Clarifai

Frontend Engineer

Clarifai$150K — $215K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years building production web applications professionally.
  • Expert in React, TypeScript, and Next.js stack.
  • Experience with AI-powered or real-time user interfaces.
  • Strong frontend architecture knowledge including state management and performance optimization.
  • Familiarity with complex data structures and APIs.
  • Ability to balance speed and quality in feature shipping.
  • Experience collaborating with designers and product stakeholders.
  • Startup experience that embraces ambiguity.

Responsibilities

  • Create interfaces that enhance user trust in AI.
  • Architect frontend systems to improve team efficiency and quality.
  • Define API contracts and cross-team data patterns.
  • Establish performance standards for data-heavy AI interfaces.
  • Build a component library and establish reusable patterns for teams.
  • Develop frontend infrastructure including tooling and testing frameworks.
  • Set architectural standards for state management and data routing.
  • Mentor junior engineers and establish best practices across the team.

Benefits

  • Fully covered medical, dental, and vision for employees (50% for dependents).
  • 401(k) with company matching contribution.
  • Flexible time off policy.
  • Generous parental leave.
  • Team offsite gatherings 2-3 times a year.
Full Job Description
Location: Seattle strongly preferred, exceptional remote candidates to be considered on a case by case basis

About the role

You'll join Clarify as a Frontend Engineer, building the interfaces that bring AI to life for sales teams. You'll craft how users interact with LLM-powered features-conversational search, data enrichment, insights, and workflow automation. You'll work directly with founders to shape how AI surfaces in the product and set the foundation for our frontend architecture.

What you'll do
  • Create interfaces that build user trust in AI.
  • Architect frontend systems enabling team velocity and quality.
  • Define API contracts and data patterns across teams.
  • Establish performance standards for data-heavy AI interfaces.
  • Build component library and patterns teams adopt.
  • Create frontend infrastructure: tooling, testing, deployment pipelines.
  • Set architectural direction: state management, data fetching, routing.
  • Mentor engineers, establish best practices, unblock teams.
Your background
  • 5+ years building production web applications professionally.
  • Expert in React, TypeScript, and Next.js stack.
  • Experience building AI-powered or real-time user interfaces.
  • Strong frontend architecture: state management, performance, and data.
  • Comfortable with complex data structures and APIs.
  • Pragmatic: balance speed with quality when shipping.
  • Ship features: concept to production, testing, and monitoring.
  • Strong collaboration with designers, engineers, product stakeholders.
  • Startup experience: comfortable with ambiguity, changing priorities.
  • Bonus: Data visualization, tables, or command palettes.


Compensation and Benefits

We offer a salary range of $150,000-$215,000 depending on level and location, benchmarked against market data for startups our size, plus competitive stock options with standard 4-year vesting and a 1-year cliff. Benefits include fully covered medical, dental, and vision for you (50% for dependents), a 401(k) with company match, flexible time off, and generous parental leave. We bring the full team together 2-3 times a year for offsites.

Our Seattle-based employees work from our Pioneer Square office three days a week. Outside of Seattle, we're a fully distributed team.

About Clarifai

Clarifai is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in computer vision and natural language processing. The company's platform allows developers to build AI-powered applications that can analyze and understand visual and textual content. Clarifai's clients include major brands such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Nordstrom. Clarifai was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Learn more about Clarifai
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2013

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