Software Engineer, Frontend

Side • San Francisco, CA

17h • Hybrid

About The Position

At Side, we believe everyone should own their path. Side partners with top-producing real estate professionals to help them own and operate their own boutique real estate companies, without the legal, regulatory, or operational complexity of running a traditional brokerage. As a pioneer in the Brokerage-as-a-Service model, Side provides a proprietary platform that increases efficiency, strengthens client relationships, and enables entrepreneurs to focus on what they do best — selling real estate and growing their businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco and backed by more than $300 million from top-tier venture capital firms, Side is recognized as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing companies in real estate. At Side, you’ll work alongside experienced industry leaders and world-class engineers to help shape the future of real estate and empower exceptional professionals to thrive as business owners. The Engineering organization includes approximately 25 engineers, split between two groups: Transaction/Brokerage Management and Platform Engineering. We value diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and ways of thinking. The Transaction Management team builds the systems that power our primary agent-facing application: The Side App.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience building production frontend applications.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React.
• Solid experience with Next.js and modern React patterns (hooks, server/client components, App Router).
• Intermediate proficiency in CSS and its core concepts (box model, Flexbox, CSS Grid, positioning, specificity, media queries, etc.)
• Comfort working in a large monorepo with shared libraries and internal conventions (Nx, Yarn workspaces).
• Strong experience with testing using Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress.
• Experience working with Git and GitHub in a collaborative development workflow.
• Ability to break down technical problems and deliver maintainable solutions with guidance when needed.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering and non-engineering teams.
• Good judgment around reliability, security, and performance in production systems.
• Comfortable learning and adapting to new tools and workflows, including AI-assisted development tools.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with design systems or component library work (e.g., MUI, Radix, or similar).
• Experience with observability and production monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Familiarity with building internal tools or automations using LLMs, agents, or workflow-based AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve frontend features and UI components that support real estate transaction workflows for our partners.
• Collaborate with Product and cross-functional partners to turn business requirements into technical solutions.
• Partner with design stakeholders to deliver pixel-perfect UI from Figma files and contribute to our shared design system.
• Deliver medium-sized features independently, with support from senior engineers on larger or more complex initiatives.
• Participate in system design discussions and contribute practical ideas around scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code.
• Create and maintain automated tests across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers.
• Review code thoughtfully and incorporate feedback from others.
• Troubleshoot production issues, debug complex frontend bugs and UI regressions, and support operational excellence.
• Identify technical debt and suggest pragmatic improvements.
• Follow engineering best practices for security, observability, data integrity, and application performance.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity across prototyping, debugging, task management, documentation, and code review, while applying strong judgment to validate correctness, security, and maintainability.

Benefits

• Stock options
• Best-in-class benefits, including 100% healthcare coverage (medical, vision and dental)
• Flexible PTO
• Learning & Development credit
• Pet-friendly environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed