Founding Frontend Engineering Lead • Next.js

Founding Frontend Engineering Lead
• Next.js

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• Next.js role at Neuroscale AI
.

This role offers a base salary of $/yr to $/yr
, depending on experience, and meaningful early-stage equity.

Neuroscale is building the AI recruiting operating system — one unified platform for your entire talent organization, from first touch to hired. Arbi eliminates fragmented workflows, integrates directly with your ATS, and orchestrates AI agents for sourcing, outreach, screening, and candidate intelligence end‑to‑end. By combining reasoning‑optimized AI models with deep workflow automation, Arbi helps talent teams win more top candidates with dramatically less friction.

As our Founding Frontend Engineering Lead, you will own everything users touch. You’ll work alongside the founders and three other founding engineers, operating as the hands‑on technical leader with extensive expertise in all things frontend, architecture, design systems, developer experience, performance, and long‑term UI/UX strategy.

• Build the core frontend architecture from the ground up.
• Lead the design and development of our UI/UX.
• Establish best practices and engineering standards.
• Ship fast and iterate based on real customer workflows.
• Grow into a Head of Frontend or Director of Engineering as the team scales.

• Next.js (React), Apollo Graph
  
  QL, Type Script, Custom in‑house UI Kit & Design System, Modern state management, SSR/ISR, caching, and performance patterns.
• Own all frontend architecture decisions, structure, patterns, standards.
• Build highly performant, polished UI for recruiting workflows, agent orchestration, dashboards, and intelligent insights.
• Scale our design system and component library into a world‑class experience.
• Partner with backend engineering to shape our Graph
  
  QL API contracts and client‑server boundaries.
• Ship user‑facing features end‑to‑end: architecture → UX → implementation → launch → iteration.
• Translate ambiguous ideas into crisp, usable interfaces.
• Make foundational decisions that the entire future frontend team will build on.
• Drive frontend priorities and influence broader product strategy.
• Bring speed, clarity, and taste to everything you build.

• Agent orchestration & workflow builders.
• Real‑time candidate intelligence surfaces.
• Sourcing, outreach, and screening flows.
• LLM‑driven recommendations, insights, and reasoning UIs.
• High‑performance data visualizations & search interfaces.
• Ensure these experiences feel intuitive, fast, reliable, elegant, deeply useful in real recruiting workflows.

• Mentor and guide the other founding engineers on frontend patterns and best practices.
• Lead technical design reviews, architecture sessions, and code standards.
• Play a central role in hiring early frontend engineers.
• Help establish a culture of craftsmanship, velocity, ownership, and deep customer empathy.
• Evolve naturally into Head of Frontend as we scale the engineering team.

• You’ve built and shipped complex production‑grade frontends using Next.js & React.
• Deep expertise in component architecture, Type Script, Apollo Graph
  
  QL, design systems, and performance optimization.
• Strong product and design intuition — you care deeply about UX quality.
• Experience building or maintaining high‑polish UIs or internal UI kits.
• Comfortable working closely with backend engineers to shape the API layer.
• You thrive in fast‑paced startup environments and can move from idea → shipped quickly.
• You’re a builder with a strong engineering backbone and taste for great UI.
• You learn exceptionally fast and make things happen.
• You communicate clearly and thrive in in‑person, high‑trust collaboration.
• You care about solving real customer problems, not just writing beautiful UI.
• You want massive ownership and want to be foundational to a company’s success.
• You aspire to grow into a long‑term engineering leadership role.

• Workflow builders, dashboards, or enterprise‑grade UIs.
• Motion design, animations, micro‑interactions.
• AI/LLM‑powered product interfaces.
• User research or product design…