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Frontend Software Engineer

Comp

(Zone 1 - NY / SF)

~$160-200K + 2-3% Equity

Location

Remote (US timezones only). Slight preference for NYC, SF, Miami, Austin.

Type

Full-time, Contract (50%+)

Benefits

Healthcare, 401(k), loads of autonomy

About the role

We’re looking for an elite senior IC who has deep frontend experience (or, fullstack leaning frontend). Level is flexible and depends on the candidate, but we're looking for someone at the ~Staff or Principal Engineer level. People with less than ~6 years of experience are unlikely to be a fit.

Compensation: we dogfood https://fairoffer.ai, but as a quick reference for SF / NYC, the Staff Engineer level would be ~$160-200K and 1-3%.

For a highly experienced candidate who isn't looking for full-time but prefers to take on contracting work, we're also open to that (minimum 2-3 month project) -- with materially higher cash comp but lower / no equity.

Location: remote in US timezones, with a strong preference for a tech hub (NYC / SF) or Miami

For more on how we hire, build, sell, make decisions, and communicate, please see here.

Hiring logistics

We strongly prefer (paid) work trials -- 2-3 weeks working together on a project. We find it's the best way to tell what it would be like to simulate our working relationship in steady state. So the "interview process" is pretty quick: 2-3 video calls over the span of a couple of days.

What a great candidate looks like

We're looking for an elite senior engineer who loves building beautiful products with hidden moments that delight. We're a small, tight-knit team (2 engineers, 1 product / design, 1 GTM, 1 CEO)

The ideal archetype is someone who probably has a chip on their shoulder or entrepreneurial itch, and was considering starting a company... but would be open to joining the right company and team IF they could get a sizeable piece of the equity and a seat at the table.

We're optimizing for:

An engineer's engineer — someone with a deep understanding of frontend architecture and frameworks
Raw horsepower (if someone has called you "the best [x] I've ever worked with")
Someone who is terrific at pattern matching and can think several steps ahead intuitively when making tradeoffs
Those who exhibit intense curiosity about new topics, especially disciplines that combine art and science, intuition and data
Early stage startup experience
Can be a talent magnet when we grow the team
Someone who values speed (moving fast and learning even if we make some wrong choices) over velocity (getting it exactly right the first time)
Embody an obsession with solving customer problems effectively, while upholding high standards for reliability & security

There isn't one profile; but examples of great candidates might be:

A Senior+ Staff Engineer at a mature company with a high quality engineering culture (Stripe, Coinbase, Airtable, Figma) who has architected complex systems 0-to-1
A former technical cofounder at a startup
Founding engineer of a company that has seen some measure of success (e.g., Series B+)

Bonuses: