Alteryx, Inc

Sr. Frontend Engineer

Alteryx, Inc$119K — $153K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of production software development experience
  • Deep knowledge of React, TypeScript, modern JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
  • Hands-on expertise with Material UI (MUI) and theming
  • Experience with component libraries across multiple products
  • Proven ability to produce clean, well-documented, and secure code
  • Proficiency in debugging and troubleshooting frontend issues
  • Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration
  • Curiosity and problem-solving mindset focused on user experience

Responsibilities

  • Develop high-quality React applications using TypeScript and MUI
  • Build and maintain shared MUI components for consistent user experiences
  • Translate product needs into effective technical plans and milestones
  • Take ownership of features through the development lifecycle
  • Set high standards for code accessibility, performance, and reliability
  • Identify and mitigate potential delivery risks
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user interactions
  • Design and implement AI product features with a focus on usability

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical benefits
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Wellness programs
  • Paid time off and employee discounts
  • Bonus program opportunities
Full Job Description
Senior Frontend Engineer

We're looking for a curious, product-minded Senior Frontend Engineer to help build reliable, polished web experiences. You'll shape frontend architecture, deliver complex features end to end, and raise engineering standards across our team.
What You'll Do
  • Build & Evolve Core Apps: Develop high-quality React applications using TypeScript and Material UI (MUI).
  • Drive UI Foundations: Build and maintain shared MUI components, themes, and frontend foundations to enable consistent, accessible experiences across teams.
  • Technical Leadership: Turn ambiguous product needs into clear technical plans, pragmatic milestones, and shipped outcomes.
  • End-to-End Ownership: Own features through design, implementation, testing, release, and production support.
  • Set Engineering Standards: Model strong standards for accessibility, performance, reliability, maintainability, and frontend architecture.
  • Proactive Problem Solving: Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and unclear requirements early; align partners on approach and sequencing.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product, design, and backend teams to create intuitive, scalable user experiences.
  • Ship AI Experiences: Help define and ship trustworthy AI product experiences, focusing on usability, evaluation, safety, and operational quality.
  • Team Growth: Mentor engineers, onboard teammates, provide actionable feedback, and improve team practices.
What You Bring
  • Experience:4+ years building and operating production software, demonstrating senior-level judgment and ownership.
  • Core Stack Mastery: Deep experience with React, TypeScript, modern JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • MUI Expertise: Strong hands-on knowledge of Material UI (MUI), including theming, reusable components, accessibility, and design-system patterns.
  • Design System Ownership: Experience building, evolving, and maintaining component libraries used across multiple products or teams.
  • Clean Code & Architecture: Proven ability to write clean, well-tested, secure code with reusable, well-documented components and stable APIs.
  • Debugging & Performance: Experience troubleshooting complex frontend issues across browsers, APIs, state management, and production environments.
  • Execution & Communication: Comfort leading work across team boundaries and explaining technical decisions clearly to both engineers and non-engineers.
  • Curiosity: A drive to investigate root causes, question assumptions, learn quickly, and find better ways to solve real user problems.
Specialized Experience

AI Experience
  • Integration: Hands-on experience building AI-enabled features (LLM integrations, agentic workflows, retrieval, tool calling, or AI-assisted UX).
  • Production Concerns: Deep understanding of quality measurement/evaluation, prompt management, latency, cost, privacy, security, observability, and fallback states.
  • Trustworthy Interface Design: Ability to design streaming responses, citations, review/edit flows, error handling, and meaningful human control.
  • Pragmatic Approach: Stays current with AI tools and applies them thoughtfully to solve real customer problems.

Component Library & Design Systems
  • Deep MUI Knowledge: Expertise in MUI tokens, component composition, overrides, responsive behavior, accessibility, and upgrade strategies.
  • Balanced Design: Balances consistency with extensibility, partnering with product and design to create durable UI foundations.
  • Testing Tooling (Bonus): Experience with Storybook, visual regression testing, accessibility testing, and component versioning/releases.
Nice to Have
  • Experience with React Testing Library, Playwright, or Storybook.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, observability, cloud platforms, and API design.
  • Prior experience in collaborative product teams prioritizing high design quality and accessibility.
How You'll Make an Impact

You'll influence work beyond individual tickets: helping the team make better technical decisions, ship predictably, and create durable UI foundations for core product experiences and new AI capabilities.

Compensation:

Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as your relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

The salary range for this role in the United States is $119,000 - $153,000.

Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of other benefits, such as a bonus or commission, medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.

Interested? Learn more and apply today at alteryx.com/careers!

Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we're invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

Benefits & Perks:

Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here.

About Alteryx, Inc

Alteryx is a computer software company based in Irvine, California, with a development center in Broomfield, Colorado. The company's products are used for data science and analytics. Its software is designed to make advanced analytics accessible to any data worker. The company's products are used by companies such as Amazon, Ford, and Coca-Cola. Alteryx was founded in 1997 by Dean Stoecker, Olivia Duane Adams, and Ned Harding. The company went public in 2017 and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol AYX.
Learn more about Alteryx, Inc
Size
2,384 employees
Market Cap
$3.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$24.3 million
Founded
2011
5 Year Trend
+44.3%
Revenue
$495.3 million
NASDAQ

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