Staff Software Engineer, Front End

Responsibilities

Lead and deliver large-scale, cross-functional frontend initiatives that align with strategic company objectives, from technical vision through production deployment and long-term evolution.

Define and drive the frontend technical roadmap and architectural strategy, establishing patterns, frameworks, and systems that enable the entire engineering organization to move faster.

Serve as the primary technical decision-maker for frontend architecture, evaluating and adopting new technologies, and establishing engineering standards that balance innovation with maintainability.

Proactively identify systemic technical debt, scalability challenges, and architectural limitations—then build business cases, secure buy-in, and lead multi-quarter initiatives to address them.

Elevate the engineering organization through technical mentorship, establishing best practices, leading design reviews, and developing the skills of senior, mid-level, and junior engineers.

Partner with executive leadership, product, design, backend engineering, space operations, and astrodynamics teams as a key technical stakeholder, influencing product strategy and company direction.

Drive engineering efficiency and excellence by establishing metrics, tooling, and processes that improve code quality, deployment velocity, and developer experience.

Build and maintain technical documentation, architectural decision records, and knowledge-sharing systems that scale organizational learning.

Represent the frontend engineering perspective in strategic planning, resource allocation, and cross-company technical decisions.

Identify and develop emerging technical leaders within the team, creating growth pathways and opportunities for engineers to expand their impact.

Qualifications

12-14 years of software development experience (or 8+ years with a Master's degree, or 5+ years with a PhD)

Expert-level mastery of HTML/CSS and modern TypeScript/JavaScript, including deep understanding of performance optimization, browser internals, memory management, and runtime characteristics

Deep expertise in modern React and the broader frontend ecosystem, including architectural patterns for large-scale applications, advanced state management, performance profiling and optimization, and emerging frontend technologies

Proven track record of establishing comprehensive testing strategies across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers, including championing testing culture and tooling adoption

Extensive experience designing, building, and evolving component libraries, design systems, and frontend infrastructure that serve multiple teams and products

Expert-level understanding of distributed systems integration patterns including gRPC, REST, WebSockets, and GraphQL, with experience influencing API design and backend architecture decisions

Demonstrated ability to work full-stack when necessary, with enough backend and infrastructure knowledge to make informed architectural decisions and unblock teams

History of leading technical initiatives in Git-based workflows, establishing code review standards, and fostering collaborative engineering culture

U.S. Citizen and eligible for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance