Description
We are looking for a senior frontend developer with a focus on React to expand our engineering team and contribute to the development of robust web applications and reusable components.
**Responsibilities and duties**
* Design and develop complex web applications using React and TypeScript
* Define and evolve frontend architecture (state management, data-fetching, composition)
* Create and maintain reusable components and scalable design systems
* Ensure application performance, accessibility, and reliability
* Actively participate in code reviews, establishing standards and best practices
* Work closely with Product and Design teams, participating in technical and experience-related decisions
* Identify technical bottlenecks and propose continuous improvements to the codebase
**Requirements and qualifications** **Essential:**
* Solid experience with modern JavaScript and TypeScript
* Proficiency in React (hooks, composition, context, performance optimizations)
* Strong understanding of frontend architecture — experience with REST and/or GraphQL, including caching and invalidation strategies
* Advanced use of data-fetching tools (React Query, TanStack Query, etc.)
* Writing unit and integration tests
* Experience with version control, code review, and team workflows
* Experience in agile environments with incremental deliveries
**Desirable:**
* Experience with Next.js
* Knowledge of web performance (LCP, CLS, TTFB, bundle size)
* Familiarity with frontend observability (logs, metrics, errors)
* Experience with i18n, multilingual products, or global products
* Understanding of browser internals, event loop, and rendering pipeline
* Experience with large-scale design systems
* Experience with monorepos or multiple products sharing a codebase
**Additional information**
**What it’s like to work at Wave**
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At Wave, we believe in an environment where autonomy and responsibility go hand in hand.
We are a fully remote company, meaning we trust people to do their best work from wherever they are — with freedom, transparency, and collaboration.
We value curious individuals who want to learn, grow, and be part of something purposefully built. Here, everyone has an active voice, real impact on decisions, and space to propose solutions and innovate.
**Employment model:** Individual Contractor (PJ).
**Work format:** Remote — we work from anywhere.
**Our culture**
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**Be so good they can't ignore you:** We solve problems at their root, deliver with quality and depth (based on data and best practices).
**Care for people:** Because we are diverse and strive to build an environment that expands people’s worldview and careers.
**Heart for the customer:** We focus on the value we can help them achieve by solving relevant problems.
**Passion for practice:** We believe in learning by doing, and that a well-executed good idea is better than a brilliant idea that never leaves the drawing board.
**Wave is a movement toward digital transformation for major industries across Latin America, powered by accessible, reliable, and incredibly efficient technology — at scale.**
Technology and customer needs have evolved significantly over the past decades, while many large enterprises continue operating with legacy structures and solutions. Our mission is to help these organizations become more digital and simpler by building better customer journeys — while gaining financial and operational efficiency.
Today, most of our team (80%) works in technology — engineering, design, and product. We deeply value **what we do** and **how we do it**, caring for one another and fostering an environment where work has purpose and real impact. This drives us to **solve relevant problems**, reducing inefficiencies across processes.
We know many of these challenges are complex, and what brought us here won’t necessarily carry us forward. That’s why we cultivate a culture of **autonomy** and **continuous learning**, where curiosity and the desire to evolve are fundamental.
We believe that by fostering people’s growth — as professionals and human beings — we create a space where people feel good, challenged, and able to develop while (intra)entrepreneuring together, building a global, enduring, and impactful tech business.
**Come expand your world (and your career) with us.**