Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Breeze is a dynamic startup backed by Sequoia Capital, focused on building a universal payment layer for seamless transactions. They are seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to own and evolve their checkout and payment experience, working closely with various teams to optimize user journeys and enhance performance.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end frontend architecture for our checkout and payment flows across web platforms
- Improve checkout conversion rates through UX improvements, performance tuning, and data-driven experimentation
- Partner with product and growth to run A/B tests, analyze funnel performance, and ship iterative improvements quickly
- Build seamless flows for complex payment states including retries, failures, and authentication (3DS, etc.)
- Optimize frontend performance (Core Web Vitals, latency, rendering) to ensure fast and reliable checkout experiences
- Collaborate with backend and payments teams to integrate APIs, PSPs, and orchestration layers
- Build robust UI systems that gracefully handle edge cases and ensure high reliability during transactions
- Define and drive best practices for frontend architecture, scalability, and maintainability
- Act as a technical leader and mentor, raising the bar across the frontend team
- Bring strong product thinking and a conversion-focused mindset into engineering decisions
Skills
- 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced or startup environments
- Deep hands-on experience building and optimizing checkout or payment flows (must-have)
- Strong proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, etc.)
- Experience improving conversion rates through experimentation, analytics, and UX iteration
- Strong understanding of frontend performance optimization and rendering strategies
- Familiarity with payments infrastructure (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, tokenization, 3DS, etc.)
- Strong product intuition and ability to translate data into user experience improvements
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across product, design, and growth teams
- Experience with global payments, multi-currency flows, or crypto is a bonus
- 7+ years of experience in frontend engineering, with a focus on high-impact user-facing systems
- Proficient in modern frontend frameworks and performance optimization techniques
- Experience with experimentation, analytics, and conversion-focused development
- Strong understanding of building reliable, scalable UI systems
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- We are unable to sponsor visas at this time
- Ability to work hybrid in NYC; open to remote candidates for the right individual
Benefits
- Equity plan
- 21 days PTO
- Annual medical allowance
- Productivity budget
- Gym membership & wellness subsidy
- Annual team retreat trip
Company Overview