Responsibilities
- Own frontend across product and marketing surfaces: You will work across both our core product interface and customer-facing web pages, ensuring a cohesive, polished user experience across all touch points. This includes building features in the web app and also collaborating on our website to keep branding and user experience consistent and high-quality.
- Lead design system and UI components: You’ll design, build, and maintain a scalable design system and reusable component library that empowers all our engineers and designers. By delivering robust, high-quality UI components and infrastructure, you will ensure consistency and excellence across all product surfaces. You’ll also collaborate with designers to establish guidelines and patterns, enabling the team to rapidly build beautiful, consistent UIs with confidence.
- Craft pixel-perfect user experiences: Work closely with our design team to translate Figma designs into reality with pixel-perfect precision and delightful interactions. You will partner with designers to refine UI patterns and ensure every detail is right – from typography and spacing to motion and hover states. We care deeply about design craft, so you’ll sweat the details to build an interface that feels elegant, intuitive, and “just right” for users.
- Champion frontend excellence: As the senior frontend expert, you will set and uphold high standards for performance, accessibility, and code quality. You’ll optimize our frontend for speed (efficient loading, bundle size, smooth rendering) and ensure our product works flawlessly across browsers and devices. You will also incorporate best practices for accessibility and internationalization, making our product usable by all customers.
- Move fast with pragmatism and quality: In our startup environment, you’ll iterate quickly to ship improvements and new features. You’ll make thoughtful engineering trade-offs that balance rapid delivery with maintainability and polish. This means knowing when to build a quick solution and when to invest in the long-term path – always keeping user experience and business impact in mind.
- Full-stack involvement: While your focus will be frontend, you should be comfortable venturing into the backend when needed. You’ll integrate frontend features with our GraphQL API and occasionally update server-side code (we use Go/gqlgen) to unblock frontend work. In short, you’ll do what it takes across the stack to deliver a great end-to-end product experience – without ever sacrificing our high bar for UI quality.
Requirements
- Extensive experience (5+ years) building world-class web interfaces using React, TypeScript, HTML and CSS.
- You have a proven track record of shipping polished user interfaces in production products.
- You have a keen eye for good design and care deeply about the details of the user experience.
- You take pride in creating pixel-perfect, intuitive UIs and will proactively fix even minor UI issues because you value quality.
- You excel at working closely with designers and product managers to achieve the best outcome.
- You partner with product and design teams to craft beautiful user experiences, and you communicate clearly about tradeoffs and solutions.
- You’re open to feedback and can articulate your ideas in discussions, ensuring everyone is on the same page.
- You are intensely goal-oriented and proactive, able to take ownership of projects with minimal guidance.
- You’ve thrived in fast-paced environments and have a track record of delivering projects quickly and frequently.
- You can manage ambiguity and complexity, breaking down big problems into simple, workable solutions.
- You approach engineering with practicality.
- You make effective trade-offs between ideal solutions and pragmatic deliverables, always considering the user impact and long-term maintainability.
- You’re not ideological about technology – you choose the best tool for the job and can learn new technologies on the fly as needed.
- While specializing in frontend, you have a solid understanding of backend fundamentals.
- You know how web APIs, databases, and servers work.
- If needed, you can read and write server-side code.
Nice to Have
- Bonus points if you’ve worked with Tailwind or similar modern CSS frameworks for rapid development.
- Previous experience building or contributing to design systems or component libraries – either at a company or in open-source—would be a big plus.
- This means you’ve helped create shared UI frameworks with Figma.
- An eye for user experience beyond coding —e.g. some experience with user research, visual design, or interaction design—would help you excel in crafting a delightful product.
- If you’ve worked closely with UX designers or have design skills yourself, that’s a bonus.
- Exposure to AI or ML products, especially building UIs for complex data or AI-driven features.
- For example, if you’ve built chat interfaces, analytics dashboards, or enterprise SaaS products before, you’ll have useful relevant experience.
- Experience with our broader tech stack is helpful. This could mean familiarity with GraphQL (and libraries like gqlgen or Relay), Go or other back-end languages, and cloud platforms.
- While not required, such experience means you can hit the ground running across our codebase.
- You’ve been an early engineer at a startup or small team before.
- You understand the intensity and flexibility needed in a startup environment and are excited to wear many hats.
- If you love taking initiative and having a broad impact, you’ll fit right in.
Benefits
- Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
- Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
- Free alphorn lessons
Additional Information
- Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.
- Benefits may vary by region and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans.
