Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Frontend Focus

Description

• Own the front-end architecture end to end for a greenfield product: assess what's been built so far, decide what to keep and what to rethink, then build it. • Design and build the UI for a customer-facing product, bringing real product and UX sense, not just technical execution. • Build and maintain the front-end (we lean TypeScript, but we care far more about your track record than an exact stack match). • Contribute to the backend as needed: understand databases, data structures, and overall system design well enough to build and reason about APIs (Node.js or Go, technology agnostic). • Take true end-to-end ownership: propose the approach, defend it, then build it, without waiting for someone else to set the direction. • Build inside a fully AI-driven workflow, using tools like Claude Code as a core part of how you ship, not an occasional assist. • Operate comfortably in a small, fast moving, ambiguous environment where priorities shift and you're often defining the "how," not just executing a pre-set plan.

Requirements

• Strong front-end fundamentals: you know the basics cold and can make real architectural calls, not just implement someone else's design. • Real product and UX sense: good taste, ideally built for real end users on a genuine customer-facing product, not only internal or B2B tools. • Comfortable across the stack: solid grasp of backend fundamentals (databases, data structures, general system design), even with front-end as your focus. • Technology agnostic: you've worked across multiple stacks before and can pick up whatever this team needs. We care about your track record more than your specific stack. • Genuine ownership: a history of starting things from zero, not just delivering on initiatives someone else already scoped. • Startup experience, ideally somewhere genuinely chaotic: comfortable with shifting priorities and ambiguous ownership. If you've only worked inside companies with clean roadmaps and clearly defined scope, this probably isn't the right fit. • Heavy, real fluency with AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code): you build with AI as a core part of your workflow, not an occasional assist.

Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development

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