Frontend Engineer
We are looking for a Front-End Engineer who cares about the last ten per cent: the focus ring, the reduced-motion path, the layout that still holds at 320px. You will build the studio's client work in hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and own how fast it is.
You will work directly with the designers rather than from a handoff document, and you will be expected to push back when a design costs more than it is worth.
Key responsibilities
- Build production front-ends from design files, with no framework where none is needed.
- Own performance: budgets, image strategy, font loading and the numbers that come back from the field.
- Meet WCAG 2.2 AA as a matter of course — keyboard paths, focus order, reduced motion, semantic structure.
- Write component systems other people can extend, and document them in the code rather than beside it.
- Set up the build, the deploy and the checks that stop a regression reaching a client.
Required
- Deep, current CSS: grid, container queries, cascade layers, and knowing when not to reach for any of them.
- JavaScript without a framework, and the judgement to know when a framework earns its weight.
- Real accessibility experience, tested with a screen reader rather than an audit tool.
- A published example of something you made fast that was previously slow.
Life at Obliq Studio
Life at Obliq Studio is built around a culture of creativity, clarity and craftsmanship. We operate with a clear, structured workflow that removes chaos and gives you the space to produce your best work. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, strategists and writers who treat every project as a story that needs emotion, intention and technical precision in equal measure.
We value trust over micromanagement. The studio is remote-friendly, the calendar is deliberately thin, and the work spans SaaS, ecommerce, hospitality, arts and culture — so no two quarters look the same. Your ideas are welcome, your craft decisions are respected, and nobody is asked to defend a good decision twice.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with a published band and a yearly review.
- Remote-friendly hours, with two overlapping days a week for reviews.
- A budget for tools, conferences and whatever you are teaching yourself this year.
- Work on visually rich international projects across several industries.
- Structured handovers, written briefs and no unnecessary meetings.
- Regular craft reviews that are about the work rather than the person.
How to apply
Send a portfolio, a short note about a project you would do differently now, and anything you have made that nobody asked you to make. We read everything, we reply to everyone, and the process is three conversations and one paid exercise.
