About the Role
Define and drive technical strategy for the frontend platform, including microfrontend architecture, Server-Driven UI library, design system, and developer experience. Lead cross-team architecture to ensure seamless integration of platform capabilities and product features. Balance short-term velocity with long-term resilience, making smart trade-offs on complexity, cost, and scalability. Remain hands-on on highest-leverage platform code, critical design reviews, and precedent-setting implementations. Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers and influencing technical talent. Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on frontend capacity, standards, and hiring bar. Set cultural standards for fearless iteration, bias for action, and pragmatic perfectionism. Lead frontend alignment with the Architecture Office and drive org-wide frontend technical direction. Demonstrate org-level impact across microfrontend boundaries, Server-Driven UI library adoption, and design-system governance.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive technical strategy for the frontend platform
- Lead cross-team architecture
- Balance short-term velocity with long-term resilience
- Remain hands-on on highest-leverage platform code, critical design reviews, and precedent-setting implementations
- Act as a force multiplier by mentoring Staff Engineers and influencing the careers of future Principal-level talent
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership including advising on frontend capacity, standards, and hiring bar
- Set cultural standards for fearless iteration, bias for action, and pragmatic perfectionism
- Lead frontend alignment with the Architecture Office and drive org-wide frontend technical direction
- Demonstrate org-level impact across microfrontend boundaries/versioning and independent deployability, Server-Driven UI library adoption decisions, and design-system governance
Requirements
- Professional experience building and shipping production systems in fast-moving environments
- Take full ownership and drive tasks to completion
- Strong bias for action, move quickly, make informed decisions, and iterate based on feedback
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning fuzzy problems into shipped results
- Think in systems: scalability, reliability, performance, and security are part of your default design mindset
- Define success clearly and measure it
- Care deeply about customer impact and business outcomes
- Hold a high craftsmanship bar: clean, secure, well-tested code is your baseline
- Give and receive candid feedback, and elevate those around you through mentoring and technical leadership
- Balance pragmatism with ambition
- Want to help build one of Europe’s most respected engineering organizations
Skills
- TypeScript
- React
- React Router
- styled-components
- TanStack Query
- nanostores
- Micro-frontends
- single-spa
- Webpack
- Turborepo
- pnpm workspaces
- GitHub Actions
- Azure Blob Storage
- Vitest
- RTL
- MSW
- Playwright
- Node services
Location
- Berlin
- Munich
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff Engineer
- Principal Engineer
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation and equity package
Benefits
- Deutschland ticket
- Urban Sports Club
- Job Rad
- Nilo Health
- Weekly sponsored office lunches
- Flexible working hours
- 28 vacation days
- Workation opportunities
- Access to a training and development budget
About the Company
- Parloa’s mission is to make every customer conversation feel effortless for both customers and the companies serving them.
- Parloans are shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience, one where customer support is no longer transactions, but meaningful exchanges.
- Parloa has powered over ONE BILLION interactions between global enterprise brands and their customers.
- Companies like Booking.com, HealthEquity, Allianz, SAP, BarmeniaGothaer, and TUI already deploying Parloa at scale.
- Frontend engineers at Parloa primarily strengthen our central frontend platform—microfrontend architecture, Server-Driven UI library, and our shared design system—so product teams can ship agent management platform UI faster with clear ownership and fewer coordination dependencies.
- Some engineers are embedded in product teams for deeper, custom UI where platform patterns do not apply.
- Parloa is one of the fastest growing startups in the world of Generative AI and customer service.
- Parloa’s voice-first GenAI platform for contact centers is built on the best AI technology to automate customer service with natural-sounding conversations for outstanding experiences on all communication channels.
- Leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, Parloa creates intelligent phone and chat solutions for businesses that turn contact centers into value centers by boosting customer service efficiency.
- The Parloa platform resolves the majority of customer queries quickly and automatically, allowing human agents to focus on complex issues and relationships.
- Parloa was founded in 2018 by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald and today employs over 400+ people in Berlin, Munich, and New York.
- When you join Parloa, you become part of a dynamic and innovative team made up of over 34 nationalities that’s revolutionizing an entire industry.
- We’re passionate about growing together and creating opportunities for personal and professional development.
- With our recent $350 million Series D investment, we’re expanding globally and looking for talented individuals to join us on this exciting journey.
- Parloa is committed to upholding the highest data protection standards for our clients' and employees' data.
- All our employees are instrumental in ensuring the utmost care, GDPR, and ISO compliance, including ISO 27001, in handling sensitive information.
Equal Opportunity
- We provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, disability status, socioeconomic background and other characteristics.
- Parloa is an e-verify employer in the USA.
