Senior Frontend Engineer

Palo Alto, CA or Remote (Hybrid Optional)

Founded by the pioneers of Web Socket, Aklivity is redefining how enterprises manage real-time data. Our efforts center on the next-generation of API infrastructure that transforms operational data streams into real-time data products. Platform teams at organizations like Siemens, Kone and N Brown rely on Aklivity to deliver reliable, highly performant governed access to real-time data across teams, applications and systems.

We're a tight-knit, seasoned team of innovators and doers backed by leading investors including 468 Capital, Pear Ventures and Alumni Ventures.

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to lead development of a management control plane for Zilla — our streaming-native API gateway. This is a high-impact role that will shape the user experience for how platform teams configure, monitor, and govern access to real-time data. You’ll work closely with our core engineers and early enterprise customers to deliver a modern, performant, and intuitive frontend that will democratize access to real-time data streams both inside as well as across companies.

• Design and build the management UI for configuring Zilla deployments, managing Kafka topic access, API policies, security rules, and observability.
• Collaborate on frontend architecture and component design, with a focus on modularity, testability, and scalability.
• Integrate with backend services via REST, Graph
  
  QL, Postgres and/or gRPC—helping define frontend-friendly APIs where needed.
• Implement data visualizations for access patterns, throughput, latency, and governance compliance using tools like D3 or Recharts.
• Define and uphold frontend coding standards, performance targets, and UI accessibility best practices.
• Iterate on mockups, workflows and wireframes with team members and customers/prospects.
• Write clear documentation that allows users to learn everything they need to know to effectively use the Zilla Management Console within their environment.

• 5–10 years of experience building and shipping modern SPAs (React preferred).
• Fluency in Type Script, modern JS build pipelines (Vite, Webpack), and frontend state management (Zustand, Redux, or similar).
• Experience building frontend systems for technical users (e.g., Dev Ops, platform teams, or enterprise admins).
• Solid understanding of API design, authorization models, and real-time data UIs.
• Strong product sense: able to translate complex backend concepts (Kafka, APIs, RBAC, metrics) into simple, clear UI interactions.
• Experience with component libraries (e.g., Tailwind, Radix, shadcn/ui) and building accessible, production-grade UIs.

• Be part of a small, senior team building a product that’s reshaping real-time data infrastructure.
• Own core user-facing systems from the ground up.
• Work with customers who are deploying cutting-edge streaming architectures at global scale.
• Competitive salary, early equity, and benefits.
• Remote-first with flexible work culture.