Frontend Engineer

Role overview

Join Code Metal as a Senior Front-End Engineer to own and ship a dynamic geospatial web application. You’ll build interactive GIS UI workflows, improve UI performance and reliability, and collaborate closely with backend engineers to define contracts and move work forward.

Key missions

• Build and deliver end-to-end front-end features in a TypeScript/React codebase.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to define API contracts and unblock progress.
• Improve UI performance and frontend reliability for a mission-critical environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years building production React applications (TypeScript strongly preferred).
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; able to unblock yourself.
• Experience with complex, interactive UIs, including:
  • state management
  • async flows
  • performance considerations
• Comfortable working in a shared codebase with standards and best practices.
• Familiarity with component libraries and design systems (uses MUI / Material UI).
• Some backend familiarity to understand APIs, debug issues, and collaborate smoothly.

Nice-to-haves

• Geospatial/GIS experience (e.g., Cesium, map-heavy UIs, geo data interactions).
• Experience with simulation-style or real-time-ish workflows (e.g., gaming, visualization, mapping, flight/vehicle systems).
• Python experience (helpful for cross-stack collaboration).

Work setup / benefits

• Full remote with a flexible hybrid work arrangement mentioned in benefits.
• Health care, retirement plan, and uncapped vacation.