Frontend Engineer

Frontend Engineer

Deepshard is looking for a hands-on Frontend Engineer to help shape the core product experience for an early product in a fast-evolving category.

Role overview

• Design and build frontend features for key product surfaces and reusable UI components
• Work with real-time data flows, app integrations, and the frontend architecture needed for fast, reliable, and evolvable performance
• Own meaningful parts of the user experience end to end and collaborate closely with engineering and product leadership

Responsibilities

• Build production frontend features using React, TypeScript, and modern CSS
• Create desktop application experiences using Electron and web technologies
• Implement intuitive interfaces for workflows, integrations, notifications, settings, and real-time activity
• Work with APIs, async data flows, streamed updates, and client-side state management
• Improve frontend architecture, component quality, accessibility, performance, and test coverage
• Partner with backend/product engineers to shape APIs and user experiences
• Debug complex UI and state issues across desktop/renderer/service boundaries

Requirements

• Strong experience building production web applications with JavaScript or TypeScript
• Experience with React and modern frontend patterns
• Strong judgment on component design, state management, performance, accessibility, and UX
• Comfortable working in a large/evolving codebase and making pragmatic tradeoffs
• Ability to turn ambiguous product ideas into clean, shippable interfaces
• Experience consuming APIs and working with asynchronous/real-time data
• Strong ownership and communication; bias toward action

Nice to have

• Experience with Electron or web-technology-based desktop applications
• Experience with gRPC/protobuf, streaming APIs, or event-driven UIs
• Experience with tools/libraries such as TanStack Query, virtualized lists, Storybook, Vitest, Playwright, or design systems
• Strong product intuition and visual taste

Compensation & benefits

• Expected base salary: $120,000–$180,000 per year (depends on experience, level, location, and ability)
• Healthcare coverage, Flexible PTO, visa sponsorship
• Remote flexibility for US-based candidates; default to on-site collaboration