Software Engineer (Full-Stack, Frontend Focus)

Ketch • San Francisco, CA

2d • $150,000 - $180,000

About The Position

Ketch is hiring a full-stack software engineer with a frontend focus to build product interfaces for its data permissioning platform. The role turns signals, metadata, and outputs from backend and AI systems into fast, understandable, and trustworthy experiences that help customers inspect data ecosystems, understand classifications and policy decisions, evaluate risk, and take action.

The engineer will build React interfaces for mapping data ecosystems and surfacing real-time classifications, consent states, policy outcomes, and risk signals. The role also involves creating inspection tools, translating AI explanations and decision traces into usable interfaces, and partnering with designers, backend engineers, and AI teams on reusable components, design-system patterns, and data contracts. The position is part of a 70-person, fast-growing Series B company. The US base salary range is $150,000–$180,000, plus equity and benefits; salary within the range depends on location and other job-related factors.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of experience building production web applications.
• Deep experience with TypeScript and React.
• Understanding of browser rendering and experience diagnosing and fixing real performance problems.
• Hands-on experience shipping fast, clean, reliable React interfaces in production.
• Ability to design simple, predictable state patterns and work confidently with asynchronous data and evolving UI flows.
• Ability to work with backend and AI engineers to shape APIs and turn raw data into product experiences.
• Product-first mindset, clear communication, and a bias toward shipping, learning, and iterating quickly.
• Willingness to work through performance issues, edge cases, and UI polish.
• Interest in privacy, data, and AI, and motivation to make complex technology intuitive for users.
• English proficiency.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with react-query.
• Familiarity with testing, design systems, and practical best practices for startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Build interfaces that help customers map data ecosystems and understand how information moves across systems.
• Create React experiences that surface real-time classifications, consent states, policy outcomes, and risk signals.
• Develop product experiences that bring privacy by design to users.
• Turn AI insights, model explanations, and decision traces into clear, trustworthy user interfaces.
• Build inspection tools that show where sensitive data appears, why it was flagged, and what action to take next.
• Work with designers to create reusable components and data patterns that remain reliable across streaming events, large datasets, and complex asynchronous flows.
• Partner with backend and AI teams to shape data contracts for classification, system discovery, and automated governance.
• Improve the design system with patterns that make privacy and governance concepts easier to understand.
• Investigate and resolve performance issues, edge cases, and details that affect interface quality.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for US-based full-time employees.
• Unlimited PTO.
• 10 paid company holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Remote-friendly work with flexible scheduling built around core collaboration hours.
• Commuter benefits for office-based employees.
• Equity.

What This Job Offers

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