What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Front-End Engineer position at Robots & Pencils?
Location: USA (Remote Friendly)
Robots & Pencils is seeking a Front-End Engineer (L4) to help build a modern, unified digital experience platform for a large multi-venue hospitality and entertainment organization. You will work on high-impact web applications that support personalized guest journeys, real-time itinerary orchestration, and seamless cross-property experiences.
You'll develop modern user interfaces using React and Next.js, deployed on Vercel, integrate with a headless CMS (Contentful) and a scalable middleware/API layer (MuleSoft), and collaborate with architects, designers, backend engineers, and data teams to deliver full product slices end-to-end. You'll also take ownership of app logic, ensuring smooth integration between frontend components and backend services.
This role is ideal for a front-end engineer with strong engineering fundamentals, deep experience with React/Next.js, and a product mindset focused on quality, iteration, and excellent user experience and accessibility.
Key Responsibilities
Front-End Development & App Logic
You'll work on one of the most ambitious digital transformation initiatives in our portfolio — creating a unified platform that powers real experiences for thousands of visitors across multiple venues. You'll join a team that values creativity, iteration, engineering excellence, app logic clarity, accessibility, and high-quality user experiences.
Robots & Pencils is seeking a Front-End Engineer (L4) to help build a modern, unified digital experience platform for a large multi-venue hospitality and entertainment organization. You will work on high-impact web applications that support personalized guest journeys, real-time itinerary orchestration, and seamless cross-property experiences.
You'll develop modern user interfaces using React and Next.js, deployed on Vercel, integrate with a headless CMS (Contentful) and a scalable middleware/API layer (MuleSoft), and collaborate with architects, designers, backend engineers, and data teams to deliver full product slices end-to-end. You'll also take ownership of app logic, ensuring smooth integration between frontend components and backend services.
This role is ideal for a front-end engineer with strong engineering fundamentals, deep experience with React/Next.js, and a product mindset focused on quality, iteration, and excellent user experience and accessibility.
Key Responsibilities
Front-End Development & App Logic
- Build responsive, performant, and accessible web applications using React and Next.js.
- Translate UX/UI designs, user journeys, and requirements into reusable, maintainable, production-ready components.
- Implement app logic, connecting UI components to backend services, APIs, middleware, and Contentful CMS.
- Integrate front-end features with REST/GraphQL APIs and third-party systems to enable real-time, personalized experiences.
- Contribute to front-end architecture decisions, coding standards, and best practices.
- Ensure excellent performance, scalability, and accessibility (WCAG) across devices and platforms.
- Leverage AI-assisted coding tools for rapid development, refactoring, and testing while maintaining high code quality.
- Identify opportunities to optimize UI workflows, app logic, and delivery efficiency.
- Work closely with backend engineers, designers, QA, product managers, and architects to deliver complete feature slices.
- Participate in sprint ceremonies—planning, grooming, stand-ups, retrospectives.
- Support integration across complex systems (legacy modern) to ensure consistent and smooth user experiences.
- Advocate for user-centered design, accessibility, and clean code.
- Contribute to documentation, component libraries, and reusable design systems.
- Monitor frontend performance, recommend improvements, and maintain high engineering standards.
- 7 years of professional front-end experience.
- Strong proficiency in React, Next.js, JavaScript (ES6 ), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3.
- Experience with state management libraries (Redux, Zustand, or equivalent).
- Solid understanding of responsive design, accessibility (WCAG), and modern UI performance techniques.
- Experience with API integration (REST/GraphQL) and headless CMS platforms (Contentful).
- Familiarity with AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Codeium, etc.) to enhance productivity.
- Strong engineering fundamentals and understanding of modern SDLC practices.
- Experience with modern cloud hosting (Vercel) and edge deployment models.
- Exposure to MuleSoft or other API gateway/middleware integrations.
- Experience in large-scale, multi-team, distributed enterprise environments.
- Understanding of frontend performance profiling, analytics, and monitoring.
- Clear and proactive communicator
- Comfort with ambiguity and complex system landscapes
- Product thinking with strong user empathy
- Proactive problem-solving and ownership mentality
- Adaptability and ability to move quickly while maintaining high quality
- Strong attention to detail and craftsmanship
You'll work on one of the most ambitious digital transformation initiatives in our portfolio — creating a unified platform that powers real experiences for thousands of visitors across multiple venues. You'll join a team that values creativity, iteration, engineering excellence, app logic clarity, accessibility, and high-quality user experiences.