Remote Senior Frontend Engineer

Description:

• Canals is a bootstrapped, profitable startup transforming wholesale distribution with AI.
• The company operates with a fully remote team of 55 people, including 40 in engineering, across North and South America.
• Canals is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to design and build rich, performant web applications for supply-chain operations.
• The role involves owning major parts of the frontend architecture and collaborating closely with product and design teams.
• Responsibilities include building and maintaining core frontend features using React, TypeScript, and modern web tooling.
• The engineer will own large, complex UI projects from architecture to implementation, polish, and performance.
• Collaboration with product designers and backend engineers is essential to translate business logic into intuitive interfaces.
• The engineer will shape and evolve the design system and component libraries for consistency and speed.
• Performance, accessibility, and reliability optimization across browsers and devices is a key responsibility.
• The role includes reviewing code, mentoring teammates, and raising the overall technical bar of the frontend team.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 5+ years of professional experience in frontend or full-stack engineering.
• Expert-level knowledge of React, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript/HTML/CSS is required.
• Proven experience in shipping complex, data-driven web applications in production is necessary.
• A deep understanding of frontend architecture, state management, and API integration patterns is essential.
• Candidates should have an eye for design and empathy for users, caring about aesthetics and usability.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote, asynchronous environment are required.
• Experience with Next.js, GraphQL, or frontend performance optimization is a plus.

Benefits:

• Canals offers a stable, bootstrapped, and profitable environment with product-led growth.
• Employees enjoy high ownership and the opportunity to work directly with founders and senior engineers without bureaucratic obstacles.
• The company fosters an engineering-driven culture that values craftsmanship, documentation, and autonomy.
• Employees have the chance to make a real-world impact by helping to move physical goods more efficiently across the globe.
• The position is remote-first and flexible, allowing collaboration with a top-tier team across the Americas.