Senior Frontend Engineer

Theory Ventures; Central (LA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Role at Theory Ventures focuses on engineering to optimize user and agent experiences on the LanceDB platform. You will take high-level direction and drive results that improve UX across the platform, enabling broader adoption and usage.

You will work with engineering to build scalable backends for LanceDB Enterprise, supporting experiences across billion-scale datasets. The stack includes Rust, TypeScript, React, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CSPs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as a software engineer
• Experience on frontend and backend parts of large-scale data platforms (databases, data infra, ML/AI systems)
• Experience crafting UIs using TypeScript, React/Next.js/Vercel, CLIs, and APIs
• Experience building elegant user-oriented and agent-oriented experiences
• Experience building infrastructure with CSP stacks, Terraform, and Kubernetes
• Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidance
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisions
• Experience contributing to or working with open source communities

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering to optimize UX across platform components
• Build scalable backends for LanceDB Enterprise to support user and agent experiences across billion-scale datasets
• Contribute across stack (Rust, TypeScript, React, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, CSPs) to deliver features

Job description

Role

• Engineer focusing on providing optimal user and agent experiences on the LanceDB platform.
• Takes high-level direction (e.g., "identify where UX is significant ahead of AX and drive more parity") and drives to results
• Success looks like a LanceDB platform that incorporates compelling user and agent experiences for exploring and managing their multimodal data, enabling more adoption and increased usage.

Day-to-day

• Work with the rest of engineering to optimize user and agent experience across their parts of the platform.
• Build scalable backends for LanceDB Enterprise to support user and agent experiences across billion-scale datasets.
• Our tech stack: Rust, Typescript, React, Python, k8s, Terraform, CSPs

Qualifications

• 8+ years as a software engineer
• Experience working on frontend and backend parts of large-scale data platforms (e.g., databases, data infra, ML/AI systems), including work on concurrency and multitenancy
• Experience crafting UIs using Typescript, React/next.js/Vercel, CLIs, and APIs
• Experience building elegant user-oriented and agent-oriented experiences
• Experience building infrastructure with CSP stacks, Terraform, and k8s
• Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidance
• Strong written and verbal communication (can drive alignment across teams)
• Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisions
• Experience contributing to or working with open source communities