Senior Software Engineer, Front End (Sales)

Scout Motors • Fremont, CA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Sales Engineering team, you will be a core contributor to the applications that power Scout's sales and operational workflows. You will build intuitive, scalable, and efficient user experiences for the systems that support order management, customer operations, fulfillment, finance, and other critical business functions throughout the vehicle purchase lifecycle. You will work closely with product, design, and backend engineers to ship experiences that customers trust with high-stakes decisions. You will take real ownership of features from design through delivery, contribute meaningfully to technical decisions within the team, and help raise the bar on frontend craft across the codebase. This role is ideal for an engineer who writes thoughtful, production-quality code, values usability and maintainability, and enjoys solving complex workflow and operational challenges. You'll have opportunities to modernize internal platforms, improve business processes through technology, and deepen your expertise in a complex, high-impact transactional domain. Become part of an iconic brand that is set to revolutionize the electric pick-up truck & rugged SUV marketplace.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field
• 5+ years of frontend engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production features end-to-end.
• Deep expertise with popular tools/frameworks and libraries such as React, NodeJS, GSAP, etc., along with knowledge of their ecosystem and best practices, is required.
• Experience in identifying, mitigating, and preventing common web application security vulnerabilities, and strong command of security best practices, secure coding principles, and integrating security into the development lifecycle is required.
• Expertise in micro-frontend architecture and its practical application in large-scale systems.
• Proven ability to drive the architectural direction for large-scale front-end systems, with extensive experience building complex applications that consume CRUD operations in GraphQL, RESTful, and/or RPC APIs, ensuring long-term scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Deep knowledge of UI/UX design principles, responsive/mobile-first design, SEO, accessibility (WCAG), and performance optimization.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with a passion for finding elegant solutions to complex challenges

Nice To Haves

• Experience with a mobile app development framework like React Native is a huge plus.
• Exposure to analytics, experimentation platforms, and feature flagging tools.
• Experience building AI/ML platform foundations or developer AI tooling.
• Experience in automotive, mobility, retail, ecommerce, or digital consumer products.
• Experience building multi-tenant platforms and shared enterprise services.
• Full-stack engineering experience - micro frontend architecture and mobile platform foundations (iOS, Android, React Native).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain polished, performant customer-facing frontend features, writing clean, well-tested code that your teammates can rely on and extend.
• Implement UI components and application logic that are correct, accessible, and consistent with our design system, translating design intent into high-fidelity, maintainable code.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features from scoping and technical design through implementation, testing, and monitoring in production.
• Integrate frontend experiences with backend APIs and third-party services, handling loading states, error conditions, and edge cases thoughtfully.
• Contribute to frontend performance work: improving Core Web Vitals, reducing bundle size, and ensuring the UI holds up under real-world network and device conditions.
• Participate actively in code and design reviews, sharing knowledge and helping maintain a high quality bar across the team.
• Contribute to the shared component library and design system, helping keep it consistent, accessible, and easy for others to use.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to understand requirements and ship solutions that genuinely serve customers.
• Treat accessibility as a core part of the job, building inclusive experiences by default rather than as a retrofit.
• Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully to increase velocity and share effective practices with the team.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance including: Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with: An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including: 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
• Pay Transparency
• Annual performance bonus program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior