# Software Engineer II, Frontend Agentic AI

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Salary:** $140k – $192k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, JavaScript, State Machines, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, LLM APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, Vercel Ai Sdk, Design Systems, Accessibility, Component Libraries, Workflow Builders, Streaming Rendering
**Posted:** 2026-08-18

> Builds polished frontend experiences for autonomous AI workers, including conversational interfaces, memory views, live run timelines, and human approval flows. Requires deep React and TypeScript expertise, real-time UI experience, and at least five years of relevant professional experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Build conversational interfaces for long-horizon agents, including streaming responses, tool calls, pause and interrupt controls, and mid-task steering.
- Design and ship memory-management interfaces that let users view, edit, and delete agent memories and understand the context an agent uses.
- Build live agent-run views for plans, steps, artifacts, retries, and results, rendered in real time over WebSockets or server-sent events.
- Build human-in-the-loop approval surfaces for agent actions that write to external systems, including clear diffs of proposed actions.
- Build the Worker Builder interface for designing and configuring digital workers in natural language.
- Manage complex client state for long-running agent sessions, including reconnection, optimistic updates, partial results, and failure recovery.
- Create a reusable component library for agentic interaction patterns.
- Present model output accurately in the UI, including citations, uncertainty, errors, and empty states.
- Collaborate with backend and agent engineers to shape APIs and event streams.
- Optimize performance across devices while agents stream large numbers of events.

## Requirements

- At least **3 years of front-end engineering experience**; the role requires a minimum of **5 years of relevant experience** overall.
- Deep expertise with **React**, **TypeScript**, and modern state management, including hooks, context, and state machines.
- Experience building chat, copilot, or other LLM-powered interfaces in production.
- Hands-on experience with real-time UIs, including WebSockets, server-sent events, streaming rendering, and reconnection handling.
- Strong product sense and ability to design interaction patterns where established standards do not exist.
- Experience integrating front ends with LLM APIs and handling streamed, partial, and structured model outputs.
- Experience translating designs into fast, polished, responsive production code.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working directly with users to refine experiences.

## Nice-to-haves

- Shipped a chat or agent product used by thousands of users.
- Familiarity with LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent agent frameworks.
- Experience with AI front-end SDKs such as the Vercel AI SDK.
- Experience with design systems, accessibility standards, and component library ownership.
- Experience visualizing complex processes such as timelines, graphs, or workflow builders.
- Prior experience at a high-growth venture-backed AI or SaaS startup.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Annual base salary: **$140,000–$192,000 USD** for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Equity, where applicable, bonus, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave including PTO and parental leave.
- In-person onboarding experience.

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