Frontend Software Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Frontend Engineering role at Chalk. San Francisco · full-time · $170,000–$280,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build the first production version alongside Chalk’s co-founders, using TypeScript with React, Python and Go
- Set frontend architecture direction and break engineering work into technical steps
- Make core platform capabilities usable by data scientists and machine-learning users in their own environments
- Adjust the platform quickly as customer needs emerge
What you bring
- At least four years in professional software engineering
- Strong frontend expertise, plus enough backend knowledge to work across the stack
- A computer science degree or equivalent background
- Practical knowledge of computer science fundamentals and experience building and maintaining real applications
Who this fits
This role suits an experienced frontend engineer who can work independently, make pragmatic tradeoffs and collaborate across teams. It is based in San Francisco and requires working from the office five days a week; the team allows flexibility when unavoidable conflicts arise.
From the employer
About Chalk
Chalk (chalk.ai) is the platform for production AI. Trusted by enterprises including Whatnot, Grindr, Mission Lane, Turo, and Apartment List, Chalk brings together context, runtime, and learning for agents and models. Chalk’s Context Engine delivers live context by querying data across warehouses, databases, streams, and APIs, straight from the source. Chalk’s runtime powers agents and models with infrastructure and governed access to LLMs and tools. Together, these capabilities help teams build AI that understands their business, continuously improves, and runs reliably in production. We've recently raised a $50 million Series A, led by Felicis. Learn more at chalk.ai.
About the role
We are hiring experienced Frontend Software Engineers to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for defining strong front-end architecture patterns, leading development of well abstracted reusable components, and collaborating across teams to increase developer velocity. You will excel in this role if you’re an experienced engineer with deep front-end expertise who can collaborate effectively across multiple teams and functions to deliver results.
This is an opportunity to join us in-person as an early employee and make a large impact at a high growth start-up. You will tackle challenging engineering problems with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
We are looking for software engineers who are comfortable solving business problems across all layers of the software stack, with a specific focus on frontend engineering. At Chalk, we build reliable data processing systems that can operate performantly at scale with a laser-focus on developer experience.
We need engineers who can build world-class user experiences across web and command-line surfaces, while also understanding and contributing to a codebase that contains ideas from compilers, query planners, and distributed systems.
We're in the office 5 days a week. When unavoidable conflicts come up, we’re flexible. This is not a hybrid role.
What you will do
Work directly with Chalk’s co-founders to productionize our first iteration
Write TypeScript (React), Python, Go
Drive frontend architecture discussions and technical breakdowns.
Expose the functionality of our core platform to data scientist and machine learning end-users in their home environments
Iterate rapidly to improve Chalk’s platform in response to customer needs
What we’re looking for
4+ years experience of professional software engineering experience
Working knowledge of computer science fundamentals. We’re not looking for experience from drilling leet code – we need folks who are comfortable building and maintaining real applications
You have a deep technical understanding of frontend technologies, patterns, and best practices. You have a firm understanding of backend systems which enable you to collaborate on problems that span the entire stack
An eye for high-quality UX
Track record of learning new concepts quickly
Ability to work autonomously & to make pragmatic tradeoffs with an eye towards business outcomes
Strong communication skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Bonus points
Experience implementing data infrastructure
Experience working with developer tools
Experience with applied machine learning or data analytics
Experience with Go
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