# Senior Frontend Engineer

- Full-time  
- Remote

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## The role

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to help build the next version of our management portal. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team working to create unified user experiences across UI, CLI, SDK, and infrastructure as code interfaces. You’ll work closely with UX designers, product managers, and backend/data engineers to build intuitive visualizations for complex identity and access management systems.

## Key responsibilities

- Lead development of our next-generation management portal  
- Create sophisticated visualizations for complex infrastructure identity relationships and access patterns  
- Design and implement interfaces that handle massive datasets efficiently  
- Work across multiple interface types (UI, CLI, SDK) to ensure consistent user experience  
- Collaborate with UX designers to create intuitive interfaces for different user personas (operators, security engineers, platform engineers)  
- Build interactive features for infrastructure management and real-time monitoring  
- Implement advanced data visualization patterns for complex identity relationships  
- Design interfaces that scale to enterprise requirements

## Technical requirements

- Expert-level proficiency with React and modern JavaScript  
- Strong experience with data visualization libraries (e.g., Recharts) and handling large datasets  
- Proven track record of building enterprise-scale applications  
- Experience with real-time data visualization and WebSocket connections  
- Strong TypeScript skills  
- Expertise with modern frontend infrastructure and build tools  
- Understanding of infrastructure management concepts  
- Basic knowledge of security and identity management principles

## Required skills

- Deep understanding of UX patterns for complex technical products  
- Experience working with different technical user personas  
- Strong systems thinking and ability to understand complex technical concepts  
- Expertise in building performant applications that handle large datasets  
- Experience with Git and modern development workflows  
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a cross-functional team  
- Self-motivated and able to drive technical decisions

## Nice to have

- Experience building interfaces that integrate with AI/ML features  
- Background in building developer tools or enterprise platforms  
- Experience building CLI tools or SDKs  
- Previous experience with identity and access management systems  
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools  
- Experience building enterprise SaaS applications

## Our stack

- React with TypeScript  
- Advanced data visualization libraries  
- Real-time data processing  
- Modern component libraries  
- gRPC, gRPC-Web  
- Github, bazel