Founding Frontend Engineer

We're assisting a profitable startup with their search for a founding frontend engineer. Their product is an AI platform that automates software testing. The role will work onsite in their SF office.

• Own the entire product frontend, including the NextJS cloud app and the upcoming local app
• Craft novel UI paradigms that give users the simplicity, visibility, and guidability they need when interacting with AI agents
• Make important decisions about the technologies, frameworks, and design patterns
• Interact with customers regularly so we can continuously improve the UX
• Create, design, and advocate for projects you believe are high priority during roadmap planning
• Occasionally make changes to the backend if needed for delivery of full-stack features (less than 20% of your time will be spent here)
• Document everything as you go and share your expertise with the team!

• 3+ years of experience frontend engineering
• Experience at other small companies, ideally working on 0-to-1 UI projects (e.g. typescript migration, UI component library).
• Dev tools or browser experience is a plus (e.g., Circle
  
  CI, Datadog, Duck Duck Go )
• Have some experience with the tech stack:
  React, Next.js, Tailwind, Radix UI, Playwright, Tip Tap, Electron.
• Deep expertise in React ecosystem, particularly NextJS
• Experience with complex UI implementations (rich text editors, workflow builders, diagramming tools)
• Have a demonstrated ability to own large frontend projects
• An interest in developer tooling and AI. They are driven by the idea of accelerating other engineers with this amazing new technology, and hope you are too!