Kikoff Staff Frontend Engineer owning technical strategy and architecture of Kikoff's company-wide web frontend. Responsible for performance tuning, frontend infrastructure, and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
Own the technical strategy and architecture of Kikoff's company-wide web frontend across Kikoff, Grant, and future products, including component systems, state management, rendering strategy, routing, and build/deploy pipelines
Own performance tuning for our highest-traffic surfaces: instrumentation, performance budgets, profiling, and optimization of Core Web Vitals, load times, and runtime responsiveness
Lead frontend infrastructure work (tooling, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, testing, developer experience) so that every engineer can ship high quality, performant UI by default
Build and evolve the shared UI components and libraries that product teams build on, and set frontend standards and code review practices across the org
Lead complex, cross-team projects that measurably improve the reliability, responsiveness, and polish of our product
Mentor engineers across the team and raise the technical bar
Qualification
8+ years of industry experience$307A note on applying
Required
B.A. / B.S. / M.S. or strong self-taught fundamentals in computer science
8+ years of industry experience, with a track record of leading large consumer facing web applications across multiple teams
Experience building and operating consumer websites at scale, serving hundreds of thousands to millions of users, where performance and reliability directly affect the business
Deep hands-on experience with frontend performance tuning: profiling, instrumentation, bundle optimization, rendering performance, caching/CDN strategy, and performance budgets
Experience owning frontend infrastructure: build systems, design systems, observability, testing frameworks, and developer tooling that make other engineers more productive
Hands-on and Deep experience with React in production
A record of driving measurable improvements in quality and performance (load times, error rates, test coverage, reliability)
Ability to influence technical direction and get alignment across teams without direct authority
Ability to analyze data and distill information for business purposes
Desire to form strong professional bonds with startup-forward coworkers
$307,000—$352,000 USD
A note on applying: We know great candidates sometimes hold back if they don’t meet every qualification listed. If you’re excited about this role and believe you can do the work, we encourage you to apply. We’re looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.
