Staff Frontend Engineer

About Livestorm:Livestorm is the world's leading end-to-end video engagement platform.Founded in 2016, Livestorm allows companies to organize powerful online meetings, webinars and virtual events from end-to-end. Our web-browser platform provides teams with all the workflows around video engagement to promote, host and analyze online events.Livestorm is built with ease of use in mind. We serve companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500s. Brands like Shopify, Honda, Spendesk, Front and Revolut trust Livestorm for premium video engagement during their online events.Here are our core values:Stay curious: Be interested in the world around you.Remain humble: Keep learning and keep your ego in check.Be resourceful: Go that extra mile in the most efficient way.Own it: Take pride in what you do, own your wins, and fails.Be transparent: Sharing knowledge, learnings, feedback, and mistakes.MissionAs a Staff Frontend Engineer at Livestorm, you will be the most senior frontend voice in our engineering organization, the person who shapes not just what we build, but how we build it.This is a high-agency, high-impact role. You'll own the evolution of our Vue.js frontend architecture, lead meaningful refactors, and raise the bar for every engineer on the team. But this isn't a heads-down, purely technical role. At Livestorm, Product, Design, and Engineering work as one, and you'll be at the heart of that collaboration.You'll work daily with Product Managers to turn ambiguous problems into clear technical directions, and with Designers to make sure what we ship is fast, polished, and genuinely valuable to our users. You'll be the engineer that Product and Design most want in the room, someone who brings technical depth and user empathy in equal measure.Livestorm is a real-time video platform. That means real constraints, real complexity, and a product where quality is always visible.The teamYou'll be joining a product squad focused on our core webinar room experience, the live video features at the heart of Livestorm. The team is 1 Engineering Manager, 1 Product Manager, 1 Product Designer, 5 Engineers, and 1 Support Engineer. You'll be the most senior technical voice on the frontend, working in close day-to-day collaboration with Product and Design.Your scope goes beyond the squad though. While embedded in the meeting room team day-to-day, you'll also serve as the frontend architecture reference for the entire Livestorm product, setting the standards, patterns, and technical direction that every frontend engineer builds on. Livestorm's broader Tech & Product org is around 30 people, so you'll have real reach and visibility across the whole organisation.We are a remote-first company. Members of our teams are located across France, the USA, Germany and Portugal, so we're looking for the best talent, no matter where you live.The stackOur frontend is a Vue 3 codebase running on Vite 7. Here's what you'll be working with day to day:Framework & language: Vue 3, TypeScript, Composition APIBuild & tooling: Vite 7, monorepo environment with Bazel, Node 24Data layer: Vue Apollo Client, Graphql backend layer communicating with gRPC microservicesState management: Pinia & Vuex (TypeScript-first, used in all new code)Design system: Reka UI 2.3 (headless component primitives), our own ui-vue component library and design tokens, Storybook 10Real-time & video: OpenTok/Vonage WebRTC client, hls.js for live video streamingTesting: Vitest browser component testing, Playwright for e2e, CypressObservability: Sentry, Grafana with OpenTelemetryIn this role, you will:Own the frontend architecture direction, identify structural issues, lead refactors, and establish patterns the whole team builds onWork closely with Product Managers from day one: shape requirements, challenge scope, surface constraints early, and keep technical decisions grounded in user needsWork with Product Designers to bridge the gap between design intent and technical implementation, pushing for quality, consistency, and a good user experience across the boardDrive performance across the product: Core Web Vitals, rendering efficiency, and bundle optimizationBuild and maintain our design system and component library as a shared foundation between Engineering and DesignLead cross-team technical initiatives and align engineering and product stakeholders around shared goalsMentor frontend engineers through design reviews, pair programming, and direct feedbackContribute to the technical roadmap and help engineering leadership make well-reasoned trade-offsChampion good practices in testing, observability, CI/CD and frontend reliabilityRequirementsFor this Staff Frontend Engineer role, we are looking for someone with the following experience:Deep expertise in Vue.js and the modern frontend ecosystem, with a track record of leading architecture decisions at scale, across teams, and leaving the codebase in better shapeStrong GraphQL knowledge: comfortable with Apollo Client, q