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# (1610) Principal FE Engineer at Nortal

- **Company:** Nortal
- **Location:** Latin America
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nortal/jobs/5271663007

## Job description

Join Nortal for your next big adventure. We are seeking Principal FE Engineer to join our team, grow with us, and teach us a few things along the way.

## Why join Nortal

- Say Goodbye to Micromanagement: We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values.
- Outcomes Over Hours: We believe in a work model focused on impact, providing you with the flexibility to balance your professional success with your personal well-being.
- Vibrant Community: Join our close-knit LATAM remote team and connect through tech talks, virtual coffee breaks, and team-building activities.
- Support from Day One: Our People Care team is here to support you throughout your journey, from wellness check-ins to professional growth.

Our benefits ✨

- Competitive USD salary.
- 100% remote work: While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM.
- Paid time off & national holidays: Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations while receiving your full salary.
- Sick leave: Focus on your health without stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better.
- Annual credit: Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance.
- Team-building activities: Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community.
- Birthday off: Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family.

## About the project

Join the team behind an innovative 3D home design platform used by millions of customers worldwide.

As a Principal-level Web Engineer, you’ll lead the development of highly interactive web experiences built on an existing 3D interface and graphics engine, helping shape a product that combines spatial computing, 3D graphics, e-commerce, and consumer technology at global scale.

In this role, you will architect, implement, and optimize consumer-facing web applications connected to the platform’s 3D capabilities. You will own technical direction, web quality, performance, and the evolution of architectures, APIs, and features across the web and microservices cloud platform. You will be a trusted technical leader who can solve complex and novel problems, explain trade-offs, and connect technical decisions to product and customer outcomes.

You will be hands-on for our distributed web engineering team. This is an approximately 50/50 role: part hands-on product engineering and part technical leadership, architecture, web quality, and partnership with Product and stakeholders. You will guide engineers and drive technical decisions without requiring direct people management.

## What you’ll do

- Own and improve web capabilities so they deliver meaningful customer and product outcomes while remaining well engineered, maintainable, performant, and scalable.
- Own and coordinate complex technology roadmaps with a distributed development team and our partners, making trade-offs clear and adapting the approach to novel problems.
- Be a trusted technical partner to Product Managers, designers, company leadership, and external partners, translating product goals into technical direction and communicating risks and trade-offs clearly.
- Drive seamless customer journeys by working closely with service teams to design, build, and develop an integrated customer experience across online and in-store channels.
- Own and promote healthy engineering practices: conduct code reviews, maintain code and architecture quality, write and review software design documents, improve observability and performance, and drive efficient and effective test automation.

What makes you a great fit

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of recent, hands-on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frontend development and React (or equivalent component frameworks), with deep expertise in state management, performance optimization, and frontend architecture.
- 8+ years engineering substantial full-stack web codebases live in production, including ownership of systems at scale and experience understanding how frontend, backend, APIs, data, and infrastructure connect.
- 3+ years providing technical leadership for small engineering teams (3-6 engineers) on business-critical projects, including mentoring, technical direction, hiring support, and growing the effectiveness of other engineers. Direct people management is not required.
- 5+ years designing and shipping complex distributed systems, including API design, microservices integration, performance-critical architectures, and meaningful production ownership.
- Strong foundations in Computer Science, software engineering, and structured problem solving.
- Fluency with Internet web technologies and modern full-stack web application technology stacks. Backend language experience may include Node, Python, Java, .NET, or equivalent technologies.
- Familiar with best practices for DevOps, observability, testing, and quality practices for effective and efficient delivery.
- Experience with consumer internet applications and the ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes are strongly desired.
- Able to adjust calendar for meetings with Europe. Eastern Time location is preferred.
- Appreciation for consumer experience, visual aesthetics, and product quality is preferred.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, distributed, and asynchronous engineering environment. Startup or high-ownership product experience is preferred.
- Advanced English Level is required for this role as you will work with US clients. Effective communication in English is essential to deliver the best solutions to our clients and expand your horizons.
- Nice to have: Experience with 3D graphics technologies is a plus, but prior 3D development experience is not required. Experience building consumer retail e-commerce applications.

Global Impact, Local Culture 🌍

For over 25 years, we’ve been shaping digital transformation, delivering complex solutions for global enterprises and public sector organizations. Today, we are at the forefront of an AI-driven transformation era, helping organizations turn data into real business value. By combining deep domain expertise with data and AI, we design solutions that create immediate impact while scaling for the future.

We believe complexity doesn’t have to mean complicated, and that the best solutions are those that work in the real world, not just on paper. That’s why our clients trust us with their most ambitious, business-critical initiatives.

Apply now and let’s shape the future of technology together! 🧑‍💻

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## About Nortal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nortal is a multinational strategic change and technology company that drives digital transformation for governments and enterprises, best known for delivering 40% of Estonia’s e-government infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (employee-owned since 2016)
- **Headquarters**: Tallinn, Estonia
- **Founded**: 2000 (incorporated as Webmedia in Tartu, Estonia)
- **Founders**: Priit Alamäe (current CEO and Chairman) and Taavi Kotka (founding member, later Estonia’s first CIO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Business transformation, government contractor, IT consulting, cybersecurity, healthcare IT.
- **Target customers**: B2G (national governments, public sector agencies) and B2B (enterprise, Fortune 500 companies in telecommunications, media, and other industries).
- **Mission statement**: To create “game-changing solutions that deliver the future, seamlessly” – with a focus on making a tangible impact on a global scale through digital transformation.

## Products & Services
Nortal delivers integrated consulting, software engineering, and managed services rather than packaged products. Key offerings include:
- **E-Government Platforms**: End-to-end digital services for citizens and businesses (e.g., Estonia’s e-services, Oman’s “Invest Easy” portal, Nigeria’s GIFMIS financial management system).
- **Healthcare Solutions**: Laboratory information systems and proactive healthcare platforms (e.g., eHealth product line acquired from Cybernetica).
- **Digital Commerce & Customer Experience**: Transformative platforms for seamless user experiences (e.g., for telecom and media clients).
- **Data & AI Services**: Data analytics, AI-driven automation, and Industrial AI solutions (recognized as a key Microsoft partner in Industrial AI).
- **Cybersecurity & Defense**: Capabilities strengthened by the acquisition of UK-based 3DOT Solutions (2024) and NATO supplier status.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Revenue of €224.2 million (2023); 2,000+ employees (2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Employee-owned – no outside investors. Key partners include Microsoft (Industrial AI Partner Guide) and NATO (approved supplier under Basic Ordering Agreement).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Expanded into 15 home markets (Estonia, Finland, Germany, US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Austria, GCC, etc.) with 30 offices worldwide.
  - Acquired Nearsure (2024, rebranded) adding 650+ professionals in Latin America.
  - Acquired 3DOT Solutions (UK cybersecurity/defense) and Questers (Bulgaria) in 2023–2024.
  - Named “Company of the Year” by Enterprise Estonia and “Best Workplace” in the DACH region.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched government transformation track record**: Delivered 40% of Estonia’s e-government – a globally recognized benchmark for digital public services.
- **Employee-owned structure**: 100% owned by employees since 2016, fostering long-term alignment and retention.
- **Deep vertical expertise**: Proven ability to execute complex, mission-critical projects across governments, healthcare, telecom, and defense.
- **Global delivery capabilities**: Presence in Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Middle East, with nearshore centers in Bulgaria, Poland, Ukraine, Serbia, Mexico, and more.
- **Strategic partnerships**: Microsoft Industrial AI partner, NATO supplier, and trusted advisor to 25+ Fortune 500 companies in North America.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding geographic footprint**: Continued growth in North America, the UK, and the Middle East, with new offices in Austria and Canada in 2024.
- **AI & automation**: Leveraging the Microsoft Industrial AI partnership to deliver AI-driven solutions for industry and government.
- **Defense & cybersecurity**: Strengthening national security offerings through the 3DOT Solutions acquisition and NATO framework.
- **Talent & culture**: Scaling the “Nortal Nomad” remote-work program and investing in learning paths to attract top global tech talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Flexibility**: Remote-first hybrid model – work from home, office, or “almost anywhere.” Full-time employees can become “Nortal Nomads” and work short-term in another country.
- **Culture**: People-first, with values of ownership, initiative, delivering value, and continuous growth. Awards include “Dream Employer in Estonia,” “Best Work-Life Balance in DACH,” and “Most Family-Friendly Company” (Germany).
- **Meaningful work**: Projects that impact billions – from national e-government systems to AI in healthcare and port innovation.
- **Global community**: 30 offices, 2,000+ colleagues from 40+ nationalities; remote collaboration tools and regular events.
- **Professional growth**: Structured learning paths, mentorship, and the chance to work on diverse projects across industries.

## Sources
1. [nortal.com](https://nortal.com/) – Corporate overview, NATO supplier announcement, Microsoft partnership
2. [careers.nortal.com](https://careers.nortal.com/) – Culture pillars, remote-first policy, Nortal Nomad program, awards
3. [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortal) – Company history, revenue, employee count, acquisitions, founder details
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nortal) – Company description and size
5. [careers-en-nortal.icims.com](https://careers-en-nortal.icims.com/jobs/intro) – Open positions and location listings

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