Senior Front-End Engineer
Type
Onsite
Location
Toronto, ON
Experience
Senior (5+ yrs)
Posted
3 days ago
Tech Stack
Quick Take
Rumble is hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer to modernize core web experiences using Lit and TypeScript. This role involves migrating from legacy PHP systems to a component-driven architecture on a small, collaborative team.
Role Overview
🏢 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.
Why This Role?
This is a curated frontend role from Rumble. Every listing on OnlyFrontendJobs is hand-picked for frontend relevance and quality. The tech stack leans on Lit, TypeScript, JavaScript.
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