WorkWhile - Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

San Francisco, California, United States - Hybrid$150k - $250k+ Equity5mo ago

In Office Staff NA Payments Software Software Engineer Staff Engineer Team Management Stripe Rippling Mentoring

Requirements

• A strong track record of owning complex UI systems or frontend platforms, not just individual features • Deep care for user experience, performance, and long-term maintainability • Ability to operate in ambiguity - defining problems, proposing solutions, and aligning stakeholders • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across teams • Experience mentoring engineers and raising team-wide frontend quality (people management not required) • Experience designing or maintaining shared component libraries or design systems • Exposure to mobile performance, accessibility, or internationalization challenges • Experience working on products with real-world impact and high user trust • Engineering @ WorkWhile • We’re a small and mighty team with senior engineers from Rippling, Stripe, DoorDash, Faire among others • We value user-centricity, competence, speed, and having fun • We embrace independence and take ownership of our projects, yet are also great team players • We deal in outcomes, not projects • Read more about our team at https://tech.workwhile.ai/

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve frontend systems that span multiple product areas, ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability • Partner with engineering leadership, product, and design to shape frontend technical strategy and long-term direction • Lead high-impact initiatives such as architectural evolution, performance improvements, or major UX foundations • Establish and uphold frontend standards around component design, state management, accessibility, and testing • Act as a force multiplier for the team: guiding technical decisions, reviewing designs, and mentoring engineers • Help define how frontend engineering is practiced as the company grows

Benefits

• SF/NY/Seattle$150K – $250K • Offers Equity • TorontoCA$165K – CA$310K • Offers Equity • This range represents the good-faith estimate of the base salary/wage we reasonably expect to pay at the time of hire. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including seniority, experience, skills, and geography. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here