Senior Frontend Engineer, Growth

EvenUp EvenUp · Vertical AI · Toronto, ON · Hybrid · Engineering

Senior Frontend Engineer, Growth role at EvenUp, a company using AI to help personal injury lawyers. The role focuses on building and optimizing frontend systems for user acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention, collaborating with Product, Data, and Engineering teams. Responsibilities include developing frontend frameworks, components, and solving complex UI/UX and performance problems, with an emphasis on end-to-end ownership and contributing to engineering culture.

What you'd actually do

  1. Frontend Systems Development: Design, develop, and optimize cutting-edge frontend systems that support growth-focused initiatives, ensuring speed, reliability, and scalability.
  2. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to interpret growth and experimentation requirements and deliver seamless user experiences.
  3. Component & Framework Ownership: Lead the development of frontend frameworks, libraries, and reusable UI components that enable controlled experiments, feature rollouts, and measurable business impact.
  4. Complex Problem Solving: Collaborate with engineers to solve challenging problems in UI/UX, performance optimization, state management, and integrations with backend and AI/ML services.
  5. Team Growth & Culture: Help build and reinforce the engineering culture in Toronto by sharing best practices, mentoring teammates, and maintaining a high bar for quality in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Required

  • Extensive experience in frontend engineering
  • strong understanding of modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular)
  • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript
  • ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code
  • Proven experience building scalable, performant, and reliable frontend systems and interfaces in high-performance environments
  • Experience thriving in startup or high-growth environments
  • Strong grasp of modern engineering practices, including test-driven development, code reviews, CI/CD, and instrumentation for analytics/experimentation
  • Familiarity with web performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive design
  • Experience with frontend tooling, build systems, and cloud-based deployments (e.g., AWS, Vercel, Netlify)
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
  • Leadership potential with an interest in mentoring junior engineers and shaping best practices

Nice to have

  • Experience on growth-focused or experimentation-driven teams
  • Exposure to AI/ML-powered frontend features, real-time data visualization, or highly interactive web applications
  • Familiarity with A/B testing, analytics integrations, or experimentation platforms
  • Prior experience scaling frontend systems in rapidly growing startups

What the JD emphasized

  • AI/ML services
  • AI/ML-powered frontend features