Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Freshworks • San Mateo, CA

2h • $127,500 - $157,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Freshworks, we believe exceptional user experiences begin with exceptional engineering. As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you’ll drive the development of fast, accessible, and elegant interfaces across our suite of global products. You’ll translate complex business flows into delightful interactions, and champion performance and usability at every step.
If you think in components, sweat over rendering speed, and love writing code that feels smooth—you’re in the right place.

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years of frontend development experience in product teams.
• Core Frontend Proficiency: Expertise in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fundamentals, including UI prototyping, advanced CSS properties, and core JS concepts like closures.
• Modern Frameworks & Ecosystem: Strong grasp of JavaScript framework concepts (e.g., component architecture, state management).
• Frontend Quality & Performance: Ability to implement UI optimizations, ensure web accessibility, performance tuning, rendering strategies and address frontend security concerns.
• Problem-Solving & Optimization: Proven skill in solving and optimizing medium-level coding problems, with a strong understanding of time and space complexity.
• Proficiency in writing and reviewing semantic, maintainable, and testable frontend code.
• Software Design: Proficiency in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) for building extensible, clean, and well-structured frontend code. Worked on frontend architecture and performance in apps with large user bases.
• End-to-End Component Ownership: Experience in designing, implementing, and delivering full-stack components, including backend integration and API interaction.
• Advanced Web Concepts: Familiarity with advanced web development topics (e.g., browser APIs, build tools).
• Experience debugging complex UI issues and managing cross-browser support.

Nice To Haves

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Passionate about design systems, UX patterns, and microinteractions.
• Solid grasp of data structures and basic algorithms in frontend context.
• Experience with tools like Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, Jest, Storybook.
• You take pride in clean interfaces, intuitive flows, and pixel-perfect execution

Responsibilities

• Build modular, high-performance UI components using JavaScript frameworks.
• Collaborate with design, product, and backend teams to deliver features that just work.
• Translate business and UX requirements into scalable frontend architecture.
• Lead accessibility, rendering, and UI performance optimization across browsers/devices.
• Review code, guide prototyping efforts, and implement frontend best practices.
• Apply deep understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and browser internals.
• Drive cross-browser compatibility, responsiveness, and seamless interaction.
• Set high standards for design consistency and code quality.

Benefits

• Freshworks offers multiple options for dental, medical, vision, disability and life insurances.
• Equity + ESPP, flexible PTO, flexible spending, commuter benefits and wellness benefits are also offered.
• Freshworks also offers adoption and parental leave benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees