Principal Software Engineer, Frontend

North; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

16 weeks paid parental leave

Two company-wide breaks per year

Aetna Medical PPO plan

Dental and vision insurance

FSA for health and commuter benefits

30 day sabbatical every 4 years

Job summary

North Cloud is seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to shape the look, feel, and behavior of our cloud, AI, and data spend management platform. You will lead frontend direction and collaborate with designers to build a scalable design system, ensuring fast, accessible, and well-tested experiences across the product.

You will guide multiple teams, own architecture decisions, and mentor engineers, while delivering ship-ready features that scale with growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building production web applications with strong frontend architecture.
• Track record setting frontend direction across multiple teams.
• Experience building and scaling a design system with designers, and treating it as a product for engineers.
• Strong judgement on performance, state management, and data-heavy interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for North's frontend architecture and document the roadmap.
• Build and evolve the design system and component library with Product Designer and roll it out app-wide.
• Raise the bar on performance, accessibility, and interaction quality across the app.
• Establish frontend patterns, testing practices, and review standards used by engineers.
• Convert recurring frontend questions into design system and framework improvements across existing screens.
• Partner with product teams on new features to ensure they land well and fit the system.
• Shape Noros integration across the app as a consistent experience.
• Coach engineers through code reviews and pairing.

Skills

Frontend architecture

Frontend direction

Design system ownership

Performance optimization

Communication

Code leadership

AI coding tools

Team collaboration

Job description

About North Cloud

The public cloud is rapidly evolving, with businesses investing over $200 billion annually in cloud technology. As AI accelerates demand for scalable infrastructure, cloud costs are soaring, and most teams still rely on spreadsheets to manage them.

About North Cloud

The public cloud is rapidly evolving, with businesses investing over $200 billion annually in cloud technology. As AI accelerates demand for scalable infrastructure, cloud costs are soaring, and most teams still rely on spreadsheets to manage them.

At North, we’re building the next-generation cloud, AI, and data spend management platform. We give companies real-time visibility, control, and automation over their digital asset finances so they can grow efficiently without wasting time or money.

Backed by top-tier investors and trusted by companies managing complex cloud environments, North is building the financial operating system for the public cloud.

About The Role

North's frontend is how customers understand and act on their cloud, AI, and data spend: dashboards, allocation, commitment recommendations, and Noros, our AI agent, across the app and in Slack. As our first Principal Software Engineer focused on frontend, you'll set the direction for how North looks, feels, and works, and you'll do it by building alongside the teams who ship it.

You’ll work closely with our Product Designer and the Experience team on the design system and frontend frameworks every other team builds on. Your job is to make the right way to build frontend the easy way, so any engineer at North can ship changes that are consistent, fast, and well tested, and it's hard to ship ones that aren't.

What You'll Do

• Set the technical direction for North's frontend architecture, and write down where we’re going and why.
• Build and evolve the design system and component library with our Product Designer, and roll it out across the app.
• Raise the bar on performance, accessibility, and interaction quality, down to the details of how the app feels to use.
• Establish frontend patterns, testing practices, and review standards, and get them into the tools engineers and coding agents use.
• Turn recurring frontend questions, review comments, and inconsistencies into design system and framework improvements that reach existing screens, not just new ones.
• Partner with product teams on new features so they land well for customers and fit the system.
• Help shape how Noros shows up across the app as a consistent part of the experience.
• Coach engineers through code review, design review, and pairing.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years building production web applications, with deep expertise in modern frontend architecture.
• A track record of setting frontend direction across multiple teams, not just one codebase.
• Experience building and scaling a design system with designers, from components to adoption, and treating it as a product for the engineers who use it.
• Strong judgment about performance, state management, and data-heavy interfaces such as charts, tables, and filters.
• You still write a lot of code, and you lead by shipping with teams rather than handing down standards.
• Clear writing and communication, including explaining tradeoffs to people outside engineering.
• Pragmatic, informed use of AI coding tools, with the judgment to know when they help and when they don't.
• Low ego and a habit of bringing people along.

Nice to Have

• Experience with financial, analytics, or data visualization products.
• Experience building conversational or AI-driven interfaces.
• Familiarity with FinOps or cloud billing concepts.
• Experience at a growing startup where the frontend outgrew its first architecture

Work Setup

Hybrid role based in New York City, with an office in Dumbo, Brooklyn

Team members typically work in the office 2–3 days per week

OR Remote US

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave (birthing parents receive an additional 4 weeks at 50% pay)
• Two company-wide breaks per year: one around Labor Day and one at the end of the year
• Aetna Medical PPO plan with the majority of the premium covered by North
• Dental and vision insurance
• Flexible spending account (FSA) for health expenses and commuter benefits
• 30 day sabbatical every 4 years

Compensation

$230,000- $270,000 base salary, depending on experience

Equity included

The Pay Range For This Role Is

250,000 - 320,000 USD per year (Brooklyn HQ)

224,000 - 299,000 USD per year (US Remote)