Frontend Engineer, React.js

Overview

Who We Are Is What We Do. Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Why should you be part of our success story? As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We’re not just building software; we’re creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

The Role: We’re looking for a Front-End Software Engineer who’s passionate about building sleek, user-friendly web apps. You’ll work closely with our product, design, and backend teams to bring ideas to life, ensuring our customers have a seamless experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate and Create: Partner with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to develop new features and enhance our products.
• Plan and Execute: Contribute to product planning from the early stages. Your technical insights will help shape the product's direction.
• Build and Optimize: Build scalable and reusable front-end components using React.js and TypeScript, ensuring performance and reliability. Leverage advanced techniques like memoization, lazy loading, and code splitting to optimize performance.
• Ensure Quality: Write tests with Jest and react-testing-library. Use tools like React DevTools to debug and optimize.

What We’re Looking For

• React Expertise: 5+ years of experience with React.js, including hooks, state management (e.g., MobX, Redux), JSX, the virtual DOM, and component lifecycle.
• TypeScript Proficiency: Strong experience with TypeScript, including advanced types, interfaces, and generics for creating type-safe components.
• JavaScript Mastery: In-depth knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+), including closures, async/await, event loop, DOM API, and reactive programming patterns.
• Performance Optimization: Proven ability to optimize apps for speed, efficiency, and responsiveness using techniques such as memoization, lazy loading, code splitting, reducing bundle size, tree-shaking, and leveraging modern build tools (e.g., Vite).
• UI/UX Focus: A strong eye for creating beautiful, intuitive, and responsive user interfaces, with a keen sense for user experience best practice.
• API Master: Expertise in integrating real-world APIs, handling asynchronous operations, and gracefully managing errors.
• Security and Accessibility: Knowledge of web security practices, including preventing XSS and CSRF, and a commitment to building accessible applications.
• Testing Experience: Experience with testing libraries such as Jest and react-testing-library, and familiarity with Storybook for component documentation and testing. Understanding of how to test asynchronous code.

You’ll Fit Right In If

• Excel in the art of designing, coding, testing, and maintaining applications using the tech listed above.
• Thrive in a collaborative, remote-first work culture where teamwork, camaraderie, and being Together Everywhere are key.
• Embrace independence and take ownership of your projects, yet also excel in a team setting and love to contribute.
• Communicate complex ideas with ease and enjoy collaborating with diverse teams of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Are passionate about solving customer problems with your coding superpowers, and approach challenges with Default Optimism whilst maintaining a balanced perspective in all aspects of your work.
• Take a business-focused approach to software development, with a keen eye on delivering high-value outcomes for our clients.
• Embody our core value of Genuine Care, deeply understanding and addressing the impact of your work on our customers.

Bonus Points

• SaaS Experience: Familiar with building SaaS products, especially in a cloud environment.
• Back-end Knowledge: Basic understanding of server-side languages, particularly Node.js, to collaborate effectively with back-end teams.
• FinTech Knowledge: Experience in the FinTech industry is a plus.

Total Rewards

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

Some things you’ll enjoy:

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location.
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country.
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access.

At Deel, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

We will communicate with job applicants using Deel-specific emails, which include @deel.com and other acquired company emails like @payspace.com and @paygroup.com. You can view the most up-to-date job listings at Deel by visiting our careers page.

Deel is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects different abilities, backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, identities and perspectives. Deel will provide accommodations on request throughout the recruitment, selection and assessment process for applicants with disabilities. If you require accommodations, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team via this link and a team member will be in touch to ensure your equal participation.

If you have difficulty accessing the form, please email at recruiting@deel.com.

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