Senior Frontend Engineer Series B

Day One Partners is a search firm that partners with venture capital firms to help build high-growth startups. We lead confidential searches for leadership and critical roles across a range of company stages, industries, and functions.

Day One Partners is leading a confidential search for a well-funded, venture-backed enterprise software company building modern infrastructure for operations-heavy businesses. The company is developing a flexible cloud platform that helps teams manage complex workflows, data, and business-critical processes across fragmented systems. This is an opportunity to join a high-caliber startup team building in a large, underserved software category with strong investor backing, meaningful technical scope, and significant product surface area still to shape.

A confidential client is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to architect and build core frontend experiences for a collaborative cloud platform. This person will own major customer-facing product areas, help shape the technical roadmap, and build scalable frontend infrastructure, reusable components, and polished user experiences. The ideal candidate has strong frontend craft, excellent product judgment, and experience building from 0 to 1 in fast-moving startup environments.

• Architect and build core frontend experiences for a modern cloud platform
• Own the frontend technical roadmap for key customer-facing product areas
• Build scalable infrastructure, reusable components, and design-system foundations
• Develop rich, dynamic product functionality using internal APIs and platform services
• Raise the quality bar for frontend performance, usability, maintainability, and product polish

• Strong experience building products from 0 to 1 in ambiguous or fast-moving startup environments
• Fluency with Type Script, React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS
• Familiarity with GraphQL, Postgres, ORMs, Node.js, and Express
• Experience building complex frontend interfaces and components using internal APIs
• Strong product judgment, pragmatic technical decision‑making, and deep care for user experience

• You think in systems and care about how frontend decisions scale over time
• You are pragmatic and make decisions based on context, not theory
• You are collaborative, low‑ego, and comfortable working across functions
• You bring a growth mindset and continuously look for ways to improve the product, team, and company

The salary range for this role is $150,000–$230,000, plus a strong equity component. Final compensation will be based on factors such as experience, qualifications, location, and level.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Premium comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO and mandatory U.S. holidays
• 401(k) with immediate eligibility; non‑matching
• Fitness stipend
• Commuter stipend for BART, MUNI, and Cal Train
• Equipment stipend
• Snacks and drinks in the office, including caffeinated, carbonated, and coffee options
• Catered lunch and dinner / meals provided in‑office
• Relocation assistance available

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