Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

Posted:
12/2/2024, 9:27:27 AM

Location(s):
Palo Alto, California, United States ⋅ California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Pay:
$35/hr or $72,800 total comp

Are you ready for the best destination of your career?

Spotnana is transforming the $11 trillion travel industry by building modern infrastructure that brings freedom, simplicity, and trust to travelers worldwide.

Backed by over $115M in funding from top-tier investors, including ICONIQ, Durable, Mubadala, Madrona, and Sandberg Bernthal Ventures, we are addressing some of the travel industry's most complex challenges—and we need your expertise to help us succeed.

How you’ll make an impact

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Spotnana’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. Our engineers are versatile, display leadership qualities and are enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full stack as we continue to push technology forward.

What you’ll own

  • Define and own parts of product architecture to deliver excellent user experiences
  • Architect and own efficient and reusable frontend code that drives complex web and mobile applications
  • Design features that are simple for customers to extend and customize the functionality to meet their specific needs
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers and backend engineers 
  • Communicate effectively with cross-team stakeholders and technical leadership
  • Produce highly reliable and performant code with appropriate monitoring and alerting
  • Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
  • Implement high-quality testable components, along with devtest frameworks as needed
  • Own quality and reliability of the product by getting hands on with code and design reviews and debugging complex issues 
  • Influence and establish best engineering practices; Provide technical mentorship

Experience to bring with you

  • B. Tech/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field preferred
  • 10+ years of experience in front-end development with deep expertise in Typescript, React, and other web technologies
  • Proven experience leading engineering teams or projects that integrate AI/ML solutions into the front-end
  • Experience with RESTful APIs, integrating AI models and services into web and mobile applications
  • Experience with constant refactoring for re-usability and testability, for building scalable, optimized and performant web applications
  • Proactive approach, results-oriented mindset, and ability to work in a fast-paced start-up environment
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Must be willing and able to work in an open office environment in a hybrid structure in Palo Alto, CA or New York City - This is not a remote-eligible role

Let’s talk compensation

Spotnana strives to offer fair, industry-competitive and equitable compensation. Our approach holistically assesses total compensation, including cash, company equity and comprehensive benefits. Our market-based compensation approach uses data from trusted third party compensation sources to set salary ranges that are thoughtful and consistent with the role, industry, company size, and internal equity of our team. Each employee is paid within the minimum and maximum of their position’s compensation range based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related specifications. 

The annual cash compensation for this role is: $185,000 - $210,000

We care for the people who make everything possible - our benefits offerings include:

  • Equity in the form of stock options which provides partial ownership in the company so you can share in the success of the company as it grows
  • Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
  • Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
  • Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
  • 20 vacation days per year in additional to 10 company holidays, 4 company recharge/wellness days and an end of year company shutdown
  • Up to 26 weeks of Parental Leave
  • Monthly cell phone / internet stipend
  • Additional benefits including access to RocketLawyer’s online legal platform, International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership, Pet Insurance through Fetch, Financial Wellness through Origin and SoFi, EAP through Mutual of Omaha, The Calm app through Kaiser, pre-tax parking/transit program and more

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment and to encourage these values in everyone on our team. We provide an environment of mutual respect where opportunities are available without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion for people from all walks of life is key to our success as a company.

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment and to encourage these values in everyone on our team. We provide an environment of mutual respect where opportunities are available without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion for people from all walks of life is key to our success as a company.