Staff Frontend Engineer
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Requirements
- 10+ years of frontend engineering experience with a proven track record of leading frontend architecture and driving quality improvements at scale.
- Expert-level knowledge of modern frontend technologies (React strongly preferred), with deep understanding of performance optimization, state management, component design, and web platform fundamentals.
- Experience optimizing frontend performance in data-intensive applications, including rendering large datasets, managing complex state, or building responsive interfaces under performance constraints.
- Demonstrated experience establishing frontend standards, patterns, and best practices that improved team velocity and product quality across an organization.
- Strong technical leadership skills with experience mentoring engineers, conducting impactful code reviews, and raising the technical bar of a team.
- Track record of identifying and driving quality and reliability initiatives that had measurable impact on customer experience or business outcomes.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills - you can influence technical decisions across engineering, product, and design leadership.
- Product mindset with deep customer empathy - you connect technical decisions to customer value and business impact.
- Experience in fintech, financial services, or other domains where data accuracy, reliability, and user trust are paramount.
- Track record of building or significantly improving design systems and component libraries used across multiple teams.
- Experience at high-growth startups where you established frontend practices and architecture during periods of rapid scaling.
- Thought leadership in the frontend community through blog posts, conference talks, open source contributions, or technical writing.
- Experience with complex data-heavy interfaces, data visualization, or multi-step workflow UIs.
- Interest and expertise in applying AI/LLM tools to improve frontend development workflows and enable the team to work more effectively.
- Our tech stack: React, TypeScript, MUI, React Query, Vite, Storybook, Playwright
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the frontend architectural strategy across our platform.
- Establish patterns, standards, and best practices for building high-quality, scalable user experiences.
- Lead critical quality and reliability initiatives to ensure interfaces meet enterprise standards.
- Own complex, end-to-end frontend projects including data reconciliation workflows, multi-step onboarding experiences, and sophisticated data visualization interfaces.
- Establish and evolve our design system, component architecture, and frontend infrastructure to improve consistency, reusability, and development velocity across teams.
- Mentor and level up frontend engineers across the organization through code reviews, pairing on challenging problems, and establishing a culture of excellence.
- Partner with Engineering Managers, Product, and Design leadership in shaping technical roadmap decisions, identifying quality investments, and advocating for frontend needs in architectural discussions.
Benefits
- We’re a highly experienced team with a track record of successfully building together. We’re well-versed in building for the best tech companies and asset managers.
- We’re a well-funded company backed by top-tier investors.
- We're laser-focused on customers and believe that a world-class user experience is critical for product and business success.
- We move fast, iterate quickly, and have a high bar for what “excellent” looks like.
- High-quality benefits package including 100% company-paid insurance premiums for family coverage (medical, vision, dental).
- 401K, HSA & FSA plans
- OneMedical, HealthAdvocate, TalkSpace, and Teladoc memberships
- Technology stipend
- Paid parental leave
- Office space in San Francisco and New York for in-person working