Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Frontend

Engg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

General Intuition is hiring a frontend engineer to help scale our Electron-based platform. You will work on high-quality UI features using React and Redux, collaborating with leadership and the gaming community to ship iterations quickly.

You will own end-to-end quality, focus on performance, and leverage modern tooling to measure impact while contributing to a fast-paced, game-focused environment in NYC.

Qualifications

• 5+ years frontend engineering experience.
• Experience with React, Redux, Node and Electron.
• Bonus: full-stack XP with Java, C#, C++.
• In-person NYC office, 5 days in office.
• Ownership and end-to-end quality of features.
• Strong performance profiling and metrics mindset.
• Gaming passion and familiarity with gaming communities.

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality features in React/Electron.
• Scale the platform toward 100+ million users.
• Ship features regularly with leadership and community input.

Skills

Frontend engineering

React

Redux

Node.js

Electron

Java

C#

C++

Gaming passion

In-person NYC office

Tools

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Kubernetes

Terraform

Redis

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've raised over $650M from Khosla, GC, Valor, and Point72 since October 2025, and recently closed our latest round at a $6.2B valuation.

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