Front-End Engineer

Standard Template Labs is a stealth-mode AI-native startup reimagining the future of IT Service and Configuration Management. Backed by leading investors we're leveraging AI graph-based architecture and exceptional design to transform how enterprises manage and engage with their technology ecosystems.

The Role

We are seeking a talented Front-End Engineer - AI-First to join our small but growing engineering team. In this role you’ll own the user-facing product: deliver polished high-performance interfaces leverage AI-driven tools to accelerate development and partner with product and design to turn complex enterprise workflows into intuitive front-end experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Build responsive accessible and scalable UIs using modern front-end technologies (e.g. React Next.js TypeScript).

• Develop and maintain a shared component library or design system supporting consistency across the product.

• Integrate with backend APIs / services (REST / SSE / GraphQL) to fetch and render data; ensure smooth communication between frontend and backend

• Use AI-first tooling (e.g. AI-assisted code generation automated refactoring AI-assisted testing / linting / code review) to boost developer productivity and maintain high code quality. (Given our AI-savvy culture — this is core to the role.)

• Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to translate UX/wireframes into production-ready user-friendly features.

• Optimize performance cross-browser compatibility and accessibility (responsive layouts fast load times smooth interactions).

• Write clean maintainable testable code; participate in code reviews; help define front-end architecture and best practices.

What We’re Looking For

Required / Core Skills

• Several years of professional front-end engineering experience (or equivalent) with hands-on experience in modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (e.g. React Next.js)

• Strong proficiency in HTML CSS (or CSS-in-JS / styling solutions) responsive design and front-end fundamentals (DOM browser behavior layout performance).

• Experience integrating with APIs (REST / GraphQL) and working alongside backend teams.

• Experience with realtime streaming AI-first components.

• Good understanding of UI/UX principles and comfort collaborating with designers to implement wireframes/mockups.

• High code quality standards — clean maintainable testable code; familiarity with version control (e.g. Git) testing CI/CD workflows.

• Desire to embrace AI-augmented engineering workflows — comfortable exploring / adopting AI tools to accelerate UI development refactoring testing or component generation.

Nice-to-Have / Preferred

• Experience building conversational or chat-based applications including managing complex multi-turn conversation state and dynamic message flows similar to ChatGPT-style interactions.

• Experience building or contributing to design systems / component libraries

• Experience with TypeScript (or willingness to adopt it)

• Familiarity with performance optimization accessibility (a11y) cross-browser support and responsive design at scale

• Experience working in a fast-moving startup / AI-driven product environment

• Strong communication skills — able to articulate UI constraints tradeoffs and collaborate across cross-functional teams

• You’ll shape the entire front-end experience of a next-gen SaaS product — from UI design to deployment

• You’ll be at the forefront of a modern “AI-first” engineering culture: using AI tools to 10× your productivity ship faster and craft better user experiences

• You’ll get to work closely with Product and Design influencing how complex features are surfaced and used by real customers

• You’ll help build scalable maintainable UI architecture that will grow with our product

As an equal opportunity employer we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race ethnicity age gender identity citizenship religion sexual orientation disability pregnancy veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal state or local laws. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at is: $160000—$230000 USD.

What We Do

We’re on a mission to reinvent IT Service Management from the ground up. In an industry dominated by outdated bloated tools we believe it’s time for a clean slate — modern efficient and built with the end-user in mind. Our goal is to create software that teams actually want to use — tools that accelerate productivity instead of slowing it down. With deep product expertise strong backing and a bold vision we’re building a next-generation ITSM platform designed for the way companies work today and tomorrow. No legacy baggage. No compromises. Just smart scalable high-performance software that redefines what IT service can be.

Why Work With Us

Backed by leading investors we're leveraging AI graph-based architecture and exceptional design to transform how enterprises manage and engage with their technology ecosystems.

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