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Founding Frontend Engineer

Talently | New York, New York, United States | 2d ago
$200,000 – $240,000/yr| full-time | hybrid | lead | 5+ years
skills: typescript, react, graphql, tailwind css, figma, storybook, component library, design systems, api design, testing, performance optimization, cross-browser testing
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🚀 We’re Hiring: Founding Frontend Engineer at a High-Growth AI B2B Startup

📍 Location: New York City (Midtown) - 4 days in-office, Wednesdays WFH 💰 Compensation: $200K - $240K Base + Meaningful Equity 🤝 Backed by: Venture investors behind Square, Instacart, Airtable, and Webflow.

About Us Every B2B buyer wants to hear from a company's current customers before making a decision. As AI makes every market 10x more competitive, a company's ability to unlock the voices of its happy customers is its ultimate moat. We are the AI-native platform making this possible at scale.

We already have Post-Market Fit (PMF) and are partnered with 30+ enterprise customers, including Databricks, Canva, Gong, and Braze. Our founders have a proven track record, having collectively helped build Braze and Datadog (two of NYC's biggest IPOs). Now, we are looking for our first dedicated Frontend Engineer to join our elite 8-person team.

The Opportunity You will be the frontend guru here, setting the standard for how our product is built and how it feels. Reporting directly to our Head of Engineering and working closely with our CEO, you will have outsized ownership across every frontend surface: from our core web app to embeddable components on high-traffic public sites.

What You’ll Do:

  • Set the Foundation: Partner with our in-house designer to build out our component library and design systems from scratch.
  • Ship Constantly: Go from PRD to production every week. You will design the API, build reusable components, write tests, and monitor user interactions.
  • Drive the Roadmap: Near-term projects include a customer analytics dashboard, a chatbot interface, and an overhauled user management experience.
  • Own the UI Quality: Establish cross-browser testing frameworks and optimize performance relentlessly. The frontend is where customers feel our quality the most.

    • Who You Are (The Ideal Profile):

    • Experience: 5+ years building customer-facing frontends, with at least 3+ years specifically in high-growth, VC-backed startups/scale-ups (Series B+).
    • Tech Stack: You are fluent in TypeScript, React, and GraphQL. You are also highly familiar with Tailwind CSS, Figma, and Storybook.
    • Zero-to-One Builder: You have clear signals of outsized ownership (e.g., building a design system from scratch, leading a team, or maintaining an open-source library).
    • Design Thinking: You know how to take designer-produced Figma mockups and turn them into pixel-perfect, user-facing features.
    • Commitment: You are willing to work hard in person (4 days a week in NYC) and are okay with occasional weekend work (~20% of the time) for on-call duties.

    (Bonus points if you have a personal website or non-work-related side projects that showcase your frontend skills!)

    🚫 Who This is NOT For:

    • Professionals with extensive enterprise or Big Tech experience who lack recent, scrappy startup exposure.
    • Candidates with a history of job-hopping (multiple stints under 1 year) or repeat contract/freelance work.
    • Those with a heavily academic or research-focused mindset. We need rapid, pragmatic shippers.

    Benefits

    equity · health insurance