Senior Frontend Engineer - Scalable Data Platform UX

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

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.