Lead the development of a canvas-style front-end interface, ensuring high-performance rendering and collaborating with teams to create generative workflows.
Job Title: Senior Front-End Engineer – Canvas & Generative UX
Location: Remote US OR Canada
Compensation: $140,000 - $190,000 (depending on experience) Plus Bonus and Benefits
About Centric Software:
Centric Software stands at the forefront of innovation, delivering cutting-edge PLM solutions tailored specifically for the retail, fashion, footwear, luxury, and consumer goods industries. Our enterprise software applications are designed to meet the unique challenges of the fast-moving consumer goods market, empowering businesses to manage, optimize, and execute their critical processes with ease.
From concept to production, our software solutions streamline the journey of bringing products to life. We support our customers in effectively managing materials, sourcing, quality, and pricing, ensuring every step leads to a successful final catalog. With Centric Software, businesses can navigate the complexities of product development with confidence and agility. www.centricsoftware.com
About the Role
Centric Software is developing a new generation of user experiences that combine generative AI with highly interactive visual interfaces, transforming how creative teams in fashion and retail explore, generate, and manipulate visual content.
We are seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer to lead the development of our visual canvas experience, integrating dynamic rendering, asynchronous image generation, and creative tooling into a seamless front-end layer. Think of tools with the interactivity of Figma or Miro, enhanced by the power of real-time AI.
Key Responsibilities
Must-Have Qualifications
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
Soft Skills
Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is 150,000 - $200,000 + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range for each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Candidates who exceed the specified experience and relevant education or training may be considered for compensation above the stated range. Please note that the compensation details listed reflect base salary, and certain positions may be offered additional variable incentives
Location: Remote US OR Canada
Compensation: $140,000 - $190,000 (depending on experience) Plus Bonus and Benefits
About Centric Software:
Centric Software stands at the forefront of innovation, delivering cutting-edge PLM solutions tailored specifically for the retail, fashion, footwear, luxury, and consumer goods industries. Our enterprise software applications are designed to meet the unique challenges of the fast-moving consumer goods market, empowering businesses to manage, optimize, and execute their critical processes with ease.
From concept to production, our software solutions streamline the journey of bringing products to life. We support our customers in effectively managing materials, sourcing, quality, and pricing, ensuring every step leads to a successful final catalog. With Centric Software, businesses can navigate the complexities of product development with confidence and agility. www.centricsoftware.com
About the Role
Centric Software is developing a new generation of user experiences that combine generative AI with highly interactive visual interfaces, transforming how creative teams in fashion and retail explore, generate, and manipulate visual content.
We are seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer to lead the development of our visual canvas experience, integrating dynamic rendering, asynchronous image generation, and creative tooling into a seamless front-end layer. Think of tools with the interactivity of Figma or Miro, enhanced by the power of real-time AI.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of a canvas-style front-end interface for real-time visual content interaction.
- Develop modular, scalable UI components using React, TypeScript, and MobX.
- Ensure high-performance rendering, smooth asset manipulation, and a responsive user experience across a complex UI surface.
- Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and back-end/AI engineers to create seamless user-facing generative workflows.
- Deliver high-quality, production-ready code with testing and CI/CD best practices (Jest, Cypress, etc.).
Must-Have Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in front-end development.
- Strong expertise in React and TypeScript, with advanced understanding of state management (preferably MobX).
- Excellent CSS and layout skills, including experience with PostCSS (note: Tailwind is not used).
- Experience working with canvas-based interfaces—such as HTML5 Canvas, Konva.js, Fabric.js, or similar libraries.
- Familiarity with Docker, Bitbucket, and deployment environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Strong architectural thinking with a focus on UI performance and scalability.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience building tools for design, creative production, or visual content workflows.
- Exposure to WebGL, shaders, or GPU-accelerated rendering techniques.
- Experience integrating generative AI APIs (OpenAI, Stability, Replicate, etc.).
- Background in developing real-time or multi-user interfaces.
Soft Skills
- Collaboration-focused: Works closely with designers, product managers, and backend engineers in a fast-paced, cross-functional team.
- Excellent communication: Can articulate technical challenges and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Attention to detail: Passionate about visual polish, smooth interactions, and pixel-perfect execution.
- Autonomous and proactive: Takes initiative, drives components end-to-end, and delivers robust features with minimal supervision.
- Creative thinker: Comfortable working in experimental spaces, rapidly prototyping and iterating on new interaction models.
- Curious and adaptable: Interested in exploring new visual paradigms, generative UX, and pushing the boundaries of front-end innovation.
Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is 150,000 - $200,000 + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range for each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Candidates who exceed the specified experience and relevant education or training may be considered for compensation above the stated range. Please note that the compensation details listed reflect base salary, and certain positions may be offered additional variable incentives
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Bitbucket
Cypress
Docker
Fabric.Js
GCP
Html5 Canvas
Jest
Konva.Js
Mobx
React
Typescript
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