Member of Technical Staff (Frontend)

Gitpod GmbH; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Member of Technical Staff (Frontend) to join their dynamic team. In this role, you'll leverage your expertise in React and TypeScript to build refined interactions that enhance software development for global engineering teams. You'll take ownership of core systems, drive technical initiatives, and elevate engineering practices while collaborating closely with product design. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a leading platform that empowers developers worldwide, all while enjoying the flexibility of a remote-first work environment. Join a passionate team dedicated to transforming how software is created and making a meaningful impact in the tech industry.

Benefits

Remote-first, flexible work day

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Employee-friendly equity terms

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Wellness allowance

Premium work-from-home equipment

Regular company off-sites

Qualifications

• Strong experience with React and TypeScript, delivering high-quality web applications.
• Ability to drive technical initiatives and maintain engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Craft pixel-perfect components and collaborate with design for impactful features.
• Own core systems and ensure reliability and continuous evolution.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Pragmatic Engineering

Problem-Solving

UX Design

Tools

GitHub

VS Code

Figma

Notion

Slack

Grafana

Prometheus

CI/CD

Job description

We're hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Frontend) at Gitpod.

You'll build refined interactions and systems that make software development seamless. Working with React, Figma, and Go, you'll solve significant problems for global engineering teams. We're looking for highly ambitious and deeply passionate engineers who combine technical excellence with architectural taste, taking ownership of foundational systems to deliver pragmatic, performant and maintainable results. We deeply care about the product we build and are excited to add someone to the team that feels the same.

Who we are

Five years ago, we set out to create a world where every software engineer is instantly ready-to-code. With over 1.5 million users, we are now the leading platform for standardized and automated development environments. In 2024, we quadrupled enterprise revenue, signed several seven-figure contracts with F500 companies, launched our AI-first product architecture and, most importantly, discovered our authentic rhythm. In 2025, we amp up our ambition.

We're a talent-dense group of people who transform how software is created, working to empower every company, every team, and every individual to succeed in a software-first world. We care deeply, and for many of us, building Gitpod is our life's work. This is the best time to join the company. We've found product-market-fit and are scaling with high intensity towards repeatable go-to-market fit. Our operating principles are an honest representation of how we build relationships and make decisions. We choose colleagues carefully based on merit and their authentic alignment with those principles. If this excites you, we would love for you to apply.

Role responsibilities

Our operating principles are the standard that we drive towards. We are collectively accountable for enhancing and preserving our culture in alignment with these principles and expect people to view this as a core responsibility within the scope of their role.

In addition, here are the main areas of focus:

• Drive technical initiatives end-to-end. Balance immediate needs with long-term sustainability while maintaining high standards for reliability and simplicity.
• Craft pixel-perfect components and refined interactions. Collaborate with product design to deliver impactful features that consider every facet of the user experience.
• Own core Gitpod systems. Ensure reliability and continuous evolution of your focus area, whether frontend, backend, or infrastructure.
• Elevate engineering best practices. Contribute to code reviews, architecture discussions, and documentation to raise overall quality and consistency.
• Solve high-impact technical challenges. Identify and address performance bottlenecks, reliability issues, and developer experience improvements across the stack.

At the end of your first 30 days, you will have:

• Shipped code on day one using Gitpod to build Gitpod.
• Built a deep understanding of Gitpod's core value proposition and architecture through hands-on contribution, user interviews, and key system analysis. Able to articulate main technical and business challenges.
• Shipped multiple meaningful improvements across the stack, demonstrating ability to navigate our codebase, deployment processes, and engineering principles effectively.
• Established strong working relationships within your direct team and adjacent teams (e.g. Go-to-Market, Sales) through collaborative problem-solving and technical discussions. Started contributing to architecture and design discussions.
• Shipped a feature that lands on our changelog and is demoed in All Hands.
• Opened the drawer and challenged the CTO on a design idea.

About you

• You work in alignment with our operating principles.
• You drive pragmatic engineering excellence. You have strong technical judgment that helps you identify the right level of investment for each situation - knowing when to build for scale and when to optimize for speed. You consistently deliver high-quality solutions while remaining pragmatic about trade-offs. Most importantly, you're a generalist who can contribute effectively across our stack while bringing deep expertise in your chosen focus area.
• You build high-impact systems. When building systems, you start by deeply understanding the problem space, designing a solution. You have a track record of delivering outcomes that not only work well technically, but drive meaningful value for users and the business. You think holistically about the entire product experience including performance, documentation, user workflows, and operational concerns.
• You lead through execution. You drive results through a combination of technical expertise, clear communication, and strong execution. You're comfortable taking ownership of complex problems and leading them through to completion, bringing others along through influence rather than authority. You have a proven track record of delivering significant technical initiatives while helping raise the bar for the entire engineering organization.

Additionally, we're looking for someone with most of the following:

• Track record of shipping and owning production systems at scale.
• Experience working across the stack effectively.
• Evidence of pragmatic technical decision-making and leadership.
• Fast learner with demonstrated ability to pick up new technologies.

Design Engineering:

• Strong visual and UX design sensibilities.
• Deep React/TypeScript experience.
• Track record of building polished, non-simplistic web applications.

We use these tools and expect you to have familiarity with most of them:

• Notion, Slack.
• Excel, Google Sheets.
• Claude, ChatGPT.
• GitHub, VS Code, Cursor.
• Observability: Grafana, Prometheus.
• CI/CD practices.
• API design (REST, gRPC).

Design Engineering:

• Figma.
• TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS.
• Strong knowledge of browser APIs and performance.
• Git, VS Code extension development (helpful).
• Some backend exposure (Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL helpful).

Benefits

• Remote-first, flexible work day.
• Flexible paid time off including holidays that are most meaningful to you.
• Parental leave for all parents.
• Employee-friendly equity terms (extended exercise).
• Health insurance (country-specific).
• Retirement (country-specific).
• Wellness allowance.
• Premium work-from-home equipment.
• Regular company off-sites.

Interview process

We are remote-first and so is our hiring process. Contingent on schedules, we aim to complete the entire process in about 2 weeks. We are conscious of your time and are committed to being as efficient as possible.

1. We'll kick the process off with an intro call to see if there is mutual interest in moving forward.
2. Next, you'll complete a series of interviews designed to thoroughly evaluate our mutual compatibility.
   • CTO
   • Head of People
   • Peer chat
   • Project and panel presentation
   • CEO
3. References and background check - Before moving to an offer, we’ll set up video calls with 3 direct managers and/or senior leaders that can speak to your performance. Additionally, we will run a full background check (location dependent).