# Front-End Engineer

**Company:** [Standard Template Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/standard-template-labs)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, GraphQL, REST APIs, sse, Git, CI/CD, Design Systems, Accessibility, responsive design, ai-assisted development
**Posted:** 2025-12-08

> Build and own polished, accessible front-end experiences for an AI-native enterprise SaaS product. The role requires several years of modern JavaScript or TypeScript experience, strong UI fundamentals, API integration skills, and comfort with realtime interfaces and AI-assisted development.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build responsive, accessible, and scalable user interfaces using modern front-end technologies.
- Develop and maintain a shared component library or design system.
- Integrate REST, SSE, and GraphQL APIs and services.
- Build realtime, streaming AI-first components.
- Use AI-assisted tools for code generation, refactoring, testing, linting, and code review.
- Collaborate with Product and Design to translate wireframes into production-ready features.
- Optimize performance, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, responsive layouts, load times, and interactions.
- Write clean, maintainable, testable code; participate in code reviews; and help define front-end architecture and best practices.

## Requirements
- Several years of professional front-end engineering experience or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks, such as React and Next.js.
- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS or CSS-in-JS, responsive design, DOM, browser behavior, layout, and performance.
- Experience integrating APIs and working alongside backend teams.
- Experience with realtime, streaming AI-first components.
- Understanding of UI/UX principles and experience implementing wireframes or mockups with designers.
- Familiarity with version control, testing, and CI/CD workflows.
- Willingness to adopt AI-augmented engineering workflows.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building conversational or chat-based applications with complex multi-turn conversation state and dynamic message flows.
- Experience building or contributing to design systems or component libraries.
- TypeScript experience or willingness to adopt it.
- Familiarity with performance optimization, accessibility, cross-browser support, and responsive design at scale.
- Experience in a fast-moving startup or AI-driven product environment.
- Strong communication skills for articulating UI constraints and tradeoffs.

## Compensation
- Estimated yearly salary: **$160,000–$230,000 USD**.

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