Sr. 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 Senior Front-End Engineer (AI-First) to join our small but growing engineering team. In this role you’ll own and shape the user-facing product end to end: designing and building polished high-performance interfaces setting front-end technical direction and leveraging AI-driven tools to accelerate development. You’ll partner closely with Product Design and Backend Engineering to turn complex enterprise workflows into intuitive scalable front-end experiences.

This is a hands-on senior role with real ownership - ideal for someone who enjoys building mentoring through example and raising the bar for front-end quality across the product.

What You’ll Do

• Own the front-end architecture for core product surfaces making thoughtful decisions around state management data fetching performance and scalability.

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

• Design develop and evolve a shared component library / design system ensuring consistency usability and maintainability as the product grows.

• Collaborate closely with backend engineers to define API contracts (REST / SSE / GraphQL) and ensure smooth efficient data flow between frontend and backend.

• Build AI-first realtime user experiences including streaming and interactive components that respond dynamically to backend and model outputs.

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (code generation refactoring testing linting review) as a core part of your workflow to increase velocity while maintaining high code quality.

• Partner deeply with Product and Design to translate UX concepts and wireframes into production-ready features proactively identifying edge cases trade-offs and implementation risks.

• Drive performance accessibility and quality across the front-end stack (load times responsiveness cross-browser support a11y).

• Set and uphold high engineering standards: write clean testable code; lead by example in code reviews; help define front-end best practices and patterns.

What We’re Looking For

Required / Core Skills

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

• Strong mastery of HTML CSS and modern styling approaches (CSS-in-JS design tokens component-based styling) with a deep understanding of browser behavior layout and performance.

• Proven experience owning and evolving complex front-end systems not just implementing features.

• Experience integrating with backend APIs (REST / GraphQL / streaming APIs) and collaborating closely with backend teams on system design.

• Experience building or supporting realtime streaming or AI-driven UI components.

• Strong product and UX instincts - comfortable working with designers and product managers to refine flows interactions and edge cases.

• High standards for code quality and maintainability; experience with testing strategies CI/CD workflows and version control (Git).

• Strong interest in - and comfort with - AI-augmented engineering workflows using AI tools to accelerate development without sacrificing correctness or quality.

Nice-to-Have / Preferred

• Experience building conversational or chat-based interfaces including managing complex client-side state streaming responses and dynamic message flows (e.g. ChatGPT-style UIs).

• Prior ownership of a design system or shared component library used by multiple engineers or teams.

• Deep experience with TypeScript in large-scale front-end codebases.

• Strong background in performance optimization accessibility (a11y) and cross-browser support at scale.

• Experience working in a fast-moving startup or AI-native product environment.

• Strong communication skills - able to clearly articulate UI constraints technical trade-offs and architectural decisions to cross-functional partners.

• You’ll own and shape the front-end experience of a next-generation AI-powered SaaS product.

• You’ll operate in a true AI-first engineering culture using modern tooling to dramatically increase productivity and impact.

• You’ll work closely with Product and Design influencing how complex enterprise functionality is surfaced and used by real customers.

• You’ll help define scalable long-term front-end architecture and raise the quality bar as the team and product grow.

• You’ll have real autonomy responsibility and visibility - your decisions will directly shape the 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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