Software Engineer, Frontend

Glean•San Francisco, CA

124d•$115,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Glean is looking for creative engineers to launch beautiful, smooth user facing features from within a modern React and TypeScript codebase. In a rapidly growing startup, this entails developing ideas with product designers to best balance constraints with requirements, delivering best-in-class user interfaces that run in modern mobile and desktop browsers, as well as creating frontend infrastructure to support rapid experimentation and development.

Requirements

BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
Experience with a highly polished consumer grade React.js app, or 4+ with any web app
Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit and cross-functional environment
A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot and take ownership of both small tasks and large features
Passionate about using open web technologies (HTML5/CSS/JS) to build pixel perfect, zero-latency, 60FPS user interfaces that run on all devices
Comfortable in TypeScript, or JavaScript and type-curious

Nice To Haves

Experienced in or desire to master one or more of: Progressive Web Apps (PWA), Web Extensions, Electron, Capacitor, React, Redux, Webpack

Responsibilities

Build delightful user interfaces with React.js in collaboration with stellar product designers and backend engineers
Oversee the entirety of your features from inception to launch and beyond
Write robust code that’s easy to read, maintain and test
Push the boundaries of platform constraints to integrate an instant Glean experience into every workflow
Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle tested ones