Senior Frontend Engineer (React)

General Intuition; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Intuition is seeking a frontend engineer to scale a large platform used by millions of gamers. The role focuses on React-based UI in an Electron app, with collaboration across leadership and the community to ship features rapidly.

You will own end-to-end quality of complex features, optimize performance, and contribute to gaming-related projects. This is an in-person NYC role requiring 5 days in the office.

Qualifications

• 5+ years frontend engineering experience.
• Experience with React, Redux, Node, and Electron.
• Bonus if you have full-stack XP (Java, C#, C++).
• In-person role in NYC; 5 days in the office.

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality features for the Electron app.
• Collaborate with leadership and the community to ship features regularly.
• Iterate quickly to validate ideas and measure impact.
• Focus on performance and end-to-end ownership of features.

Skills

Frontend engineering

React

Redux

Node

Electron

JavaScript

Code profiling

A/B testing

Tools

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

About the Company

General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time. We build large action models and world models that can perceive, predict, and act across virtual and physical environments. General Intuition builds on the strength of Medal, the world's largest and fastest-growing platform for gaming clips, where millions of gamers capture, share, and discover new games every year. We recently raised $320M at a $2.3B valuation led by Khosla Ventures with participation from General Catalyst, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos, to discover the next generation of real-world intelligence.

The Role

You'll join a talented team of engineers experienced with large-scale applications, helping scale the platform to 100+ million users by building high-quality features that creators love and creating new experiences for the next generation of gamers. Most of your work will be in React on our Electron app, where you'll iterate quickly to see which features stick, working directly with leadership and our community to ship features regularly.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of frontend engineering experience
• Experience with React, Redux, Node, and Electron: You'll spend most of your time building things with React and will need to understand modern React practices and JavaScript in general
• Bonus to have full-stack XP: including Java, C#, and C++
• In-person: Looking to hire in NYC to contribute alongside the product team. 5 days in the office
• Ownership & attention to detail: You see things through, and can be responsible for end-to-end quality of complex features
• Code Performance: Excellent understanding of code performance implications in production and confident with profiling tools
• Be result-driven: Everything we do is driven by the metrics and performance of the feature. We move fast and ship regularly
• Measuring with metrics: Comfort with A/B testing and measuring results with usage metrics
• Gaming: A passion for games and the gaming communities, and a user of Discord and other gaming-adjacent products. XP working on gaming-related projects is a plus

Our Stack

Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD