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Remote Frontend Engineer jobs

28 open positions in the United States, newest first.

Frontend engineers build the part of a web application that runs in the browser and that users see and touch. They turn designs into working interfaces, manage state and data fetched from APIs, and are responsible for performance, accessibility and consistent behavior across browsers and screen sizes. In many teams they also maintain the shared component library.

About the Frontend Engineer role

What the work looks like

  • Build interface components in React, Vue or Angular with TypeScript, working from Figma designs.
  • Connect the interface to REST or GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states.
  • Measure and improve page performance, including bundle size, rendering and Core Web Vitals.
  • Make interfaces accessible with semantic HTML, keyboard support and screen reader testing against WCAG.
  • Write unit and end-to-end tests with tools such as Jest and Playwright, and review teammates' pull requests.

What employers ask for

  • JavaScript and TypeScript
  • React, Vue or Angular
  • HTML, CSS and responsive layout
  • Web accessibility to WCAG standards
  • Testing with Jest, Cypress or Playwright
  • REST and GraphQL API integration

Doing this job remotely

Frontend work needs only a laptop and a browser, and design handoff through Figma and pull requests suits distributed teams. What suffers is quick visual feedback, so remote frontend engineers share screenshots, preview deployments and short recordings instead of walking over to a designer. Overlap with designers and backend engineers for a few hours a day is the usual expectation.

Where it comes from and where it leads

People enter from computer science degrees, bootcamps, self-teaching or web design, typically starting as junior web developers. They progress to senior and staff frontend engineer, move into full-stack work, or specialize in design systems, performance or engineering management.