Frontend Engineer

About Liferay

Liferay is a uniquely profitable B2B enterprise software company with 1,000+ fiery-eyed employees all across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a renowned provider of enterprise open source technologies, we have been recognized by Gartner for empowering businesses around the world to solve complex digital challenges. Liferay’s all-in-one platform unites Liferay DXP with our cloud platform capabilities, built-in analytics, and commerce functionality, reducing time to market and accelerating innovation. Our customer roster includes global companies such as Airbus, US Bank, Honda, and Desjardins.

But we don’t just make awesome software, we are also fueled by a greater-than-profit vision. By building a vibrant business, making technology useful, and investing in communities, we make it possible for people to reach their full potential to serve others. This commitment extends beyond our product; Liferay donates 10% of our profits to charities around the world. Oh, we’re also self-funded which gives us the freedom to work on whatever we think brings the most value to customers and communities in the long run!

About You and this Role

Are you passionate about building interfaces that thousands of enterprise users rely on every day? As a Frontend Engineer on our Cloud team in Recife, you will help design, implement, and maintain the user-facing applications and shared component libraries that power Liferay Cloud globally. You possess a solid working knowledge of modern frontend development, handling moderately complex engineering challenges independently under general supervision. You care about the details that users feel: accessibility, performance, and interactions that behave correctly on the first try. You thrive in a highly collaborative global environment and take initiative to drive reliable, scalable solutions.

Key Objectives

• Build and maintain user-facing features across Liferay's digital experience products, using TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
• Contribute reusable, well-documented components to our shared design system so other teams can build on your work.
• Integrate frontend applications with GraphQL APIs, handling caching, loading and error states thoughtfully
• Write and maintain automated tests (Jest, React Testing Library) as part of your normal workflow, not as a separate phase.
• Partner with stakeholders, designers and other Frontend Engineers to improve requirements, propose alternatives, and shape the final solution for our customers.
• Working in a cross-functional team, and collaborating with other departments (Design, Project Management and Product Management) to bring great interactions to life.
• Participate in peer review processes, growing along with your teammates. Suggest improvements and be humble enough to accept suggestions. Everyone learns from everyone, no matter how brilliant you are.

Required Qualifications

• Sólid experience with software engineering best practices: version control, unit testing, etc.
• Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React, including hooks, component composition, and modern state management.
• Solid working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3/Sass, state management solutions, and integrating RESTful APIs or GraphQL.
• Experience writing frontend tests with Jest and React Testing Library.
• Working knowledge of web accessibility (semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, WCAG basics) and browser performance fundamentals.
• Understand and share the values of agile development.
• Proficient with Git (or any other DVCS) and related branching patterns.
• Experience writing enterprise-level code in one or more programming languages.
• You have strong learning skills; if you don’t know something, you’re willing (and capable) of learning it.
• Fully comfortable working in English and Portuguese, both written and spoken. Some of your teammates will be in the Americas, Asia or Europe.
• Good communication skills. You can clearly explain technical subjects to designers, product stakeholders, and other engineers..

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience working on a DXP platform or Liferay Portal 7.0+.
• Experience working in an Nx or similar monorepo (Turborepo, Rush) is a real differentiator for us.
• Experience with end-to-end testing, ideally Playwright or TestCafe.
• It's a big plus if you're a contributor to open source, hackathons, meetups or whatever-related to coding.
• Experience with frontend performance optimization: bundle analysis, code splitting, Core Web Vitals
• Familiarity with GraphQL schema design or working closely with API teams
• Comfortable working with Figma and translating design tokens into code
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and frontend build/deploy automation
• Experience with managed Kubernetes services:
  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Certifications such as:
  • CKA, CKAD, or CKS
  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, or Network Engineer

What We Offer

• Salary package w/ competitive benefits according to qualifications and experience Opportunities to take responsibility, grow professionally, and Stay Nerdy
• A positive and collaborative work culture
• Working at aleading open-source company

Equal Opportunities Employer - Statement

Liferay is committed to the equal treatment of all candidates, customers and employees and to fostering a culture of dignity at work. Our operating procedure provides for equal opportunities in recruitment and employment with the aim to eliminate discrimination against any job applicant or employee on the basis of race, age, sexual orientation, gender, religion or beliefs, marital or civil partnerships status, family or dependency status, disability, pregnancy and maternity or membership of a traveling community.