React Engineer
Who is Forcepoint?
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint's all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you're in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we're missing is you!
The Web team is seeking a highly skilled Senior React Engineer to lead the evolution of Forcepoint.com's Next.js frontend, ensuring world-class performance, reliability, and user experience across a global, multilingual digital ecosystem. This role will shape the foundation of a marketing engine that accelerates brand growth, conversion efficiency, and customer engagement in the AI-era.
A successful Senior React Engineer brings deep expertise in React and Next.js, and thrives at the intersection of speed, performance, and engineering rigor. You possess an instinct for clean, scalable code, can independently unravel complex problems, and understand how each interaction, component, and millisecond impacts user experience, SEO, and conversion.
If you are passionate about highly performing React applications, modern frontend infrastructure, and building digital experiences that scale globally, we'd love to talk.
Location: Brazil
Responsibilities Include
- Own the Next.js frontend architecture of Forcepoint.com, ensuring performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Build reusable React components and frontend systems that accelerate page production, UI consistency, and team velocity.
- Translate Figma UX/UI designs into high-quality, production ready React code that is responsive, accessible, and optimized for conversion.
- Optimize Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) and enforce performance budgets across the frontend.
- Understand caching strategies and edge-optimized patterns for global delivery (Vercel Edge, CDN layers).
- Integrate with backend GraphQL/REST APIs through efficient, cache-friendly patterns.
- Implement server-side and client-side rendering strategies that maximize performance and SEO.
- Partner closely with backend (Drupal 10 / GraphQL) engineers to ensure a seamless decoupled architecture.
- Support A/B testing development and integration with VWO Data360.
- Participate in technical planning, grooming, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers.
- Stay current on emerging frontend technologies, frameworks, build tools, and performance methodologies.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, build processes, and deployment workflows.
- Help monitor site health through logs and observation tools
Required Technical Skills
- Expert-level React and Next.js
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript
- Experience with SSR, SSG, ISR, and hybrid rendering strategies
- Deep understanding of web performance, Core Web Vitals, and frontend optimization
- Strong HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, responsive design fundamentals
- Experience consuming GraphQL APIs
- Familiarity with Node.js build tools and package managers (npm, yarn)
- Experience with Git, code reviews, and collaborative version control workflows
- Experience building or contributing to a design system or component library
Nice to Have Skills
- Vercel (hosting, serverless functions, edge functions)
- Decoupled CMS experience (Drupal)
- Web accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA) best practices
- Analytics and experimentation tools (Tealium, VWO, Adobe Analytics)
- Performance monitoring (New Relic)
- Figma or other UI prototyping tools
- Experience with internationalization and large multilingual websites
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
Qualified Candidates Should Have
- 5-7+ years of frontend engineering experience, with significant work in React and Next.js
- Demonstrated ability to ship performant, scalable, enterprise-level web applications
- Strong understanding of SEO fundamentals as they relate to frontend architecture
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work cross-functionally
- Strong communication, prioritization, and time-management skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or related field
Don't meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don't meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace - so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.
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