Software Engineer, Frontend

About the role

Tessera Labs is redefining how enterprises adopt and operationalize Artificial Intelligence. Backed by Foundation Capital and led by a world-class founding team, we build multi-agent AI systems that can automate complex business workflows across platforms like SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake, MuleSoft, and more. Our mission: Bring real AI automation to the enterprise — with speed, precision, and measurable impact. We move fast, operate with extreme ownership, and build at the frontier of applied AI.

Key Responsibilities

• Rapid Feature Development & Deployment
• Build sophisticated data visualization interfaces, workflow management UIs, and real-time dashboards.
• Design and maintain scalable component libraries with consistent design patterns.
• Implement complex client-side state with optimistic updates and real-time synchronization.
• Create intuitive UIs for AI model interactions, data pipeline management, and enterprise system integrations.
• Optimize for speed, usability, and performance without compromising quality.

• Performance Optimization & Scalability
• Continuously identify and fix performance bottlenecks in frontend systems.
• Startup Mindset: Autonomy & Execution Speed
• Take initiative—identify problems and build solutions without waiting for direction.
• Make trade-offs between speed and long-term maintainability based on business needs.
• Work in a high-ownership environment, making architectural and UI design decisions as needed.
• Quickly adapt to changing priorities, tight deadlines, and startup pivots.

Required Qualifications

• 3–5 years of Frontend development with advanced patterns (custom hooks, complex state management, performance optimization, client/server-side separation).
• Expertise in TypeScript (complex generics, utility types, strict typing in production applications).
• Strong experience with the modern React ecosystem (SSR -- TanStack Start, NextJS, data fetching and global state management libraries).
• Proven track record in enterprise UI development (component libraries, design systems, accessibility standards).
• Performance optimization skills (memoization strategies, render optimization, virtualization).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to execute quickly with minimal guidance.
• Experience working in agile, fast-paced startup teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data visualization (charts, graphs, interactive dashboards).
• Real-time UI patterns (WebSocket integration, live updates, optimistic UI).
• Enterprise authentication (SSO, role-based access control, session management).
• Experience integrating AI/ML models into production applications.
• Experience building developer-facing tools (code editor integrations, syntax highlighting, diff viewers).