Frontend Engineer
Chicago, ILFull-timePosted 1y agoStill listed today
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Job overview
yeet is seeking a Frontend Engineer to build a canvas-based application that ingests and visualizes large data streams. The role focuses on browser performance, including rendering, data pipelines, and memory constraints, with decisions shaping engineers’ experience during incidents. The ideal candidate has built performance-critical frontends and is fluent in TypeScript and low-level web APIs; experience with WebAssembly, build tooling, and data-dense UX is preferred.
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Full job description
About yeet yeet is built by a tight-knit group of systems, observability, and kernel nerds who refuse to accept “mystery outages” as normal. We’re a small, high-impact team with domain expertise in Linux, eBPF, performance instrumentation, and developer tooling. We move fast, ship often, and take deep ownership. If you enjoy operating close to the metal, building tools that real engineers lean on during 3 AM incident sprints, and solving hard problems with minimal overhead, you’ll feel right at home here.
About the role We’re looking for a Frontend Engineer to push the limits of what’s possible in the browser. yeet’s UI is a canvas-based app that ingests and visualizes huge streams of data. That means thinking beyond the usual component frameworks: Architecting solutions with data pipelines, rendering loops, and memory constraints in mind. You’ll be closer to the browser’s low-level engine than most frontend roles, making decisions that directly impact how engineers experience yeet in the mid-incident.
About you
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You’ve built performance-critical frontends where smooth rendering and responsiveness weren’t optional.
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You know when React helps and when to drop down to Canvas, WebGL, or raw DOM-manipulations for speed.
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You have a strong grasp of data structures and algorithms.
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You write expressive TypeScript and use the type system to catch bugs before they ship.
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You’re fluent in low-level web APIs (e.g. OPFS, OffscreenCanvas, Web Workers) and nerd out over the MDN docs.
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You’re motivated by measurable performance: frame budgets, memory profiles, flame-graphs, not just “it feels fast.”
Nice To Haves
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Experience with WebAssembly (WASM) for accelerating data-heavy or compute-bound tasks in the browser.
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Familiarity with bundling and build tooling (Webpack, Vite, Rollup) to optimize large-scale apps.
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Background in usability / UX for data-dense applications — making complex interactions intuitive without sacrificing power.
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Deep knowledge of React internals including how the scheduler works and when to bypass it.
How this job compares
Set against the 844 open Frontend Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$150–224K/yr675 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 10 open Frontend Engineer jobs in Illinois and 844 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Frontend Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (701 postings).
- Education
- 179 of the 844 open Frontend Engineer jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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