Staff Software Engineer (Frontend)

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Bengaluru, Karnataka
Senior level
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The Role
As a Staff Frontend Engineer at SurveyMonkey, you'll lead the development of high-performance user experiences, architect scalable frontend applications, mentor engineers, and ensure best practices are followed. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll work on enhancing frontend performance and staying ahead of industry trends.
Summary Generated by Built In

SurveyMonkey is the world’s most popular platform for surveys and forms, built for business—loved by users. We combine powerful capabilities with intuitive design, effectively serving every use case, from customer experience to employee engagement, market research to payment and registration forms. With built-in research expertise and AI-powered technology, it’s like having a team of expert researchers at your fingertips.
Trusted by millions—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—SurveyMonkey helps teams gather insights and information that inspire better decisions, create experiences people love, and drive business growth. Discover how at surveymonkey.com.

What we’re looking for

We are seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to join the Market Research Solutions (MRX) team at SurveyMonkey. As a key technical leader, you will drive the development of intuitive and high-performance user experiences that empower millions of users to make critical business decisions. This role is pivotal in shaping the architecture, scalability, and maintainability of our frontend applications while mentoring engineers and advocating for best practices.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and backend engineers, to ensure our solutions are user-centric, performant, and scalable. If you are passionate about frontend engineering, design systems, and creating seamless user experiences, we would love to hear from you!

What you’ll be working on

  • Architecting and developing robust, scalable, and high-performance frontend applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (React preferred).
  • Driving technical excellence by leading frontend initiatives, defining best practices, and mentoring engineers to elevate frontend development across the organization.
  • Collaborating with product and design teams to deliver intuitive and accessible user interfaces that improve the overall customer experience.
  • Enhancing frontend performance, security and scalability, ensuring applications are optimized for responsiveness, accessibility, and efficiency.
  • Owning the entire development lifecycle, from technical design and implementation to deployment and monitoring, ensuring high-quality and maintainable code.
  • Actively contributing to architecture and frontend guilds, staying ahead of industry trends, evaluating emerging technologies, and championing innovation in frontend development.

We’d love to hear from people with

  • 12+ years of experience in frontend development, with deep expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Extensive experience with React.js (or similar modern frontend frameworks such as Angular or Vue.js) and state management libraries like Redux, Zustand, or Recoil.
  • Strong understanding of design patterns, micro-frontends, and modular architectures.
  • Experience with performance optimization techniques, accessibility best practices (WCAG), and responsive web design.
  • Proficiency in collaborating with backend teams, working with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and WebSockets.
  • Proven track record of leading large-scale, complex frontend projects.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical initiatives across teams.
  • Exposure to frontend build tools (Webpack, Vite, Babel) and testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress, React Testing Library).
  • Experience with WebAssembly, Web Components, or Progressive Web Apps.
  • Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and frontend observability tools.
  • Experience with building and deploying applications in cloud environments (AWS preferred).

SurveyMonkey believes in-person collaboration is valuable for building relationships, fostering community, and enhancing our speed and execution in problem-solving and decision-making. As such, this opportunity is hybrid and requires you to work from the SurveyMonkey office in Bengaluru 3 days per week.
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Why SurveyMonkey? We’re glad you asked 

SurveyMonkey is a place where the curious come to grow.  We’re building an inclusive workplace where people of every background can excel no matter their time zone. At SurveyMonkey, we weave employee feedback and our core values into everything we do to create forward-looking benefits policies, employee programs, and an award-winning culture, including our annual holiday refresh, our annual week of service, learning and development opportunities like Curiosity Week, and our C.H.O.I.C.E Fund. 

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace

SurveyMonkey is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

Top Skills

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The Company
Ballsbridge, Dublin
1,681 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

We're on a mission to help people turn their curiosity into action. SurveyMonkey is the world’s leading survey platform enabling curious individuals and companies – including 98% of the Fortune 500 – to have conversations at scale with the people who matter most. Ask more. Know more. Do more.

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