Frontend Engineer Lead

Storm2; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Storm2 is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to lead a growing engineering team and build production-grade web applications. You will own frontend architecture across surfaces, coordinate with product and design, and ensure polished UI and performance.

The stack includes TypeScript, React, React Native, and Vite; you’ll partner with backend, infra, and QA teams while staying hands-on. Strong design sense and cross-functional collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Senior frontend engineer with 7+ years building production web applications.
• Experience managing engineers, including 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring, and growth.
• Strong design partnership skills and ability to push back on interactions when needed.
• Comfortable across the full stack, reading API contracts and debugging end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Manage the team. Run 1:1s, set goals, give feedback, hire, mentor.
• Own the release process across surfaces and coordinate deployments.
• Ship the hardest features end-to-end with cross-functional collaboration.
• Partner across the stack, reading API contracts and debugging end-to-end.

Skills

Frontend engineering

Team management

React

TypeScript

React Native

UI/UX collaboration

Tools

TypeScript

React

React Native

Vite

Tailwind CSS

Radix UI

Headless UI

Job description

$200k base + performance bonus + equity

US CITIZEN OR GREENCARD HOLDER ONLY

About the Company:

We are the leading CRM and data intelligence platform for private market investors. We are trusted by top-tier firms across private equity, credit, hedge funds, and institutional LPs and today power over $500B in assets under management. Built by a team with deep investing and technology expertise, including alumni from major financial institutions, our platform offers an integrated system of record that combines software, structured data, and proprietary AI to streamline how investment teams operate. Our customers no longer need to stitch together multiple disconnected tools and spreadsheets. We deliver a single, unified platform purpose-built for the full investment lifecycle, from sourcing and diligence to IC management, portfolio tracking, and reporting. We've raised $7M in seed funding from world-renowned VCs and are growing rapidly, with an exceptional inbound pipeline and consistently increasing contract values. Several firms have signed multi-year contracts exceeding $200K+, and demand continues to accelerate.

What You'll Do

• Manage the team. Run 1:1s, set goals, give feedback, hire, mentor. You own the team's performance and growth.
• Own the release process across surfaces. Multiple platforms ship on different cadences — including off-cycle deployments and app store review submissions.
• Ship the hardest features end-to-end. Stay hands-on. Lead implementation of the most complex, cross-cutting work, partnering with product and design. Push on polish, interaction, and perf — our users are detail-oriented professionals and they notice.
• Partner across the stack. Coordinate laterally with the backend, infrastructure, QA, and AI teams. Work closely with the head of product and design partners; bring frontend feasibility into design conversations early. You won't write backend code, but you'll read API contracts fluently and debug end-to-end.

Our Stack

• Core: TypeScript, React, React Native, Vite
• Styling & UI: Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, Headless UI
• Observability & analytics: error tracking, analytics, user research tools
• Backend & infra: Python, Django; relational database, caching layer; cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, GitHub Actions

Who You Are

• Senior frontend engineer with 7+ years building production web applications
• You've managed engineers. Direct people management including 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring, and growth
• Strong design partnership skills. You implement designs well but aren't a pixel-pusher. You push back when interactions could be better
• Comfortable across the full stack. You read API contracts and debug end-to-end independently

Bonus Experience

• Experience building or scaling React Native apps from early stages
• Background in financial software, investment technology, or related fintech
• Track record improving frontend performance, build times, or developer experience at scale

Why Join Us

• Own the frontend. Set conventions across all platforms. We value your opinions on architecture and tooling
• Cross-functional collaboration. Work directly with technical leadership and product teams
• Build and mentor a growing engineering team
• High autonomy. See problems, fix them. Your input shapes product direction
• Meaningful users. Your work serves detail-focused professionals who depend on it daily