Senior Frontend Engineer

Role Overview

Senior Frontend Engineer to help build the AI-powered platform at Aragorn AI. You’ll own major parts of the frontend architecture, push forward the design system implementation, and ensure a world-class user experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead frontend development using React, TypeScript, and Webpack with an emphasis on performance, maintainability, and scalability
• Implement and evolve micro frontend architecture for modular, scalable delivery
• Collaborate closely with Product Design and Product leadership to translate UX designs into high-quality code
• Work with the design system to ensure components are reusable, accessible, and optimize developer experience
• Critique and collaborate on UX/UI; identify implementation constraints and optimization opportunities
• Partner with backend engineers to define, consume, and optimize APIs for efficient data communication
• Decide when to use third-party libraries vs. custom implementations for speed and long-term maintainability
• Own CI/CD pipelines for frontend apps (configuration, optimization, deployment)
• Drive frontend performance best practices (e.g., bundle size reduction, runtime optimization)
• Contribute to frontend technical standards and architecture consistency
• Participate in architecture and roadmap discussions to ensure long-term scalability and flexibility

Requirements

• 5+ years building modern React applications at scale
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, Webpack, and modern frontend tooling
• Production experience implementing micro frontends
• Experience building and scaling component-based design systems with design teams
• Ability to translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, performant implementations (and challenge designs for feasibility)
• Strong UX instincts; ability to simplify complex workflows
• Understanding of REST and GraphQL and how to integrate frontend code cleanly with backend services
• Experience configuring and deploying applications in CI/CD environments
• Writes clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Strong frontend performance optimization skills (e.g., bundle splitting, virtualization)
• Thrives in cross-functional collaboration across design, engineering, and product

Benefits

• $125,000–$160,000 base salary
• Equity in a high-growth AI company
• Fully remote within the United States
• Health insurance and 401(k)
• Direct collaboration with founders and product leadership, with meaningful ownership and architectural decision-making authority