# Senior Engineer - Front End

Street addresses weren’t designed for 2026. They aren’t accurate enough to specify building entrances, and they don’t exist for parks, rural areas and many parts of the world. This makes it hard to find places and causes problems and inefficiencies on a global scale. That’s why we created what3words. We divided the world into 3m squares and gave each square a unique combination of three words. It’s the easiest way to find and share precise locations. Over the last year, what3words has been used in 193 countries, and our monthly active users continue to grow at an impressive pace. Our tech is used by emergency services, delivery companies, eCommerce businesses, ride-hailing apps and NGOs, and is integrated into the navigation systems of millions of cars around the world. Who we’re looking for Based in Vietnam out of our centrally located Ho Chi Minh City office, we’re looking for an experienced Front End Engineer who knows code, and enjoys creating engaging experiences that people love to use. At what3words, we're proud of our tech stack. We have built a massively scalable, microservices-based architecture, based around Kubernetes on AWS. You'll be exposed to technologies such as Re

- **Id**: 850381
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/what3words-senior-engineer-front-end>
- **Role**: Frontend
- **Role family**: Frontend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- **Countries**: VN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-04T10:58:22Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T17:45:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 94
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3657
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity, Flexible schedule, Health insurance, Parental leave, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Navigation & Mapping

## Company

- **Id**: 11318
- **Name**: What3Words
- **Domain**: what3words.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/what3words>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 3000
- **Max**: 3500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: month
- **Usd annual**: 42000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: yes
- **Google Maps** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Next.js** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes
- **Scala** — Optional: yes
- **Wi-Fi** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 94

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Vietnam** — Iso: VN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T03:26:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 32
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.72
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 93
- **Expected fill days**: 68
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 42000
- **Is top pay**: no

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