Cue

Senior Frontend Engineer

South Africa

6 days ago
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Summary

At Cue, we’re redefining customer engagement with modern, AI-powered chat solutions across WhatsApp, web chat, Messenger, and more.


We’re looking for a Full Stack Frontend Engineer who’s passionate about building world-class UI experiences, solving complex technical challenges, and shaping the next generation of our omni-channel customer service platform. You’ll work on highly scalable, maintainable applications using React, TypeScript, and modern frontend technologies, while collaborating with our global team of engineers, designers, and product leaders.


What You’ll Do

  • Architect, bootstrap, and maintain large-scale React applications built to last
  • Own and evolve a shared design system and component library used across multiple applications
  • Build complex, rich, and reusable UI components that balance flexibility, performance, and accessibility
  • Write well-abstracted interfaces and patterns for maximum reusability, extensibility, and long-term maintainability
  • Lead frontend initiatives across products, contributing to long-term product design decisions
  • Collaborate with product, design, and backend engineers to ship impactful features
  • Maintain an extremely high bar for code quality, reliability, and performance
  • Mentor and guide other engineers in frontend best practices


What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years experience building frontend applications, with 3+ years deep React experience
  • Proven experience building and scaling enterprise-grade React apps
  • Strong TypeScript proficiency with a deep understanding of type systems and composition patterns
  • Demonstrated experience maintaining shared component libraries or design systems across multiple apps
  • Skilled at building complex UIs using TailwindCSS, Emotion, or similar tools
  • Experience writing clean, abstracted, and extensible APIs and interfaces for reusable components
  • Familiar with react-query, react-router, zustand, xstate or similar modern frontend libraries
  • Understanding of performance tuning, accessibility, testing strategies, and UI architecture
  • Comfortable working across the stack and collaborating effectively with other engineers


The perks:

  • Choose your own equipment - Choose your laptop and other equipment with our starter kit budget.
  • Remote work - Work remotely or from our offices in Cape Town
  • Unlimited leave - Take leave when you need with our unlimited leave policy.
  • Flexi-time – Choose when to do your best work and collaborate with the team.

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