Senior Front End Software Engineer

About the Role
We're looking for a senior frontend software engineer who thinks in components and cares deeply about creating reusable, scalable UI systems. You’ll work closely with design and backend teams to build high-quality, accessible user interfaces using modern frontend tools.
Why You’ll Love It Here

• You’ll be the face of the product in the market, shaping deals and shaping the roadmap.
• You’ll work hand-in-hand with leadership in both Sales and Product.
• Every day will be different—and every day you’ll have a chance to make a direct impact on our growth.
• We value speed, creativity, and collaboration over bureaucracy.

SMG is a leading experience management (XM) provider, serving restaurants, retailers, and other multi-location consumer businesses by changing how brands act on customer + employee insights. With a rich 30-year history, SMG is uniquely pairing an enterprise software platform with professional services to help brands generate new revenue, grow existing revenue, reduce detractors, and drive operational efficiencies. And with our 2024 acquisition of Bulbshare, we also help the world’s leading organizations grow through real-time customer collaboration by building mobile-first customer communities in over 30 markets worldwide, enabling clients to collaborate with consumers quickly and effectively for insights, ideation, and advocacy.
We offer our talent -

• Work hard, have fun environment - We work hard to deliver a fulfilling, exciting workplace environment for each SMG employee. Our teams are composed of smart, talented, curious people who love a good challenge. 
• Values driven culture where we connect, collaborate & co-create.
• Remote first company (fully remote)
• Unlimited PTO   
• Tech provided

Diverse, experienced, friendly team which will welcome you, support you and challenge you. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and create an inclusive work environment in which all our colleagues experience belonging, have their unique needs respected and met, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and feel fully engaged to contribute to the company’s success.
We offer our talent

• Work hard, have fun environment with smart, curious people.
• Values-driven culture where we connect, collaborate, and co-create.
• Remote-first company (fully remote).
• Unlimited PTO.
• Tech provided.
• A diverse, experienced, and supportive team. SMG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and creates an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain frontend applications using React - we use v18 with Vite and SSR
• Develop and grow a shared component library with SCSS-in-JS using MUI
• Apply component-driven development practices to ensure consistency and reusability
• Prioritize accessibility and performance in everything you build
• Collaborate with designers and engineers to turn ideas into polished, production ready interfaces
• Work with APIs to bring dynamic data into the frontend
• Occasionally interact with SQL databases or backend services

What You’ll Bring

• 3-5 years of experience building React applications
• Familiarity with Vite, Next.js or similar meta-frameworks
• Strong understanding of Tailwind CSS and utility-first styling
• Experience creating and maintaining design systems or component libraries
• A component-first mindset and a keen eye for detail and reusability
• Awareness of accessibility standards and inclusive design
• Comfortable working collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional team
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools for automating workflows - release early, release often, driving delivery of value
• Debug fundamentals - monitoring, logging, profiling
• Web architecture essentials (REST, caching, queues, events, etc) - we want our technology to be well architected, easy to maintain and scalable
• Bonus: experience with SQL, REST/GraphQL APIs, or other backend integration work
• Bonus: SSR experience

About SMG
Ready to grow your QA career and help shape the future of customer and employee experience? Join us at www.smg.com.
SMG is a global leader in unified experience management and CX solutions, including employee experience management platforms and XM market research.