Senior Frontend Engineer, Wordware

• 4+ years of frontend engineering with a portfolio that'll make the founders stop scrolling. We want to see complex, polished interfaces you've shipped
• Expert in TypeScript and React — you understand reconciliation, when to bail out of renders, and how the browser actually works
• Product sense and design intuition — you can take a rough product direction, sketch an interaction, and ship something that feels right. You notice when a transition is 50ms too slow or when an affordance is unclear
• You make design decisions — You'll need to own some UX decisions, create simple designs when needed, and unblock yourself
• High autonomy, low ego — you don't wait for permission or perfect specs. You ship, gather feedback, and iterate
• You care about craft — details like loading states, empty states, error messages, keyboard shortcuts. The 1000 small decisions that make software feel good

Desirable

• You'll own the frontend of Sauna — shipping interfaces that feel instant, intuitive, and polished even when the underlying work is complex
• You'll need to make product and design calls yourself, prototype quickly, and execute without waiting for perfect specs. Sometimes you'll implement designs. Other times you'll create them

• We keep our process simple. Exceptional candidates go from first touch to offer within 2 weeks
• Application
• Submit your resume and answer a few short questions. If it looks like a fit, we'll invite you to send a 1-minute Loom video: tell us who you are and why you want to join Wordware
• 15-minute intro call
• Quick check to align on location, motivation, and logistics. If it's a go, we move fast from here
• 45-minute technical interview
• You'll build a small full-stack app. We're looking for fluency, speed, and product sense
• System design interview
• A deep dive into how you think and architect systems. We'll walk through a real Wordware problem together
• Final conversation
• Quick vibe check, answer your questions, and scope out the work trial
• Work trial
• Paid trial to work on a real project in person with us — usually a few days to two weeks (flexible to do what works for you). See how we work and whether this feels like the right fit on both sides