Technical Lead, Frontend

Onyx

• $150K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of frontend engineering experience with complex, user-facing applications
  • Proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, NextJS, and modern frontend technologies
  • High standards for personal and team output
  • Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
  • Strong product and design intuition

Responsibilities

  • Develop the frontend for the open-source chat interface and enterprise search platform
  • Create a seamless UI/UX experience with animations and speed
  • Implement a wide range of features including workspace and internet search
  • Collaborate closely with design teams and founders
  • Establish frontend priorities and best practices
  • Cultivate a strong design and frontend engineering culture
  • Guide contributors in the open-source community

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape a core product in a growing open-source project
  • Work in a collaborative environment with a focus on innovation
  • Be part of a team aiming to create a leading 'GenAI for work' application
  • Engage with a vibrant community of users and contributors
  • In-person role in the tech hub of San Francisco, CA
Full Job Description
Your impact

Onyx is a popular open source project with hundreds of thousands of users. The project has over 13K stars and over 3K community members across Slack and Discord (these stats may already be out of date when you read this). You'll have the opportunity to build in the open and your work may be used by millions of people in the future.

About the role

As an early hire, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the core product. Help us become the biggest "GenAI for work" application in the world!

You'll be:
  • Doing everything frontend for the default open-source chat interface, enterprise search platform, and agent builder. Some specific features:
    • Beautiful core search and chat experience (animations, speed, etc.). Think building the UI/UX layer for Perplexity AND ChatGPT in one.
    • Huge feature set: workspace search, internet search, code interpreter, artifacts, deep research, and so much more
  • Collaborating closely with the design team + founders
  • Setting frontend priorities and best practices
  • Building an exceptional design / frontend engineering culture
  • Fostering an open-source community; guiding contributors on adding to the frontend


This is an in-person role based in San Francisco, CA.

You'll be successful if you have...
  • 4+ years of frontend engineering experience building complex, user-facing applications
  • Have an incredible bar for yourself and for others. You want your work to be exceptional, and accept nothing less.
  • In-depth experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, NextJS and other modern frontend technologies
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Strong product/design intuition.


☆ Bonus points
  • Familiar with Python, Postgres
  • Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • Previous founder or early engineer at seed/series-A startup


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