Staff Software Engineer (Frontend), Application Platform Track

Staff Software Engineer (Frontend), Application Platform Track

PandaDoc is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to join our Application Platform track, specifically in the Surfaces (Core UX) area — a team dedicated to building and evolving the core frontend infrastructure and user experience foundations that power the PandaDoc application.

We’re looking for an experienced engineer passionate about crafting high-quality user interfaces, elevating developer experience, and shaping platform-wide frontend strategy at scale. You’ll play a critical role in defining the technical vision for our shared components, performance tooling, and frontend architecture — helping us scale PandaDoc’s UI and design system across 35+ product teams.

Surfaces is the foundational team for PandaDoc’s frontend experience. We focus on:

• Evolving frontend architecture to improve scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Delivering modern shared components and primitives that support a consistent and delightful user experience
• Empowering product teams with better DX and tooling for building UI faster and safer
• Driving best practices in accessibility, performance, testing, and maintainability
• Leading cross-team initiatives to modernize the frontend stack and introduce new technologies

• Define and drive long-term technical strategy for core frontend architecture, shared components, and performance
• Lead design and delivery of scalable, reusable, and accessible UI components that align with our design system
• Collaborate across product and platform teams to ensure consistent user experience and engineering practices
• Guide major architectural improvements and migrations (e.g., modernizing React usage, bundling strategies, or performance instrumentation)
• Mentor engineers across the company on frontend best practices, accessibility, testing, and performance
• Set standards and drive adoption of new tools, libraries, and patterns that elevate developer experience and code quality
• Identify and resolve complex frontend challenges related to performance, accessibility, or scalability
• Partner with Design Systems and Platform teams to align on foundational UI and DevEx investments

• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Event Sourcing
• React
• Redux
• Redux-saga
• Styled-components
• Webpack
• Jest/testing-library, playwright

Company Overview

PandaDoc empowers more than 60,000 growing organizations to thrive by taking the work out of document workflow. PandaDoc provides an all-in-one document workflow automation platform that helps fast scaling teams accelerate the ability to create, manage, and sign digital documents including proposals, quotes, contracts, and more. For more information, please visit https://www.pandadoc.com.

Company Culture We're known for our work-life balance, kind co-workers, & creative virtual team-bonding events. And although our Pandas are located across the globe, we stay connected with the help of technology and ensure that everyone on our team feels, well, like a team. Pandas work best when they're happy. We retain our talent by upholding our values of integrity & transparency, and selling a product that changes the lives of our customers. Our attainment of awards such as Best Workplace, Best StartUp Employer and a Stevie Award for Best Employers demonstrate our commitment to our culture.

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• Lead platform-wide UI architecture that impacts millions of users
• Work with a kind, collaborative, and driven team of engineers and designers
• Influence the direction of frontend development across the company
• Help shape the future of PandaDoc’s engineering excellence and product quality
• Enjoy a supportive, remote-first environment that prioritizes growth and autonomy

• Remote-first approach with the option for hybrid work from our offices in Kyiv, Warsaw, and Lisbon.
• We value long-term collaboration, whether through typical employment contract, employment of record or B2B arrangements. Be aware that contract type and benefits vary by location - feel free to clarify with our recruiters.
• Work schedule aligned with EU time zones.
• Honest, open culture that values constructive feedback.
• Professional and personal development within a collaborative, supportive team.
• Stable yet growing SaaS product offering an agile environment, ownership, start-up energy, and strong technical challenges.

• 8+ years of frontend engineering experience, including 2+ years in a staff or principal-level role
• Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend architectures
• Strong understanding of web performance, responsive design, and testing strategies
• Experience designing scalable component libraries or frontend frameworks used by multiple teams
• Proven track record of technical leadership in cross-functional, multi-team initiatives
• Passion for clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence engineers and stakeholders at all levels
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, driving alignment, and making pragmatic trade-offs