Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Frontend Engineer

MetaProp; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

H2 is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Frontend Engineer to design and build high-performance frontend interfaces for complex construction drawings and AI-assisted workflows. You will own frontend architecture, interactive canvas rendering, and production features end-to-end, collaborating with customers, product, design, backend, and AI teams.

The stack includes TypeScript, React, and Vite, with an emphasis on performance, usability, and scalable visuals that handle thousands of objects.

Job description

H2 is looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Frontend Engineer to design and build the interactive, high-performance interfaces where construction professionals and H2's AI work together. Construction drawings are some of the densest visual documents in any industry. A single commercial plan set can contain thousands of shapes, measurements, and annotations that users need to pan, zoom, select, edit, and verify alongside AI-generated takeoffs. The canvas is where AI output becomes something an estimator can trust, correct, and act on, making performance and usability at real-world scale central to H2’s product. You will own senior-level technical work across frontend architecture, interactive canvas and rendering performance, and AI-enabled user workflows. You will work directly with customers and with product, design, backend, and AI engineers to understand how estimators work, rapidly prototype solutions, validate them with users, and turn successful approaches into reusable product capabilities. This is a hands‑on engineering role. We need someone who can reason deeply about frontend architecture and rendering, translate ambiguous customer workflows into intuitive product experiences, prototype quickly, and ship and own production features end‑to‑end. Our frontend stack includes TypeScript, React and Vite, with an interactive canvas at the core of the product.

• Own the design and delivery of performant, reliable frontend experiences for H2’s construction products.
• Build and optimize interactive canvas experiences where users review and edit AI-generated takeoffs, maintaining responsive performance across complex drawings with thousands of objects.
• Profile and resolve rendering bottlenecks and make appropriate architectural decisions across modern browser rendering technologies.
• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand estimator workflows, diagnose friction, and translate their needs into product solutions.
• Rapidly prototype and validate solutions with users, then generalize successful approaches into reusable components and platform capabilities.
• Design resilient frontend architecture and integrations with H2’s backend APIs and data systems.
• Partner with AI/ML engineers to bring model outputs into the product in ways users can understand, verify, and correct.
• Partner with backend, product, and design to deliver features end‑to‑end, from user experience through API integration, deployment, and monitoring.
• Own production frontend quality through testing, observability, performance monitoring, and resolution of production issues.
• Review code and technical designs and help establish strong frontend engineering practices across the team.

Why H2

• Own hard engineering problems. You will define how we solve complex frontend, integration, and customer deployment problems in construction, not just implement pre-scoped tickets.
• Build real AI infrastructure, not demos. You will build the frontend systems that bring H2’s AI capabilities into production and automate complex, high‑value construction workflows.
• Massive market, early platform. Construction is a $13T global industry, and H2 is early enough that your technical decisions will shape the platform.
• High technical leverage. Your work will influence frontend architecture, APIs, data systems, enterprise integrations, AI capabilities, and engineering standards.
• A mission that matters. Construction’s labor shortage is a structural problem affecting trillions of dollars of global infrastructure. We are solving it with AI.