The role involves developing large-scale applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React/WordPress, code reviews, and crafting UI components while ensuring high quality and accessibility.
Location: Remote — Anywhere (Open to applicants located anywhere around the globe)
Fueled is a leading digital strategy, design, and engineering agency. We are a 300+ person team that has designed and built hundreds of digital products and experiences for brands like Google, Apple, The New York Times, ESPN, Victoria’s Secret, MGM Resorts, Albertsons, and CLEAR.
As a Contract Senior Front-End Engineer at Fueled, your mission is to architect the user-facing foundation of our digital products, transforming complex design visions into fast, accessible, and elegant experiences. You will bridge creative vision and technical execution across WordPress block themes and Next.js/React applications, demonstrating expertise in both custom CSS craftsmanship and Tailwind-based implementations depending on project requirements. Your versatility between technical environments, strategic integration of AI tools in your workflow, and commitment to performance and accessibility will directly shape how millions of users interact with our clients' brands.
Intentionally remote and globally distributed across six continents, our team thrives in a culture that values flexibility, creativity, and cutting-edge technology. Together, we’re shaping the future of digital experiences.
- Architect and build large-scale, modular front-end products that set new standards for performance, accessibility, and maintainability while bringing ambitious art direction to life.
- Elevate the team's front-end craft through insightful code reviews and by establishing patterns for highly componentized systems that others can follow.
- Transform complex design visions into elegant, functional experiences that balance aesthetic refinement with technical excellence across all browsers and devices.
- Serve as a bridge between creative vision and technical reality, confidently presenting solutions to clients and team members that move projects forward.
- Your code will directly impact millions of users through finely crafted websites and tools that make the web more beautiful, functional, and accessible.
- Within your first month, you'll be fully integrated into our workflow—submitting quality pull requests, receiving constructive code reviews, and demonstrating efficiency with Fueled's engineering best practices and systems.
- By the 60-day mark, you'll demonstrate mastery of Fueled engineering standards, proactively handling QA feedback, and taking ownership of ticket communication while leading a small project or feature implementation.
- By the 3-month mark, your component architecture and code review contributions will have positively influenced the quality and consistency of the team's front-end output.
- You will have identified and presented a technical pattern or process that enhances our approach to building maintainable front-end systems, potentially improving workflows across multiple projects.
- Through client-facing engagements, your technical insights will help shape creative and business outcomes, leaving behind work that exemplifies front-end excellence at Fueled beyond your contract term.
About you:
- You are driven by a craftsperson's attention to detail in cross-browser/device front-end engineering, confidently moving between WordPress block editor/theme development and Next.js/React projects.
- Your portfolio or code samples demonstrate problem-solving skills through elegant, maintainable solutions that showcase your technical versatility across different frameworks and environments.
- You communicate with clarity and confidence, comfortably discussing technical concepts with clients and collaborating effectively with distributed team members.
- You think in systems and components, excelling at building interfaces that range from custom CSS implementations to efficient Tailwind-based layouts—always prioritizing UX, performance, accessibility, and business objectives.
- You embrace modern engineering workflows, strategically leveraging AI tools to enhance efficiency and quality while thriving in a remote environment where you take ownership of your work from wherever you choose.
Compensation is determined based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, projects, geographic location, and business needs.
Join our Contractor Pool
This role is designed as a contract position, offering you the opportunity to experience our team and culture while showcasing your contributions. When the fit and business needs align, some contractors are invited to explore a transition into full-time roles.
If you are passionate about Fueled's mission and think you have what it takes to be successful in this role, please apply. We'd appreciate the opportunity to review your application. Everyone gets a response.
Upon meeting the necessary criteria, you'll join the Fueled contractor network, granting you access to project invitations tailored to your expertise and availability when they arise.
Any data provided will be processed in accordance with applicable law and our privacy policy. Curious about what to expect during our talent process? Check it out here.
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