Senior Software Engineer, Front End

Temporal Technologies

7d•$150,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Temporal is revolutionizing how organizations manage distributed systems at scale through our innovative platform. Our UI team builds intuitive, powerful interfaces that make complex distributed systems understandable and usable across both our open-source offering and Temporal Cloud. We’re seeking a Senior Front-end Engineer (also open to mid-level) to join our UI team and play a key role in building and evolving the user experience for Temporal’s products. In this role, you’ll take ownership of complex frontend features across our enterprise SaaS platform and open-source projects, delivering performant, scalable, and thoughtfully designed interfaces that handle real-time, high-volume system data. You’ll partner closely with designers, Cloud/SDK/Server engineers, and product leaders to translate complex system behavior into clear, intuitive user experiences, while maintaining high standards for code quality, performance, and accessibility.

Requirements

Strong experience building modern web applications using TypeScript and component-based frameworks
Experience with, or strong interest in learning, Svelte
Proven ability to build performant, scalable frontend systems
Solid understanding of UI/UX best practices, accessibility standards, and responsive design
Experience working with real-time data, dashboards, or interactive visualizations
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Comfort owning features end-to-end and collaborating across product, design, and backend teams
Experience working effectively in a distributed or remote-friendly team environment

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-performance, interactive UIs using Svelte, TypeScript, Tailwind and modern development and build tools
Own and deliver critical frontend features across: Temporal Open Source Temporal Cloud Developer-facing products Internal tools and marketing surfaces
Focus on reliability and scalability of UI features that grow with the platform
Build intuitive data visualization experiences that help users understand, explore, and debug complex distributed systems
Take ownership of frontend components and features from concept through production, including iteration and refinement
Collaborate closely with a seven-person frontend team to deliver both revenue-driving initiatives and long-term platform investments
Contribute to extensible, customizable UI architectures that support a wide range of customer use cases
Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and design reviews to raise the overall quality of the frontend codebase
Help guide frontend best practices around performance, maintainability, and accessibility
Building fast, responsive UIs capable of rendering and interacting with large volumes of real-time data
Designing sophisticated data visualization and exploration tools that allow users to drill deeply into system behavior
Creating extensible client-side architectures that support customization and extensibility without sacrificing performance or clarity
Balancing feature richness with simplicity and performance in complex enterprise applications for distributed systems
Ensuring frontend systems remain maintainable and scalable as the product and team grow

Benefits

Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
Empower 401K Plan
Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
$3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
$1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
$1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
$1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
$74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness