About the role

Role overview

Join Workiva as a Staff Frontend Software Engineer to shape the front-end architecture for AI-native product surfaces. You’ll collaborate with ML engineers, product/design teams, and other frontend engineers to deliver fast, intuitive, and trustworthy user experiences while influencing roadmap decisions and raising org-wide frontend standards.

Key missions

Define and own the front-end architecture for AI-native product surfaces, including:
- Streaming interfaces
- Agentic workflows
- Model-assisted UIs
Create integration models for LLM APIs and real-time data flows in production frontends.
Contribute hands-on to complex feature development and support implementation within the team.

Requirements

4+ years of front-end engineering experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent practical experience)
Advanced proficiency in TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React)
Experience building interoperability between Dart and TypeScript microfrontends
Experience building and scaling microfrontend architectures and front-end platforms
Proven ability to mentor engineers and raise team-wide technical standards
Experience authoring RFDs and technical roadmaps aligning multiple product squads around a unified frontend platform vision
Strong understanding of browser-side performance bottlenecks for real-time streaming, including:
- Long-lived WebSockets
- Server-Sent Events (SSE)
- Heavy string manipulation for real-time LLM streaming
Experience building reusable frontend SDKs/internal libraries to standardize AI patterns (e.g., streaming, reasoning, tool calling, HITL)
Experience implementing monitoring for AI UX, such as TTFT, user-correction rates, and client-side model latency
Experience working in distributed/cloud-based environments

Nice-to-haves

No explicit additional nice-to-haves mentioned beyond the requirements.

Remote requirements

Full remote; reliable internet access required.

About Workiva

Workiva is a technology company that builds software platforms for enterprise workflows. The role focuses on developing front-end experiences for an AI-native product, collaborating with ML, product, and design teams.

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