Staff Software Engineer - Frontend Platform

Harmonic • New York City, NY

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About The Position

Harmonic is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its frontend platform. The Infrastructure team powers the processing of millions of startup signals in real time. Its frontend supports users running complex queries across millions of companies, building sophisticated searches, and collaborating on deal flow. The role will help make the frontend more reliable, performant, and scalable, while enabling engineers to ship confidently through improved abstractions and patterns.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building frontend applications at scale.
• Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern build tooling.
• A track record of fixing production performance issues at scale.
• Strong opinions on frontend architecture backed by real experience shipping.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with discovery systems, search, or recommendation systems, such as CRM or ATS systems, or other systems that index, structure, and surface data.
• Exposure to venture capital, private markets, or company intelligence data.

Responsibilities

• Fix core reliability issues, including error boundaries, state management, and data consistency.
• Optimize performance through virtualization for large datasets, bundle optimization, and render-performance improvements.
• Build monitoring and observability to catch issues before users do.
• Establish testing strategies that prevent regressions.
• Create abstractions and patterns that help engineers ship faster without breaking things.
• Drive technical decisions and mentor the team through complex migrations.

What This Job Offers

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