Frontend Engineer

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Full Time
San Francisco, California
$185,000 Annually
About Our Client
Our client is building modern financial infrastructure that helps software companies deliver accounting and operational capabilities directly within their products. Their platform enables businesses to create more seamless experiences for their customers while reducing manual processes and operational complexity.
The company is an early-stage, venture-backed startup with a strong product focus and a growing engineering team. They are looking for engineers who want to help build both a product and a company from the ground up.
The Role
Our client is seeking a Front-End Engineer who is excited to own meaningful product challenges, contribute to technical direction, and help shape the future of a rapidly growing platform.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing technical execution with product thinking and who thrives in environments where ownership, initiative, and collaboration are highly valued.
The team is looking for engineers who can:
  • Think from first principles while staying focused on customer outcomes
  • Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities
  • Take ownership of product and technical decisions
  • Contribute beyond implementation and influence product direction
  • Help elevate teammates through collaboration and knowledge sharing
  • Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
What We're Looking For
Required Qualifications
  • 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong hands-on experience building production applications with React
  • Deep understanding of modern front-end architecture, component design, and reusable UI patterns
  • Experience building and launching new products or major features
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to take ownership of projects from concept through delivery
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience working in startup or high-growth environments
  • Experience building design systems, component libraries, SDKs, or developer-facing front-end tooling
  • Experience collaborating closely with product, design, customers, or customer-facing teams
  • Track record of increasing scope, responsibility, and impact throughout your career
  • Interest in understanding customer problems and business outcomes, not just technical implementation
  • Excitement about leveraging modern AI tools to improve productivity and software development workflows
Technical Environment
While prior experience with every technology listed below is not required, candidates should be excited about working in a modern engineering environment.
Typical technologies include:
  • Front-End: React
  • Backend Services: Kotlin
  • Databases: PostgreSQL
  • CI/CD: Automated deployment pipelines
  • Infrastructure: Cloud-native, containerized services
  • Monitoring & Observability: Modern monitoring and logging tools
Front-End Focus
A unique aspect of this role is that the team is not primarily building a traditional web application.
Instead, engineers work on reusable front-end components and embedded user experiences that integrate directly into customer platforms. This creates interesting challenges around component architecture, developer experience, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
Candidates who enjoy building reusable systems, thoughtful user interfaces, and platform-level front-end solutions will be especially successful in this environment.
What Success Looks Like
The ideal candidate is:
  • Naturally curious and eager to learn
  • Passionate about building products that create meaningful customer value
  • Comfortable operating with ambiguity and evolving priorities
  • Motivated by ownership, impact, and continuous improvement
  • Excited by the opportunities and challenges of an early-stage company
  • Interested in both technical excellence and business outcomes

About Our Client
Our client is building modern financial infrastructure that helps software companies deliver accounting and operational capabilities directly within their products. Their platform enables businesses to create more seamless experiences for their customers while reducing manual processes and operational complexity.
The company is an early-stage, venture-backed startup with a strong product focus and a growing engineering team. They are looking for engineers who want to help build both a product and a company from the ground up.
The Role
Our client is seeking a Front-End Engineer who is excited to own meaningful product challenges, contribute to technical direction, and help shape the future of a rapidly growing platform.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing technical execution with product thinking and who thrives in environments where ownership, initiative, and collaboration are highly valued.
The team is looking for engineers who can:
  • Think from first principles while staying focused on customer outcomes
  • Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities
  • Take ownership of product and technical decisions
  • Contribute beyond implementation and influence product direction
  • Help elevate teammates through collaboration and knowledge sharing
  • Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
What We're Looking For
Required Qualifications
  • 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong hands-on experience building production applications with React
  • Deep understanding of modern front-end architecture, component design, and reusable UI patterns
  • Experience building and launching new products or major features
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to take ownership of projects from concept through delivery
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience working in startup or high-growth environments
  • Experience building design systems, component libraries, SDKs, or developer-facing front-end tooling
  • Experience collaborating closely with product, design, customers, or customer-facing teams
  • Track record of increasing scope, responsibility, and impact throughout your career
  • Interest in understanding customer problems and business outcomes, not just technical implementation
  • Excitement about leveraging modern AI tools to improve productivity and software development workflows
Technical Environment
While prior experience with every technology listed below is not required, candidates should be excited about working in a modern engineering environment.
Typical technologies include:
  • Front-End: React
  • Backend Services: Kotlin
  • Databases: PostgreSQL
  • CI/CD: Automated deployment pipelines
  • Infrastructure: Cloud-native, containerized services
  • Monitoring & Observability: Modern monitoring and logging tools
Front-End Focus
A unique aspect of this role is that the team is not primarily building a traditional web application.
Instead, engineers work on reusable front-end components and embedded user experiences that integrate directly into customer platforms. This creates interesting challenges around component architecture, developer experience, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
Candidates who enjoy building reusable systems, thoughtful user interfaces, and platform-level front-end solutions will be especially successful in this environment.
What Success Looks Like
The ideal candidate is:
  • Naturally curious and eager to learn
  • Passionate about building products that create meaningful customer value
  • Comfortable operating with ambiguity and evolving priorities
  • Motivated by ownership, impact, and continuous improvement
  • Excited by the opportunities and challenges of an early-stage company
  • Interested in both technical excellence and business outcomes

 

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