Staff Software Engineer (Frontend), Application Platform Track
PandaDoc is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to join our Application Platform track, specifically in the Surfaces (Core UX) area — a team dedicated to building and evolving the core frontend infrastructure and user experience foundations that power the PandaDoc application.
We’re looking for an experienced engineer passionate about crafting high-quality user interfaces, elevating developer experience, and shaping platform-wide frontend strategy at scale. You’ll play a critical role in defining the technical vision for our shared components, performance tooling, and frontend architecture — helping us scale PandaDoc’s UI and design system across 35+ product teams.
About Surfaces (Core UX)
Surfaces is the foundational team for PandaDoc’s frontend experience. We focus on:
- Evolving frontend architecture to improve scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Delivering modern shared components and primitives that support a consistent and delightful user experience
- Empowering product teams with better DX and tooling for building UI faster and safer
- Driving best practices in accessibility, performance, testing, and maintainability
- Leading cross-team initiatives to modernize the frontend stack and introduce new technologies
In this role, you will
- Define and drive long-term technical strategy for core frontend architecture, shared components, and performance
- Lead design and delivery of scalable, reusable, and accessible UI components that align with our design system
- Collaborate across product and platform teams to ensure consistent user experience and engineering practices
- Guide major architectural improvements and migrations (e.g., modernizing React usage, bundling strategies, or performance instrumentation)
- Mentor engineers across the company on frontend best practices, accessibility, testing, and performance
- Set standards and drive adoption of new tools, libraries, and patterns that elevate developer experience and code quality
- Identify and resolve complex frontend challenges related to performance, accessibility, or scalability
- Partner with Design Systems and Platform teams to align on foundational UI and DevEx investments
Our stack
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Event Sourcing
- React
- Redux
- Redux-saga
- Styled-components
- Webpack
- Jest/testing-library, playwright
Company Overview PandaDoc empowers more than 60,000 growing organizations to thrive by taking the work out of document workflow. PandaDoc provides an all-in-one document workflow automation platform that helps fast-scaling teams accelerate the ability to create, manage, and sign digital documents including proposals, quotes, contracts, and more. For more information, please visit https://www.pandadoc.com
Company Culture We're known for our work-life balance, kind co-workers, & creative virtual team-bonding events. And although our Pandas are located across the globe, we stay connected with the help of technology and ensure that everyone on our team feels, well, like a team. Pandas work best when they're happy. We retain our talent by upholding our values of integrity & transparency, and selling a product that changes the lives of our customers. Check out our LinkedIn to learn more.
Why join us?
- Lead platform-wide UI architecture that impacts millions of users
- Work with a kind, collaborative, and driven team of engineers and designers
- Influence the direction of frontend development across the company
- Help shape the future of PandaDoc’s engineering excellence and product quality
- Enjoy a supportive, remote-first environment that prioritizes growth and autonomy
Benefits
- An honest, open culture that emphasizes feedback and promotes professional and personal development
- An opportunity to work from anywhere — our team is distributed worldwide.
- 6 self-care days
- A competitive salary
- Medical insurance
- And much more!
About you
- 8+ years of frontend engineering experience, including 2+ years in a staff or principal-level role
- Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend architectures
- Strong understanding of web performance, responsive design, and testing strategies
- Experience designing scalable component libraries or frontend frameworks used by multiple teams
- Proven track record of technical leadership in cross-functional, multi-team initiatives
- Passion for clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence engineers and stakeholders at all levels
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity, driving alignment, and making pragmatic trade-offs
