Frontend Application Tech Lead

Instrumental, Inc.•Palo Alto, CA

About The Position

Instrumental technology is used by the world’s most admired electronics brands, such as NVIDIA, Cisco, and Meta, to accelerate new product development and improve production yields. Our technology leverages AI to process data generated on the manufacturing floor, automating failure identification and resolution, improving yield, quality, and time-to-market. In the past few quarters, our technology has become mission-critical for AI server manufacturers. We’re rapidly growing our global presence to enable deeper integrations into our customers’ complex manufacturing environments. We are at a significant inflection point: the explosion in AI compute is driving a scale and speed of manufacturing that has never been seen before in this market, and Instrumental has become a key tool to help companies like NVIDIA meet demand. We are expanding our product, and building a fundamentally new platform to allow us to scale. Instrumental is seeking a Frontend Application Tech Lead to own and drive the buildout of a powerful and intuitive web application that will be deployed commercially at scale - the interface through which engineers, analysts, and operations leaders at the world’s largest tech companies and factories see, understand, and act on the data that cuts manufacturing waste in half. We’re Looking for Someone Who: Has played a lead role delivering high quality, data intensive, intuitive user experience in a large-scale React + Typescript environment. Is technically strong on all things frontend and user-centered design. Able to enforce architectural boundaries and advocate best practices. Has demonstrated excellence as a strong tech lead, reliable project lead, and trustworthy team lead in fast-paced high-growth startup settings. Is intelligent and knowledgeable, collaborates well, understands the business side of requirements. Able to articulate use cases, interaction flows and engineering trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

8+ years of hands-on development experience building production-grade data-intensitive web applications.
BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related majors.
Master of modern Javascript frameworks, component-driven design systems, and responsive UI principles. Guru-level knowledge of React is mandatory.
Demonstrated effectiveness working with backend/REST APIs and collaborating with backend/platform engineers in a tech lead capacity.
Passionate about building elegant, reactive, and scalable user experience with a focus on performance and usability.
Track record of owning and driving projects from conception to completion by collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, mentoring, and leading engineering teams.
AI first mindset - augment your productivity with AI whenever you see fit.
Fast learner. Eager to absorb new emerging technologies.
High energy. Can thrive in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude.

Nice To Haves

Startup experience building, scaling, and evolving web applications for IPO-scale growth.
Has built web applications for highly specialized industries such as manufacturing, cybersecurity and security trading.