Principal Frontend Engineer

About

Trusted by 20,000+ property managers worldwide, Hostaway is an industry leading AI-powered vacation rental management platform designed for professional short-term rental operators. Hostaway brings everything together for greater efficiency and faster growth. Profitable, high-growth, and the first short-term rental Property Management System unicorn.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the frontend architectural vision: design systems, micro-frontends, developer tooling, and long-term scalability.
• Lead cross-organization frontend initiatives, influencing multiple teams and aligning technical direction with product strategy.
• Establish and champion standards for accessibility, performance, and usability across the company but specifically our front-end community.
• Mentor and grow technical leaders, raising the bar for frontend engineering excellence.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver cohesive, scalable, and customer-centric solutions.
• Identify and drive tech debt remediation to ensure frontend scalability and maintainability.
• Influence executive-level decisions on frontend technology strategy.

Job Requirements

• 10+ years in frontend engineering, with proven architectural leadership.
• Deep expertise in React, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
• Led large-scale frontend transformations—such as micro-frontend migrations, monolith decomposition, framework modernisation, or design system overhauls—that impacted multiple teams and required coordinated organisational change.
• Strong knowledge of frontend performance optimisation, accessibility (a11y), testing at all layers (unit, component, system).
• Skilled in modern build and release tooling (Webpack, Vite, CI/CD).
• Experience integrating design workflows (Figma, tokens, component libraries).
• Exceptional ability to influence across functions (Engineering, Product, Design).
• Experience leading micro-frontend migrations or frontend platform refactors.
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, GCP).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and their frontend implications—including state management across services, handling eventual consistency, error boundaries for service failures, and frontend observability.
• Proven track record of leveraging AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLMs) to accelerate development velocity while maintaining code quality.
• Advocates for AI adoption across teams, establishes guardrails for AI-assisted development, and fosters a culture of experimentation with emerging AI-powered workflows.

What success looks like

• Frontend platform scales seamlessly across domains and teams.
• Consistent design system adoption and strong developer experience (DX).
• Accessibility and performance are embedded as non-negotiable standards.
• Teams feel empowered to move fast without compromising quality.
• Frontend engineering contributes directly to product differentiation and customer delight.
• Customer feedback loops inform technical decisions—hosting regular session-replay reviews, translating user pain points into backlog priorities, and using qualitative data to validate architectural choices.

What we offer

• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
• 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table.