Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Highlights

• Own frontend architecture for complex, high-scale AI products.
• Solve real-time streaming and async workflows at scale.
• Build reliable experiences for AI responses and long tasks.

Ideal candidate

A hands-on technical leader with deep frontend experience who thrives on ambiguous, high-scale problems and cares about performance, reliability, and mentoring others to raise the engineering bar.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with strong hands-on frontend experience.
• Deep experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, browser fundamentals, networking, rendering, and the web platform.
• Experience designing and scaling large production frontend applications.
• Strong understanding of state management, APIs, caching, authentication, and asynchronous systems.
• Experience building real-time or streaming experiences using technologies such as WebSockets, SSE, or streaming APIs.
• Strong understanding of web performance and experience solving real production performance problems.
• Experience with frontend observability and debugging production issues.
• Experience building shared components, design systems, or frontend platforms.
• Strong system-design skills and the ability to make practical architectural trade-offs.
• Ability to influence technical decisions across teams without relying on formal authority.
• Strong ownership and a bias toward solving problems at their root.
• Understanding of video and audio fundamentals, including media processing, encoding/decoding, formats, streaming, synchronization, and handling media workflows at scale.
• Experience building frontend experiences for video/audio processing or dubbing workflows is highly valuable.
• Understanding of document digitization workflows, including document upload, processing states, previews, extraction results, editing/review experiences, and handling large or complex documents.
• Experience building frontend applications that deal with large files, long-running processing jobs, progress tracking, retries, failures, and partial results.