Staff Engineer - Web Applications

This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.

We're looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to raise the technical bar for our company-wide web product surfaces , spanning Kikoff, Grant, and the products we build next, all in service of our mission to help millions of Americans.

This role goes beyond shipping features. You'll own the health, performance, and architecture of the frontend systems that serve our traffic at scale every day. You'll set technical direction, drive the frontend infrastructure roadmap, and treat performance as a product feature. Like everyone here, you'll work hand-in-hand with PMs, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to make sure what we ship is fast, reliable, and moves the needle in a meaningful, measurable way.

What you'll be doing:

Own the technical strategy and architecture of Kikoff's company-wide web frontend across Kikoff, Grant, and future products, including component systems, state management, rendering strategy, routing, and build/deploy pipelines

Own performance tuning for our highest-traffic surfaces: instrumentation, performance budgets, profiling, and optimization of Core Web Vitals, load times, and runtime responsiveness

Lead frontend infrastructure work (tooling, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, testing, developer experience) so that every engineer can ship high quality, performant UI by default

Build and evolve the shared UI components and libraries that product teams build on, and set frontend standards and code review practices across the org

Lead complex, cross-team projects that measurably improve the reliability, responsiveness, and polish of our product

Mentor engineers across the team and raise the technical bar

Requirements:

B.A. / B.S. / M.S. or strong self-taught fundamentals in computer science