Location: APPLY is hybrid/remote-friendly. The preferred candidate should be based in Latin America, preferably working in hours that align to PT (Pacific Timezone) or ET (Eastern Timezone). Candidates located in Santiago, Chile are able to work out of our Santiago office as remote/hybrid employees. Candidates located outside of Santiago, Chile will be fully remote employees.

THE ROLE

The Principal Agentic Engineer (Front-end) is a senior technical leader responsible for building scalable, high-quality frontend applications that power AI‑driven digital experiences. This role blends frontend engineering excellence with architectural leadership, AI integration, and strong client‑facing communication.

You will lead frontend technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with backend, product, and design teams to deliver production‑ready solutions. The role requires deep expertise in modern frontend frameworks, AI‑assisted development workflows, and cloud‑connected architectures.



You will engineer teams of coding agents to accomplish implementation requirements for the systems you will be building.

You bring a strong leadership track record at the Staff or Lead level, operating with high autonomy and turning ambiguous product or business goals into shipped, production‑ready software.

Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of high‑performance frontend applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
- Organizing, distributing and translating backlog requirements from Product, UX and other disciplines, into detailed spec‑driven requirements for Agents to implement.
- Synthesise user stories, site maps, content strategy, components and design systems, brand strategy, etc, into specifications that coding Agents will implement.
- Designing and implementing digital solutions that have proper SEO/GEO, accessibility, performance and content management integrations.
- Integrations with key Composable platforms such as Contentful, Contentstack,

📌 Principal Agentic Engineer (Santiago)
🏢 applydigital
📍 Santiago