At Zendesk, we want new customers to experience product value within days not weeks. The Product-Led Growth (PLG) team is making that happen by designing intuitive onboarding experiences, from trials and in-app guides to prebuilt templates and automation flows.
We re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with frontend or fullstack expertise to help craft elegant, accessible, and responsive UIs that power this self-service motion. You ll collaborate closely with design and product to bring onboarding workflows to life helping customers set up integrations, configure help centers, and activate AI-powered support, all within the product itself.
What You ll Do Architect & Develop Scalable Front-End Solutions
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Design and build enterprise-scale UI components that support structured service request workflows, approval chains, and automated service fulfillment.
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Architect and implement hierarchical service catalog browsing, structured request bundling, and multi-layered service interaction models.
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Optimize front-end performance, focusing on load times, rendering efficiency, and client-side caching strategies.
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Work with GraphQL and REST APIs, integrating structured request workflows, service selection automation, and customized approval routing.
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Ensure accessibility, responsiveness, and intuitive user experiences across all service catalog features.
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Contribute to the evolution of Zendesk s front-end architecture, driving improvements in scalability, reusability, and maintainability.
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Optimize front-end performance, ensuring low-latency request interactions, real-time UI updates, and scalable service fulfillment experiences.
Lead Technical Innovation & Collaboration
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Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to create user-friendly, configurable service catalog UI components.
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Lead system design reviews and UI architecture discussions, influencing best practices for service request workflow UX and automation-driven interactions.
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Enhance developer experience by contributing to design system optimizations, UI performance frameworks, and automation-driven interaction models.
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Experiment with new front-end technologies, advocating for improvements in extensibility, scalability, and real-time service request execution.
Mentor & Strengthen the Engineering Team
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Act as a technical mentor, helping junior engineers grow their front-end expertise.
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Conduct code reviews, ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and testable front-end code.
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Foster a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning within the team.
What We re Looking For Required Qualifications
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5+ years of professional experience in frontend or full-stack development, with a focus on enterprise service catalogs, structured service request automation, or interactive service browsing interfaces.
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Strong expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Redux, with experience in state management for structured workflows and interactive request models.
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Experience building and optimizing GraphQL and REST API integrations, ensuring efficient data fetching, request fulfillment interactions, and service selection UI responsiveness.
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Deep knowledge of component-based front-end architectures, optimizing UI workflows for structured service request lifecycle automation.
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Proven experience developing user-friendly, hierarchical catalog browsing interfaces with search, categorization, and nested service relationships.
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Familiarity with front-end build tools (Webpack, Babel, Vite) and performance profiling tools.
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Proven ability to drive front-end architecture improvements and optimize complex UI applications.
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Experience building and maintaining high-scale, enterprise-grade UI applications.
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Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration skills.
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Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience building self-service portals, structured catalog browsing UIs, or request fulfillment workflow interfaces.
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Familiarity with micro frontend architectures, UI extensibility models, and enterprise-scale front-end scalability strategies.
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Experience working with observability tools (e.g., DataDog) and optimizing UI responsiveness for structured workflows.
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Previous contributions to open-source UI frameworks, request lifecycle automation tools, or enterprise self-service interaction models.
Tech Stack You ll Work With
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Backend: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL
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Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, GraphQL
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DevOps & Monitoring: DataDog, CI/CD tools
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Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes (nice-to-have)
Why You Should Apply -
Be part of Zendesk s future. The Employee Service business is a key strategic priority with strong investment and executive support.
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Work on impactful projects. Help organizations streamline service requests and automate fulfillment through an industry-leading service catalog.
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Solve complex technical challenges. Build and optimize front-end experiences at an enterprise scale.
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Grow your career. We invest in mentorship, learning opportunities, and career development.
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Enjoy flexibility. Hybrid-friendly culture with strong work-life balance.
Ready to Build the Future of Employee Service We d love to hear from you. Apply now and help us shape the future of customer experience.