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Principal Frontend Engineer – Indie Campers

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About Us

Indie Campers is the leading campervan provider, dedicated to making road trips accessible and unforgettable for everyone. Innovation, product‑led growth, and an unwavering commitment to our customers are at the heart of everything we do. With more than one million nights rented and travellers from 169 countries, we provide a single and trustworthy digital experience for road trips in the United States, Europe and Oceania, with different campervan configuration options and even the chance to buy one of our vehicles.

Our ambitions are big, and so are the challenges we embrace. We are scaling our technology organisation to unlock the next wave of automation‑and AI‑powered experiences that will delight customers and empower employees worldwide.

The Role

As Principal Frontend Engineer, you’ll set the technical vision for our web clients (React/Next. js and/or Vue/Nuxt), lifting performance, accessibility, and reliability. You’ll partner with Product Design, Platform, and Growth to ship world‑class UX at speed.

What Will You Work On?

• Own frontend architecture: app composition, routing, data‑fetching, state, design system.
• Lead performance strategy (Core Web Vitals budgets, hydration/server components/edge).
• Champion accessibility (WCAG AA), internationalisation, and resilience patterns.
• Define testing strategy (unit, integration, E2E with Playwright/Cypress).
• Mentor FE guild, run design reviews, raise code quality and standards.
• Partner on experimentation platform and analytics instrumentation.

Who Are We Looking For?

• 8–12+ years frontend engineering; staff/principal scope.
• Expert Type
  Script with React/Next and/or Vue/Nuxt.
• Proven Core Web Vitals improvements (LCP/INP/CLS), SSR/SSG/ISR experience.
• Strong testing, build tooling (Vite/Webpack), and CI.
• Excellent UX/product sense and communication.

Core Values and Operating Principles

• Customer First: Relentless in providing the best service at the best price to all customers.
• Ownership: Proactively take ownership and deliver on our goals.
• Committed: Work together, as a team, for the long‑term.
• Learn, build, and structure.
• Be precise and go deep.

Are you ready to Go Indie?