Frontend Engineer, Artificial

• If you're looking to do meaningful work that’s already changing the industry for the better, we’d love to hear from you
• You have extensive experience building high-performance frontend experiences with React and TypeScript, squeezing the best possible performance with a mix of intelligent caching, query design and local data storage
• You’re comfortable working with dependencies like React Query
• You’ve worked on products with a collaborative, real-time element and love the challenge of managing state and data integrity between server and client while providing a highly interactive experience
• You’re very comfortable working with a mix of state charts, websockets and REST APIs
• You have experience working in startups or scale-ups and enjoy the significant ownership and variety this brings (along with the enjoyable messiness that needs to be navigated)
• You're comfortable working with Tailwind and appreciate why it’s a pragmatic decision for rapidly scaling products like ours
• You’ve also worked with headless UI libraries (our React component system is built on Radix primitives) and enjoy refactoring components as their architecture starts to fail with scale and complexity
• Although you don’t necessarily have a design background, you’re highly motivated by shipping high-quality user experiences
• You consider yourself to have taste and feel comfortable collaborating with designers and design engineers to suggest user-experience improvements
• You excel at advocating for your ideas—both verbally and in writing—while remaining receptive to feedback and adapting your approach to ship effective solutions

Desirable

• Here are a few notes from me (Jon, VP Design) about why you should consider joining the Design Engineering / Frontend team at Artificial:
• A world-class frontend team: There are 5 of us on the team (3 Design Engineers, 1 Lead Frontend Engineer, and me)
• We all have a hybrid design/product/engineering background and 10+ years of experience. I think we are pretty good at what we do
• You will get to ship fast: We have direct responsibility for the end-to-end user experience on our platform’s (React) frontend
• You'll be able to jump in and fix problems (safely) without wading through layers of bureaucracy and procedure
• We have some exciting technical challenges to tackle on our React/TypeScript frontend:
• Deliver the fastest possible user experience so that our web app feels almost as fast as a desktop app, even when working with complex forms and large datasets
• Enable multiple users to collaborate on a document (including tabular data), without compromising data integrity
• Our customers operate differently, so our platform must remain flexible enough to support each
• This means solving the above challenges in an elegant and highly customisable way
• We use an adapted Shape Up methodology, alternating between major new feature development ("Bets") and ongoing iterative improvements:
• Discovery: Lead discovery and research to identify and prototype potential solutions to key problems
• Bets: Own frontend engineering on cross-functional Bet teams: you’ll work closely with designers and backend engineers, and will be responsible for the quality and reliability of the frontend experience
• Maintenance: Take care of dependency and tooling upgrades and migrations to minimise technical debt
• Unplanned work: Get hands-on fixing immediate bugs and issues affecting our customers when needed. We try to design systems to keep this to a minimum, but in a scale-up like ours, it’s a fact of life!
• You’ll work closely with our frontend/design engineering team:
• Joe, our Lead Frontend Engineer (also a Haskell developer)
• A small group of design engineers
• Our Platform powers teams inside some of the world’s biggest insurance companies. You can think of it as a mash-up of:
• Jira, Linear and Asana: Manage team workflow, tasks and collaboration
• Google Sheets, Excel and Airtable: Work with complex interactive spreadsheets and large datasets
• Superhuman and HubSpot: Sending and ingesting email

• As part of our hiring process, we’ll carry out some background checks
• These may include a criminal record check, reviewing your credit history, speaking with previous employers and confirming your academic qualifications