Highbeam
Software Engineer (Frontend)
9mo ago
160000 –260000 USD / yearUSAtypescriptreactvitestorybookreact-router-domradix-uipythonkotlin+3
Frontend engineer role to develop and refine React app features using modern frontend technologies.
Conditions
- Chance to join the founding team of a well-funded startup chasing a huge opportunity
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Great location: Our NYC office is in NoHo, a short walk from the A,C,E · B,D,F,M · N,Q,R,W · 1 · 6 trains. Our Toronto office is downtown near St. Andrew Station.
- Generous PTO
- Comprehensive health & benefits package
- Stipends for lunch, commute, wellness, and purchasing customer products
- Yearly offsite—last year we went to Mexico City!
Other
- Our platform combines AI agents, automated financial workflows, and integrated financial products that save brands time and money.
- Customers have generated billions in sales and include well-known brands such as Cuts , Tushy , NYON , Sabah , Still Here , Alice Mushrooms , Original Grain , birddogs , and more.
- Our team includes alumni of Shopify, Square, Toast, Rippling, and McKinsey.
- We’ve raised $42M in equity from Acrew, FirstMark, Mayfield, and Two Sigma Ventures.
- We're looking for a frontend engineer to help us ship features that users find both useful and delightful to use.
- Our stack: Kotlin, TypeScript / React, Python, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Google Cloud.
- This role will be in-person in New York or Toronto.
- Refine our existing React app and build new features
- Be the frontend expert other engineers can rely on to help debug frontend issues
- Work with a modern frontend stack including react , typescript , vite , storybook , react-router-dom , and radix-ui
- A strong Highbeam engineer uses AI as a powerful tool — for exploration, design, and implementation — while maintaining full ownership of the outcome. AI can accelerate thinking and execution, but it does not replace judgment, taste, or accountability.
- We expect engineers to use AI extensively and still care deeply about code quality. That means reviewing outputs carefully, refining them, understanding the trade-offs, and ensuring the final result meets a high bar for clarity, correctness, and maintainability.
- Shipping working code is not enough. You should understand what you ship and be able to defend the decisions behind it.
- You are highly proficient with TypeScript and React
- You have 4+ years of professional experience building React apps
- You are comfortable with rewriting code to improve code quality
- You question requirements before building and, once set, you implement designs perfectly
- You love working in-person with a high-performing team
- You enjoy working in an idea-meritocratic, low-ego environment
- You are proactive and self-directed, and you excel in ambiguous, fast moving environments
- You care about delivering a polished customer experience
- Bonus: You have experience working in fintech, AI or early-stage startups