6-10 years of experience in large-scale web application development
2-4 years in a Lead or Staff role focusing on frontend architecture
Expertise in React and TypeScript for high-performance user interfaces
Experience with complex UI systems like editors or node-based layouts
Proficient in modern state management techniques (e.g., Zustand, Redux)
Strong skills in performance optimization for web applications
Responsibilities
Own module boundaries, state/data flow, and rendering strategies
Drive the frontend roadmap through RFCs and architecture reviews
Ensure frontend performance across large documents and sessions
Set standards for testing, CI quality, and release reliability
Collaborate with Design, Product, and Backend teams on key technical decisions
Mentor engineers and enhance frontend engineering practices
Benefits
Meaningful stock options
Best-in-class health insurance for employees and their families
Located at the San Francisco HQ
Full Job Description
About the Role
We are hiring a Frontend Systems Architect to serve as the technical anchor for our frontend organization. In this role, you will be the primary driver of our product's technical excellence, solving complex problems like maintaining high performance on canvases with thousands of AI-generated nodes and architecting real-time collaborative systems.
This is a high-leverage, hands-on role. You will balance deep-work coding and day-to-day execution with long-term technical direction and mentoring.
What You'll Do
Own module boundaries, state/data flow, rendering strategy, and extensibility.
Drive the frontend roadmap through RFCs and architecture reviews, balancing speed-to-market with long-term maintainability.
Own frontend performance across large documents, long sessions, and memory usage.
Set the bar for testing, CI quality gates, observability, and release reliability to ensure a "zero-regression" culture.
Partner closely with Design, Product, and Backend teams on key tradeoffs, API design, and distributed systems.
Mentor engineers and raise the frontend engineering craft across the organization through code reviews and technical workshops.
Must-Have Requirements
6-10 years of professional experience building large-scale web applications.
2-4 years in a Lead or Staff capacity, owning frontend architecture and technical strategy.
Deep Technical Expertise: Mastery of React and TypeScript for complex, high-performance UIs.
Complex UI Experience: Proven track record building large editors or complex UI systems (canvas, node-based editors, multi-pane layouts, or timelines).
State Architecture Mastery: Deep experience with modern state management (e.g., Zustand, Recoil, Jotai, Redux) and reactive programming.
Performance Optimization: Proven ability to optimize web applications under real-world conditions (memory management, rendering bottlenecks).
Benefits
Salary: $250,000-$300,000 base salary
Equity: Meaningful stock options
Health Insurance: Best-in-class coverage for the employee and their entire family
