Vaimo is a full-service digital experience agency that helps brands and businesses grow by uniting commerce, content, data, and insights into seamless, engaging, and beautifully designed customer experiences. With 16+ years of experience and offices across the Nordics, EMEA, and North America , we combine strategy, design, and technology to create digital experiences that drive measurable results. We design and build digital experiences that connect people and brands - seamlessly, meaningfully, and for impact.

We are looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer to steward the development of a new web application built with Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19, and TypeScript. As a cornerstone of a broader microservices architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), this role offers a blend of technical craft and team mentorship. You will cultivate the application from the ground up, contributing to production-ready code daily while guiding architectural decisions and partnering with stakeholders and clients to realize a shared vision.

Guide the design and delivery of resilient frontend solutions for medium and large-scale projects. Oversee planning, estimation, and technical design, ensuring a high standard of collective quality assurance. Facilitate the definition and maintenance of frontend architecture standards and best practices.

Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, UX/UI, QA, DevOps, and Product teams to ensure cohesive outcomes.



Serve as a technical ambassador in client-facing discussions, facilitating workshops and architectural dialogues. Support commercial activities by providing thoughtful solution scoping, estimations, and pre-sales engagement.

Advanced proficiency with React and Next.js (App Router) in production environments. Strong command of TypeScript and modern frontend architecture design.

Experience integrating frontend applications within distributed microservices, with an awareness of API contracts. Adept at frontend testing frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Jest) to ensure software health. Ability to nurture and maintain architectural standards across the team.

Experience supporting technical decisions and empowering fellow engineers.

Experience contributing to CI/CD pipelines and containerized cloud environments (e.g., A commitment to performance optimization and accessibility best practices. Openness to utilizing AI-assisted development tools to enhance workflow. Exposure to monitoring and observability tools (Application Insights or similar). NET, Node.js, PHP).

Diverse project portfolio : Engage with a variety of small and large digital commerce projects for global brands. A flexible, modern working setting that prioritizes work-life balance.

Modern Toolkit : Competitive salary and advantages, with access to the latest tools including AI resources, Slack, Jira, and Confluence. #

📌 Lead Frontend Engineer (REMOTE) (Toronto)
🏢 Vaimo
📍 Toronto