Senior Front End Engineer, you.com
$190-260k
AI productivity platform
Open for applications
AI productivity platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$190-260k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the world’s information useful for everyone through its privacy-first personalized search engine.
Role
Who you are
- Technical Expertise: Proven experience with React, NextJS, and front-end frameworks, with a strong understanding of how front-end and back-end systems interact
- Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to tackle complex technical challenges and implement scalable solutions
- Focus on Technical Debt: Experience refactoring and improving existing codebases to enhance performance and maintainability
- Performance Optimization: Deep understanding of performance engineering, including load time optimization and efficient state management
- Collaboration Skills: Strong communication and teamwork abilities to work effectively with backend engineers and other technical teams
- Infrastructure Knowledge: Familiarity with deployment strategies, monitoring systems, and cloud-based infrastructure
- Portfolio: Examples of projects showcasing your ability to build scalable, technically robust applications
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Front End Engineer who is passionate about creating cutting-edge technology and ensuring seamless integration between the front-end and back-end
- In this role, you’ll focus on building a strong technical foundation, optimizing performance, and eliminating technical debt to ensure our platform is reliable, scalable, and future-proof
- Develop Scalable Front-End Applications: Design, implement, and maintain production-grade front-end code using React, NextJS, and CSS
- Optimize Front-End and Back-End Interactions: Work closely with backend engineers to ensure seamless integration and efficient data flow between systems
- Eliminate Technical Debt: Refactor and improve existing codebases to enhance performance, maintainability, and scalability
- State Management and Real-Time Interactions: Build scalable applications that handle complex state management and real-time user events
- Infrastructure and Monitoring: Implement robust monitoring and deployment strategies to ensure reliable, scalable cloud-based infrastructure
- Performance Engineering: Focus on optimizing load times, reducing latency, and improving overall application performance
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work with engineering teams to establish best practices, patterns, and processes for efficient development
Our take
Google has maintained its status as a household name for online search engines since the '90s. Since then, however, it has become rife with sponsored advertisements, privacy issues, and one-size-fits-all search results, showing a vast area of space for improvement.
You.com provides a privacy-first personalized search engine, allowing users to integrate apps and personal preferences into the browser extension to optimize their search results based on what they are looking for. The search engine also guarantees that search history and cookies will not be logged by the company, in addition to preventing websites and advertisers from tracking browsing habits.
Whilst the company's competition from the likes of Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engine giants is fierce, You.com shows great potential having served 1B queries and boasting millions of active users. With a 500% increase in ARR since January 2024 and a recent $560M Series B Funding round, the company is rapidly scaling, becoming a rising player in the AI and search space.
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Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Oct 2023
$2.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $97.9m
Company benefits
- A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings
- Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
- Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered and 75% for dependents
- 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
- 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025
- $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
- $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
- In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year
- Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Richard Socher
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Chief Scientist of EVP for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020. Founder of AIX ventures since 2021.
Bryan McCann
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as a Course Assistant at Stanford University from 2014 to 2016. Lead Research Scientist for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020.
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