (i.e. code). The ideal candidate is someone who is very strong at problem-solving, able to lead squads, have expertise in various mobile and web frontend-end tech stacks and frameworks and also loves being hands-on with coding the most complex parts. The candidate should be able to propose solutions that benefit the wider mobile & web development communities globally. We’re building for engineers, and we expect to build nothing short of perfection!
Responsibilities and Duties
You’ll own the development of the Locofy.ai plugins and Builder. You will be in charge of architecting, building and managing key components like design to code generation, supporting existing design tools and tech stacks combinations (Figma, AdobeXD to React, React Native, Nextjs, Gatsby, HTML-CSS, Vue and Angular) and also helping build new solutions for Sketch, Svelte, Flutter etc while extend the utility of the overall platform to beyond design to code. You will be involved in all aspects of the product including product design, platform strategy and development. Some more responsibilities include:
- Working closely with the Head of Engineering, the founders, PMs and designers to spec, build and iterate the platform to help solve problems for web & mobile app developers. You will be in charge of solutioning for some of our most challenging projects.
- While a strong grasp of front-end concepts is essential for this role, it’s just the starting point. The true priority is problem-solving—you’ll frequently tackle complex, ambiguous challenges that impact thousands of developers.
- Lead and manage different squads, provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, and more importantly build the most complex parts
- Design and develop well-structured and scalable architecture
- Implement latest development trends and establish best practices
- Troubleshoot user reported issues and resolve them
- Continuously improve the code quality and user experience through testing and feedback from the team
Requirements
- Total Experience as an engineer: 7+ years with 3+ years of experience in technical lead roles
- Super passionate/obsessed about web and app development to the point that you can automate your own code
- Strong experience building web applications in common web frameworks and libraries and its best practices
- Experience building products in a fast-moving startup is mandatory given the nature of the job
- Experience building lightweight UI libraries from scratch
- Experience writing well-optimized CSS & Javascript, understands how code minification works, and able to resolve cross-browser compatibility issues
- Demonstrate strong ownership and accountability while thriving under high-pressure situations
- Ability to work effectively in a remote collaborative environment
Apply on Linkedin if interested!
