Frontend Engineer

avoca; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Avoca is seeking a founding Frontend Engineer who will own features end-to-end—design, build, launch, and iterate—while obsessing over the customer experience of our AI-powered platform for home service brands.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Customer Success, and GTM teams to translate feedback into product improvements, maintain a high bar for quality, and move quickly in a fast-growing startup. This role is based in NYC and requires in-person work.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of full-stack/frontend engineering experience.
• Expertise in React, Next.js and TypeScript.
• Strong Tailwind CSS experience delivering polished UIs.
• Familiarity with AI/LLMs or AI-assisted systems.
• Outcome-driven mindset focused on impact.
• Willingness to work in NYC in person.

Responsibilities

• Own feature development—from backend services to AI-powered user experiences.
• Turn customer feedback into product improvements through rapid iteration.
• Collaborate with Product, Customer Success, and GTM teams to align decisions with business outcomes.
• Hold a high bar for code quality with testing and monitoring as a standard.
• Prioritize ruthlessly and navigate changing requirements with autonomy.

Skills

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

AI/LLMs

Tools

Tailwind CSS

Job description

About Avoca

Avoca builds AI-powered customer engagement systems that replace traditional call centers for home service companies. Our platform books jobs, handles inbound leads, and drives measurable revenue growth—consistently outperforming human call centers in both speed and conversion rates.

We’re serving the largest brands in home services, and are 4x'ing headcount in 2025. With a high-performance, in-office team in NYC, we’re moving fast to capture a massive, underserved market where 85% of missed calls go to competitors. Every hire here has an immediate and visible impact.

About the Role

We’re looking for out founding Frontend Engineer who thrives at the intersection of engineering and product thinking. You’ll own features end-to-end—design, build, launch, and iterate—while obsessing over the customer experience and measurable outcomes. Your work will directly shape how thousands of customers interact with our AI-powered customer service platform.

What You’ll Do

• Own feature development — from backend services to AI-powered user experiences.
• Turn customer feedback into product improvements through rapid iteration and experimentation.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Customer Success, and GTM teams to align engineering decisions with business outcomes.
• Hold a high bar for code quality—testing, monitoring, and reliability are second nature.
• Prioritize ruthlessly and navigate changing requirements with autonomy.

What We’re Looking For

• 4-6 years of full-stack/frontend engineering experience - expertise in React, Next.js, and TypeScript
• Strong experience with Tailwind CSS, delivering refined, polished, and visually sharp UIs.
• Strong familiarity with AI, LLMs, or AI-assisted systems—or a willingness to learn fast.
• Outcome-driven mindset: you measure success in impact, not just shipped features.
• Comfortable collaborating across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
• Low ego, high energy, resilient in a fast-paced environment.
• A strong portfolio showcasing high-quality front-end development work.
• Bonus: prior startup, hacker, or founder experience.
• Eagerness to work in person with us in NYC full time.