Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Read AI, Inc.•Seattle, WA

5d•$220,000 - $250,000

About The Position

As a Staff Frontend Engineer at Read AI, you won't just build features — you'll own the future of how millions of people experience our product. This is a role for someone who thinks beyond the ticket, sees around corners, and takes personal pride in the quality and direction of everything they touch — setting standards for how we build, influencing what we build, and ensuring that every user interaction with Read feels fast, intuitive and delightful. You will work across our core product surfaces, including our reporting app, billing experience, native integrations (like Zoom, Meet, Teams etc.) and our browser extensions, leaving a lasting mark on all of them.

Requirements

8+ years of experience: A strong background in frontend and fullstack engineering with a proven track record of being the technical authority across multiple domains and owning technical systems spanning multiple teams.
Technical Depth: Deep experience with TypeScript and React, specifically building and maintaining complex, user-facing products at scale.
Independence: A history of driving work forward independently by setting direction, making judgment calls, and seeing things through without a blueprint.
Product Instincts: Strong instincts for product quality and user experience rather than just technical correctness.
State Management: Experience with approaches like Redux or Zustand.
Communication: Ability to align stakeholders, influence without authority, and translate technical decisions into business terms.
Team Growth: A genuine investment in the professional development of the engineers around you.

Responsibilities

End-to-End Ownership: Own the quality and technical direction of Read's client facing experiences from early design through production and beyond.
Strategic Partnership: Partner closely with product and design to shape what we build, not just how we build it, by bringing a strong point of view to the table early in the process.
High-Impact Leadership: Lead by example on our most critical initiatives, setting the pace and standard for the rest of the team.
Problem Solving: Identify what's slowing us down or holding the product back and fix it. This may involve refactoring a brittle system, closing a process gap, or rallying the team around a better approach.
Technical Anchor: Be the person others turn to when something is hard, unclear, or high-stakes. Bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous situations.
Mentorship: Grow the people around you. Invest in the success of other engineers and make the whole team better as a result.
User Advocacy: Champion the user. Push back when something isn't right and advocate fiercely for a high-quality, accessible experience.