Staff Frontend Engineer, Primer
$180-240k
Automating data analysis
Be an early applicant
Automating data analysis
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-240k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make the world a safer place.
Role
Who you are
- Strong knowledge of Frontend Software Development
- Expertise in Typescript, React, Redux, and HTML and CSS
- Experience building and maintaining frontend component libraries
- Experience working with design systems
- Experience with the development and long-term maintenance of SaaS products
- Proficiency writing unit and integration tests
- Experience leading commercial software technical projects end-to-end in an agile environment on any major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
- 8+ years of shipping production grade software
Desirable
- Experience working with AI, ML or agentic systems
- Back-end development experience with Python
- Experience with CI/CD
- Proficiency with AI-enhanced editors (Cursor, Windsurf)
What the job involves
- As a Staff Frontend Engineer you will take the lead on translating our natural language processing and machine learning technology into useful, beautiful experiences. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to make a wide impact on our tooling, coding standards, and codebase
- We believe in creating an environment that encourages and creates opportunities for growth. Whether it’s helping create and contribute to a set of architectural principles, or driving innovation in front-end technologies
- Collaborate with design and product to build functional and delightful product experiences
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
- Innovate new FE architectures and technologies
- Drive process improvements
- Create prototypes for additional exploration
- Collaborate with backend engineers on API design
Our take
Primer is a leading technology company specializing in advanced machine learning. Since its founding, Primer has developed a suite of products built on a core set of computational engines: Structure, Ensemble, Event, Context, Difference, and Story. These engines form the foundation of Primer's analytic pipeline, enabling powerful document analysis and insight generation across multiple languages.
The modular architecture of Primer's platform allows for continuous development and improvement, providing customers with access to a diverse range of document types. By automating the extraction of information, large-scale, insight identification, and the generation of readable text and graphics, Primer makes complex data accessible and actionable.
This technology has been deployed by some of the world's largest government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and financial institutes. Its solutions have been used to address critical challenges, such as helping the Pentagon assess disinformation campaigns and identify Russian interference in Azerbaijan.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2023
$69m
SERIES D
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $237.1m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: Our comprehensive benefits prioritize the well-being of you and your family, offering premium medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Additionally, our wellness initiatives encompass mental health support and fitness incentives
- Programs for parents: Birthing parents receive up to 18 weeks of fully paid leave, while non-birthing parents enjoy 8 weeks. We also provide coverage for in vitro fertilization and egg-freezing
- Home-office stipend: All new hires are offered stipends for home office setup and mobile phone and home internet expenses
- Flexible time off: We value rest and rejuvenation outside of work and offer generous and flexible time off in addition to 12 paid holidays
- Retirement/401K: Start now to save for your future. We offer financial benefits and services to give you financial peace of mind
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sean Moriarty
(CEO)Lead Independent Director at Eventbrite and Member of the Board of Directors at CoachArt. Former CEO and Board Director at Leaf Group.
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