Senior Frontend Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 13, 2026.
Senior Frontend Engineer
Our client is a Latvian-born supplements-on-demand platform built on a print-on-demand model and operating in the US market. Founded in 2021, the company is preparing for a Series A funding round (targeting ~$10M, September 2026) and is scaling rapidly toward a goal of growing revenue from $10M to $250M. With a lean team of 56 across Latvia, they are building the technology foundation to support that growth - and they need a senior frontend engineer to bring structure to a fast-moving, design-heavy engineering culture.
They are now looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join their IT team in Riga. You bring the foundations - they tackle the visuals.
About the role
The core mission here is leading the platform's migration from Webflow to Astro and Sanity CMS, while building a robust design system that works as a standalone package - usable by platform engineers, by designers building landing pages, and by anyone else creating presentations. The groundwork exists; your job is to make it production-grade.
You will work in a 7-person IT team (CTO, engineers, 1 DevOps) where radical autonomy and bottom-up ownership are the default. A key part of this role is bridging the gap between vibe-coding designers - who work with AI tools and move fast - and the engineering team, without slowing either side down.
What you will do:
- Lead the migration from Webflow to Astro and Sanity CMS
- Build and own the design system as a reusable package across the whole platform
- Mentor designers (Vibe/AI tool users) in preparing production-ready code
- Bridge communication between the design and engineering teams
- Set up and maintain the tooling harness for designers (Storybook, CMS, etc.)
- Drive the adoption of agentic frontend approaches across the platform
Tech competences:
- Strong hands-on experience with React.js, Node.js, and TypeScript
- Proven track record building and maintaining design systems
- Solid understanding of AI/Vibe coding tools and how to bring their output up to production standards
Nice to have: broader practical experience working with AI engineering tools
Soft skills:
- Product engineering mindset - you think in outcomes, not tasks
- Takes ownership, adapts fast, and is comfortable with ambiguity
- Confident and self-assured - someone who backs their decisions
- Energized by mentoring and by lifting others' output
- Comfortable in a startup environment where things change quickly
- A public presence that shows some personality - an active LinkedIn, a side project, anything that signals you back yourself
What we offer:
- Salary 4400 - 5500 EUR gross/month - they pay competitively and will go to the top of the range for the right person
- Stock options - 1 year cliff / 4 year vesting
- Company-provided equipment - Apple Silicon, whatever you need
- Health insurance from day one - including mental health and rehabilitation
- Dental and vision care - dental up to €350/year (75% covered), vision reimbursement up to €150 every 2 years
- Paid cellular plan with LMT
- Pilates and gym access - on-site classes and gym
- Extra vacation days
- MVP award - €500 net bonus monthly for the nominated MVP
- Birthday and special day gifts
- Regular team events - they celebrate wins
- Hybrid work mode - office in central Riga, flexible setup
Hiring process:
- Screening call with Tech Recruitment
- Interview with the CTO + online coding session
- Practical assignment
- Short call with the CEO