Front End Engineer (Hourly Engagement)

We are seeking a Senior Front End Engineer to strategically lead and execute technical initiatives. In partnership with the technical CEO, you'll develop a roadmap aligned with strategic goals and KPIs. Your focus will be on ensuring architectural excellence and code quality while empowering the Implementation Engineer to deliver impactful features for web and mobile PWA environments. As the key liaison between the C-Suite and the development team, you will maintain development momentum while the executive team addresses broader strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

- Collaborate on defining and prioritizing quarterly and sprint-level goals, translating them into technical epics and tasks.

- Review designs, prototypes, and code to ensure adherence to best practices, catching edge cases early and reducing review cycles.

- Advise on system architecture, data modeling, and third-party integrations, ensuring the stack scales with clear separation of concerns and minimal technical debt.

- Guide, coach, and empower the implementation engineer through effective feedback, pair programming, and documented coding standards.

- Identify gaps in requirements or technical risks autonomously, raising questions with clear options, time estimates, and recommended solutions.

- Act as a liaison between product, design, and engineering, facilitating sprint planning, backlog grooming, and post-mortem discussions.

Qualifications:

- At least 5 years of experience as a senior/full-stack engineer or technical lead, preferably in startups or lean teams.

- Deep hands-on expertise in Next.js, React, TypeScript, Firebase (Firestore, Auth, Functions), Chakra UI, and Recoil.

- Proven track record of delivering KPI-driven features with minimal rework.

- Strong code-review skills, including experience in formalizing style guides, linting, and CI/CD pipelines.

- Excellent communication skills, capable of summarizing complex trade-offs and influencing stakeholders.

- Self-starter who thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

About RYZ Labs:

RYZ Labs is a startup studio founded in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latin America. What brought them together was their passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.

Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latin America. They use the latest cutting-edge cloud computing technologies to create scalable and resilient applications. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries and plan to build many startups in the upcoming years.

At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion, and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.

Our values and what to expect:

- Customer First Mentality - Every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.

- Bias for Action - Urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.

- Ownership: Step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if it is not your core responsibility. - Humility and Respect: Be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone who interacts with RYZ with respect.

- Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less.

- Deliver Impact - get things done most efficiently. 

- Raise our Standards. We should always be looking to improve our processes, our team, and our expectations. The status quo is not good enough and never should be.