Senior Frontend Engineer

Menlo Park, CA

About the Role

As a frontend engineer, you’ll work closely with our design team and infra/API engineers to build world-class UX for AI embedded horizontally across many applications. We’re aiming far beyond standard chat interfaces, so you’ll have an opportunity to ideate and build new human interface concepts from the ground up. Within our growing engineering organization, there is plenty of room for ownership and direct impact on users.


What You’ll Do

  • Lead design, architecture, and implementation for new and existing UI software components.
  • Take end-to-end ownership of new code from prototype to production.
  • Lead architecture reviews, identify risks and advocate for simplicity of design.
  • Work directly with the design partners to understand the problems they face and create innovative solutions.
  • Help set and maintain a high standard for engineering practices within the team.
  • Ship production-grade code to thousands of daily active users.
  • Grow and maintain the team’s technical excellence by harnessing practices that are best for the team and product.
  • Contribute to the technical culture of the company. 
  • Work on fun and technically challenging projects to deliver impactful apps on popular browsers.
  • Use React and TypeScript while building super refined and elegant user interfaces.
  • Build cool things!


Our Stack

  • Our primary stack is TypeScript/JavaScript, node.js, yjs, Python, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud.
  • React and tailwind or similar UI frameworks are a plus, but a strong grasp of web API fundamentals is even more important.
  • You should be proficient with native CSS, DOM, etc, and not only high-level frameworks.
  • Experience with Chrome extensions is a plus.


What We Require

  • You have passion and expertise for building things. If you are world-class here, other requirements are optional.
  • Power user of applications powered by LLMs / GPTs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, CoPilot, Cursor)
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
  • Proficiency in JavaScript (with a preference for TypeScript) is essential.
  • Experience with ReactJS, AngularJS, or similar UI frameworks.
  • Working knowledge of the core web platform, including the DOM, CSS, etc.
  • Practical experience with REST, HTTP, or modern API usage.
  • Knowledge of modern web client development and testing tools and documentation.
  • Practical knowledge of continuous integration and delivery methods.
  • Past experience running experiments or A/B tests to test product hypotheses is a plus.
  • Excellent communication skills.


Working at Ventrilo.ai

  • Competitive salary based on talent and experience, with medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Flexible vacation policy.
  • Build a new AI product from zero to one.
  • A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to make a tremendous impact.
  • Ventrilo.ai is an equal opportunity employer.