Lead Frontend Engineer – Video & Dashboard

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Vision & Dental

HSA & FSA

Mental health support

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Healthy lunches

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a frontend engineering lead for the Streaming team to power the video experience across 1.4M cameras. You will shape core frontend features for dashboard, video playback, and device management, delivering fast, reliable, and secure user experiences at scale.

You will collaborate with designers, product managers, and backend/infrastructure teams to drive architecture decisions, performance, and maintainability, while mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience building and shipping production web applications.
• Experience building scalable, maintainable frontend architectures.
• Passion for great design, usability, and delivering customer-delighting products.
• Bonus: experience with video streaming, codecs like H.264, real-time data, or playback technologies like WebCodecs.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of core frontend features across our dashboard, video playback, and device management experiences.
• Partner with designers and product managers to bring intuitive, high-polish user experiences to life.
• Drive technical decisions around architecture, frameworks, performance, and best practices.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate backend, infrastructure and cross-functional teams e.g. design/product to deliver efficient, scalable and delightful user experiences.
• Continuously improve UI performance, accessibility, and maintainability.

Skills

Frontend development

Web performance

UI/UX sensitivity

Code reviews

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Job description

Verkada is seeking a frontend engineering lead for the Streaming team to power the video experience across 1.4M cameras. You will shape core frontend features for dashboard, video playback, and device management, delivering fast, reliable, and secure user experiences at scale.

You will collaborate with designers, product managers, and backend/infrastructure teams to drive architecture decisions, performance, and maintainability, while mentoring junior engineers.