# Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

**Company:** [Otter](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/otter)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Salary:** $210k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, single page applications, WebSockets, AWS, Linux, unit testing, integration testing, ui testing
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Lead frontend development of a responsive, mobile-first single-page web application for Otter.ai's AI meeting transcription platform. Requires 8+ years architecting SPAs with TypeScript/JavaScript, expert HTML/CSS, testing, and technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Your Impact
- Lead in the development of our web app where you will be responsible for designing and shaping our current web application to be a more responsive, mobile-first single-page app
- Write clean, maintainable, and reusable code that adheres to code standards
- Discover and fix bugs
- Test and evaluate the app for security and performance pitfalls
- Validate /test for cross-browser/platform/device compatibility
- Research solutions
- Participate in code standards and lead code reviews

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience developing and architecting single-page web apps using a JavaScript framework
- Exceptional capability building websites that adhere to mobile-first functionality
- Expert level proficiency in writing clean, reusable, optimized HTML/CSS, Typescript and JavaScript
- Good familiarity with HTTP protocol
- Deep experience writing unit, integration, and UI tests and a strong ability to debug code that is reusable, testable and efficient.
- Proven track record staying on top of the latest development tools and platforms
- Familiar with Linux
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with WebSockets
- Experience with AWS environment
- Masters degree

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