Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Unconventional AI is seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer/Web Dev Lead to establish the technical foundation of their web presence. This role involves managing the headless CMS, building responsive web interfaces, and leading the technical direction of the web platform.
Responsibilities
- Own our headless CMS end-to-end: content modeling, schema design, roles and permissions, localization, and publishing workflows
- Design flexible, reusable content models and component libraries so marketing and content teams can ship without engineering bottlenecks
- Build and maintain the front-end that renders CMS content: blog, docs, and marketing landing pages
- Integrate the CMS with our front-end framework, preview environments, and third-party tools (analytics, forms, search, personalization)
- Manage webhooks, build triggers, and incremental rebuilds so content changes go live quickly and reliably
- Establish content governance: draft/review/publish workflows, versioning, and safe rollbacks
- Build fast, accessible, responsive interfaces with modern frameworks (React / Next.js) and thoughtful component architecture
- Translate designs into polished, production-ready UI in close partnership with design
- Own Core Web Vitals and site performance: image optimization, code splitting, caching, and rendering strategy (SSR/SSG/ISR)
- Implement technical SEO and AEO fundamentals: semantic markup, structured data, metadata, sitemaps, and clean internal linking
- Ensure accessibility (WCAG) and cross-browser, cross-device quality through QA and automated testing
- Implement and maintain cookie consent and privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA), including consent management, cookie banners, and data handling in analytics and tracking
- Own hosting, deployments, and CI/CD (Vercel or similar), including preview deploys and environment management
- Set up monitoring, error tracking, and analytics instrumentation so we catch issues before users do
- Maintain site hygiene: dependency updates, security best practices, redirects, and uptime
- Set the technical direction and standards for our web platform as our first dedicated web engineer
- Partner with marketing, design, and engineering to scope work, prioritize, and ship on tight timelines
- Write clear documentation and mentor teammates on web and CMS best practices
- Evaluate and select tools, frameworks, and vendors as the web practice grows
Skills
- 5-8+ years building production web applications, with a strong front-end focus
- Deep expertise with a modern JS framework, ideally React and Next.js, and strong TypeScript, HTML, and CSS fundamentals
- Hands-on experience owning a headless CMS (Contentful, Sanity, or similar): content modeling, integrations, and publishing workflows
- Strong grasp of rendering strategies (SSR, SSG, ISR) and when to use each
- Proven track record shipping fast, performant sites and owning Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed Insights
- Familiarity with technical SEO/AEO, Google Tag Manager, accessibility, and analytics instrumentation
- Comfort with CI/CD, Git workflows, and modern hosting platforms
- A strong design sense and the ability to turn designs into polished, on-brand UI
- Fluency and comfort using AI tools day to day (coding assistants, LLMs, agentic workflows)
- High agency, a bias toward shipping, and the ability to lead without a large team behind you
- Experience as the first or founding web hire at an early-stage company
- Familiarity with edge functions, serverless, and API design
- Experience with A/B testing, personalization, or growth experimentation
- Comfort working in and around AI/ML products and technical developer audiences
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