Frontend Engineer

Role Description

This is a full-time, on-site Frontend Engineer role based in West Hollywood, CA. The Frontend Engineer will design, develop, and maintain user-facing features for Flight Science’s mission-critical web applications, collaborating closely with product, design, and backend engineering teams.

• Implement responsive interfaces
• Integrate with backend APIs
• Optimize performance
• Ensure accessibility and usability for dispatchers and flight operations staff

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

The role also involves participating in code reviews, maintaining high-quality code standards, and contributing to the continuous improvement of the frontend architecture that supports real-time aviation decision-making.

Requirements

• Strong Front-End Development and Responsive Web Design skills to build modern, user-friendly interfaces.
• Proficiency in Software Development practices, including version control, testing, and debugging.
• Significant hands-on experience building web applications with React and TypeScript in a professional setting.
• Experience creating and maintaining reusable UI components and component libraries.
• Experience writing and maintaining UI tests, including visual testing using Storybook.
• Working understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and similar software validation and release management practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with interactive mapping and data visualization libraries such as MapLibre, D3.js, and/or deck.gl.
• Experience consuming streaming, data-intensive WebSockets-based APIs.
• Familiarity with aviation domain (e.g. professional experience or pilot certificate).