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Founding Frontend Engineer

Ciridae

San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 3w agoStill listed today

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Compensation
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Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
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Job overview

The Founding Frontend Engineer will own the frontend layer of Crucible, Ciridae’s proprietary platform, building interfaces, workflows, templates, architecture, and reusable components. The role turns loosely defined needs into polished product surfaces, shaping interaction patterns and improving performance so complex agent workflows feel clear, fast, and trustworthy. It calls for independent product-building, strong UX judgment, and collaboration with customer-facing teams.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Front-End EngineeringReact.jsTypeScriptUser Experience Design (UX)ReactModern Web ArchitectureUX QualityProduct BuildingDesign JudgmentTradeoff AnalysisCommunicationCollaboration

Qualifications

4+ Years Experience

Full job description

This is a product-minded frontend engineer with elite craft and the judgment to turn messy technical requirements into interfaces that make complex systems feel simple and intuitive. A platform discussion, a half-formed workflow, or a rough feature idea becomes a polished product surface that makes the whole team faster. You take a loosely defined need, identify the right workflow, prototype it, make the design calls, and carry it through to production independently.

What you own. The frontend layer of our proprietary platform, Crucible: the interfaces, workflows, templates, and architecture that turn powerful AI systems into usable software. You are shaping interaction patterns, tightening performance, and making complex agent workflows feel clear, fast, and trustworthy. You build in Crucible, creating reusable components and product patterns that FDEs can pull into customer projects again and again. You own net-new building blocks and their maintenance over time, not just one-off UI implementation. Your job is to make the platform excellent enough that everyone else can build on it. What you bring. Production frontend shipped with taste: React, TypeScript, modern web architecture, and a high bar for UX quality. You have built products where usability, speed, and visual polish mattered. You can navigate ambiguity, make sound tradeoffs without a fully defined spec, and explain those tradeoffs clearly. You are not a designer by title, but you have strong design instincts. You know when a flow is confusing, when a UI is not good enough, and when a reusable component will save the team weeks later. You are opinionated about what great looks like, but can collaborate with the FDEs and delivery teams closest to the customer and system constraints. You are self-sufficient and excited to raise the frontend bar on a backend-heavy engineering team. Level. We expect roughly 4+ years of experience, with independent product-building ability.

How this job compares

Set against the 868 open Frontend Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • California median$165–240K/yr256 salary ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 333 open Frontend Engineer jobs in California and 868 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Frontend Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (722 postings).
Education
180 of the 868 open Frontend Engineer jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

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