Frontend Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, CA
Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 4 days in office / 1 day remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Compensation: $180,000–$250,000 base + 20% performance bonus + competitive equity
Visa: Open to visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers

About the Company

A rapidly growing, venture-backed technology company is building a new generation of consumer products powered by generative AI. The platform enables users to create and discover interactive experiences without traditional programming.

The company has achieved significant consumer adoption in a short period and is scaling rapidly ahead of a major U.S. market expansion. The engineering team is small, highly technical, and composed of experienced engineers from leading technology companies and research organizations.

This is an opportunity to join at a pivotal stage, with significant ownership over the frontend architecture and product experience.

About the Role

We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Frontend with 7+ years of software engineering experience to help scale a high-growth consumer platform.

You will operate at an L6/Staff-caliber level, owning complex user-facing features while helping shape frontend architecture, performance, and scalability. You will work closely with senior engineering leadership and have significant autonomy in taking projects from concept through production.

What You'll Do

• Build and own core consumer-facing experiences using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and React Native

• Take features from initial concept and technical design through production launch

• Solve complex frontend performance, scalability, and reliability challenges

• Build data-rich and potentially real-time user interfaces at significant scale

• Work across the frontend stack, including caching, server-rendered pages, authentication, APIs, and backend integrations

• Contribute to frontend architecture and engineering standards

• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to make fast, pragmatic technical decisions

• Ship frequently in a high-autonomy, fast-moving environment

• Help prepare the platform for continued rapid user and product growth

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of frontend/software engineering experience

• Staff/L6-level engineering capability

• Deep production experience with React and TypeScript

• Experience building high-quality, data-rich, real-time, or highly interactive user interfaces

• Strong frontend architecture and system-design skills

• Experience building consumer-facing products at scale

• Ability to independently take a product or technical problem from idea to shipped product

• Strong understanding of backend systems and APIs, even if your primary focus is frontend

• Strong technical communication and ability to make decisions independently

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline from a strong university

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a major consumer technology company or high-performing startup

• React Native experience

• Experience with large-scale consumer platforms or marketplaces

• Experience optimizing frontend performance at significant scale

• Experience working with real-time or highly dynamic applications

• Experience owning architecture for complex product areas

What We're Not Looking For

• Candidates whose experience is primarily internal tools or enterprise administration interfaces

• Frontend platform/build-system specialists without significant consumer product experience

• Candidates focused primarily on infrastructure, QA, or backend engineering

• Candidates with very long experience but limited recent hands-on product development

• Candidates who require a fully remote arrangement

Interview Process

The process is designed to move quickly:

1. Recruiter screen

2. Technical interview

3. Full-day onsite interview

4. Final decision / offer

Strong candidates can move through the process quickly, with decisions typically made shortly after the onsite.

Why Join

• Work on a rapidly scaling consumer platform at the intersection of AI, gaming, and interactive experiences

• Join a small, technically strong engineering organization

• Have meaningful influence over architecture and product direction

• Work on problems involving massive user growth and frontend scale

• Competitive compensation, bonus, and equity

• Significant ownership and autonomy