Senior Frontend Developer

Role overview

As a Senior Frontend Developer and Orca’s first dedicated frontend hire, you will own the frontend architecture and lead the AI agents that build the product’s UI. Orca’s mandate is zero human-written code—you define the problem space and direct agents end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Own the frontend problem spaces and drive execution end-to-end: concept → define → design → develop → launch → monitor → maintain.
• Set technical direction, define standards, and maintain a high quality bar through rigorous review of agent output.
• Lead the frontend architecture as the first frontend hire; evolve and scale the stack for the frontend domain.
• Perform UX design (e.g., Figma or sketches/prototypes) and ensure UX requirements are translated into agent-built implementations.
• Develop Orca using Orca itself by refining agents’ context documentation, sub-agents, skills, and hooks for the frontend domain.
• When agents make mistakes, identify the root cause and update tooling so issues never recur.
• Assess software quality across performance, scalability, test coverage, and architecture.

Requirements (Must Have)

• Architect/lead mindset: set direction, standards, and quality bar.
• Strong ownership: independently drive work from concept through launch and maintenance with minimal handoff.
• Deep understanding of agent direct/design/review workflow: define requirements, direct agents to implement, and conduct rigorous reviews.
• UX design capability (Figma or equivalent).
• Deep understanding of AI Agent Harness concepts: skills, sub-agents, hooks, context documentation.
• Proven ability to control and debug agent output, and improve tooling based on root causes.
• Fluency working on large-scale projects using primarily AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex).
• Deep TypeScript expertise.
• Strong frontend fundamentals: rendering, CSS, performance.
• Experience with monorepo tooling (pnpm and similar).

Nice to Have (Preferred)

• Built AI products and understand the full loop from prompt → product.
• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), including servers/tools/integrations.
• Experience building Electron apps or complex webview-based UIs.
• Familiarity with Node.js and IPC patterns.
• Strong opinions on frontend architecture and ability to evaluate/chose UI stacks.
• Prior startup or open-source experience.
• Interest in developer tools, infrastructure, or platform engineering.

Compensation

• $200,000–$240,000 base + equity