The roleWe are hiring for a founding frontend software engineer to own critical parts of Hera's user experience and help define what world-class, trust-building software looks like for families, caregivers, and care professionals. This is a founding role for someone who is highly design-minded, opinionated about quality, and excited to build products that feel thoughtful, beautiful, and grounded in real user needs.
What you'll do- Own and build core frontend product experiences. You will design and implement key workflows across Hera's product and help shape how the platform feels and functions day to day.
- Translate craft and taste into product quality. You will bring a strong point of view on interaction design, UI polish, and overall product quality, and hold a high standard for what ships.
- Work closely with users. You will stay grounded in the lived reality of Heroes, families, and internal users, and use those insights to build with context rather than in a vacuum.
- Help set frontend engineering standards. You will contribute to code quality, system cleanliness, and a thoughtful engineering culture as an early member of the team.
- Operate with high autonomy. You will identify opportunities, move quickly, and take ownership without needing heavy direction or hand-holding.
Who you are- Design-minded frontend strength. You have strong frontend engineering fundamentals and a clear appreciation for product craft, quality, and user experience.
- Taste and creativity. You have experience building products that feel intentional and polished, and you care deeply about how software looks and feels.
- User proximity. You are excited by direct engagement with users and want to build informed by real-world behavior and needs.
- Ownership mentality. You are self-directed, highly autonomous, and energized by the chance to carve out your area and raise the bar.
- Relevant technical fluency. TypeScript, React, Next.js, AWS services, and comfort with modern AI-native workflows are all highly relevant for this role.
What we value- Worthy of our parents: We don't leave the 20% behind, because that applies to someone's mother. Quality isn't a constraint we tolerate on the path to growth. Quality is the strategy.
- Collaboration must be an accelerant. Not everything will be collaborated on and that's fine. We assume good intent always and push the ball forward.
- Celebrate human. Humans are at the heart of everything we do: every product decision, every Hero we choose to hire, every person we bring onto the team. For us, empathy is fuel to move with urgency because we know every single day matters for those we serve. We look for missionaries not mercenaries.
- Enjoy the uphill. Wrestling problems this hard, in an industry this broken, is a privilege most people never get. We're excited for the summit but the joy is in the climb: figuring out how to take down the beast, one foot in front of the other. If the hard part isn't what's pulling you, this might be the wrong climb.
- Attack. Nothing is created in this world without an extraordinary amount of effort. In order to will the change we want to see in the world, we attack problems and play offense. We're here to win to ensure our customers get the world they deserve.
CompensationWe pay at the top of market with founding-level equity. People who deliver outsized outcomes should be rewarded with outsized upside.
