Senior Front-End Engineer

🏢 About Rumble

Rumble is a video platform and part of RUM Group Inc., an AI infrastructure and video company. Rumble provides creators and enterprises with video technologies for reach, scale, and monetization.

🎯 The Role

We are seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer to evolve and scale core web experiences across our platform, including video pages, listings, and short-form content surfaces. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who goes beyond framework usage and deeply understands how the web works under the hood.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Core: Lit, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Tooling: Webpack, Vite, Rollup, Git
• APIs: REST, GraphQL, WebSockets

💼 What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable front-end systems for video playback, content listings, and short-form features.
• Contribute to migration from legacy PHP-rendered systems to modern web component-based architecture using Lit and TypeScript.
• Develop reusable, modular components with a focus on performance and cross-device compatibility.
• Optimize application performance across load time, rendering, and runtime efficiency.
• Collaborate on API integration across REST, GraphQL, and real-time data interfaces.

✅ What You'll Need

• Strong front-end engineering experience with deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of browser fundamentals, including DOM, Shadow DOM, and rendering pipelines.
• Experience with modern front-end architectures and tooling (Webpack, Vite, Rollup).
• Hands-on experience with component-driven development, ideally with Lit or similar web component libraries.
• Proven ability to translate design specifications into performant UI implementations.
• Experience integrating with APIs (REST, GraphQL, WebSockets).

🌟 Nice to Have

• Experience with Lit or web components and migrating from legacy front-end stacks.
• Familiarity with server-rendered applications and hybrid rendering approaches.
• Experience optimizing front-end performance at scale.
• Exposure to video technologies, streaming, or media-heavy applications.
• Understanding of SEO best practices and technical implementation.