Software Engineer, Front

• If you're energized by designing for scale, eliminating friction across engineering teams, and setting the architectural patterns that an entire company relies on, this role is for you
• We are looking for backend JavaScript/TypeScript engineers — this role is not focused on frontend development
• Experience building frameworks, libraries, or developer-facing internal tools
• Experience building distributed systems with an emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance
• Exceptional software design fundamentals and a track record of delivering high-complexity projects
• Clear, structured thinking and strong communication skills — your stakeholders are other engineers, so the ability to explain technical tradeoffs matters
• Comfort navigating ambiguity: you can drive clarity and execute without a fully-defined roadmap
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, low-ego, and high-growth environment

Desirable

• At the core of everything we build is the Foundations team — the engineers who make it possible for the rest of engineering to move fast and build with confidence
• This team owns the frameworks, libraries, and internal systems that power Front's backend, from our event-driven task queue to our CI/CD infrastructure and database ORM
• As a Software Engineer on the Foundations team, you'll work at the intersection of platform engineering and developer experience
• You won't be building features end users click on — you'll be building the systems that make those features possible
• Building and maintaining shared backend frameworks, libraries, and internal tooling used by engineering teams across Front
• Designing and implementing systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance — including our task queue, batch job framework, database ORM, and real-time event infrastructure
• Owning and evolving our CI/CD systems, ensuring fast, reliable, and safe delivery pipelines
• Designing and implementing tooling for automated infrastructure provisioning
• Collaborating closely with other engineering teams to understand their pain points, establish shared patterns, and drive adoption of new frameworks
• Influencing Front's backend architecture and the engineering-wide standards that flow from it
• Navigating ambiguity, defining the right problems to solve, and delivering solutions of significant complexity
• You'll get exposure to a wide range of production systems — our task queue (event-driven architecture), database ORM, real-time events, CI/CD pipelines, and batch job framework
• You'll heavily influence Front's backend architecture and the patterns used by the entire engineering org
• Your primary stakeholders are other engineering teams — you're building for builders
• Your work has compounding impact: improvements you make ripple across every team shipping customer-facing features