Company Description
When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Turnitin products are used by educational institutions and certification and licensing programs to uphold integrity and increase learning performance, and by students and professionals to do their best, original work.
Experience a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.
Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.
Job Description
Turnitin is seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer with strong expertise in modern frontend technologies such as web components, React, and micro frontends. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about designing and delivering intuitive, high-performing, and reliable user interfaces that support our award-winning educational platform.
As a core contributor to our product development team, you will play a critical role in shaping the user experience of both existing and new applications. You will collaborate closely with backend engineers, designers, and product managers to create scalable and engaging solutions that meet the needs of educators and students worldwide.
Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Ownership
- Own the design, development, and evolution of major frontend components, and platform capabilities.
- Drive architectural decisions at the system and program level, ensuring alignment with enterprise reference architecture.
- Act as the decision maker when mid and junior level engineers cannot resolve complex technical issues, providing clarity and direction to keep projects on track.
- Innovate within project and platform constraints, introducing new approaches and solutions.
- Balance strategic technical vision with pragmatic, supportable execution.
Component Development & Design Systems
- Design, develop, and maintain highly efficient, reusable, and scalable web components using modern frontend frameworks.
- Build modular UI libraries and design systems to ensure consistency, maintainability, and reusability across projects.
- Establish and enforce best practices in accessibility, security, performance optimization, and responsive design.
- Collaborate with designers and product managers to define the architecture of reusable component libraries and design systems.
Integration & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Ensure seamless integration of web components into applications.
- Partner with backend engineers to design APIs that enable efficient data flow and interaction.
- Collaborate with DevOps to streamline CI/CD processes for frontend builds and deployments.
- Work closely with QA to ensure smooth handoff, debugging, and resolution of testing issues.
Code Quality, Standards & Performance
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that adheres to modern engineering standards.
- Perform code reviews and establish departmental best practices for quality and maintainability.
- Develop robust unit and integration tests for reusable components.
- Debug and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.
Mentorship & Cultural Leadership
- Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, particularly in component development and modern frontend frameworks.
- Provide technical guidance, pair programming, and ongoing coaching to raise team capability.
- Serve as a cultural and technical fixture within the department, fostering collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence.
Delivery & Impact
- Drive large-scale, multi-quarter initiatives and epics, ensuring on-time delivery of high-impact features.
- Influence departmental technical strategy and standards through visible leadership and execution excellence.
- Ensure all solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with organizational goals.
Qualifications
Requirements:
- Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience
- 10+ years of professional experience in frontend development, with at least 2 years working on web components and Angular/React projects; building micro-frontends.
- Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining reusable libraries and design systems used across multiple projects.
- Deep understanding of TypeScript, including advanced types, generics, and best practices for scalable codebases.
- Extensive experience with HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript (ES6+).
- Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, or similar tools.
- Strong debugging skills for browser-based issues and performance optimizations.
- Knowledge of frontend performance best practices, including rendering optimization, lazy loading, and asset management.
- Experience with modern build tools like github/Jenkins.
- Proficiency with version control systems like Git.
- Understanding of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and responsive design principles.
- Proven experience collaborating effectively with designers, product managers, and backend teams across geographically distributed time zones, including Europe and the USA, to deliver seamless and cohesive user experiences.
- Strong communication skills; ability to articulate technical concepts and collaborate effectively.
- Familiarity with integrating frontend builds into CI/CD pipelines, specifically using GitHub Actions.
Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience
- Understanding or experience with backend technologies
- Knowledge of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and modern browser APIs.
- Expertise in web components development using Stencil.js or similar frameworks.
- Familiarity with tools like Storybook for component documentation.
- Experience working with Agile/Scrum teams.
Additional Information
Total Rewards @ Turnitin
At Turnitin, we believe Total Rewards go far beyond pay. While salary, bonus, or commission are important, they’re only part of the value you receive in exchange for your work.
Beyond compensation, you’ll experience the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential and making a positive impact on global education. You’ll also thrive in a culture free of politics, surrounded by humble, inclusive, and collaborative teammates.
In addition, our extrinsic rewards include generous time off and health and wellness programs that provide choice, flexibility, and a safety net for life’s challenges. You’ll also enjoy a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in the way that suits you best, all supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being.
Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Our Values underpin everything we do.
- Customer Centric: Our mission is focused on improving learning outcomes; we do this by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
- Passion for Learning: We are committed to our own learning and growth internally. And we support education and learning around the globe.
- Integrity: Integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin—it is the core of our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
- Action & Ownership: We have a bias for action. We act like owners. We are willing to change even when it’s hard.
- One Team: We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each others' successes.
- Global Mindset: We consider different perspectives and celebrate diversity. We are one team. The work we do has an impact on the world.
Global Benefits
- Remote First Culture
- Health Care Coverage*
- Education Reimbursement*
- Competitive Paid Time Off
- Self-Care Days
- National Holidays*
- 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
- Paid Volunteer Time*
- Charitable contribution match*
- Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement/*
- Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
- Parental Leave*
- Retirement Plan with match/contribution*
* varies by country
Seeing Beyond the Job Ad
At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and unleash your potential alongside us, join our team!
