Founding Frontend Engineer, React/TS — Hybrid

Skiffra; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Bonus programs

Job summary

Skiffra is building the intelligence layer for the physical world, translating complex environments into clear, actionable data. We’re seeking a frontend leader to own architecture and deliver polished, customer-facing web apps at scale.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, AI, and backend teams to ship end-to-end features, craft intuitive dashboards, ensure accessibility, and drive frontend standards as part of the founding team in a hybrid Los Angeles/SF Bay Area setting.

Qualifications

• Strong frontend engineering skills (React, TypeScript) with a track record of shipping polished, customer-facing web apps.
• Strong product and UX judgment, including the ability to identify confusing interactions and improve incomplete designs.
• Strong judgment building data-dense, high-stakes interfaces, including dashboards, real-time monitoring, alerts, and complex workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own frontend architecture and implementation for Skiffra’s customer-facing products, partnering closely with product and design to create polished user experiences.
• Build end-to-end user-facing product features, collaborating with AI, data, and backend engineers on services, integrations, and API contracts.
• Translate ambiguous, operationally complex customer problems and AI outputs into clear, intuitive product experiences.
• Prototype quickly, observe real users working with the product, and iterate based on user behavior and field feedback.
• Establish reusable component patterns, automated testing, accessibility, performance, and frontend engineering standards from scratch.
• Help implement and evolve the product’s visual system and interaction patterns in partnership with product and design.
• Shape hiring and engineering culture as part of the founding team.

Skills

React

TypeScript

UX judgment

Data visualization

Responsive design

APIs integration

Accessibility (WCAG)

Debugging frontend

Communication

Figma collaboration

Tools

Next.js

Figma

Design systems

Job description

Skiffra is building the intelligence layer for the physical world, translating complex environments into clear, actionable data. We’re seeking a frontend leader to own architecture and deliver polished, customer-facing web apps at scale.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, AI, and backend teams to ship end-to-end features, craft intuitive dashboards, ensure accessibility, and drive frontend standards as part of the founding team in a hybrid Los Angeles/SF Bay Area setting.