Front-end Software Engineer, Semi Senior

Who You Are

• You have at least 3 years of professional frontend development experience.
• You are solid in React and Next.js, comfortable with modern tooling like Webpack and Babel.
• You write clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and you know TypeScript well enough to use it daily.
• You have hands-on experience with CSS frameworks like Tailwind and unit testing libraries like Jest and React Testing Library.
• You build responsive, accessible web applications and work comfortably in Scrum sprints.
• You read technical documentation in English and communicate clearly with distributed teams.

Projects

Puente Talent Partners connects top Latin American professionals with growing US companies. This role is for one of our US clients, and you would be joining their team directly while being supported by Puente through the hiring process. Our client is an edtech company with a strong presence across Latin America and a robust engineering culture. Their product teams work cross-functionally using agile methodologies to build scalable digital solutions for education. You join a 13-person engineering team leading a year-long platform migration, working in sprints alongside product and development. The team uses modern tooling including React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind, and they value collaboration, code quality, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

You join a 13-person engineering team leading a year-long platform migration. You build and migrate the frontend toward the company's tech stack, working in sprints alongside product and development. This is an execution role: you take concrete problems, solve them, and ensure quality in every delivery. This role fits someone who writes clean code, owns problems end-to-end, and thrives in collaborative agile environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and migrate frontend code for digital products into the company's stack.
• Build solutions the team needs, sprint by sprint, meeting delivery commitments.
• Work in a multidisciplinary team alongside product managers and engineers.
• Contribute to frontend technology decisions and architecture discussions.
• Identify and resolve complex problems while maintaining code quality and test coverage.
• Participate in code reviews and help raise engineering standards across the team.

What to expect

Here is what to expect after you apply

1. You will get an email from Puente with a short online assessment and a quick grammar check.
2. You will record three short video answers so we can see how you communicate.
3. If it looks like a fit, our recruiter sets up an interview.
4. Shortlisted candidates are introduced to the US client team for final interviews.

This is a full-time remote position with a fixed schedule (Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 6 PM UTC-3). You will be hired as an independent contractor. The team works in a collaborative agile environment with a focus on quality and mentorship.

Bonus points

Bonus points

• Portuguese language skills (part of the team works in Portuguese).
• Experience modernizing or migrating a production web application.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and testing tools.

What success looks like

• You are integrated with the team, delivering frontend code at sprint velocity with clean, reviewed code.
• You have shipped at least two migration components that pass quality gates and are live in production.
• You understand the company's tech stack, deployment process, and team working agreements.
• You consistently deliver high-quality frontend work on schedule, with minimal rework or bugs.
• You contribute to architecture decisions and help the team raise code quality standards.
• You mentor junior engineers and help unblock teammates when they face technical challenges.