Senior Software Engineer (Frontend/Vue.js)

OnTheClock LLC•Clinton Township, MI

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

OnTheClock is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in Vue.js and modern frontend development to join their growing engineering team. The role involves specializing in the web frontend (Vue.js 3/Nuxt 3/TypeScript) while also working full-stack across .NET backend APIs, SQL Server database, and AWS infrastructure. OnTheClock is a successful Michigan-based SaaS company with over 160,000 monthly active users, providing time tracking, scheduling, and payroll solutions. The company is investing in engineering excellence and building a strong internal team to scale towards a goal of 1 million users. This role offers significant technical influence, allowing the engineer to shape architecture, drive technical decisions, establish best practices, and modernize systems. The company fosters a culture of engineering excellence, valuing initiative, continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and high standards, with a focus on collaboration, growth, and immediate impact. The role is ideal for senior engineers seeking ownership, variety, impact, and the opportunity to establish engineering excellence rather than just maintain existing systems. The company is a small, growing team where engineers will wear multiple hats and have a broad impact, which may not be suitable for those seeking narrow specialization found in larger companies.

Requirements

6+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, building production web applications
Strong expertise in modern frontend development (advanced)
Vue.js 3, Nuxt 3, TypeScript
Component architecture, state management (Pinia/Vuex), reactive patterns
HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, accessibility fundamentals
Build tooling (Vite, Webpack), performance optimization
REST API consumption and frontend/backend integration
Strong backend capabilities (proficient)
Willing and able to work in .NET/C# backend code, and write API endpoints
Not just a frontend specialist, you can trace a bug from the UI through the API to the database
Strong SQL Server or relational database experience (proficient)
Experience with production support, monitoring tools (New Relic, Sentry, or similar), and comfort with on-call rotation (proficient)
Proactive and takes initiative: You see problems and fix them. You don’t wait for perfect instructions.
Lifelong learner: You stay current with technology. You experiment. You read the docs. You share what you learn.
Excellent communicator: You can clearly explain complex technical concepts. You ask questions when something is unclear. You document decisions.
Collaboration: You give helpful code reviews. You accept feedback gracefully. You make your teammates better.
Low ego: The best idea wins, regardless of seniority.
Comfortable with ambiguity: this is a new team, and we’ll figure things out together.
Bias toward action: You ship working code. You iterate. You don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Comfortable speaking up, challenging ideas respectfully, and driving discussions
High standards for quality and engineering excellence

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, IAM) or cloud infrastructure
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
Experience with third-party API integrations (payroll providers, accounting systems, etc.)
Experience with or strong interest in AI-powered tools for developer productivity
Experience in modernizing legacy codebases or reducing technical debt
Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions
Experience working in small teams where you wore multiple hats
Some leadership experience (tech lead, mentoring, architecture ownership) or aspiration to grow in this direction

Responsibilities

Design, build, ship, and maintain features across our web application (Vue.js 3/Nuxt 3/TypeScript), with contributions to our backend APIs (.NET/C#/Web API), that serve 160,000+ monthly active users
Build responsive, accessible, and performant user interfaces using Vue.js 3, Nuxt 3, and TypeScript
Provide technical leadership and expertise across projects, offering architecture guidance, system design recommendations, and best practices
Own significant technical areas end-to-end, from database schema design to frontend UI, taking initiative to identify improvements and drive them to completion
Conduct thorough code reviews and architecture reviews, raising the bar for code quality and helping the team make better technical decisions
Collaborate closely with Product and the Development Manager to shape the technical roadmap and prioritize engineering initiatives
Debug and resolve production issues using monitoring tools like New Relic and Sentry, participating in an on-call rotation to ensure system reliability
Work on AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, IAM), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), and DevOps processes to improve deployment reliability and developer productivity
Mentor other engineers as the team grows, sharing knowledge through code reviews, pair programming, documentation, and fostering a culture of continuous learning