Senior Staff Frontend Engineer

OpenLoop Health•Des Moines, IA

About The Position

OpenLoop provides clinical and operational infrastructure for digital-health brands, clinics, and employers delivering virtual care across all 50 states. Its clients access the infrastructure through a client platform that ranges from a no-code storefront to a Partner API. The Senior Staff Frontend Engineer serves as the technical architect for OpenLoop’s unified web platform, built on multiple services and by multiple teams. The role defines the platform’s front-end structure, packaging, distribution, and performance strategy, and leads the migration of existing applications into the unified platform while maintaining compatibility for clients. The engineer contributes production code regularly, establishes patterns for the broader engineering organization, and keeps the needs of patients, clinicians, and clients central to technical decisions. This is an architecture-focused role.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, primarily in front-end/UI development.
Deep expertise in React and Next.js, modern TypeScript, and build tooling.
Experience building or scaling a large enterprise front end composed of many services and built by multiple teams.
Demonstrated success improving UI performance, including the ability to explain problems diagnosed, measurement methods, and results.
Strong problem-solving and system-level thinking.
Care for end-user experience and the ability to consider the customer’s or patient’s perspective.
Clear communication with engineers, designers, and product partners, including explaining architectural tradeoffs to non-specialists.

Nice To Haves

Experience with micro-frontend architectures or module federation.
Familiarity with user personas, UX research, and accessibility standards.
Comfort with design tools such as Figma.
Experience in healthcare or another regulated domain.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Architect a unified front end over multiple backend services, defining module boundaries, routing, shared state, and ways for teams to ship independently.
Own the strategy for shared libraries, component systems, and package distribution.
Set load-time and bundle budgets, diagnose and improve platform performance, and implement real-user monitoring across pages.
Lead the migration of existing web applications into the unified platform, using a deliberate sequence and clear compatibility windows.
Work with UX designers and product partners to deliver accessible, responsive experiences for desktop and mobile browsers.
Write production code regularly and establish front-end patterns and coding standards.
Review code and mentor full-stack engineers working on the front end.
Help design the front-end interview process and serve as a technical interviewer.