Staff Frontend Engineer (f|m|d) | (80-100%) | Hybrid working model | Zurich

About the job

Company Description

Welcome to SMG Swiss Marketplace Group!

SMG is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and a leading European digital company that simplifies people’s lives with forward-looking products.
We operate leading marketplaces across real estate, automotive, general classifieds, and finance & insurance. We’re driven by our values: Better Together, Aim High, and Act Responsibly.

Job Description

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll be a hands-on technical leader with company-level impact across our Real Estate vertical. You’ll shape and evolve the frontend architecture powering our portals, create shared frontend solutions adopted by multiple teams, and orchestrate complex initiatives.

Meet the team!

At SMG, our strength lies in our people. Meet the Manager with whom you could work:

• Yuliya Zvolskaya  - Engineering Manager -  LinkedIn

At a high level, you will:

• Set technical direction for frontend across multiple teams, building alignment among engineers, product managers, designers and senior stakeholders.
• Influence roadmaps, investment decisions, and engineering priorities by connecting frontend strategy to business outcomes, delivery risk and customer impact.
• Defining and driving the culture of engineering excellence, while leading the evolution of our Real Estate frontend architecture to support future requirements, setting and improving SLAs/SLOs and anticipating ripple effects across systems together with other engineers and principals.
• Act as a trusted technical leader across teams and locations for frontend topics, shaping how web experiences are built across our organisation and influencing decisions at both team and leadership levels.
• Represent frontend engineering in cross-functional and leadership discussions, helping the organisation make better long-term technical trade-offs.
• Design and create shared frontend libraries, components and tooling (e.g. design system, performance monitoring) that are widely used by internal teams, focusing on pragmatic, reusable solutions and driving their adoption.
• Orchestrate multi-system refactors and migrations like framework upgrades, cross-product harmonisation.
• Mentor and coach other engineers through structured mentorship, pairing, and feedback, helping them grow their skills and closing skill gaps you observe in the organisation by organising structured trainings for our people.
• Model a healthy feedback culture, helping people navigate tough conversations and conflicts in a constructive, blameless way.
• Challenge and improve team and cross-team processes, suggesting changes that improve focus, quality, and speed when needed.
• You’ll still write plenty of code, but your impact will be measured just as much by how you multiply the effectiveness of others as by your individual output.
   

Your day-to-day

• You'll be part of a product team, splitting time about half and half between product delivery and staff responsibilities, depending on the current needs and priorities
• Innovate, design, implement, and deploy frontend-focused engineering solutions for our products, from discovery to production.
• Build alignment across teams with different goals and constraints, and unblock progress on ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives. Step in to create clarity, momentum, and shared ownership when needed.
• Own the end-to-end technical vision for key user journeys like Homegate and Immoscout24 and more, with a strong focus on performance, accessibility, UX quality, and reliability
• Lead cross-team frontend initiatives (for example: shared design system improvements, cross-brand UI harmonisation, performance budgets, or observability patterns).
• Identify and surface cross-cutting technical bottlenecks, such as performance drags in the core user journey or build-time inefficiencies, and advocate for their resolution at the leadership level.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to shape technical strategy and trade-offs for new features and platform work
• Partner with DevX to co-develop engineering 'blueprints' and health scorecards, setting the gold standard for what 'good' looks like in our frontend repositories
• Evaluate, prototype, and introduce new frontend technologies and approaches (frameworks, tooling, patterns), document your findings, and drive adoption where they make sense
• Own and evolve the Frontend ADR process, ensuring technical decisions are documented, socialised, and consistently implemented across our organisation
• Guide and review the work of other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, guild, and informal coaching.
• Help the team embrace and leverage AI & large language models in our engineering workflows and products
• Contribute to and facilitate the frontend guild, tech chats, and other cross-team knowledge-sharing formats
• Promote a culture of high-quality engineering: testing, monitoring with Datadog, observability, security, and operational excellence

Our Tech Stack

You’ll work primarily on the frontend, while collaborating with fullstack engineers:

• Frontend: mainly Vue.js and some React, both with TypeScript as the language of choice. We run a mix of client-side, server-side, pre-rendered, and hybrid web apps
• Backend: Node.js and TypeScript, serverless and microservices architecture in a cloud-based environment using AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, and more)
• Monitoring & Observability: Mainly Datadog plus logging/alerting best practices
• AI & Tooling: We actively adopt the latest developments in AI technology and expect you to embrace innovation offered by large language models in your daily work

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience with the Vue.js or similar frameworks
• Proven track record of implementing and maintaining automated frontend testing, using tools such as Jest, Vitest, and/or Cypress
• Experience collaborating with designers using Figma (figma.com)
• Strong experience building and evolving large-scale frontend applications in modern JavaScript/TypeScript
• Proven track record of senior technical leadership in a Staff, Lead, or equivalent role: leading complex cross-team initiatives, aligning diverse stakeholders, influencing decisions without direct authority, and taking responsibility from strategy through rollout and iteration.
• Deep understanding of modern CI/CD for frontend, including automated release strategies and feature flagging in a microfrontend environment.
• Demonstrated experience creating and driving adoption of shared frontend solutions (e.g. design system components, shared libraries, cross-cutting tooling)
• Demonstrated experience influencing multiple teams or an entire product area, including driving alignment, adoption, and durable technical change across various teams.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers or tech leads, and raising the technical bar through coaching, feedback, and role modelling.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with Engineering- and Product leadership, as well as non-technical partners.
• Evidence of defining a technical strategy and turning it into execution across teams.
• Excellent English communication skills, spoken and written.
• You can explain complex topics clearly to different audiences in an international team setting
   

We value engineers who:

• Thrive in collaborative environments and are true team players
• Have a growth mindset and are curious, we love growing together
• Are passionate about frontend architecture and building & scaling cloud-based solutions
• Are open to change and able to propose pragmatic solutions, not just point out problems
• Feel free to challenge the status quo when it improves outcomes for users or the organisation.
• Are creative, adaptable, and enjoy solving complex, ambiguous problems

You will stand out if you have:

• Significant professional experience in software development (including time in senior/lead roles)
• Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (Vue.js, React, or similar)
• Solid hands-on experience building production applications with Vue 3
• Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility, and SEO considerations for large user-facing sites
• Prior working experience with APIs and microservices and how frontend apps best integrate with them
• Prior working experience with cloud service providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud experience with server-side rendering / hybrid rendering patterns and edge / CDN optimisation
• Experience integrating frontends with AWS Lambda

Additional Information

What do we offer?

• 6 weeks of holidays per year (plus option to buy 10 extra)
• 40-hour work week with flexitime (capped at 45 hours)
• A hybrid work setup with flexibility to work remotely
• Generous parental leave: 18 weeks for maternity and 6 weeks for paternity/adoption
• SBB Half-Fare Card and first-class travel between SMG offices in Switzerland
• Gender-neutral pay and transparent career paths
• Choose your gear: Mac or Windows laptop, and iPhone, Samsung, or Pixel mobile
• An inclusive and innovative environment where your voice matters

Recruitment Process

We keep hiring simple and human (mind this is a Senior Technical Leadership role, expect to be challenged):

• Initial Video-Call with one of our Recruiters
• Hiring Manager interview
• Technical Interview
• Team Fit Conversation or Meet relevant Business Stakeholders

Apply now
To take advantage of this great opportunity, please send us your detailed CV and feel free to include any supporting documents that will help us understand why you are the perfect fit.

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About Us

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and a cutting-edge digital company that simplifies people’s lives with innovative products.
SMG Swiss Marketplace Group provides customers with the best tools to meet their life decision needs. The portfolio includes Real Estate (ImmoScout24, Homegate, Flatfox, CASASOFT, IAZI), Automotive (AutoScout24, MotoScout24), General Marketplaces (anibis.ch, tutti.ch, Ricardo) and Finance & Insurance (FinanceScout24, moneyland.ch).

Disclaimer

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group primarily engages with candidates directly. We do not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies unless we have specifically requested their assistance for particular roles. Any submissions made without a prior request from our Talent Acquisition team will not be acknowledged or considered. We appreciate the understanding and cooperation of recruitment agencies in respecting this policy.