Frontend Engineer

Staff Frontend Engineer

📍 San Francisco (Hybrid, 3 days in-person)
💰 Salary: $200k–$300k | 📈 Equity: 0.3%–0.6%

We’re looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer (7+ years of experience, ideally 8+) to help architect, build, and scale the core systems of our platform. You’ll work directly with the founding team to develop complex, UI-heavy applications, shape product direction, and set the engineering culture for our growing San Francisco team.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves quickly with beta-stage products, and has a deep passion for frontend performance, design tools, and real‑time collaboration experiences.

• Architect & Build: Design and develop complex, production‑grade front‑end systems in React + Type Script .

• Collaborate Closely: Work with design‑first founders and customers to rapidly prototype and refine solutions.

• Optimize & Scale: Drive frontend performance, scalability, and real‑time collaboration capabilities.

• Integrate: Build and maintain integrations with developer tools, design platforms, and APIs (REST/Graph
  
  QL).

• Lead by Example: Take high ownership in setting the technical foundation and engineering culture for the SF team.

• 7+ years of frontend engineering experience (staff‑level preferred; exceptional candidates with fewer years considered).

• Strong React + Type Script expertise.

• Experience with
  state management (Recoil, Zustand, Jotai, Redux w/ middleware).

• Familiarity with real‑time collaboration tools (Yjs, CRDTs, Web Socket/Socket.io).

• Proven ability in performance optimization (e.g., virtualization, React-Virtualized/Tan Stack Virtual, Web Assembly).

• Exposure to backend fundamentals (Node.js, REST, Graph
  
  QL).

• Background building complex UI‑heavy web applications
  .

• Experience with
  SVG/canvas rendering (React-Konva, React-Flow, React Three, D3.js).

• Knowledge of WebRTC for peer‑to‑peer collaboration.

• Dev Ops familiarity (Docker, CI/CD).

• Experience building Figma‑like apps, design tools, or collaborative editors
  .

• Contributions to open‑source React or frontend libraries
  .

• Hybrid mindset: Comfortable working 3 days/week in‑person at our South Park, SF office
  .

• High ownership: Self‑starter who doesn’t wait for direction and can set strong technical foundations.

• Strong communicator: Able to translate customer needs into elegant engineering solutions.

• Startup + big company mix: Ideal candidates have experience across both.

• Work authorization: Can work in the US without visa sponsorship.

• Salary: $200k–$300k

• Equity: 0.3%–0.6%

• Work model: Hybrid, 3 days/week in‑person at our South Park, SF office

• Visa sponsorship: Available

Our 4-step interview process is designed to be collaborative and transparent. You’ll meet with the founding team, solve real‑world problems, and discuss how you can help shape the future of our platform.