Staff Engineer

Who you are

• B.A. / B.S. / M.S. or strong self-taught fundamentals in computer science
• 8+ years of industry experience, with a track record of leading large consumer facing web applications across multiple teams
• Experience building and operating consumer websites at scale, serving hundreds of thousands to millions of users, where performance and reliability directly affect the business
• Deep hands-on experience with frontend performance tuning: profiling, instrumentation, bundle optimization, rendering performance, caching/CDN strategy, and performance budgets
• Experience owning frontend infrastructure: build systems, design systems, observability, testing frameworks, and developer tooling that make other engineers more productive
• Hands-on and Deep experience with React in production
• A record of driving measurable improvements in quality and performance (load times, error rates, test coverage, reliability)
• Ability to influence technical direction and get alignment across teams without direct authority
• Ability to analyze data and distill information for business purposes
• Desire to form strong professional bonds with startup-forward coworkers

What the job involves

• We're looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to raise the technical bar for our company-wide web product surfaces, spanning Kikoff, Grant, and the products we build next, all in service of our mission to help millions of Americans
• This role goes beyond shipping features
• You'll own the health, performance, and architecture of the frontend systems that serve our traffic at scale every day
• You'll set technical direction, drive the frontend infrastructure roadmap, and treat performance as a product feature
• Like everyone here, you'll work hand-in-hand with PMs, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to make sure what we ship is fast, reliable, and moves the needle in a meaningful, measurable way
• Own the technical strategy and architecture of Kikoff's company-wide web frontend across Kikoff, Grant, and future products, including component systems, state management, rendering strategy, routing, and build/deploy pipelines
• Own performance tuning for our highest-traffic surfaces: instrumentation, performance budgets, profiling, and optimization of Core Web Vitals, load times, and runtime responsiveness
• Lead frontend infrastructure work (tooling, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, testing, developer experience) so that every engineer can ship high quality, performant UI by default
• Build and evolve the shared UI components and libraries that product teams build on, and set frontend standards and code review practices across the org
• Lead complex, cross-team projects that measurably improve the reliability, responsiveness, and polish of our product
• Mentor engineers across the team and raise the technical bar

Benefits

• Health Benefits
• Flexible PTO Policy
• Kickoff Paid Holidays
• Office Lunch & Dinners
• Commuter Benefits
• Commuter Flexible Savings
• 401k Matching
• Fitness Benefit Policy