# Senior Software Engineer, Frontend
**Company:** [Skydio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/skydio)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Salary:** $170K-$240K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Webgl, Three.Js, Mapbox, Cesium, AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal
**Posted:** 2026-02-07
> Senior Frontend Engineer leading development of real-time, high-impact web applications for drone pilots and mission commanders, focusing on UI/UX innovation, 3D geospatial workflows, and performance optimization. Requires 5+ years experience with React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and WebGL/Three.js.
## Job Description
## How You’ll Make an Impact
- Innovate on UI/UX in Skydio’s real time browser flight experience.
- Develop mission and mapping workflows in 3D with geospatial data
- Improve browser performance through process splitting and web workers
- Help set engineering culture around best practices through CRs and tech talks
- Enable pilots to execute complex multi-drone operations with ease.
- Collaborate with autonomy and iterate on features with in field feedback.

## What Makes You a Good Fit
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing frontend applications.
- Strong expertise in modern web development (**React**, **TypeScript**, **GraphQL**, **WebGL/Three.js**).
- Proven ability to design systems that scale for performance, reliability, and usability.
- Strong product intuition and empathy for end-users operating in high-stakes environments.
- Demonstrated experience working across teams to deliver complex, integrated features from concept to production.

**Bonus Points:**
- Experience working with geospatial data visualization (**Mapbox**, **Cesium**, or similar).
- Familiarity with photogrammetry, scanning, mapping, or rendering pipelines.
- Experience integrating frontend with cloud-based services (**AWS**, **Temporal**, **Kubernetes**).
- Exposure to autonomy or robotics platforms.

## Compensation
Annual base salary range: **$170,000-$240,000**. Includes equity (stock options), comprehensive benefits (health insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, 401K), relocation assistance.
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