Front End Engineer, StackHawk
$90-150k
+ Equity
Text-driven application security platform for developers
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Text-driven application security platform for developers
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$90-150k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower developers to create innovative new applications.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5+ years of experience in SaaS front-end or web application development
- Expert in Javascript and/or Typescript
- Proficient in modern UI frameworks like Angular, React, VueJS, etc
- Proficient in modern web app technologies HTML5 and CSS and its preprocessors Sass and Less
- Experience with UI testing frameworks and technologies such as Jest, React Testing Library, Mocha, Jasmine, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, etc
- Experience using and updating REST APIs
- Experience building both desktop and mobile-friendly web interfaces
- Obsessive about automation
- Interest in growing your leadership skills as opportunities arise
- Excellent communicator. Has experience presenting technical concepts and demos to a non-technical audience
- Experience partnering with product managers and designers, and working on a collaborative, cross-functional agile team
- Persuasive - Bring others to their point of view using logic, data, and emotion. Have a formal process and framework by which to make qualitative and quantitative points, not just using emotional appeals
- Accountable - Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they're involved in
- Self Motivated - Motivated to do or achieve something because of one's own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others
- Focused - Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active
- Collaborative - A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company's goals. Knows that security is a supporting function of any business and the difference between binary security and scale security
What the job involves
- Are you a skilled front-end engineer eager to build awesome tools for developers? Do you want to revolutionize application security? Can you tolerate ridiculous bird puns? If so, keep reading to learn about an exciting opportunity at StackHawk!
- Join StackHawk's expanding Engineering team as a talented Front End Engineer! You'll collaborate with our skilled Product Development team to build core front-end product features on an innovative tech stack.
- This pivotal role directly contributes to StackHawk's mission of revolutionizing application security by identifying and remediating vulnerabilities within the CI/CD pipeline, empowering software engineers with actionable recommendations and reduced complexity. If you're passionate about creating compelling, user-friendly functionality for developers on a modern stack, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact
- Work collaboratively with engineers, UX designers, product managers and other stakeholders
- Build web-based product features using technologies such as React, TypeScript, Storybook, RESTful APIs, Kotlin and Kubernetes
- Build front-end interfaces in a modern, cloud-based microservices architecture
- Build automated tests to ensure high quality
- Help set standards and coding practices for web application development
- Impress your friends with your newfound knowledge of application security concepts, such as Remote OS Command Injection
- We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all the things you'll do
Our take
A rise in cybercrime means computer security is more important than ever, but despite innovations in computing the obstacle is more complex than before. Enterprise’s IT stacks now consist of a combination of standard applications, software services, and API tools, and maintaining this as secure whilst simultaneously scaling it becomes time-consuming and complex to manage.
StackHawk develops software services that autonomously detect and fix security bugs within an enterprise's pipeline. The services include automatic detection of threats across apps, APIs, and other areas of an IT stack, in addition to providing automated tests and chaos engineering in order to minimize the amount of work required for manual maintenance.
Many software developers are providing automated virus testing and chaos engineering for software, but StackHawk is remaining ahead of the game by applying this process to an entire enterprise pipeline. Series B funding awarded in 2022 has allowed StackHawk to maintain its market lead and invest more in product development.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2025
$12m
LATE VC
May 2022
$20.7m
SERIES B
Total funding: $47.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive Compensation: Earn a competitive salary and get an equity stake in the company that we are building together
- Solid Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance 100% paid for employees and dependents. Other benefits include life insurance, AD&D, and 401K
- Parental Leave: 16 weeks for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Flexible PTO: We do not restrict the number of vacation or sick days you take in a given year, and we encourage you to take time off to fully unplug, recharge, and come back refreshed
- PAID Vacation (who does that?): We offer a $3000 bonus for hawks who take a week or more of vacation after their second year with us
- Fun Team and Perks: We do great work and have fun doing it! We take care of our employees… We’ll contribute to your WFH setup and hook you up with occasional at-home perks. Plus, work with a team that loves to have fun while doing our work!
- A Place Where Your Work Matters and You Grow: As a Series B company, your work shapes the product that we are building. Nothing beats arriving at work every day knowing that your work deeply matters, and there is no better opportunity to grow in your career
Company HQ
Capitol Hill, Denver, CO
Leadership
Joni Klippert
(CEO)They studied for an MBA at the University of Colorado Boulder before joining Standing Cloud as Head of Customer Development and spending 5 years as VP Director of VictorOps. They worked for Splunk for 10 months before co-founding StackHawk in April 2019 as CEO.
Ryan Severns
(COO)They started their career as a FirstBank Banking Officer for 2 years before spending 3 at HOPE International. They worked in Marketing and Analytics at VictorOps after an MBA, and co-founded StackHawk with Joni in 2019.
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