Senior Full Stack Developer, React, Next.js

Description

• Build and maintain complex, data-driven UIs in React and Next.js, including CMS-driven layouts and dynamic content blocks that scale across products, tenants, and deployments. • Optimize frontend performance for media-heavy and data-heavy applications. • Collaborate with UX and UI designers to translate designs into fast, intuitive, accessible experiences. • Ensure responsiveness and correct behavior across kiosk, large-format LED, desktop, and tablet form factors. • Design and extend Payload CMS collections, access control, and content models, plus the REST and GraphQL APIs that support content and configuration. • Collaborate on data modeling, schema design, system architecture, and integration patterns. • Write clean, maintainable, well-tested TypeScript with an eye toward long-term platform evolution. • Design or extend infrastructure as code (AWS CDK) to build immutable infrastructure deployable both in AWS and as constrained on-prem installations. • Participate in architectural discussions around data flow, caching, multi-tenancy, environment separation, and cloud-versus-on-prem deployment. • Review code, mentor other engineers, and raise the bar on code quality and system design. • Help improve developer tooling, workflows, and CI/CD over time.

Requirements

• 3 to 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent on real-time 3D or graphics. • Deep proficiency with Three.js (React Three Fiber experience is a strong plus). • Solid WebGL and GLSL shader experience. • Strong TypeScript or JavaScript skills. • Experience with 3D asset formats and pipelines (glTF and GLB, textures, compression). • A strong grasp of 3D math (vectors, matrices, quaternions, transforms, and cameras). • Experience profiling and optimizing rendering performance and memory usage. • A strong eye for visual quality, lighting, and detail. • Nice to Have • Gaussian splatting or radiance fields (Spark, Luma, 3D Gaussian Splatting, or NeRF-adjacent work). • Experience with KTX2 and Basis, Draco, or meshopt compression. • PBR materials, baked lighting and lightmap workflows, and HDR or image-based lighting. • WebXR, VR, or AR (@react-three/xr or similar). • Familiarity with DCC tools (Blender, 3ds Max, Maya) and capture or photogrammetry pipelines (RealityCapture, Postshot, and similar). • Experience with Unreal Engine or another real-time engine. • Experience with React, Next.js, or a monorepo (Nx, Turborepo). • Architecture, AEC, BIM, or spatial-data background. • Experience with PlayCanvas

Benefits

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge digital twin and immersive visualization technology. • A collaborative, product-driven engineering culture. • Competitive compensation and benefits. • A flexible work environment with real opportunities for growth.

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