Software Engineer (Front End)

Wonder Group•Boston, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wonder is the mealtime platform built to feed every craving in one order. With Wonder, you can mix and match hundreds of dishes from 20+ exclusive restaurants in a single order, so everyone gets exactly what they’re craving. Enjoy everything from tacos to Thai with $0 delivery fees, plus dine-in or pick up at a Wonder location near you. Each dish is made to order on-site by our culinary team and served hot. Behind the scenes, Wonder owns and operates every step of the dining experience, from recipe development to the technology that powers our experience, allowing us to deliver quality, variety, and consistency at scale. Join us as we work to make great food more accessible. Within Wonder, the Robotics team is a core pillar of our innovation strategy. We build the automation solutions that help make Wonder’s 'no-compromise' promise possible at scale. Our mission is to use robotics to enable incredible variety and culinary authenticity. By reimagining the kitchen environment, we improve the daily experience of our team members and ensure every customer receives a perfect meal, every time. The best in the business are coming to Wonder, working every day to make us the destination for every mealtime moment. Join a team of technology, culinary, and logistics pioneers, backed by top-tier venture capitalists, and help us make great food more accessible. About The Opportunity We are looking for a Frontend Engineer to join our team and build high-performance interfaces that control our automated restaurants. In this role, you will be working on tools that allow operators to interact with our robotic kitchen. You will work primarily with Vue.js, TypeScript, and CSS using websockets to facilitate communication between our cloud infrastructure and on-premise robotics. You will collaborate closely with cross functional teams spanning from software, hardware, and product to ship features that are not only functional but resilient enough to power the future of food-tech.

Requirements

3+ years of professional frontend development experience, with deep expertise in Vue.js (or similar frontend frameworks, e.g. React, Angular, Svelte), TypeScript and CSS .
State Management Understanding: Strong experience with a centralized state management store and a deep understanding of how to manage complex, reactive data structures.
Design Sensibility: A strong eye for UI/UX and the ability to contribute meaningfully to design discussions, ensuring tools are intuitive for restaurant team members.
WebSocket Fluency: Proven experience building applications that rely on persistent, two-way communication protocols for real-time updates.
Performance Mindset: Ability to identify bottlenecks, using profiling tools to diagnose and solve performance issues under heavy loads.
Pragmatic & Curious: A willingness to learn the Elixir/Phoenix layer when a project calls for it.

Responsibilities

Own the User Interface: Develop and maintain the Vue.js applications that serve as the primary interface for our robotics, providing restaurant team members with real-time visibility and controls to our machines.
Master Real-Time Communication: Build and optimize systems that rely heavily on WebSockets , ensuring the UI stays responsive and accurate while processing high-frequency data from our backend.
Collaborative Design: Partner with Product Designers to translate Figma mockups into reality, providing technical feedback to find the sweet spot between ambitious UX and high-performance implementation.
Performance Engineering: Proactively diagnose and solve frontend performance bottlenecks, ensuring that complex state changes don’t compromise the user experience in high-pressure kitchen environments.
Bridge the Stack: While primarily focused on Vue.js, you’re excited to familiarize yourself with our whole tech stack, eager to learn new frameworks and languages.