Staff Engineer, Andela
Frontend
$175-215k
+ Equity
Connecting global talent to meaningful opportunities
Job no longer available
Connecting global talent to meaningful opportunities
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$175-215k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect global technologists with F500 opportunities, enabling companies to build diverse, high performing teams for the age of AI.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional frontend engineering experience
- 7+ years of technical leadership experience driving complex projects
- Deep expertise in modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)
- Strong background in frontend architecture and design systems
- Experience building and scaling large-scale web applications
- Track record of making significant technical decisions that impacted product direction
- Excellence in frontend performance optimization and debugging
- Strong understanding of web accessibility standards and best practices
- Advanced knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3
Desirable
- Experience with multiple major frontend frameworks
- Background in marketplace or SaaS platforms
- Expertise in state management (Redux, Vuex, NgRx)
- Experience with micro-frontend architectures
- Familiarity with WebSocket implementations
- Track record of contributing to open source or technical content
- Experience working with distributed, remote teams
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Staff Engineer - Frontend to drive technical excellence across our web applications and establish frontend architecture standards as we scale
- You'll lead the technical direction of our frontend systems, mentor other engineers, and help build beautiful, performant interfaces that make global talent matching feel effortless
- Drive frontend architecture decisions and technical strategy across our platform
- Establish and evolve our frontend development standards, patterns, and best practices
- Lead initiatives to improve performance, accessibility, and user experience
- Mentor frontend engineers and elevate frontend engineering practices
- Collaborate with design and product teams to create scalable, reusable component systems
- Architect frontend systems to handle complex marketplace workflows and real-time updates
- Design and implement shared component libraries and design systems
- Create sophisticated data visualization and interactive features for talent matching
- Build robust, maintainable frontend infrastructure that scales across multiple applications
- Lead performance optimization initiatives across our web applications
- Partner with UX/UI designers to implement and scale design systems
- Work with backend teams to design and evolve API contracts
- Collaborate with product managers to balance technical debt with feature delivery
- Guide technical decisions across multiple frontend teams
- Drive improvements in frontend testing, monitoring, and observability
Our take
Andela is connecting businesses with skilled software engineering from around the world. Originally founded in Nigeria, it has grown into a global platform with talent across more than 135 countries. Over time, Andela has moved beyond simply hiring to building a larger system that helps companies find, assess, and manage technical talent, positioning itself as an "AI-native" talent platform rather than just a recruitment marketplace.
In the AI era, Andela's role is becoming more important as companies struggle to keep up with how fast the technology is evolving. Many organizations know they want to build AI-powered product, but lack the in-house skills to do so. Andela is trying to solve this by both supplying ready-to-hire engineers and training existing teams through its AI Academy. By focusing on practical skills like building AI systems, deploying them in real environments, and aligning them with business goals, it's helping close the gap between AI ambition and real-world execution.
Recently, Andela has doubled down on this strategy. Its AI Academy aims to train thousands of engineers in areas like LLMs and production AI systems, while its acquisition of Woven strengthens how it tests and verifies real-world engineering ability. Together, with earlier investments in its Talent Cloud platform, these moves show Andela shifting toward a full end-to-end system. Now the company is ready to become a key infrastructure layer for AI adoption, helping businesses not just find talent, but continuously build and maintain the skills needed to keep up.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $386.8m
Company HQ
Diamond District, New York, NY
Leadership
Carrol Chang
(CEO)Prior to joining Andela in 2024, Carrol spent nearly 8 years at Uber. She joined in 2016 as a General Manager, before becoming the Head of Driver Operations in US & Canada in 2019, and Global Head of Driver & Courier Operation in 2021. She also spent 3 years at McKinsey & Company as an Associate.
Geoff MacNeil
(CRO)Prior to joining Andela in 2025, Geoff spent nearly 4 years at Crowdbotics as a VP of Revenue. Before that, he spent over 3 years at Gigster, joining as a VP of Enterprise Sales & Customer Success before moving into the role of SVP of Sales, Partnerships, Network & Team Intelligence.
Barun Singh
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Barun joined Andela in 2025 as the Head of Engineering, within 4 months, he was promoted to Chief Product & Technology Officer. Previously, he was the Founder of CO2 where he served as the Chief Product & Technology Officer.
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