The role: Senior Front-End Developer
Verbatim breakdown of what they want, mapped to what you have. Use this to know exactly which of your stories to deploy in which interview.
01The pitch (their words)
Translation: They need someone senior enough to make architectural decisions, not just close tickets. The phrase "help define how a growing engineering team builds software" is a strong tell — they want someone who can set patterns, not just follow them.
02The full tech stack
Frontend
| Tech | Your familiarity | Action |
|---|---|---|
React | Very strong — daily at Artlist | Lead with this |
TypeScript | Very strong | Lead with this |
Tailwind CSS | Strong (used on parish.cv stack) | Mention naturally |
Nx (monorepo + micro-frontends) | May need refresh | Read up — see stack page |
TanStack Query | Likely familiar (React Query) | Refresh patterns: cache, mutations, optimistic updates |
AG Grid | May need refresh | Read up — sorting, filtering, virtualization, custom cell renderers |
Base UI ("where appropriate") | Likely new to you | Read up — headless primitives from the MUI team, paired with Tailwind |
| "Modern routing solution" | Unspecified in JD | Likely TanStack Router (matches their TanStack alignment) or React Router v7 — ask in interview |
Tooling, Testing & Infra
| Tech | Your familiarity |
|---|---|
GitHub Actions | Strong (you use it on tutorialsearch.io) |
Docker | Comfortable |
Jest + React Testing Library | Standard senior toolkit |
Playwright | May need refresh — review the basics |
Backend / Cloud (you don't need to know deeply, just nod)
- .NET 10 with FastEndpoints, PostgreSQL
- Azure — Container Apps, Bicep, Blob Storage, App Insights
You're not the backend hire. Be aware of these so you can speak to integration concerns (REST? OpenAPI? auth flow? error contracts?), but don't pretend to know .NET deeply.
AI
Note: AI usage isn't called out in the current JD text — don't quote it back to them as if it were. But your Claude Code workflow, the GLM shell setup, and the AI video pipelines for Mirandized are still strong differentiators. Bring them up unprompted in stage 2 or 4 as evidence of how you find leverage.
03Key responsibilities (decoded)
Architecture & system design
"Design frontend boundaries, shared libraries, and module isolation strategies." This is Nx monorepo work. They want someone who can carve a frontend into apps and libs cleanly. Real-world: knowing when to split a feature into its own lib, how to handle shared types, how to keep build times sane.
Enterprise UI development
"Complex, data-heavy interfaces using AG Grid." This is the meat. Imagine an inventory grid with 50,000 rows, 30 columns, inline editing, custom cell renderers (status pills, dropdowns, badges), grouping by category, virtualization. This is most of the job.
JD also says: "Translate Figma designs into polished, pixel-accurate interfaces" and "Develop reusable components aligned with our design system." Worth asking in stage 3: how mature is the design system, how do they hand off (Figma Dev Mode? Code Connect?), and where does Base UI fit in vs. their own primitives.
Performance & optimization
"Optimize rendering performance for large datasets." Direct match for your Artlist performance work. Bring metrics if you can — even rough ones ("we cut TTI from X to Y" or "reduced bundle from N kb to M kb").
Testing & quality
Standard senior expectations. Be ready to talk about your testing philosophy: where do you draw the line between unit and integration? When do you reach for E2E?
Accessibility & security
"WCAG-compliant interfaces. OWASP best practices (XSS prevention, CSP awareness)." Don't be tripped up — review WCAG levels, semantic HTML, ARIA basics, XSS attack vectors, Content Security Policy headers.
JD also names: "Ensure safe API integration and authentication flows." Be ready to talk about token storage (httpOnly cookies vs. localStorage), refresh-token rotation, CSRF for cookie-based auth, and how a 401 interceptor composes with TanStack Query (e.g. invalidate on refresh, redirect to login on hard failure).
Collaboration & leadership
"Mentor junior engineers and help raise frontend engineering standards." This is where you turn "10+ years" into a real story. Have a concrete example of mentoring or raising a bar at Artlist.
04Their requirements vs. your profile
| They want | You bring | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 5+ years frontend | 10+ years | ✓✓ exceed |
| Deep React + TypeScript | Daily at Artlist | ✓✓ |
| Large-scale enterprise web apps | Artlist (millions of users) | ✓✓ |
| Micro-frontend / modular architecture | Need to brush up on Nx specifics | ~ defensible |
| Data-intensive interfaces | Frontend at a content/asset platform — relevant | ✓ |
| AG Grid or similar | Needs refresh | ~ honest answer |
| Server-state management (TanStack) | Likely yes | ✓ |
| Performance optimization at scale | Documented Artlist work | ✓✓ STRENGTH |
| Automated tests + CI/CD | Yes (also tutorialsearch.io) | ✓ |
| Communication / ownership | Public portfolio, side products | ✓✓ |
"Nice to haves" you can claim
- Internal component libraries / design systems — the
PixelDensityLoop.jsxstudio component you built recently - Open source / technical writing — parish.cv blog posts (GLM, dev workflow, etc.)
- Monorepo development — soften: "I've worked in Nx-adjacent setups"
05The two areas to over-prepare
1. AG Grid
If you've never used it, you can't fake deep familiarity. But you can fake near-familiarity by knowing:
- Column defs vs. row data
- Client-side vs. server-side row models
- Cell renderers + cell editors
- Virtualization (default on)
- Grouping, pivoting, master-detail
- Sortable / filterable / resizable patterns
2. Nx monorepos
The vocabulary is the win:
apps/vslibs/- Project graph + affected commands
- Tags & module-boundary rules
- Generators & executors
- Computation caching (local + remote)
- Module Federation for true micro-frontends
Full coverage on the stack-specific page.
06Pay note
From the JD: "We offer competitive compensation in USD that reflects the value we place on our team members' skills and contributions. Specific salary details will be discussed during the interview."
USD compensation is good news for you (Bangladesh-based, remote). See the salary negotiation page for your number.