Staff Software Engineer (UI)- React.JS

Role: Staff Software Engineer, Front End

Location: Canada - Remote

About Acquia
Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.
Headquartered in Boston, MA, Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company, is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it! 

We are seeking an AI-Native candidate who treats AI not as an external tool, but as a fundamental extension of their cognitive workflow. The ideal candidate possesses an orchestration mindset—the ability to skillfully prompt, manage, and direct AI to navigate complexity—and maintains a high degree of AI fluency.

You should be characterized by radical adaptability and a "builder" mentality, showing a restless drive to transform traditional work processes into agentic workflows. Beyond technical proficiency, we value intellectual humility: the willingness to constantly unlearn old methods in favor of more efficient, AI-augmented processes. You don't just use AI to do your job; you use it to redefine what your job can achieve.

The ideal candidate would have experience working with designers in Figma and implementing designs in React or a similar front-end framework. They should be innovative, and bring their own ideas and suggestions to the project. They should know what it means to be collaborative, and play well with others. 

As the Staff Software Engineer, you will...

• Work in a highly collaborative environment with front and back-end engineers, product managers, product owners, and product designers.
• Mentor other frontend engineers on the team.
• Collaborate with your team members to review their work and have your work reviewed in turn.
• Design and develop unit and system tests that give the team confidence to deploy to production multiple times per day.
• Produce comprehensive software documentation for public and internal use.
• Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, development, automated test construction, deployment, and operations.
• Work in a team environment where your team owns and operates the services you build.
• Carry cross-team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc.

You’ll enjoy this role if you…

• Use sound rationale for problem identification and decision making, and can transfer that knowledge to other engineers on the team.
• Want to work in a collaborative and supportive manner with not only your team but internal stakeholders as well.
• Are passionate about creating and maintaining high quality software that provides direct value to customers.
• Strive to consistently achieve excellence, not only for yourself, but for your teammates. 
• Enjoy refactoring code as you strive for continuous improvement.
• Have a passion for User Experience.

What you’ll need to be successful…

• 8+ years of front-end software development experience.
• Have 8+ years of experience and demonstrable knowledge of front-end development (CSS/SASS, JavaScript and HTML)
• Are proficient with React or similar front-end framework and Typescript
• Are able to produce UI elements that are WCAG compliant
• Familiarity with Redux or other state management tools
• Experience with tailwind or a similar CSS library
• Experience with Git and NPM
• Experience writing unit tests with Jest or equivalent
• Experience writing e2e tests with Selenium/Webdriver.io/Cypress or equivalent
• Experience working in Agile and continuous delivery environments
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD tooling
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Extra credit if you have…

• Experience with Drupal
• Familiarity working with design systems
• A proactive interest in emerging AI technologies and a track record of applying AI to solve complex front-end challenges or optimize performance

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veterans status or any other protected status or characteristic under federal, state or local law unrelated to the ability to perform the job. Interested residents of Colorado may contact [email protected] as it relates to regulation C.R.S. § 8-5-201. Information regarding benefits are linked here.

We are seeking an AI-Native candidate who treats AI not as an external tool, but as a fundamental extension of their cognitive workflow. The ideal candidate possesses an orchestration mindset—the ability to skillfully prompt, manage, and direct AI to navigate complexity—and maintains a high degree of AI fluency.

You should be characterized by radical adaptability and a "builder" mentality, showing a restless drive to transform traditional work processes into agentic workflows. Beyond technical proficiency, we value intellectual humility: the willingness to constantly unlearn old methods in favor of more efficient, AI-augmented processes. You don't just use AI to do your job; you use it to redefine what your job can achieve.