Senior Frontend Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Frontend Engineer (AI): Building and optimizing educational product features for students and teachers with an accent on UI/UX quality, performance, and cross-stack integration. Focus on developing modern web interfaces using React/TypeScript and contributing to backend services to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions.

Location: Must be based in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY; 4 days per week in-office attendance required.

Salary: $170,000 - $230,000

Company

An AI-focused educational technology startup dedicated to making world-class teaching and learning accessible globally.

What you will do

• Own and ship end-to-end product features for student and teacher platforms.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to enhance visual quality, UX, and interaction design.
• Translate product goals into technical implementation plans for the frontend and full-stack architecture.
• Optimize frontend codebase for performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Design APIs and contribute to the full development lifecycle from prototyping to production.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript.
• Solid background in full-stack fundamentals (API design, relational databases like MySQL).
• Experience with CSS systems such as Tailwind or SCSS.
• Willingness to work with Kotlin and Python on the backend.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating and shipping features backed by LLMs or AI APIs.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive equity package.
• Comprehensive health coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision) with 100% employer-paid premiums.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Daily lunch credit via Doordash.