Frontend Engineer

Builds and ships frontend features using React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Chakra for an AI research assistant. Owns production quality, UX, and collaborates on system design with a few years of web app experience.

170k – 305kOakland, CAFrontend EngineeringHybrid2+ YOE

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About the role

What you'll do

Build Elicit into a product researchers can’t live without
Work with a modern front-end stack (React, TypeScript, Chakra, Tailwind) to fully own shipping useful, exciting features out to users on a weekly basis
Work on a mix of known features / fixes, prototypes to validate ideas, and exploratory projects
Balance shipping features in the short term with building extensible and maintainable systems
Be responsible for features in production: scalable, resilient, and easy to operate
Advocate for smooth user workflows, high quality UI/UX
Contribute to discussions around UX, system design, and architecture

What you bring to the role

Strong technical skills to move comfortably around our tech stack, with strong computer science fundamentals (automated tests, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, React, TypeScript)
At least a few years of professional experience contributing to software development teams and working on complex web apps
Above-average communication skills
Past experience or exposure to working with language models (asynchronous code, defensive error handling)
A sense of joy in what you do

Compensation, benefits, and perks

Flexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely, as long as you’re comfortable traveling for in-person retreats and coworking events
Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance
Flexible vacation policy (minimum 20 days/year)
401K with 6% employer match
New Mac + $1,000 workstation budget (first year), $500 annually thereafter
$1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget
Career (L3): $170-245k + equity
Senior (L4): $185-270k + equity
Expert (L5): $215-305k + equity

Skills

ReactTypeScriptTailwindNext.jsChakraCSSHTMLJavaScriptKubernetesNode.js

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