Lead Frontend Engineer for Real-Time Aviation AI

Front Door Defense; San Carlos, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare premiums

PTO & holidays

401(k)

Job summary

Beacon AI in San Carlos, CA is seeking a Lead Frontend Engineer to drive the architecture and delivery of a live-data aviation web interface. The role combines technical leadership with ownership of high-impact UI features that integrate real-time data streams and historical datasets.

The successful candidate will have 9+ years building high-performance web apps using React and TypeScript, and will mentor the team while partnering with backend, product, and UX to ship scalable frontend solutions.

Qualifications

• Design and build React-based frontend features and systems.
• Integrate and visualize live and historical aviation data.
• Mentor engineers and enforce best practices through reviews.
• Collaborate with backend, product, and UX teams on decisions.
• Ensure tests, docs, and strong frontend standards.
• Create reusable components and internal libraries.

Responsibilities

• Lead the frontend delivery of the live-data web interface for aviation platform.
• Architect frontend systems handling real-time and archival data streams.
• Drive design decisions with product and UX across disciplines.
• Maintain high-performance, reliable frontend code with testing.

Skills

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Frontend architecture

Live data

Mentorship

Performance optimization

Tools

Mapbox

Cesium

Jest

Job description

Beacon AI in San Carlos, CA is seeking a Lead Frontend Engineer to drive the architecture and delivery of a live-data aviation web interface. The role combines technical leadership with ownership of high-impact UI features that integrate real-time data streams and historical datasets.

The successful candidate will have 9+ years building high-performance web apps using React and TypeScript, and will mentor the team while partnering with backend, product, and UX to ship scalable frontend solutions.