What You'll Do- Own frontend architecture and implementation for Skiffra's customer-facing products, partnering closely with product and design to create polished user experiences
- Build end-to-end user-facing product features, collaborating with AI, data, and backend engineers on services, integrations, and API contracts
- Translate ambiguous, operationally complex customer problems and AI outputs into clear, intuitive product experiences
- Prototype quickly, observe real users working with the product, and iterate based on user behavior and field feedback
- Establish reusable component patterns, automated testing, accessibility, performance, and frontend engineering standards from scratch
- Help implement and evolve the product's visual system and interaction patterns in partnership with product and design
- Shape hiring and engineering culture as part of the founding team
What We're Looking For- Strong frontend engineering skills (React, TypeScript) with a track record of shipping polished, customer-facing web apps
- Strong product and UX judgment, including the ability to identify confusing interactions and improve incomplete designs
- Strong judgment building data-dense, high-stakes interfaces, including dashboards, real-time monitoring, alerts, and complex workflows, with sound data-visualization instincts
- Experience shipping responsive web applications across desktop, tablet, and mobile browser form factors
- Proven ability to take a feature from concept to shipped product with minimal direction
- Experience integrating frontend applications with APIs, asynchronous services, and data-intensive systems
- Comfort building interfaces for asynchronous and AI-assisted workflows, including streaming responses, long-running tasks, evidence, confidence, approvals, and human overrides
- Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals, including semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, focus management, screen-reader support, and WCAG standards
- Strong debugging skills across frontend applications, browser and network behavior, API integrations, and production environments
- Portfolio or work samples demonstrating polished frontend execution across dashboards, data visualization, and complex workflow interfaces
- Comfortable collaborating in Figma, interpreting designs, identifying interaction problems, and proposing practical improvements
- Clear communicator, bias toward action and simplicity, comfortable in ambiguity
Nice to Have- Experience with Next.js and modern frontend tooling
- Experience building interfaces for AI-augmented or agentic products
- Experience building component libraries or design systems at scale
- Prior startup, founding-engineer, or zero-to-one experience
- Experience building software for industrial, operational, or field users, including challenging lighting, time pressure, large touch targets, or error-sensitive workflows
- Familiarity with real-time data, streaming interfaces, and complex application state
- Experience building resilient web applications for intermittent connectivity, including local caching, retry behavior, and recovery from interrupted sessions
How We WorkWe value speed, clarity, and technical rigor. We favor simple systems over clever ones, prototypes over over-planning, and ownership over handoffs. You'll work directly with founders and ship things that matter quickly.
Location & Work ModelThis is a hybrid role with regular in-person collaboration in Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay Area. We are not a remote-only company.
Work AuthorizationCandidates must be authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Benefits & EligibilityThis position is eligible for Skiffra's standard benefits, including health insurance and retirement plans, and may also qualify for participation in the Company's bonus and incentive programs.
