Senior Front-end Engineer

Who is Recruiting from Scratch :

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.

This role is based in Palo Alto, CA.

As a Front-end Engineer, you are a systems engineer specializing in user interface design and implementation. You’ll contribute to critical decisions about product, design, and backend integration. Currently we are focused primarily on Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like VS-Code and the JetBrains family of products.

Responsibilities

1. Work closely with design staff, AI researchers, and members of the systems team to design, build, and iterate on AI for Code Client.
2. Design and build user interfaces, beginning with IDE extensions and plugins.
3. Collaborate with systems engineering team to define and build the frontend-backend integration.
4. Collaborate with a team of AI Researchers and Systems Engineers to craft the technical direction of the system, including choosing preferred approaches for creating initial AI models and determining the next programming assistance tasks to be solved by system.

Tech stack

Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Kotlin, Java

Candidate requirements

1. Experienced with front end development: Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Kotlin and Java or similar.
2. Shipped UI/UX workflows, preferably for devtools.
3. Deep understanding of the developer experience and ability to work with key stakeholders including users, designers, AI researchers, and systems engineers.
4. 5+ years of experience in software development.

The salary range is $225,000 - $300,000