Senior Frontend Engineer, Vannevar
Frontend Platform
$170-225k
+ Equity
Defense for the digital domain
Be an early applicant
Defense for the digital domain
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-225k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build software for the nation's most pressing national security problems.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional experience in frontend software development
- Experience working on frontend infrastructure, platform, or developer experience teams. You've built shared libraries, design systems, component frameworks, or internal tooling that other engineers depend on
- Deep expertise in TypeScript and React. You've thought seriously about component API design, render performance, state management boundaries, and how to ship library code that other teams consume without friction
- Strong opinions on developer experience, loosely held. You care about making other engineers productive and can balance long-term platform health with near-term team needs
- Eye for design and attention to detail. You hold UI to a high visual and interaction quality bar
- You treat other engineering teams as customers. You also care about the end users downstream (the operators using what gets built on top of your platform)
- Comfort operating across the stack when needed. You don't stop at the frontend boundary if the right solution involves a backend change
Desirable
- Experience with module federation, micro-frontend architectures, or scaling frontend monorepos
- Familiarity with Node.js, Postgres, and OpenFGA
- Familiarity with web application security (authentication, authorization, XSS prevention) and experience applying it across full stack applications
- Experience building or contributing to design systems at scale
- Active Security clearance (or ability to obtain one) and willingness to travel onsite at least quarterly to perform user research and help debug issues
What the job involves
- Vannevar's Frontend Platform team builds and maintains the frontend foundation that the entire Vannevar platform runs on. We turn cross-product needs into stable, well-documented platform capabilities so product teams can ship fast, stay consistent, and focus on mission problems
- We're looking for a senior frontend engineer to join this small, high-leverage team. You'll work on shared libraries, developer tooling, and the application shell (the code that every Vannevar product depends on)
- You'll also build user-facing platform features that directly impact how operators and analysts experience the product
- Own and evolve core frontend libraries and the application platform that Vannevar's products are built on
- Design and implement shared infrastructure: routing, authentication, error handling, UI components, and cross-app patterns
- Improve developer experience: faster local dev, better build pipelines, and clearer documentation
- Partner with product teams to understand their needs and turn recurring patterns into reusable platform capabilities
- Mentor and guide engineers across the organization on frontend architecture and best practices
Our take
As intelligence analysts work to solve rapidly evolving and increasingly challenging national security problems, modern technology is vital in achieving optimal results as there is no room for failure. Vannevar's innovative foreign text platform delivers solutions to some of today’s most important national security problems.
The company’s workflow platform, Decrypt, uses machine learning and automation to understand, target and respond to foreign actors in ways not previously possible. The platform is a proven success, driving Vannevar’s growth and attracting a $40M OTA contract with the Department of Defense.
Yielding impressive traction so far, the company is using its latest funding round to accelerate strategic initiatives and expand the scope of its technology. This comes after a period of rapid growth and sustained profitability, all suggesting a fruitful future for the company long-term.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
119% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2023
$75m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $91.5m
Company benefits
- Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
- Equity + 401(k) Match
- Open PTO + all Federal Holidays and Dec 23-31
- Paid Parental Leave
- 100% Remote - Work From Anywhere in the US
- Flexible Work Environment - You Manage Your Work Day
- Quarterly Off-Site Travel for Team-Building
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Nini Hamrick
(President & Co-founder)Former US Intelligence Officer working as a Political & Counterterrorism Programs Analyst. Previous Chief of Staff to the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and was a Counterterrorism Analyst for the United States Department of Defense.
Brett Granberg
(CEO)Current Advisor at Lilt. Former Investor at In-Q-Tel and previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.
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